It today here is how things look now. We are in the green. Look at the small cap stocks the russell 2000 we are still coming off four down weeks for stocks. A pretty louse si month. Now, the s p 500 is on pace for its best two day gain since all the way back in june did you follow that kate moore w were in a four week down street were on our best two day stretch since back in june bp the volatile till has really grown. What are you expecting ahead im told theres an election in 36 days. Is it just 36 days . It feels like its going to be any moment at this point we have this down market there is will the of consolidation and profit taking, rotation in terms of participation over the last couple of weeks. The big point and message is tlauls v theres always volatility before an election. In a year like this where we have so many cross currents between the virus. Questions around Economic Activity relationships with other countries. Theres so much for an investor whether it needs to be reta
Yesterday carl was a discouraging day for a lot of people who have been chasing momentum because last week was maybe one of the best momentum weeks i can recall since 1999, which meant that if you bought it went higher and how much fun is that . Yesterday was the day that you bought it went higher and then you got crushed. So i think that usually takes a couple days of reset where maybe you can after stocks that arent as hot, say, as tesla. So you would focus, say, on Something Like the banks ive been through the banks and i know dave and i talk about this all the time, they are incredibly complex beasts, they are not like, oh, tesla, hot and when i first went over them i thought they looked pretty good but already theyre reversing. This is not an uncommon pattern as people find one line or two line that they dont like and then they sell these stocks. David, its happening once again. You know that these banks could have had littered with bad loans, its not, they have great trading, the
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
Disturbing and said it could top 100,000 cases per day. And we are preparing to close the books on what has been a rough first half of the year its included a painful, record breaking sell off followed by a fast, record setting climb back up stocks set therefore for their best quarter in decades. 59 minutes left of the session morgan, we are up a full percent on the s p 500 yeah, were watching that last day of the quarter, last day of the first day my goodness. Coming up, as we wrap up the first half of the year, were going to focus on why not work from home. Twilio stocks up in 2020 well speak with the ceo about the demand for his companys Cloud Services during the pandemic mike is tracking the Market Action kayla has the highlights from fed chair powell and secretary mnuchins testimony on capitol hill and joining us to look ahead to the second half of the year is lori but mike, lets start off with you and a look at the market this is a good illustration of the old say a iing dont sho
Still not many people. We will be tracking this story throughout our three hours. Nearly half a Million People will be returning to work in the city. And they are returning to work, by the way, to a city whose mayor is pushing to defund the Police Department in the wake of the george floyd protests. A lot of pushback on this, as you can imagine. We will get into it. Including from the president. He tweeted this just moments ago. Law and order, not defund and abolish the police. The radical left democrats have gone crazy. And Hillary Clinton, by the way, well, shes had another deplorables moment when speaking about trump reporters and we will have that for you as well. Im Ashley Webster. The big story for dyou today on monday, the markets pointing upwards. Varney Company Begins right now. This will go down in history as the biggest positive data shock for the markets and the economy. Its some combination of an incredibly resilient economy thats bouncing back, the impact of government me