The dow is down nearly 1 . The nasdaq is back in positive territory. Apple is boosting the dow adding 150 points to a decline we would be seeing. Amazon and facebook arent in that index caterpillar, chevron, exxon mobile are driving the blue chips lower. Lets start with bob who will tell us what were seeing from earning season as a whole now that were a little more than halfway through. Bob. We have a little bit of a problem. Its great may have tech earnings are fantastic but theyre not enough to move the market really forward. You can see this today just look at the sectors of whats going on. You have technology up because apple is up. You have Consumer Discretionary up because amazon is up. Everything else, the other economy is having hard time. Tech earnings are even fantastic. We have this two tier economy thats going on. Its not a split between wall street and main street its just theres a two tier economy. One part is digital and thats the megacap tech and software and the Techno
S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
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
Dow topping 28,000 today for First Time Since february. Its the value trade thats working. Is the rotation for real i think as long as you have confirmation in the bond market, you can believe in it but when that link breaks, the stocks the value stocks probably crash again. We witnessed an episode like this that happened from the middle of may through the middle of june. It was almost a full four weeks. It was violent to the upside value stocks, cyclicals, the quote reopen names Small Cap Value did incredibly well the Growth Stocks took a pause the high flyers corrected but when that ended, it didnt end gently you had crashes in the reopen stocks you had crashes in the value stocks both asbestbsolute and relative to growth its a Real Recovery if that link breaks and i know yields have gone up a bit here and abroad as long as that continues happening, im fine with it. I think you have to watch that more than commentary, more valuation, more than anything else jpmorgan had a great note
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