Theres some interesting things in the Options Market that could keep the market down for a bit of time. I do think people are underestimating, a, youve got a good economy with a tremendous amount of stimulus coming in and i think that will continue to drive the market higher. Plus youve got a dynamic where the fed has made much of the fixed income market on investable with treasury and mortgages where they are today, when you take the earnings yield well into the 4 off next years earnings that is a pretty attractive asset class and i think it will propel the market higher so election uncertainty doesnt matter much in the near term stimulus talks, negotiations may not. How does that factor in . Its a big call that you make. Youre the one that suggests in our notes today that it mossably could happen or at least start before the election. Yeah. I mean, so listen, the election the election does matter i think what people have started to realize, since the last time i was on your show weve
A day. Yesterday that was a big head wind as the market did get up the s p just to the cusp of those old highs. We did it without the help of technology, of the big Growth Stocks everyone is talking about this rotation the nasdaq has had yet another of its fairly routine pullbacks so far it has bounced to maintain this up trend today yes, tesla helping it, but really it is the old favorites as well, just picking up the slack and the s p is right back to yesterdays afternoon highs before we had that shake out going into the close. Julia, david faber mentioning last hour the passing of Sumner Redstone, a legend in the content world. Coin that phrase content is king. Has a bit of feeling the end of an era, of course, he lived well into his 90s but what are your thoughts on what a figure like Sumner Redstone meant in his prime and who is defining this era right now. Well, certainly, jon. He was the ultimate media mobile of that raera. He was responsible for the consolidation of so much con
Jones industrial average up 16 points but its the nasdaq thats breaking out of 88 points on the nasdaq this morning and s p futures up 4 and 3 quarters staff largest Economic Contraction in u. S. History yesterday, another uptick on unemployment claims push selloff i didnt do, the dow industrials at the close yesterday still the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 on pace for fourth straight month of gains with industrial up on final day of july. Economic recovery, where is the economic recovery headed and what can the fed do to support it . Coming up at 8 10, chief investment offer rick is here and you dont want to miss valuable insight and commentary stimulus stale meat, still no deal with extra unemployment expiring today. President trump does not want to see election day move but also does not want to see fraud. U. S. Appeals court said to reconsider dismissal of his case. Coming up 8 30 a. M. Congressman jim jordan will weigh on latest moves on flynn, the congressmans fiery take away as well.
California and new york become the latest states to backtrack on plans to return to normal as daily virus cases in the u. S. Top 50,000 for the first time. Optimism takes hold of markets again. Asian equities and futures gain after positive vaccine developments and strong u. S. Manufacturing data. The u. K. Offers a home to hong kong citizens after chinas crackdown on prodemocracy protesters. The u. S. House of representatives passes of fresh sanctions bill against china. We are under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures right now. We see gains across the board after the drops in the cash trade we saw yesterday. A mixed picture in the u. S. But the futures up two thirds of 1 . Dax futures gaining 8 10 of 1 . U. S. Futures are little changed right now. You will see a screen full of green arrows as they are mostly marginally, with the exception of nasdaq futures. It looks like a risk on thursday. What do you see on the dmm . Anna weve
Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 60s made up about 50 of the market cap so, we have seen t