The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
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
Shares of pharmacy giants are under pressure after amazon said it was jumping into the Prescription Drug business bowe is off a little pour than 100 points nasdaq and s p clinging on the gains. Coming on todays show, retail earnings season full swing. Shares of coles are higher after topping eps estimates this morning. We will talk with the ceo. Plus, as the u. S. Is seth coronavirus records we will talk with dr. Eric gooseby. All of that still to come. First lets focus on the big stories today. Mike santoli is tracking the market phil lebeau has more on teslas spree into the s p 500 and we will talk about the pharmacy space and amendss move into it. Mike santoli lets start with you. It was the morning was off the lows a mild pullback. Market seemed like it needed to cool off and rest for a day. Right now riding the upper rail here we close at a record yesterday remember that. Above 3600 working below week ago mondays high hard to tell whether thats going the matter or not. Thats about
Report in the atlantic that says President Trump called wounded veterans losers we will talk to the Vice President , but lets talk more about the nasdaq with the tech selloff continuing. Some of the big names we follow closely, tesla is down after a 9 drop yesterday and today its down about 2 in premarket activity. The chip maker also about 9 yesterday and it also looks to open down by almost 4 today. That is free market activity as well. Zoom after a big day earlier in the week seeing major prophet taking in the last two days down almost 2 and apple surging on its stock split monday but then down another about 7 yesterday down to about one and a quarter in premarket activity after an 8 drop yesterday. We are less than two months until election day and joe biden is out and about. He made another. Dot this could be why the democrats want him to stay in the basement. We will play that a little later. We may hear from President Trump as he meets with leaders of serbia and kos about later
Creeping back into this market lately, as attention remains squarely on the potential for tax reform, on lower oil prices, and on the health of the economy. When all was said and done, the dow jones industri dropd another 138 points, closed at 23,271, its lowest level in three weeks, by the way. The nasdaq was off by 31. And the s p 500 fell 14, but it does still remain just 1 from its most recent high. And tax reform is indeed a big deal for the markets and investors. This afternoon senator johnson became the first republican to say that he will vote against the Senate Tax Plan because he thinks it unfairly benefits corporations more than other types of businesses. The senate can lose only two votes and still pass the proposal. But as ylan mui reports, there are a lot of changes being made, including one that could make your tax cut tempo. Reporter the senate adding two bombshells to its tax plan. Getting rid of the individual mandate for health care, and making the tax cuts for house