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Split. Well tell you why invesetors ae piling in today. Energy companies have shut in production we have the latest on the impact of tropical storms marco and laura. Power lunch starts right now thank you, tyler as you mentioned its shaping up to be another record breaking week on wall street. That means even more evidence mounting that stocks are getting pretty expensive bob is following the markets for us bob. Yes it is. Right now we have very light summer volume. We have fairly narrow trading range today. I like what i see and i like what i see for one particular reason for once its not all about Technology Stock it started out that way at the open but it quickly changed and investers decided maybe the tech stocks are too pricey afterall today were seeing Energy Stocks bank stocks out performing, even industrials out performing the Technology Sec tore. Thats a big change of pace for the last couple of weeks i want to show you something to give you an example of how it changed. Apple
Index climbing sharply higher. In the month of august, the cyclicals are leading the way on the year. It is all about tax. It is all about tech. Interesting to see how the month of august plays out. Right now a sleepy summer day. Taylor it does not look like it will be sleepily for much longer. August goes quickly. It is a volatile month. We are in an election year. Abigail it is interesting because there are lots of reasons to think we could have a volatility spike, including the fact we are in the seasonally higher volatility time, august, september, october. The vix curve speaks to a big spike in october. The panic index is at levels close to where it was prior to the selloff in february and the selloff in 2018. The fundamental backdrop for this is despite the fact we have a better initial jobless claim today, which is excellent, but it is still extraordinarily high. It is not even put the financial crisis you cannot see the numbers around the financial crisis relative to where we a
Groups have switched from bear to bull market territory and they still have plenty of room to play catchup. Even when we get hit with waves of bad news. Nasdaq, did okay, quite a difference when i was out there when it was just a sea of red. Stocks opened up terribly. But then the strong bull markets that im talking about, the ones that are underneath, they surfaced, they quickly took over and we rolled back a big chunk of the decline buy buy buy something i pointed out on squawk on the street. When a rally has leaders from many different groups, and the better breath we have, the more kissable this market is, and thats what were seeing right now. Who are these leaders im talking about . Some youre very familiar with, because we talk about them all the time yes, bull market number one, the work from home cohort, which is a cluster of smaller bull markets. Zoom video, and at the orefron are the cybersecurity Stocks Companies need to be about protection when they put everything on the cl
Die. Thats the mantra so many businesses out here. The tsunami of invention disruption reaches far beyond this intense city and the valley that abuts it. The storm clouds darkening the fortunes of others in the inevitable riptide of creative destruction. The reverberations rattle whole industries with a wake so brutal they often determine the direction of stock prices in whole segments on a day where the dow dropped 55 points, s p lost. 16 and the nasdaq decreased. 24 lets just deal with the news. Take the biggest stock news of the day, the possible combination between shop and Td Ameritrade with the former buying the latter in a 26 billion combination that would create what might be an unbeatable 5 trillion online colossus these two companies have been sworn opponents ever since electronic trading became the way of the future more than 25 years ago. They have been in a battle for assets come on, its been incredible. And assets and commissions, the latter knowing no bounds with pervasi