Out of congress as opposed to just these executive orders from the president that are taking quite a bit of heat over the weekend. Yeah, look, david, i think that there is a sense initially that it was a white house grab and it kind of went through the weekend, there was a recognition that, wait a second, maybe it is a grab if youre going to give 400, 100 has to come from the states and many of the states including red states are in trouble. The thing that is most compounding people is that 12 of the people who make 80 to 100,000 get this bizarre payroll tax cut when the problem is not the people employed but the people who are unemployed. I think that its arer so counterintuitive our old friend larry kudlow always believed in that. We have secretary mnuchin right now, which is terrific lets do it lets do it. Go ahead, jim. Mr. Secretary, always good to see you on squawk on the street. We get a little bargaining done on the show. How have you been . Good morning. How are you . Im doing
The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
Earnings we start off with the one chart in the market that seems to be getting no attention check out the xrt, the retail etf up 12 this year the xrt taking another leg higher today on the back of a strong retail report is this retail recovery for real and if so, how are you playing it brian kelly, kick us off. I think theres a couple Different Things yes, there is a retail resurgence i think a lot of it had to do with the stimulus, but a lot of it had to do with a change in the way people are working the top five to ten holdings are heavy ecommerce, overstock, etsy, wayfare. Be careful what youre talking about in extrapolating this to mall based retailers i think mall based retailers are going out of business. This is the new wave of commerce its ecommerce. I do think that continues. The caveat is it would only get stim stimulus and people dont have that 600 check dor, do we get stalling in this do we get a stalling with walmart . Maybe theyre not as exposed to the stimulus check sin
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
Better than 1 move for the dow. Nasdaq record highs. Big tech taking a bit of a break. You see facebookdown as well as amazon amazon, netflix and microsoft lower. If its tuesday, it must be tilman frittia calling on americas governors to show some real leadership and tell us where the goal posts are on reopening. Power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks. Its Energy Leading the way today. On track for its best day since june 5th it might not matter as much as it used. Bob has more technology stocks, 27 of the s p 500. That doesnt include google which is really a tech company or amazon which is a consumer discretionary. All together top Six Companies are 25 of the s p 500 just about. Its approaching that. Its crazy the rest of the sectors are shrinking. Let me show you what the sectors are today. Energy is only 3 of the s p 500. Now it used to be 5 a few years ago but financials have shrunken dramatically for example, it was 15 of the s p just five years ago. Industrials were 10 now it