Cases. Can the bulls hold on all winter . Amazon shaking up the Prescription Drug business with the launch of amazon pharmacy e and a lot more investors will be adding tesla to their portfolio when electric Vehicle Company joins the s p 500 in december. Can tesla maintain its dominance . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. So, ben, interesting market this week. The dow and the s p were down ever so slightly, the nasdaq and small caps were up. What are traders looking at . Well, it was interesting, its a week that felt like it should have been a really down pretty hard. We had the treasury ending some programs that the fed has to support the economy, we had bad data the, retail sales disappointing, jobless claims, manufacturing surveys were disappointing and, of course, theres covid which continues to spread a around the country, cuff fews being imposed, new York City Schools going to remote learning. It looks really bad, except the dow finished down 0. 7, the s
Do you dunk the entire covid cohort or stick with it on a dow when the rose 183 and the nasdaq gained 1. 8 the reaction to zoom Video Communications after it reported a good quarter that wasnt quite good enough for wall street. This company practically sin none mouse with the new normal and look ban on 2020 as the year of zoom so when you see it down 15 its alarming. You got to wonder what that means for the rest of the stayathome stocks. The answer, nothing. Just because zooms insanely high growth is decelerating that doesnt mean the trend is over in fact, id argue it never had gone away because this year has shown us millions of jobs can be done better from home. No need for that central office. Why go to meetings to negotiate or sign documents when you do everything over the web and save millions, maybe ten, maybe hundreds of millions in travel, hotel, dinners, zoom, i mean thats how the 39 billion s p global ihs market deal was consummated as we heard from Doug Pederson on mad mone
Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
Jackie deangelis are both in new york. Speaking in new york laura engle is on Staten Island where a local Business Owner continues to defy shutdown orders. Well get to that. Start with you, blake, new developments on covid relief. What is the latest . Reporter i believe Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is on the senate floor or headed there. If we have the video and take it connell that would be fantastic. If not literally it is happening as we speak. We of course wait to see what eventually come of this. Live look on senate floor, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Just got there. So were still trying to see exactly what he says Going Forward on a pathway potential covid relief bill. We do know, connell that tomorrow the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers put forth this 908 billiondollar plan will actually release their legislative text. That should have an impact on how washington views that proposal. The president s top Economic Advisor larry kudlow was asked about it earlier
Unemployed virus spiking and vaccine is not coming soon enough this warp speed is too slow. As wall street sees it, worse news is better for a stimulus bill the nasdaq has been lagging. 70. Yet, we saw buying in many of the stocks really would benefit. B caterpillar hitting an all time high if you want to be in those, it is chevron or pioneer. The seven conductor stock, they just roar. The opening of america play. Will we get a stimulus bill . It is a Perfect Place to start a game plan next week. I fear that we are going to get hammered when we come in on monday lets be clear the Labor Department reported this morning 8 30 was a disappointment not a surprise if you are paying attention to the spike and covid infections of the death toll whatever reasons these kinds of number dont seem to be impacted by common sense. You have to believe a good chunk of the economy is going to get shutdown it is not the government, people it is going to be shutdown by fearful individuals who dont want to