Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Fortt and sara eisen is joining us, working a split shift. The biggest loss for the dow since july 30th. Were back to 34. 30. Had a pretty good nice opening, john, as we got that trade deal commitment, the phone call between the reps between the u. S. And china then Consumer Confidence hits and it was just not enough to offset the best number for new home sales since 2006. Yes some things still creeping higher you see amazon a bit higher. Microsoft up about a percent alphabet, too. Adobe hitting alltime highs earlier this morning, which just goes to show, there are certain story lines in this market, sarah that continue to do well for sure, naturally, the s p 500 is positive because of those groups communication services, consumer discretionaries, financials are higher and the nasdaq just topped higher, john, as squawk alley started as Technology Goes green. I would just say on the consumer, this is a mixed picture were getting. Confident was down, all of the components of it, carl, we
Unemployment claims last week, but we are seeing sectors most sensitive to economic reopening. Sharply hire American Airlines rilgt now, trade iing up some 45 wilfred. Its actually pared some of those gains. About 43 . Ahead on todays show, tim ryan has a six step plan outlining his companys pledge to support black lives and it goes well beyond cash donations. Hell join us with his message plus, a key question for millions of newly unemployed americans. What happens when federal stimulus programs run out . Lets focus though on the big stories were watching today first of all mike is tracking the Market Action phil lebeau is watching a huge surge for airlines before the pullback and Courtney Reagan covering a battle between landlords and retailers, but mike, lets start with you and the broader markets. Hard to make too much of this headline softness after such a sprint that the market has had take a look at the two year chart the s p has had. We did see today mostly, the nasdaq 100, cli
Louns lou announced he is stepping down from his ceo role. And scott minerd will tell us why he doesnt think investors should be buying just yet. We have josh here welcome back to you. Interesting dichotomy setting up in the market. The stayathome stocks versus the gooutside pelaton was just hit on power lunch and netflix, zoom, are all outperforming and the goout stocks, the restaurants, the ubers are all getting hit. Theres the pocket of green there. Yeah. Look at live nation they do concerts. Yeah. Theyre thinking people are not going to go out if and when coronavirus comes here in bigger numbers. So the thing with that is that the danger with that is buying into a narrative because the narrative could be popular for two days and then all of a sudden it goes out of favor and people are like what was i thinking why do i own this stock . Because i think people are going to sit home . However, i do own zoom and another name thats been ripping, teledoc this is virtual doctors visits im
Welcome, good to have you with us on this new years eve tuesday. Our Investment Committee here today, joe, josh, jim and amy is back the chief Investment Officer of Chevy Chase Trust and one of barrons top 50 registered Investment Advisers for 2019 we begin with the markets. Stocks are trying to end a great year with another day in the green. Bouncing from the worst day in four weeks we do have big news today from one of our very own, hes making a move on a stock that hes been a big believer in for a big part of this decade. Josh brown, selling twitter. Im out feels good. First time out since the ipo in 2013. Tell us the reasoning. First of all, happy new year and thank you for ending your no, im telling the viewers, happy new year by the way, this is completely filled with gray goose, so take everything i have to say with a grain of salt. I got out of twitter today with a very small profit. I had been adding in the 20s, i owned some as high as 40 around the ipo. It has not worked out.