Since 97. The apple surge on track for what will be the best yearly stock rally in a decade. The company is in talks to buy japans displays primary smartphone screen factory. And tesla on a tear shares climb to above 430. The automaker expecting a rollout the first china made model 3s on monday there seems to be no stopping the year end rally stocks are on track to hit new record highs nasdaq as we said in the midst of the longest daily win streak since 09 after closing above 9,000 for First Time Ever. Watching 3249 as we said but 3259 would give you 30 for the year we only had two years in the past three decades with a 30 gain. Yeah, i mean the pace in the last i would say past couple of weeks has been relentless, sellers staying out of the way that has created this incremental move day by day. I do think we have this unusual situation where the year to date numbers are i dont want to say skewed, they are what they are, but it gives a little bit of a different impression if you look a
That is all ahead but we begin with seema mody and the Market Action today seema, it was record highs to start. Were not there yet, though. Yeah. Thats a great point, dom. Three hours left in trade. Take a look at the screen. Were actually losing a bit of steam. Nasdaq now down just about three points s p 500 higher by four and the Dow Jones Industrial higher by 64 points. Nasdaq, if it gets back into positive territory, it would be on track for its tenth consecutive close. That would be the longest strea since 1997 and it really has been a strong weak lets break down when stocks have been leading the charge as you can see, it is primaril technology apple. Intel. Amazon in fact, amazon stock now playing catchup on track for its biggest oneweek advance of the year in response to those strong Holiday Shopping sales stock up about 6 . Also, want to draw your attention to shares of nike. Sitting on yet another record high this afternoon. Consumer edge overnight raising its price target and
Striking distance, stocks are on track for what would be well see, the first loss in four sessions, but really cant get much of anything out of the future moves right now plus, deal or no deal, tmobile sprint battle heads to court. 13 state attorneys general led by, of course, california and new york are seeking to block that merger. And it is an m a monday, we have two big premium deals in biotech, sanofi and merck. Im going to get to that jim does too stock picking so important there in terms of figuring out where those premiums are going to end up stocks overall set to look for a modest open this morning, this after fridays jobs report rally. That resulted in the s p erasing its losses for last week trade once again in focus here, heard jim talking about it on squawk box. The next round of u. S. Tariffs against chinese goods set to go into effect, this sunday so we are now counting down. And new data Shows Chinese exports to the u. S. Fell 23 in november i dont know how much more th
Negative year in five years. Plus, new highs in striking distance stocks set for what would be a muted open after another round of wall street records. And the shipping wars, amazon blocking sellers from using fedex ground for prime fedex does report tonight after the bell lets kick off with boeing, though now on track for four straight declines the Company Confirming it will suspend production of the max beginning in january as regulators make it clear they will take their time in approving the jets return to service. Boeing says the decision is driven by a number of factors including the extension of certification into next year southwest, jim, is delaying return until april now thats the second delay in two months. They cant get this right and throughout this, the thing that people talk about, speak to large Money Managers look i do, we cant move the move this to 400 this thing gets through, we cant. Well stand there and buy the stock. Not going to let it go under 300. We want every
It really is a mixed picture here the dow is up 49 points, so well off the highs of the session the s p is down fractionally right now, but keep in mind, we are still in striking distance of a potential record close. So the next hour is going to be one to watch closely joining us for that hour is Michelle Mckinnon from Payne Capital management here at post 9. Welcome. Thank you what do you think of this market here . Were poised for gains for the week for all the major averages, but the russell 2000 and the transportation average are both up 5 , week to date. And so are the banks, like you mentioned. What im really looking at is the bond market. We started the tenyear treasury at 1. 55 for the week and now were up to 1. 88 and the longterm treasury are down 5 for the week thats basically two years worth of coupon that you lost. Wow do you think thats going to speak bond holders, that it could go worse than that or not . You know, i absolutely think rates look like theyre going higher h