Moderna says its vaccine is nearly 95 effective moderna up 9 , 10 right now while the other vaccine stocks are actually dipping we are awaiting president elect bide wren to give remarks about state of the economy after meeting with top Business Leaders and ceos today well get you there when it happens as power lunch starts right now. Thank you, ty. The dow was soaring to alltime highs, just shy of 30,000 today. All signs pointing to a continued rally except for one, a very important one lets go to bob pisani for more on that. Bob . We are seeing that moderna is helping the market overall and continuing a trend that we saw for the last really week and a half lets take a look at the sectors here the story is valuelike banks and Energy Stocks has been outperforming growth areas Like Technology for example nen weve seen cyclical sectors like industrials, for example. Generally outperforming defensive sectors like consumer staples. Generally small caps have been outperforming big caps in is
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
Comfortably. Hawkish headlines on china and weak Economic Data both weighing on market sentiment. The dow is down 300 points yearly it was down 350 about 20 minutes ago. We have 59 minutes left in the session. Big show coming up four. A true 2020 winner, et ceteray stock is up 250 this year we will talk to the ceo Josh Silverman about the holiday crunch and whether his companys momentum can continue. And arthur blank, cofounder of home tee poe, owns the Atlanta Falcons and atlanta mls team as well lets focus first on the stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action into the close meg tirrell has a vaccine update and phil lebeau has an update on nikola, that stock down020 today. Mike santoli first to you and the markets. A mild shake of the tree. Indexes backing off. Some of the stuff that was up the most this month is down the most today seems like a little bit of trimming there are probably unbalanced portfolios there you have we are roughly capped we were
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
Despite the spike in covid cases around the Country Companies are looking to the other side of the pandemic as we make progress on a vaccine. Pfizer out today with big news it applied for fda emergency use of its vaccine and Corporate America sending signals of an all clear. Nike, merck, kohls and costco, more and more Companies Getting comfortable forecasting the future the number of big businesses issuing Forward Guidance up 30 from last quarter. Corporate america is looking to the other side is it time for investors to do the same brian kelly, what do you say well, i think it is great, first of all, that corporate investors, corporations have a little bit more clarity, but thats what this whole reopening trade was about. From the bottoms, that was the whole thing, you are not going to have clarity, but when you do, boy, then it will be really good lets look at what we had this week we had good news on the vaccine. We had multiple companies up their dividend we also had multiple Comp