No one knows them better than dan tillman. Plus, working from home, bitcoin and more. And demand for electric vehicles. We hear from the ceo. We have to get back to the markets. This is the top story of the markets ending the day near the session highs. Stocks tech stocks are ending high. President elect nominate janet yellen to be treasury secretary. So much news on the day. There is more positive news around vaccine. We have this big, cyclical valley. That brings another record high for the small caps. As you are pointing out, it has taken a few years for them to get a record high. Day, hitting the alltime high. The energy index is up. It will be interesting to see what is there and what happens in the future. Some are saying that the excitement around the iphone 12 is priced in and the buyers are stepping away. Nominate is likely to janet yellen, the former fed chair for treasury secretary. The markets took a move up. There was a moment where the s p 500 dipped ever so slightly. The
Record close and we know why. I have to tell you this was just a parade of both American Ingenuity and strength there was a time when i was listening to brian i shouldnt just limit it to amazon every Conference Call last night with the exception of google was incredible the power of these companies is extraordinary and i dont think that we can actually brian ol staff ski when he talks he is the cfo of amazon, when he talks about the idea that basically we didnt know we were going to make billions of dollars more than we did. Not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, but builds what a juggernaut. Most impressive of last night. David, i have a lot of good things to say about the others and good things to say about google, but amazon thankly is a company that basically has no idea how much money it can make. Ive never seen a company like this theres never been a company like this. Well, and the market agrees with you and investors have for a long time, jim, but they have delivered o
Front. Showing millions of jobs lost. Well see more with the jobless claim number and tomorrow with the number from the government dow looks to be up 260 s p up by 34 and nasdaq up by 118. We are getting competing views jobless numbers we know are bad. Then you see oil prices that tell you where things may be headed prices may be up again gain of 7. 3 this shows you maybe things are starting to pick up around the globe. Maybe that demand is coming back that may be something to hang your hat on. Andrew thank you we have a huge lineup of guests. Secretary of state mike pompeo will join us to discuss relations with china former ceo of Goldman Sachs about the outlook of the economy and the ceo of paypal and also talking to the ceo of hilton and aflac ceo will join us and our media guru from lion tree hard to think we are going to pack it all in in three tiny hours. That means no screwing around at all today is what i think go for it then. Three hours time for everything. With err going to
Here it is, word for word, quote, trump says china may or may not keep the trade deal, end quote. That sent stocks into the close. Check out the move on the nasdaq, for instance it was up big for most of the day and the sharp slide in the final moments of trade ditto for the s p 500. So guy adami, is china back in play here . Is this the next big risk factor for the markets . Yes, and before i get into great detail, i have to wish tim seymour, as he power pitches today, a very happy birthday just wanted to get that out. Happy birthday, tim seymour what was that very kind thank you. Yeah. I absolutely think this is a big deal and we started talking about it last week, and not in terms of their trade deal or where theyre going to keep their end of the bargain and in terms of some of the rhetoric coming out of the Trump Administration what im commenting is the rhetoric seems to be getting louder and in no way, shape or form is that market bullish especially given the fact that the markets
Flat for 2020 as tech continues to lead the gains. Financials and utilities amongst the worst performers today coming up on todays show, we will speak exclusively with sap ceo Christian Klein about his companys efforts to develop a coronavirus Contact Tracing app and what hes hearing from customers about the state of local business and the earnings reports will come fast and furiously this afternoon highlighted by lyft, grub hub, tmobile and well speak with tmobile Ceo Mike Sievert ahead of his companys Conference Calls just after numbers cross. The big stories we are watching, mike santoli following the volatile trading action, Steve Liesman with a look at the economy and another sobering jobs number today, and deirdre bosa is covering uber and lyft mike, start us off the s p struggling to stay in this zone for the past few weeks. This is a oneyear march its flattened out since april is it resting, rolling over . Its a bit of a standoff i think people are saying right now its preserve