Report in the atlantic that says President Trump called wounded veterans losers we will talk to the Vice President , but lets talk more about the nasdaq with the tech selloff continuing. Some of the big names we follow closely, tesla is down after a 9 drop yesterday and today its down about 2 in premarket activity. The chip maker also about 9 yesterday and it also looks to open down by almost 4 today. That is free market activity as well. Zoom after a big day earlier in the week seeing major prophet taking in the last two days down almost 2 and apple surging on its stock split monday but then down another about 7 yesterday down to about one and a quarter in premarket activity after an 8 drop yesterday. We are less than two months until election day and joe biden is out and about. He made another. Dot this could be why the democrats want him to stay in the basement. We will play that a little later. We may hear from President Trump as he meets with leaders of serbia and kos about later
Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas
China trade talks are off. President trump says hes postponing any talks as leaders, xi jinping reportedly facing opposition from within his own party. Its another big day for retail earnings this morning. We are waiting on lowes, target and tjx opening before opening bell this morning. We are talking with apartment ceo after reporting double beat yesterday. He will talk about the pandemics impact on Consumer Habits and concerns over stimulus checks drying up. Markets this morning looking for another recordbreaking day, take a look at future, indicating a gain, dow futures up 51 points, nasdaq futures up 18 and s p and nasdaq continuing in record territory as you see there they are up this morning after hitting alltime highs yesterday. S p 500 scoring fastest rebound from a bear market in history. Yesterday the dow was down 66, but the nasdaq was 81 and the s p up 7 points. New york city is about to get sweeter, krispy kreme opens Flagship Store in times square, ceo live here at 7 20 a
How apples shakeup is driving the blue chips plus the online surge, best buy notching is 242 gain in ecommerce sales in the Second Quarter but can it last . Trade optimism, u. S. And china officials reaffirming their phase one commitment, the s p is poised to add to its record run. Jim, i saw you last night mentioning those changes to the dow and your general point was dont be fooled in thinking there is as much money indexed to the dow as to the s p. We said that last night, its been the theme all morning and theres been no sellers. One of the reasons theres been no sellers are the people who are now trading stocks in early hours have tremendous conviction in the face of being wrong its rather incredible because the hubris of these people they must think dow jones has a lot of money to it and it has to come out of exxon and into salesforce david, you have been at the forefront of the network in explaining the nature of the dow and you see this, too. Arent you shocked that even after w
Away from new highs. Joe, i begin with you. The question is how are we going to get to those new highs . Value is outperforming today is this the start of the longawaited rotation . Well, your initiating a great conversation, scott, because as you have identified the s p 500 is basically sitting less than 1 above its all time high whats critical, though, in getting there if you are not going to have a significant outperformance from what has worked, which is clearly hyper growth, is youre going to have to have the participation from the value names. Lets put in context where value really is. Scott, the russell 2,000 is still sitting 9 below its all time high it achieved in august of 2018. When im thinking about value i also have to think about value and get contribution from small cap value, not just Large Cap Value because there has been such a differentiation in the Small Cap Index this year. Small cap growth is up 22 year to date. Small cap value is down 12 . So, yes, i believe it h