Were happy about. Congratulations for that lets go to the wall and check out where we stand as we set the table for our friday conversation 29,367 for the dow thats 1 . 2 8. S p is just shy of that and the nasdaq is having a pretty good day as are the small caps. Liz young, lets set the investing landscape if we could for our debate youve got virus cases soaring but very promising vaccine news on a number of different front you got the president not conceding but you got biden winning arizona, which gives some more certainty to the transition period, despite the noise and the noise makers, if you will youve got so much pentup demand on the other side of the virus. You know thats going to be the case then you have this battle between value and growth as you all try and figure out where to place your bets for the months ahead. What do we do with all of that what do we do with all that we start with thinking about the time frame its true that through the end of the year, maybe into januar
Well be on and bridge you all of the bring you all of the big headlines. First the november to remember dow surging towards best month since january 1987 s p and nasdaq handing in best work since april energy up more than 25 percent financials up more than 17 percent. Small caps, best month ever. Bulls werent hiding, check this out, each of the past four monday he got big vaccine news before the market open and look at diminishing returns, the market fell despite moderna requesting emergency use of its vaccine. So weve been talking talking black or white or red and green in terms of diminishing returns. I took that economic class my freshman year and learned all about diminishing returns which is why i often invoke it here, i think so, absolutely tell you something, the vix is telling another story. I thought a day like today, monthend i thought the vix would close closer to 25 but here it is closing lower on the day, maybe its a function of that specific security, but ill tell you giv
And the deal is worth over 44 billion in stock it combines two of the largest providers to wall street and so far 2020s largest dollar wise deal plus, youve seen it on squawk box gm and nikola announce a smaller deal on fuel cell systems doesnt involve equity and well get to more of it why those shares are down so sharply by the way, jim, great to have you back. A lot to catch up on that we missed talking with you about over the last few days as for moderna, another monday here, jim, with 100 on severe and more discussion that come spring we may have nearly ten of these things to choose from. A remarkable moment because it is true this is warp speed and warp speed is run by the army and going to go to longterm care facilities at the same time it is going to go to Health Care Workers and i think the good news here is it will go to a lot of people that no one thought they could get to very early you shotgun the entire level of when you include modrna and dont even talk about j j i think
Cu through its time to risk less and make more options action starts right now. We start with a news alert. 13fs are hitting lets get to leslie with some of the details. Leslie hey, melissa, thats right. 13 app deadline is not until monday but weve seen a couple of notes hit the third point filing is out. Dan lopes made interesting moves in the tech world, notably increasing his exposures to some chinese ecommerce plays alibaba, upping that stake by about 26 , worth about 742 million at the end of the third quarter. J. D. Com, upping that stake by 37 to about 345 million at the end of the quarter in kind of the faang space, increased his space on facebook while keeping in kind of other u. S. Tech world, keeping his stakes in microsoft and pinterest at the same level. He also took stakes in two ipos. Palantir he bought for 21 million and goodrx worth 27 million. As with all of these 13 f filings, the stakes and values are as of the end of the quarter, the end of september and may have c
Commodities having a positive session the far. Astrazeneca stock is actually down today. The s p is up i 014 . It is a monday. We get vaccine news. Generally it is taken quite well. Cyclicals have a bigger day. That seems to be the narrative that is establishing itself. We do have a euro that has weakened. The manufacturing pmi data out of the united states, and i know the ism is more important in terms of what people look at, but nevertheless, the manufacturing data was strong, and as a result, the dollar went up. It does seem to be something of a consensus now that the u. S. Is simply a few weeks behind europe. You only have to look at what is happening with the eurozone data today to get a sense of how far pmis can fall. Highs,off our earlier off by 0. 2 percent. Boris johnson is currently talking about covid. We are also possibly making some progress when it comes to the brexit story. Certainly today, the big driver is definitely that news on astrazeneca. Alix Boris Johnson saying