Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Been this year. Atcoin racing ahead, sitting a price level we have not seen since nearly three years ago. But, maybe investors taking a pause is the right thing to do. Sales u. S. Retail reminding us that another round of stimulus has not yet been passed. Sales gained. It is a tugofwar between vaccine boom and virus gloom. Joe things are not great in the short term. In the longterm, the vaccine making people optimistic. A lot of this bullishness reflected in the bank of America Monthly Fund manager survey. This tends to happen. Stocks go up, people get the list. This is the percentage of respondents that say they are overweight equities. 20e is a chart going back years. Half of respondents saying they are overweight. Very bulledlearly up. This past year, so much residual skepticism, lockdowns, election risk. Excuses to stay on the sidelines. One by one, those excuses have fallen. Now, all of a sudden, everyone is bullish. Like the lastems few times we reached this type of enthusiasm, e
Over the recent Police Clearance of a temporary migrant camp and parents. And the developers of russias new vaccine say its not just highly effective, but also highly affordable costing as little as 20. 00 per your world News Headlines for this hour. My colleague neil harvey will be taking over in just about 60 minutes. So on behalf of the r. T. E. International team, thanks for watching. And we hope you have a great day max keiser. This is their report. Have we hit peak bitcoin . That is a good question because you know, more and more billionaires around the world are getting into big queen and massive sort of Asset Management. Companies like black rock are getting into big. So max keiser this week, you tweeted the serious big question is developing a supply on exchange, dries up prices will start gapping higher looking for sellers. What do you mean by this max kaiser . But remember the old peak oil or peak gold arguments that were running out of oil are running out of gold. That of c
Help battle the pandemic. For bothhe death toll italy and france reaches the highest level since april. Setting a precedent. Joe biden confirms support for the good friday agreement in his first call with Boris Johnson. His transition presses on, despite President Trump contesting the election. Welcome to the show. 6 00 a. M. In london. Breaking news in amsterdam. Ceo remainsing, the cautious on the outlook as we go through those covid numbers. 270 million. We are looking at an outcome of a strategy review. We will get that on november 30. Good morning. Good to see mr. Biden committed to something that i grew up with, the good friday agreement. Annmarie certainly is. We are still waiting for President Donald Trump to accept those results, manus. A slew of legal issues going on in the United States. Breaking m row abv amro breaking. You are excited today about what is going on in china tech. Almost 260 billion of market value over two days in a frantic of a frantic selloff wiped out. Ma