Small caps having a pretty good day as well. The commentary seems to be the market feels a little tired. Is that how you see it yes i do suspect that the market is fatigu fatigued certainly on monday mornings consecutively weve been greeted with excellent news for society as it relates to the vaccine but markets dont seem to be responding as positively as they did two weeks ago. Scott, you began the show by suggesting that we have a potential end of year run. For there to be an end of year run, we are going to need a catalyst and i suspect its not the vaccine, its not earnings, and it really falls back to washington, d. C. And the ability to try and offer some form of fiscal bridge to get us to the other side in the absence of that, i would just highlight december 15 the and 16th, you have a Federal Reserve meeting. Theres a wild card scenario there where the Federal Reserve steps in and enhances some of the landing programs and provides the bridge in the absence of fiscal policy maker
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up around 2 Virgin Galactic getting two more buy recommendations. Eight wall street analysts say the same thing bu
59 minutes left to trade, kayla. And that green screen is not something we have seen in a while. We have a big show ahead today on closing bell. A big deal for big steel well talk to the ceo from Cleveland Cliffs and his outlook on the economy later, sneaker startup all birds scoring 100 million in fresh funding. Valuing the company at 1. 7 billion the coceo will join us to tell us how his Company Plans to spend that cash and well have that later on in the show. Lets focus in on the big show were tracking to days rally. Theyre covering the latest tensions in the tech cold war with china start us off on the Broader Market and what youre seeing behind the scenes today. Yeah. Market making the case that last weeks lows and got some traction near the levels its not Something Else tachlt a look at the s p 500 year to date all the indices have a similar look with different mag any tudz we were talking about this level for a long time. This is where we hit the lows a few times last week aroun
Value and cyclicals are doing better than tech tech just in the red energy and financials at the top of the pile. Stephanie, are we getting a rotation, the start of something that might last a bit longer than it has done ever before well, you know my position. I own a bit of growth and value. Im hoping value has its day in the sun. What you need for value to work is better growth and also a higher expectation for inflation. While we are Getting Better growth sequentially. Youre not getting anything close to inflation look at the ppi numbers today. I think this is why a barbell strategy makes sense people will still want secular growers that can participate many some very powerful themes you want to be price selective but you want to have exposure there but exposure to the cyclicals if you believe the growth is going to improve and that will lead to inflation. My supply is up 25 year over year thats a big number. That will come home to roost, i think. One last point, i would say on valu
Look at the s p 500 at 2978, a 55point gain and there is the nasdaq the outperformer yet again, almost 2. 25 , 200 points, 9387 the nasdaq, not all that far away from last februarys highs, which our headliner says this hour is going to happen this year and not just the nasdaq so lets welcome in fund strats tom lee. He is joining us via skype tom, welcome back. Nice to see you again. Thanks for having me. Big call. How are we going to get there this year, tom you say 3450 is happening . Yes, and i think what really drives our view is that companies in the midst of the shutdown arent standing still you know, theyre reengineering their operations, learning how to be digital, run with fewer employees and less real estate so in 2021, as we exit this pandemic, theyre going to generate higher earnings on a lower level of sales and that means implied better pes. And thats why we get into july, stocks will start discounting that and were looking for new high hi highs. Youre looking for a vshape