Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
In march and april. Yeah, and, you know, the market if you want to talk about it being the index certainly is doing that its been steady naturally the most heavily weighted stocks also happen to be the ones that are in th strongest trends they are covering up for a lot of, i think, softness under the surface. Youre not seeing this latest push higher really have the participation of the airlines and all the kind of socalled epicenter sectors that now are under a little more question about a stutter step in the reopening process. I do think the market is trying to be rational about it. Its unclear what would stop these trends, why would apple and microsoft stop going up today when they havent stopped until now except the fact that the nasdaq does look really stretched once again compared to the rest of the market there does seem to be a little bit of frothy speculation happening in some pockets of this market but thats been the case periodically for the last several weeks i guess you wou
59 minutes left of trade nasdaq 100,. 2 from a record closing high set in february hard to believe. Seriously is hard to believe. Were up 0. 4 . Coming up on todays show, despite growing dissent, tech stocks once again nearing all time highs well discuss the outlook for the sector amid new challenges with investor dan niles. Plus, powerful words from one of the biggest icons in sports, nba lenld, Kareem Abduljabbar will join us with his compelling message for all americans about the need for what he calls a rush to justice. Lets focus in on the big stories we are watching in this final hour of trade. Mike tracking the Market Action as always. Julia boorstin following the cory russ of dissent inside facebook and courtney covering the civil unrest mike, start us off with the Broader Market and this continued strength we are seeing yes, continued, persistent strength its a day when its gone a little bit away from the nasdaq leaders that were were so familiar with. That trend has remained
Has a safe haven . Taylor i have been seeing that. You take a look at the companies with great free cash flow, balance sheets, expanding operating margins. You take a look at the nasdaq 100, or the big tech, today was the exception, but coming into this, six of the last seven days, the nasdaq really gaining. Faang today outperformed even though it was lower. I have heard that tech is providing a little bit of a defensive position when it comes to the health of the balance sheets. Apples another Company Really leading today. In the in six of the last seven days, apple has gained more than 1 in every day. Share, it to 350 per saying the iphone 12 could start the road to recovery. He is confident that the eye of the storm is now in the rearview mirror, at least from a demand and supply chain perspective. You are seeing apple, some of the other big tech stocks really leading on hope and optimism. Emily meantime, big news potential in the food delivery space. Ubermmond reporting that has ma
Suddenly very risk off, with the s p 500 and dow down. The nasdaq is down one point 25 for the worst performance. , dow jones news reporting it is facing criminal and civil scrutiny into years of 77 max Quality Control lapses. Once again, reporting that boeing is facing criminal and civil scrutiny into years of 737 max Quality Control lapses. As we know, boeing plays a part in many of these indices, so it is definitely weighing on those in the last few minutes, erasing most, if not all of its gains. In numbers tomorrow, which is worth bearing in mind. Inopean banks are firmly focus. Loan loss provisions a big part of what we are seeing here today. , one of which is results out today. What thee a listen to banking ceos we have been talking have had to say about the economy. Greatres obviously a degree of uncertainty around that range. We saw 3 billion of expected credit losses in the first quarter, up fourfold on the charge from q4 of last year. 7 billion to 11 billion range is an estim