About a 900point gain in just two days, easing some of lath weeks big losses. The s p 500 is up nearly 60 since President Donald Trump was elected four years ago this day, 2016 stocks have climbed back to reclaim the ground last earlier this year. Tonights election will be decided in the swing states and we will dig into issues, everything from covid to the economy and more power lunch begins right now welcome to power lunch, everybody. Im kelly evans. Weve got an historic election and a huge rally today our reporters are all over it. Bob pisani is watching stocks, ylan is at the polls lets begin with bob pisani on this rally today im calling this the buy everything rally we are off of the highs which we hit late in the morning, but still a substantial rally for the day. Take a look at the sectors when i say buy everything, you know its a good day when banks and industrials and technologies which go in opposite directions are up today today banks, industrials, its your cyclical sector
Thematic global team if you were looking for big tech to come to the rescue today, youre going to have to look somewhere else that is your picture right now with the nasdaq getting hit the hardest, down more than 300 points, 2 3 4 look, this is not what we wanted people like me have been talking about the broadening of the rally. You were getting that but this week youve had the down side, which we didnt want to see of tech giving up gains its been the whole week, right. Microsoft had a bad reaction to earnings having said all that, i dont think at all that youre supposed to throw in the towel on these big tech nailmes. I think their value iations arer the most part defendable and theyre trading on lack of fiscal stimulus and the virus surging as it is on the earnings number if you want to take apple, theres a reason why they underperformed on iphone sales people are saving you for the iphone 12. And amazon, they have a quarter every now and then where they say were going to spend a lo
Vaccine. I love what Greg Valliere published minutes ago, where he says this is a humanitarian crisis, and another word he uses in his terse note is acceleration. Not only acceleration of chases and deaths, but this is about the medical industry and the hospitalizations. Peter hotez scheduled to be with us later this morning. Jonathan in various places around the country, the Health Care System is being overwhelmed. The caseload has gone from about 77,000 at the start of this around 150,000. Silent, anduse is congress isnt looking at a fiscal package right now. They are looking at nominating judy shelton to the Federal Reserve. For this market, the policy focus isnt there. Tom what is interesting is the incongruence of the president and the care he got at walter reed, whereas from sea to shining sea, it is not happening. I cannot convey the strangeness of american media, election, election, election, and below the fold is here is the mass of the pandemic. Jonathan weve got a crisis. In
And your comments a moment ago to andrew, just sort of crystallize, not just what a job shes done, but how companies are placing their bets on looking through cycles, even though were a week away from an election and in the middle of a pandemic. You have somebody the quality of lease why isa su, best ceo i country, nonpromotional, re competitive thought this was maxed out. Youre in the personal computer and data center, it is not good enough she saw what happened to intel i dont say that with any prejudice. Just that she left intel behind. She is in the data center, who is she who are her clients . Azure, google, and, of course, amazon but it is time she feels it is time to branch out into auto, time to branch out into defense into telco when you look at xilinx, what youre seeing is a mosaic where there is some overlap in data center, but the rest is an attempt to say, you know what, we need a bigger total Addressable Market we have to outgrow our markets right now. And i think it is a
We stock with the rally on the eve of the vote tomorrow every seconder finishing in the green. The rally after the market hand in the worst week since march. So what does todays Market Action tell us about tomorrows big vote guy, what do you say hi, mel you like my election haircut. I see. Really took it down. Really tight, nice. High and tight. Interesting. Whats it tell you today, i think a lot of people squaring up ahead of the election the vix suggests theres still a lot of concern the six vix at one point traded up to 37. 5 obviously elevated last week saw huge move from 24 to 40. It absolutely mirrors of the move of june 8 to june 11 when it went from 20 to 40 and sms went from 32. To 50 in a Straight Line so the moves are identical, i think if theres a concession speech tomorrow morning this mix of 38 probably has 28 handle theres no concession speech i think the 38 vix remains thats the way im looking at the world right now. Lets be clear, concession speech by either candidate