2 , the nasdaq down about 1 3 4 that very much in focus because of those earnings that are looming. Joe teranova, you first. Youve got dr. Gottlieb saying the u. S. At a tipping point, youve got mark meadows at the white house saying were not going to control the pandemic. Is this mountain getting too steep to climb for the market . Well, without stimulus the answer to that unequivocally is yes. Rising virus cases need more stimulus there has been overs last couple of weeks a modest broadening out of the rally within the market, but its really been all about industries, scott, industrials, trading to an alltime high as a sector but why is that . Its on the belief there would be stimulus, consumer discretionary, examazon trading towards its highest levels why is that . Because theres monetary support in the form of stimulus. It just highlights how important stimulus is. You need this mosaic of coordination to respond to the virus and any incident of rising virus cases learned itself to
Month of september, strong Consumer Sentiment numbers to go along with them. And later, gilead pushing back after the World Health Organization says the drug remdesivir does not prevent death in coronavirus patients. Weve got the latest details as power lunch starts right now thank you, ty. The markets are marching back after a few down days. Dom chu has more on whats moving decent sized gains but off the high of the session. We are up 243 points with the dow at the highs of the session, up roughly 348 points. You can see there, yes, still strong gains but not nearly where we were earlier in the day. The s p has reclaimed that 3,500 mark, the nasdaq only up about one third of 1 . The leadership in terms of the s p 500 has been in one week industrials and technology, both up nearly about 1. 5 meanwhile, the biggest laggard off nearly 2 is the real estate sector some of the stocks to watch with regard to covid vaccines and everything else, pfizer shares, possible vaccine for emergency us
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
Nasdaq finishing up 2. 56 . Sometimes stocks deserve to go up or nothing. It is critical to see stocks lev tate li levitat levitateli what they are doing here we are paying more for the same level of earnings or story, betting that someone else will take it off our hands for a price thats still higher. Some people calls it full theory multiple expansion is what we saw today. Wall street got hyped of the best of the best look at what led us higher start with apple and it is always fun to start with apple you follow apple, we all know they want your new phone tomorrow new iphones come out on the clock work and even 5g in it and we had to buy in it of course. That did not stop wed bush he points a step up for demand for components of larger version. We know that from marvel and sky Works Solution let me read you one lets say sn snippet. A super cycle, huh when you call something a super cycle, you have to catch somebodys attention i am superstitious of super cycle. We heard it right befor
Stimulus bill. What happens if washington lets us down again and millions of people, especially in the hospitality industry, find themselves struggling to put food on the table . Does that mean we should use a day like today where the averages went up dow gained 122 points. S p climbed 0. 80 to sell everything into strength not so fast. Like i say every night at the end of the show, there is always a bull market somewhere, and even without a stimulus package, weve got a whole bunch of them that should do just fine as a matter of fact, theres a lost of breadth here first, the relentless bull market in housing. You can think tall brothers, dr horton, these companies are huge kinc covid winners. When youre stuck working from home, your housing priorities change who wants to live in a tiny apartment in the city to save time on your commute when you have no commute. This is the zoom economy, people you might as well move to the suburbs or the country where you can have more room thats why t