Harrington is the ceo and Portfolio Management at Gilman Hill Asset management, rob sechman is one of forbes top 100 Financial Advisers and rich sapperstein is back. He, as well, a top Financial Adviser, barrons, in the top 100 there. Lets get to the board, show you where we were currently trading. Pretty much highs of the day 550 for the dow, 2. 25 , 24,646 s p 500 trying to push towards 3,000, a gain of 2. 5 today, a gain of 73 points. Nasdaq, the outperformer of the majors at 3 , and theres the russell, which is having a good day as well, with a nearly 5 gain some 61 points there dow going for its best month since 87. The question is what all of this means for the coming days, weeks, and months ahead. Joe, im going to go to you first. You look at the drivers today, i mentioned the gilead news, and that is clearly overshadowing what was a dreadful gdp number fauci now is talking about the clearcut positive effects of this remdesivir trial. Boeings calhoun, the ceo saying the thaw is
To talk about the vote, the guard rails that are put in now for Small Business loans and what phase four could really look like. Government money, though, will not save Neiman Marcus from the crushing effect of the covid19 epidemic on retailers. The High End Department store chain could file for bankruptcy, some say at any moment, could be by the end of this week, but can saks save it . The former chairman and ceo steve sadove on that and whether we are witnessing the death of the Department Store. Tonight is the first live major sporting event since the virus shutdown, all of the leagues, the nfl, mlb, nba and its the nfl draft, okay . Yeah, its a sporting event, is it not . No touchdowns are scored, though, unless you count the hundreds of millions of dollars flying around to potential picks. We are less than an hour to the closing bell on this thursday. Lets start the claman countdown. Liz we begin with breaking news and it involves amazon. Amazon is denying a bombshell report by th
The scene. We had the huge selloff down 35 from the highs then the giant bounce back this week, up 19. 9 going into today. A real pasting most of it at the end of the dow with the dow slipping 915 pounds, s p climbing 3. 3 . Nasdaq falling 3. 79 just like yesterday, which had the big whoosh up, this had the whoosh down. We need to figure out whats next either a continuation of the selloff evolving into a retest, where the market goes back into earlier lows or take them out or resting period, setting us up for the next move higher not much in between here what makes the situation so dicey . Next friday we get the labor departments nonfarm payroll report based on this weeks hideous jobless claims number, we could expect a real doosey this market is a tug of war between the bears bracing for a possible depression if we cant stop covid and the bulls betting on a boom if we do beat it because of the liquidity being injected into the system by the Federal Reserve and by the 2 trillion build
Once again today. In fact the nasdaq broke tough 9,000 the First Time Ever. It now risen 11 straight sessions making it the longest win streak since july of9. 2 s been quit a trip to the 9,000 level. The index at 325 back in 1990 before the d bubble pushed it to 5,000 for the first time by thend of th decade. Then came the huge decline leading to the 200 recessio in fact it didnt get back to 5,000 until only to be hit once again by the great recession. It hit 8,000ast and today its first close above 9,000. Here are the closing numbers for today with the dow u10 a points now at 28621. The nasdaq ros9 today and s p added 16. Frank holland starts us off tonight on the Nasdaq Record run. The road to ntds was paved with compute chips yoga pants and lattes its not surprising that chips are arj factor. Amd seeg the biggest improvement since the nasdaq crossed the 8,000 mark in august of 2018. Lam research and broadcom gaining more than 50 . Consumer stocks pushing the nasdaq higher. Yoga pant
Stock higher from here the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Great to have you u with us on this wednesday, the day before thanksgiving. Our Investment Committee, joe, jon, steve and jenny Stocks Holding steady, but enough for the dow, s p and nasdaq to hit new highs. The nasdaq trying for its 25th record close and its 11th this month alone. Tech, industrials, consumer staps, all hitting record levels we continue to buy into this rally, joe yes, we are in the middle of a melt up. Thats what with we can call this its being powered by significant dispersion on many sectors. Technology, health care, financials, so you can find opportunities in each of these sectors. Are we pulling forward some of the gains from 20 . B potentially, but thats not a concern we have now. We think a lot of it is predicated on the basis that the consumer is strong when you look at Balance Sheets and you think of governmental ambulance sheets, corporate. What better Balance S