It was the big gainer. It closed at an alltime high. Tech has been leading the way. Sales force, facebook, taketwo and qualcomm at record highs you have to watch one stock in particular apple. After more than 10 gain on friday and thursday night, it closed up 2. 5 to an alltime high percentages away from hitting the 2 trillion market cap that 4 to 1 stock split is hit that price has to sit 477 not far off. Weve been talking about the pressure that has been put on yields in the treasury market. Right now, the 10year note at 0. 45 . Scott . Becky, im listening to you talk about tech and these companies. We have to get ready to talk nasdaq 11,000. As crazy as that would sound, we are on the doorstep. In spitting distance, basically. Unbelievable. Largy carri largely carried by these big five apple, amazon, facebook and alpha bes alphabet and microsoft looking back in march, would you have thought we would be talking nasdaq 11,000 by summer . No way. There is reason for it if you look at s
That. Right i think that the shock value of that is maybe more, lets say, the bark versus the bite i think that theres a belief that we could get a lot a much better picture of what the Health Situation is going to be like in november so its a little premature to be able to say what the president is saying and its certainly contrary to what he was saying about the idea that we do have a vaccine very soon. If we have a vaccine very soon why do we have to delay the election and why does it have to be crooked i think you cant have it both ways you can have the vaccine come out and have a gd election or you must know that the vaccine is not going to come out and you will have what he just tweeted but whatever it sows chaos and chaos is bad for the stock market. We did get some promising vaccine news out of j j as they move to human trials in the u. S. And belgium the earnings which we will talk a lot about this morning are basically shaming the analysts, virtually surpassing the entire ran
Waste. Thats why the tech heavy nasdaq rallied when the dow tumbled 226 points and the s p 500 back slid sure, the tech titans respect crowing about it, that would be in bad form. But when you look at their numbers, versus the economy, gdp down over 9 in the Second Quarter, lets call that the worst ever, with 17 million continuing jobless claims. It feels like the old economy is lost the house of pain is the new companys gain. The house of pleasure at the very least, the cloud and communications have gotten a massive windfall here. Digitization pulled through by two, three, four, five years look at that 7. 4 billion revenue amazon reported. Theyre like the amazon mint, because people dont want to put themselves at risk bishy shoppig in person. Amazon is the answer to the pandemic every day some pundit comes out here and argues that the Federal Reserve is propping up the economy by keeping Interest Rates low. They tell us its a bubble they tell you to ignore it they imply the gains in t
Outperformance of small caps for a sixth straight day, so that is sort of the good news, but it is all a waitandsee game as we head into the ecb. Underperformance happening with btps in europe. Twitter earnings breaking as well. Revenue coming in stronger than estimated at it hundred 7. 6 million. 876are shifting at. Illion has a look at the monitor bullet daily active users, they came in at 166 million. That did beat estimates. They did add 14 million average monthly daily active users since the previous quarter. Seeing more activity. Now it is about monetizing that activity. Twitter is up by about 10 in premarket. More coming out later on in the show. We do want to give you a snapshot of all that is moving the market from our team in new york. We are going to begin with the data overnight in europe. Recession,s record plunging into record contraction, shrinking about 3. 8 . The slump adding a lot more urgency for joint physical support and puts more pressure on Christine Lagarde late
Of people. Much like us, advantage with jobs, but the United Kingdom request of aid is extraordinary, the size of people struggling. Francine that figure which you say is very much like we are seeing in the u. S. , was quite shocking. We know this is big and millions of people are losing their job, but the government saying 66 of businesses have asked for Government Support to pay wages. When you look at what Central Banks can do and this was clear from jay powell yesterday if you look at the stimulus they are putting in place for the recession are when the pandemic is here, now, and the second phase when a recovery takes place, three months, six months, even longer, what kind of tools and stimulus support will need then. Tom it is absolutely fascinating. ,or those waking up in america i cannot convey that rotation of earth and data coming out of asia. Data hasy of european been absolutely shocking this morning, and we will give you a brief on that. Us Nouriel Roubini will join and we