Record high today, up more than 17 this year. Check out the big tech names hitting fresh alltime highs in todays session, apple, microsoft, facebook, amazon, netflix all marking new highs. Is this headed straight for a giant iceberg, guy [ laughter ] when you read that, you hesitated reading that this is the bubble in my head literally said should i read this or should i skip over it, titanic tech run headed straight for a giant iceberg. I went with it lets go with the metaphor. I am a fan of leo i know you might find this propostrous but leo is a huge fast money fan we should collectively give a shoutout so i was talking to the great dan nathan earlier today and we were just talking about the move in amazon. Amazon is up 3 today. Amazon has added this month which i think today is the 9th of july. Just this month its added almost a quarter of a trillion dollars to its market cap. I think there are only 22 companies in the s p 500 that have a market cap of a quarter of a trillion dollar
Was 25 n the s p 500 better than average over the last month. We are waiting on the let us check of japan, as the pandemic puts more pressure on the economy already sliding into recession. Inflation numbers are due at this hour. Haidi lets check in on the markets. We had a pretty tepid handover from the u. S. Stocks edging higher. Volumes still below what we have seen over the past month or so. Very much a rangebound trading session. We continue to seek a new catalyst. We continue to see rising cases across the u. S. , driving the idea of a second wave. Beijing struggling with a second wave as well. Conflicting data not giving a great deal of intel as to what the future holds. We are dealing and upside on s p futures, up about. 3 . Nikkei futures also a little bit higher, japan weighing the frostburg of reopening. Also the potential demise when it comes to tourism. Sydney futures are a little bit to the downside at the moment. We could see a modest bounce at the start of trading here i
Take something off the table makes sense which is how you got to todays selloff with the dow dumb bli t tumbling and nasdaq tumbling the bear camp cant exist at the sametime there cannot be coexistence with the huge covid outbreak in the sun belt spiraling out of control, bear is in charge so why dont we do this . Let suspend judgment and not use terms about good or bad and take the approach of the fact spin. Awaken america trade has taken a turn for the worse some people expected that. I didnt its a disturbing spike in covid cases across alabama, north carolina, South Carolina and texas. The infection level so high the governors of new jersey, new york and connecticut have taken an unusual action and slapped a 14day quarantine on travelers from these hot spots thats amazing they have more than 35,000 new cases today which is about where these numbers peaked in april. Not good its plain bad news for everything that depends on the economy reopening which is a lot of things. The america
Alex azar, 7 30 a. M. Eastern with war on coronavirus and potential vaccine and whats being done to curve spikes. Im joined by donald trump, jr. , we are talking a lot with him, dont mishis take of 2020 race, mailin ballots, ongoing protests and social media and a lot more. Final day of Second Quarter, we are wrapping up a quarter thats been the best in 20 years, markets mixed, dow industrials down 70 points, the nasdaq is up 6 points and s p down 5. For the the Second Quarter markets are up sharply with yesterdays gain 180 points. For the Second Quarter, the dow up 16 , nasdaq up 28 and the s p 500 higher by 18 . Their best quarter since 1998 on the dow and s p 500. Federal reserve chair jay powell says the path ahead for u. S. Economy is extraordinarily uncertain. Powell and secretary mnuchin will be testifying before House Financial Services committee today on Pandemic Response and Stimulus Fund landed. More Companies Joining the facebook ad boycott costing the social media giant bi
The fed laid out plans to buy up individual Corporate Bonds this as the emergence of new coronavirus hot spots around the country add to fears of a second wave so why, guy adami, are markets seemingly so immune to these concerns is that actually a good sign for this rally no, its not. But before i have to i would be remiss, melissa, if i didnt wish the b. K. , the bitcoin baller a happy belated birthday. His birthday was yesterday do you know whose birthday is tomorrow i wont keep you in suspense adam smith would have been 297 years old tomorrow why do i mention him i had to read that book the wealth of nations in college. You probably read it as well he was the father of free market capitalism well, what you saw today was the exact antithesis of that and im going to get added by everybody. To think this market is at all free market is a fools folly. The fact that we rallied into this announcement by the fed, which we all saw coming or they announced it prior shouldnt really surprise a