Record close of 2020 i talked yesterday about the stunning market cap gains this year for some names like amazon which has added 674 billion in market cap this year is it out of hand . Is this too much i think its a little too much maybe thats why youre coming to me first. You know i might be a little provocative here and say you can trim this doesnt have to be a digital on off decision of youre all in or all out of tech obviously, tech has fundamental business tail winds propelling the stocks higher. The top five stocks in the s p 500 are 23 . Unless youre used to running a 20 stock portfolio, which most people arent, that means the names are over weight. If you trim them and take two Percentage Points off and bring them down to four Percentage Points, now youre running a 25stock portfolio and youve taken 4 points out of the tech area, you can put it into whether ever you want. You can put it in health care which is on fire Energy Stocks are rolling today. Its okay to say things are h
Schools as if this was september 2019 bout a pandemic. And do well, thank you very much. And good afternoon. Today i want to provide an update on our response to the china virus and what my administration is doing to get the outbreak in the sun belt under control. Seems largely in sun belt, but could be spreading. My team is also working night and day with capital hill to advance the next Economic Relief package. Were working very hard on it. Were making a lot of progress. I also know that both sides want to get it done. Well call it phase four. I think were going to get it done. Well protect our workers, our schools, and our families and protect them very strongly. As one family, we mourn every precious life thats been lost. I pledge in their honor that we will develop a vaccine, and we will defeat the virus. Were doing very well with Vaccine Development and therapeutic development. But i want to thank our brave doctors and nurses and frontl e line respond rs. The job they do is incre
S p 500 essentially flat year to date nasdaq up some 19 59 minutes left in the session, sara coming up on this friday afternoon, weve got a series of great gifts for you. Red finns stock was on fire the stock selling to have day on the companys cautious outlook as the ceo says the bottom codrp out on the economy were going to talk to glenn kelman in a few minutes. And then apple once again, the Biggest Public Company in the world, surpassing saudi ramco. Continuing the historic run. The market cap now sitting above 1. 8 trillion. Its up over 8. 25 well talk about what an investor should do with this stock next lets focus in on the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli looking at the market and the tech stocks surging to day kayla is looking over the next stimulus package first to you, mike. The story from the morning was that Great Results from the big four of tech did not really lift all votes did you have weakness. Sold a strong open the market firmed up in the last hour or so
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
That is coming up next. I mentioned if the goldman shares soaring after reporting 93 revenue trading in the second quarter. The analyst call is underway. What are some of the highlights you can tell us . There is or uncertainty. David solomon did say violet has been very uncertain as far as outlook for reopening, he gave us expectations on what to expect. The expectations for the u. S. Have gotten better. For the globe, worse. This number is equates to a and more than 6 globally next year. If you think banks are undervalued now and you are seeing this type of expansion next year, you are in better shape. That uncertainty still exists. Goldman also gets credit for being able to improve their capital ratios closer to where the fed wants them to be. By selling off assets here and there, we saw a big insurance sale last week to kkr, and being able to offload assets such as leverage loans of the sword. Of the sort. Carol guy talk about the ratio, they have come up 13. 6. Does that mean inve