Arizona for First Time Since 1996 and thats where we will begin this morning as the president continues his legal challenges today. President elect biden winning the state of arizona, thats according to nbc news decision desk overnight further cementing his victory in last weeks election biden now holds 290 electoral votes, to trumps 217. Georgia and North Carolina are the ones that are still too close to call, jim but if you put those two together, even flipping those for the president would not be enough yeah, look, carl, this matters tremendously there was a lot of uncertainty in the last four days that perhaps the president wouldnt leave the white house, the legal challenges would go on forever, december 13th would come, 14th is the last day, and there would be no concession about the electoral college. And this kind of makes it so that it is less likely, plus the attack on fox, believe it or not, made people realize maybe there is a second life, maybe a station that will be owned
Claims came in better than expected, 709,000 signaling more improvement in the labor market. And treasury yields dropping sharply following yesterdays bond market closure. Thats putting pressure on banks, which are among todays worst performers though still strong performers for the week 59 minutes left in the session, sara every sector firmly in the red. Ahead on todays show, chipotle unveiling its first ever digital only restaurant this week without a dining room or a line for ordering we will speak with the ceo brian noccol about the strategy there. And Jeremy Grantham said he thought the market was a mccoy bubble we will get an update on his that it is since those comments. Disney, pal an tear and cisco reporting after the bell we will bring you the numbers as they happen. Mike, whats the market dealing with. Contending with worries pileup of news on the shutdown, on the virus, maybe getting worried about what growth is going to look like in the First Quarter or two the s p 500 was
Say the least after a bit of a rebound the other day when i was on with you, yesterday i was not here for what was a decline overall in all the markets. I think we are in a new era of volatility. Every single time we get an up opening people say, okay, i guess that selloff is over and when we get the printed selloff people say this selloff is going to go on for ages. I urge people to step back and recognize we are in a period where theres a lot of vacuum, a lot of people trying to buy when its going up, a lot of people trying to sell when its going down and just interpret that as just being enthusiasm, greed and then fear and accept it that its here to stay because its really the undercurrent behind these moves. Okay. And what does that mean in terms of this socalled playbook that you often offer people who listen to what you have to say sure. It means that if you think that it is going to bounce today because it was down hard yesterday, dont make the first move wait to see whether the
Is its been a broadening out. Now, the question is is there enough money to go around to buy 3m today and also buy lets just use lets just pick nvidia, okay and the answer is thats to be determined there is a lot of newer money coming into the market, we will be talking about splits later today and the nature of the alchemy of it all but the thing that im most excited about, david, is there are industrials doing better than expected we have to stay focused on that because when we think about 3m making a come back, think about where they were and that is the you know, that is the and theyre having some good numbers this morning, thats what stood out to me and it makes me think nat industrial leg must be included in any portfolio. Its only up 2 are you kidding me youre referencing yeah, thats the stock youre referencing 3m. We should just tell people theyre giving us Monthly Sales numbers, july was up i think 6 year over year, 2. 8 billion, organic local currency sales up 3 because dont
Whatsoever theyre pure slight of hand. Do i have more pencil . Stocks are also exactly what we need to help keep this market moving higher like we did today with the dow gaining 290, s p jumping and the nasdaq 2. 13 because apple and tesla gave you fantastic news about what it should be a 4 for 1 and 5 for 1 stock split respectively again, no new value but boy, do people love it theres a reason we have to feed the bull with more nourishing stock blitz and ill tell you why. Years ago individual investors deserted the stock market with the implosion of 2000, 2001 and financial crisis of 2007, 2009 they gave up on the asset class and started tiptoeing back, looked enticing and something would go wrong 2015 mini crashes. But in the past few years, beaten down individual investors, a lot of younger investors intrigued by low to no commissions. Finally started buying stocks again. Despite all the gray beards telling you its impossible to beat the market, despite the supposedly brilliant Mone