And tiffany mcgee. A were glad to have you on the Halftime Report once again as you can see, on that little bugs the bottom right of the screen look at that the bigger screen for you. The nasdaq s p and look at the nasdaq, up another 1. 2 . The s p, by the way, is on pace trying for its fifth straight positive day you might have heard this. Big tech nom has been leading the way. Hard to believe but true by the way, that sector hitting alltime highs yet again today raids also in focus, by the way, investors awaiting fed chair jay powells big speech tomorrow at the virtual jackson hole event so, joe, theres a lot to get to there anything that you see, before we get micro, on a macro basis, that leads you believe this market is getting too hot, and has to come down at some point, or can we literally go up every single day the answer to that is the market has been too hot for the better part of the last 8 to 12 weeks. The expectation for the month of august is we were coming into a calenda
Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas
Lets begin with that historic day for apple. It is the most valuable company on earth we shouldnt be surprised, but it just took two years for add a trillion in market cap thats just astounding. Absolutely remarkable its unprecedented to have a trillion dollar company. I added to apple after they announced the split. It makes no economy supplies in terms of benefits to the company in doing that. You can trade partial shares there are robin hood and others, but i thought the market would react positively i added to my core position. I dont want to sell, even though i do have some concerns theres an attack on the app store, which has driven a lot of growth im staying there for now. I think the 5g phone will be the biggest Product Launch theyve ever had around the world. Jim, i notice he own it as well, but to me you sound to be, you know one of the maybe, you know least enthusiastic about where the stock is now and where it can go from here. Do you think thats fair to say . I do, but tha
Still youre a member of our key Investment Committee Carrie Firestone is here as well jim livan that will is here. This is a big program. Jim, im going to you phish on what were watching here the market definitely took a leg lower on news of that regional quarter teen announced here in our backyard. Absolutely. I was counting on a certain series of things to occur. First is the america awakened trade works, meaning we get back to work, we start the long road back, meaning we dont have to hear from secretary mnuchin because things are good. We dont have to hear about from dr. Fauci. Its just all rolling back this 14day quarantine is like, holy carp, its like a civil war. Phil lebeau saying this is bad for the airlines. Its a bit of a reality check, the reality of where we are. I cant think of a better word to use all of the optimism, you know, some acting as though the virus is gone, others trying to wish it away. The reality of the matter is that you have spikes in some big, big places
From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i