Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. It is cloud week on squawk alley. If you were betting against snowflake, wur oyoure out in t cold this morning. That stock up is 12 same for Cloud Security and authentication specialist okta were going to talk to the ceo to see if this thing may stabilize from here or go higher splunk, that is the sound of a cloud stock dropping 22 after missing Sales Guidance for the third quarterer in quarter in a row. All this happening as amazons cloud conference is in full swing. Salesforce announced the second Biggest Software acquisition ever and we started the week on squawk alley talking to ibm president Jim Whitehurst who came to big blue in what and is still thelargest Software Acquisition ever redhat driven by a hybrid cloud. Julia, investors are betting on further growth from already heady levels we can certainly see that in what is happening with snowflake this morning it is reapproaching the highs that so
2 , the nasdaq down about 1 3 4 that very much in focus because of those earnings that are looming. Joe teranova, you first. Youve got dr. Gottlieb saying the u. S. At a tipping point, youve got mark meadows at the white house saying were not going to control the pandemic. Is this mountain getting too steep to climb for the market . Well, without stimulus the answer to that unequivocally is yes. Rising virus cases need more stimulus there has been overs last couple of weeks a modest broadening out of the rally within the market, but its really been all about industries, scott, industrials, trading to an alltime high as a sector but why is that . Its on the belief there would be stimulus, consumer discretionary, examazon trading towards its highest levels why is that . Because theres monetary support in the form of stimulus. It just highlights how important stimulus is. You need this mosaic of coordination to respond to the virus and any incident of rising virus cases learned itself to
But you were talking about the dow being in positive territory for the First Time Since september 2nd. Stocks in china reopened after a week long Public Holiday they both jumped by more than 2 the shanghai composite was up by 2. 6 lets take a look at where things stand right now in europe where there is some trading taking place you can see the markets are open there and theres a bit of a mixed picture. Its actually a little bit higher ftse 100 is right around the flat line, andrew. Hey, becky. Weve got so much going on this morning. Weve got this is squawk planner, two major tech events first amazon sales day it begins after it was postponed, if you remember, back in july. Now running two days, starting at midnight tonight eastern time so watch out for that. Ive already scheduled it and then Apple Holding the big event tomorrow the launch event expected to unveil the new iphone. Everybody looking for the new 5g iphone it will include the first major exterior redesign since 2017 and we