U. S. Cases do continue to decline. The fda gives the go ahead for plasma use in hospitalized patients and a potential vaccine fast track and tech on a tear. Shares of apple up nearly 75 this year ahead of its four for one stock split today. Jim, we have all that to handle and jackson hole this week, the rnc and couple tropical storms in and not a sleepy august it should be a sleepy august, and its not august supposed to be a down month and its not people say, wait a second. 70 of the market didnt do well last week. I always find those kind of things because 70 of the market does well this week. You dont have a bunch of anything to hang your hat on when you look at a big apple price target increase basically to where the stock is you realize, wait a second shes the first. But will everyone have to follow every price target is below where the stock is a lot of people feel enthusiasm for the stock split. Of course, that is part of it. I know stocks mean nothing but they excite people she
Angry protests against lebanons government 2 ministers have now quit over tuesdays last number of confirmed covert 19 cases in the u. S. Reaches 5000000 but numbers are still rising in almost 20 states. And the afghan president agrees to release 400. 00 taliban prisoners paving the way for vital peace talks. We begin this hour in belarus west state approved exit polls show president Alexander Lukashenko winning the election with just 80 percent despite voting being extended in some places because many people were still trying to vote supporters of the main opposition candidates for the kind of skier were asked to vote as late as possible to minimize the opportunity for electoral fraud attempts to alter the vote. Had been widely suspected in previous elections but officials and supporters of the president whos held office now for a quarter of a century are accusing the opposition of sabotage aljazeera step vassar reports now in the capital minsk. Cheers for start lana the kind of guy wh
Housing starts surge 2ging 22 n july countdown to a record. We are above it right now. But as we have said, we have been there before. 59 minutes until its official will today be the day . I dont know, mike san toll ji not here. If you missed out on the markets stunning rally, is it too late to jump in now . Well ask founder Mike Novogratz for his take and a world of difference. How much the Global Economy has been altered and the challenge thats remain with David Melpass. Lets get to the stories were watching bob pisani is marking the action sara has new details on one of the biggest earnings and bob, lets start off with you. Its technology. There is the tech on the upside. A little Consumer Discretionary. That is amazon and advance auto parts. This the he do very good retailers lagging behind here. Thats how important they are. Those are not typos. Apple, 42 the stocks all major reasons why were at new highs today as for the retailers, yeah, we are at new highs at the open at home de
Ive taken this quarantine times to update a couple of bathrooms. Not. Light bulbs i have always wanted to be handy. These numbers are expected to be insane i did change a couple of light bulbs. They are all different so finding the right one for all the Different Things my wife has, it is not easy. I have changed a couple of them but thats about it. Rising to the challenge, im sure before we get those numbers from home depot, lets start with the overall markets. The s p 500 finished the session just shy of the high just shy, we are talking 4. 15 points away from the record it is sitting at at this point. 3,386. 15 is where it closed. The record from february is 3,393. 52 the record close of 2020 up another 1 to 11,129. Looking at record futures. Two dow components reporting home depot and walmart big numbers expected from both of those dow futures up by 64, nasdaq up by 40 and s p up by 7. Dow component reported 4. 02 a share. Consensus was 3. 71. I noted revenue gain was over 23 . Com
Claims rising back above 1 million. The fed voicing concern of its own about pace and state of the recovery josh, brown, the question today is how long, how long can stocks continue to outrun the economy well, i would argue that stocks have been out juning the economy since 2009 we clearly had an economic recovery that had been accelerated in recent years the longer it went on, but it hasnt come close to what the top 10 of american households by wealth have enjoyed by virtue of being in stocks and real estate as investment how long can that go on for . Its been going on for more than a decade if anything, you can make the argument that the pandemic has done nothing other than accelerate that trend. Its not a great thing to be hold the stocks that continue to work, anything tech, almost anything tech, anything work from home. Take a look at zoom. Were not even talking about it anymore. Its almost like its a given. Then you have this contingent of companies that have adapted themselves t