Airline stocks are popping after the government gave approval to a different way to disinfect surface onz planes american, united, delta, theyre all up 8 or so. S p 500, nasdaq set for a record close. With he have 59 minutes left of trade. Brian, good to have you onboard. Yeah. Good to be here on a day where there seems to be a lot gf news. The markets are powering higher again. We have a long way to go two hours. Coming up, you remember herbalife. They sparked wall streets most epic battles on the Halftime Report it is reinvigorated, more than doubling from the march lows and our interview with the ceo is coming up later on. Were going to be joined by Penny Pritzker and ask her about the democrats economic platform and how a Biden Administration would tackle the coronavirus are your taxes going up . Were going to ask her directly. Right now lets focus in on the big stories that were watching to day mike santoli, as always, watching all the Market Action joining us to talk about the la
Apple. Josh lipton has the latest reporter apple says the stock split is to make the stock more accessible to a broad base of investors iphone revenue is blowing past expectations 26. 4 billion. I did have the chance to catch up with apples ceo tim cook we talked about those iphone demand trends and the mix in the quarter. Cook telling me iphone 11 is the most popular iphone and we had a great launch, he says, on iphone se during the quarter. It was also very strong, an uptick in switchers, meaning android switchers, that we were happy to see and the iphone se is clearly helping with that i asked cook about those broader work from home trends, how is that benefiting apples products and services during the quarter. Cook says it definitely is, it definitely has boosted, cook saying, mac and ipad, we see those picking up for productivity weve son several school buys of ipads. We have the strongest lineup in both mac and ipads than weve ever had, a combination of those coming together at t
Gain tackling your questions on the rally ahead. The trader radar, what are you buying and selling today, josh melissa lets start with what is popular on robin hood according to robin track. That the Spartan Energy acquisition nio popular not only today by the way but saw the biggest gain in popularity for the week netflix, amazon and microsoft. As for Spartan Energy, lets dig into names there is report it could do a spak that would allow the ip ocho plan to make a vehicle everybody wants a piece of the market phil wouldnt be surprised if this happens then lets move on to fitbit, another name to watch. Reuterss did a did a report goy be able to avoid the full investigation into the bid for fitbit if it promises not to use the data to target ads another one to watch, bed bath and beyond reported earnings, sales dropped 50 but still has plans on the street. Raymond james reaffirming a stock buy says it should represent the low water mark in sales and earnings ill end with netflix. That p
After hitting another all time high earlier in the session. The selloff coming as California Governor Gavin Newsom rolling back reopening plans as coronavirus cases spike in the state. Bars, gyms, salons, malls, other businesses ordered to close indoor operations in 30 counties that represents 80 of the states population does this officially put a close on the reopening rally guy . I dont know again, i dont know if this was a rally on the reopening or hopes that there was some vaccine out there or the fact that the fed is back stopping this entire thing, but ill play your reindeer game, mel, and say this was the reopening rally. Im shocked that people are surprised that the reopening is not going as well as a lot of people were indicating it would. So it should put an end to it because on top of that, as we just talked about earlier, or sara and wilf talked about, you had one of the biggest reversals in the market. It looks to me eastererily simio some of the moves in late march when t
Of taking harsh new policy action against beijing and lets get to Kayla Tausche in washington kayla . Melissa, todays policy announcement by President Trump was essentially a doubling down on pretelegraphed policies that the administration had already announced. Today from the rose garden, President Trump said that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the world health organization, that it would be suspending entry into the u. S. For certain students and researchers that it finds to be affiliated with Chinese Military arms, that it would be starting a study of the Chinese Companies Accounting Practices and exactly what their role within the Financial Markets is with the potential delisting on the table there and studying the economic status of hong kong any possibly eliminating special treatment for that territory in the wake of beijings new National Security law and most of that was already laid out by white house or Administration Officials in the weeks leading up to