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Of optimism into the market. Thats sending a huge swath of the markets to record highs, as president elect joe biden gets clearance from the Trump Administration to begin preliminary transition protocols. Yes, it crashed through the 30,000 ceiling but can the dow close there . Heres what you need to watch in the next call it 59 minutes with me. The dow has got to be up 359 points for a brand new record. But were above 30,000 and that means we are up about 437, just 29 points above 30,000. So you get to do the math there. The s p has got to be up 49 points. We are at the moment up 55. No record for the nasdaq, but it did pop above 12,000 for the very first time and we are still there, 12,026. The russell, im not going to ignore it. I know you russell fans. These are the small and midcaps. Any gain is a record. The dow transports also about to close at new alltime highs. We are watching it all so closely. But as the markets say let the good times roll, there is a darker backdrop at this
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
Lets begin with a check on stocks lets welcome in brian belski. Thank for having me ambitious call. How do we get there . This will be a transition that takes several months if not into the year you, well into 2022 the unprecedented price moves in 2020 are going to turn into, we think, unprecedented earnings move in 2021 we think financials, Consumer Discretionary will lead the way. Were maintaining our stance of being neutral on technology and Communication Services over the next three to five years theyre by far our favorite sector in terms of growth we think this is going to be a turn around in terms of Earnings Growth theres no doubt that the vaccine is helpful, no doubt stimulus will be helpful, but theres also no doubt we are going to have more stayathome orders in the United States and therefore the stayathome stocks will do very well the bull market continues, we continue to believe that march 23rd, we dcontinue to believe that march 23rd was the controlaltdelete were bullish w
Timber on all the way out to the Golden Gate Bridge, well see a lot more of that into the afternoon too. So its going to be a nice calm day and look at how we remain calm during your daytime hours. Then the sun sets and the winds push in winds of change overnight winds picking up rushing in cooler air during the overnight hours and its going make for a night and a situation from todays warm daytime highs to the much cooler conditions were expecting starting on friday and really lasting for the rest of your forecast after that point 50s and 60s for most of our bayside in inland areas right now well lena holding on to the upper 40s along the santa rosa, fairfield you just got a pretty big temperature update now youre at 57 degrees that sunshine really helping the out ive got more on your forecast still to come lets go over to robin with an updated look at traffic. Yes we are checking in on that morning drive which is not so bad so far heading into San Francisco busy here at the bay bridg