The world. We will talk to the head of a major new jersey hospital that was on the frontier a few months ago and still are. Well find out what theyre seeing there and look at how covid has crushed urban real estate power lunch starts right now thank you, at thtyler. Markets are starting with a nice alley and broad base every sector is higher, except Energy Technology leading the way, up more than 2. 5 hi, bob. Seema, its a rally but look under the hood. Theres a very progrowth bias to this. A lot of the reopening stuff is not doing as well. Were getting what i call a big cap meltup here look at this, facebook, amazon, alphabet, microsoft and the volumes have been on the heavy side for this particular sector, mega caps. But only there lets take a look at some of the other stuff, some of the other what i might call workfromhome beneficiaries. Your costcos, your pay pals, and all of the chips are up here today. This is that pro growth bias you talk about look at stocks that used to benefi
And maybe some headlines on stimulus before then hit a bit of a dip here dow down 150 or so. The nfl confirms covid cases among players and nonplayers with the Tennessee Titans. And governor comeau saying theyre now up 3 . We might start to talk about schools closing. Meanwhile valuations is where we will begin this morning as investors try to interpret data. The price to earnings ratio of a nasdaq 100 of the last ten years, the pe ratio, it is doubled and it is at that alltime high. As you see up there above 30 it was at around 15 to 18. 40 of that index is made up of just the five biggest tech stocks so here is the question. Are stock prices in big tech stretched to a point where the value wakes no longer makes sen. We have the editor and chief of the verge joining us we have not seen valuations among the biggest stretched to this point in a long time. I kaech hearing this whole peer group value thing, but what if theyre all out of whack yeah, i think that is a big question why would
Third straight week. For more on wall streets move, we are joined by scarlett fu. Lets talk about how this happened. Ett we had quadruple witching. Options tied to indexes and stocks, that led to a pick up in volume. Then you had it falling below the trendline, where the average price over the past two and half months. The theme for today, as it has been for the rest of the week is the lingering disappointment that the fed did not give investors a prize that they have been positioning for. Recent winners, the tech, has been consistent laggards. They are the worst performing sectors this month, down 10 in september. Emily i do want to talk about oracle, tiktok, and this dramatic move by the u. S. Government to expel tiktok and wechat by the app stores. When did you what caught your eye . Scarlet what i found interesting was that even though it trended lower, volume in the stock is off the charts. It was about 26 million shares this week on average. That is up 86 from the first two weeks
Sell off until they realize they cant keep paying for things like snow flake because when they have to sell Something Else i think is why we have another bad day. Dow dropped 245, s p fell and nasdaq lost 1. 70 . It bounced from the lowest percent. Once again, were reminded the stock market is first and foremost a market. And markets are government earned by supply and demand. Right now the supply of new stock is overwhelming demand so the whole market just gets hammered until you trade for a living, you might now understand how this works the software a video game plan and they dont have spare cash lying around, what do they do . How do they get that piece easy they sell. They sell the stock and companies that dont understand it anyway. If you have a stock on the deal and you flip it, well, thats free money free big profits and you got to take free money when wall street is giving it to you. Take public at 52 if you got some at 52 in the deal it scored to 75 where you can cchaching. S
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently