And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Check out this rally right now all 11 sectors are in gree green. Taking a look at some of the stocks were watching. Salesforce is under pressure for the second day in a row, down about 7 in the last week as it gets set to report earnings after the bell and reportedly to make a deal. And we have exclusive data on how the bitcoin boom is boosting this payment stock first lets get over to bob for more on todays rally. Hey, bob hello, melissa. Good start to a traditionally good month we got talk about a new stimulus plan, janet yellen on the air and, overall, 11 sectors all on the up side. Bank stocks leading the way but technical stocks also. No dig selloff in tech that was also a november play there. Theres energy you have your value play with banks, energy up you have your growth play with tech, cyclical with industrials up and even more defensive groups, Consumer Staples on the up side as well. This is what i mean when i say the goldie locks
Pfizers chairman admits that theyre not sure if someone can transmit the virus after vaccination. And call it a box office reset, warner bros. Will release films simultaneously in theaters and streaming platform hbo max it is a seismic change, carl, in the economics for those related to the film business and well certainly be willing to and happy to take a closer look and discuss it. Yeah. Fascinating change in the economics there. But, guys, jobs numbers, the story of the morning, jim, not just the number itself and the trend it outline, but the degree to which it is going to color the debate on capitol hill today and maybe next week. I think it is enough ammo to say, look, we have to do something, there is some areas of the economy that just are cannot be sustained. Dont forget, these numbers are ahead of what will be a gigantic eviction notice that more than maybe more than 13 Million People get in january. I think this number is just enough to be able to say, lets compromise it is
Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe and melissa lee, becky is off the s p looking to open about 12 points higher. Well explain why some of this is happening and lets show you treasury yields as well the ten year note right now looking at 0. 931 . But maybe a little bit of an explanation coming up here, melissa . Yeah, some optimism Mitch Mcconnell said that compromised deal was within reach and well get a live report from washington at 6 30 a. M. And we heard it before, but it seems like btoth sides are comig a little closer. On a much lower number. And im just thinking about, i dont know, andrew, what did we do to deserve this i mean we are living right or i mean, who ushered in the new week on squawk box on monday who is helping us usher out the week that was on squawk box . A monday and a friday. Is this46 w was this planne melissa, what did we do to deserve this not wouldby not by me how long has it been, stimulus vaccine i guess the election, although we do
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
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