Good morning it is 8 00 a. M. At tesla headquarters in palo alto, california it its 11 00 a. M. On wall street squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla back again it is a busy day on wall street with the dow hitting an all time high making another run at 30 k. That comes as president elect joe biden is reporting tapping former fed chair janet yellen to run the treasury department. Tesla is continuing the record run now topping half a trillion dollars in market cap. Making elon musk the worlds second richest person on paper and apple making another concession, carl on App Store Fees a lot going on yeah. We talked about that early moving being the small crack that starts to widen as for tesla, i mean, whether its some of the reports about a hatch back in europe or longer range vehicles or just enthusiasm over the ev space as we gheet into a Biden Administration on top of the gm news yesterday, jon. So there is a lot happening in the ev space and then m
But we will be told to proceed with caution and dow closing for the first time in history over 30,000 the question tonight, are we headed yes, thats right, are we heading higher and higher . There are positives. The president ial transition is under way. We have three coronavirus vaccines ready to rock so, is the next 10 move higher and higher or are we headed lower and lower . Well that song, thats a miserable song thats why we chose it. Please dont at me on twitter. In the list of bullish things we talk about, the peaceful transfer of power as being a bullish thing. You would think that would be a given. I find the market took that as a positive today fascinating. I will be the first to say in terms of the Broader Market, i have been dead wrong we have had individuals stocks we have done a good job with Broader Market not so much we are so over it in terms of valuation, euphoria, the things that can go right, not just the head winds out there despite it has bnsecause i been market we
Join fizer pfizer you can see were just about 20 points shy of the all time high on the dow a lot of news to unpack. We got the news from moderna showing the vaccine is more than 94 effective in preventing cases of covid19. We saw details in the study showing it prevented severe cases of covid19. So that a very strong result comes, of course, after the pfizer data last week showed that its vaccine was more than 90 effective. The first two out of gate showing incredibly strong efficacy questions do remain including these preventative cases of covid19 but do the vaccines sprent infection with the virus completely we dont yet know that we also dont know because this is a brand new virus and these are brand new vaccines how long this protection will last. So those are things that are going to come and be answered in the future looking at these data so what happens next well, both of the Companies Soon are going to file with the fda for emergency use authorization. The fda will then hold wh
The s p up 11 the dow up nearly 13 on pace for its best month since january of 1987. The nasdaq up about 12 . Check out the small caps because the russell 2,000 is up almost 21 in november alone. Thats the stock world but, melissa, our other favorite topic, bitcoin thats been moving a lot, too. Maybe joes favorite topic, at least bitcoin after recently hitting 16,000 were seeing it recoop some of those losses in recent days its up by almost 2 today, above 18,000, 18,540 guggenheim is reserving right for 5. 3 billion Macro Opportunities Fund to invest up to 10 in the Gray Scale Bitcoin Trust which is only invested in bitcoin and of course this follows many large investors including stanley drunken miller voiced support for this krip cro currency, joe. Yes, it has been getting traction interesting recent trading and good to see you, melissa and andrew its tough to come back from vacation, but having you here, melissa, i dont know, it just makes me feel very, very comfortable, happy my he
Crushed, lowes falls short. Both retailers see big gains in online sales and Curbside Pickup and the Energy Sector is coming off its best week ever more than 16 gain last week the ceo of chevron will join us in this hour, well talk about is in store for chevrons business and the sector. Well talk about all that with michael wirth. Carl cant wait. Boeing is the story of the morning, jim 617 days on the ground you got baird going to outperform with a 306 target today. I guess well talk about not only how they get this back in the air, american will launch it on the 29th of december, how they market it to consumers. I think that there is a tragedy timeline we had it with chipotle, we had it with a long, long time ago with jackinthebox, taco bell. People tend to forget. The media doesnt forget, but the individual who flies is thinking, well, i want to take southwest or take american theyre not going to ask as they would have a year ago is this the max. And then i think also boeing can phas