Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
Targeted aid maybe, perhaps as much as 25 million for airlines we have details on that. Later, a democraticled house panel calling for a crackdown and breakup of the countrys biggest tech companies. The chair of the antitrust subcommittee will join us later this hour as power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks welcome to power lunch. Im kelly evans. Were digging through the fed minutes just released. In the meantime, take a look at whats leading the rally its consumer and consumer discretionaries. The house panel is going after big tech its a mixed bag but apple and amazon both up more than 2 . With markets rocketing back after the late day drop we saw yesterday, stimulus back on the table. Bob pisani has more on what were seeing here. In fact, were at the highs for the day. Were on light volume again. The volume tends to be lighter on up days than down days recently thats a sign the pain trade is to the downside. Sectors tends to be the cyclical names here banks, industrials, materi
From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
The most groundbreaking treatment for covid19. The maker of new antibody technologies. More than one Million People now dead from the disease worldwide. Welcome to bloomberg technology. Markets rallying today, tech again leading. Joining us now, abigail doolittle. We were talking about a rally at the end of last week. Is that now going to extend through this week . Abigail it certainly did today. It was not just tech. Rallyeadth of todays possibly more impressive than the size. The nasdaq over this time, the best three days since april. That is the degree of the buying power. Really helping out the nasdaq. Again, very solid again. It was driven last week by apple, which put up its first up week since august, claiming back above the 50 day moving average. The fundamentals not changing so much. Perhaps more technical selling after some technical buying in august. I was mentioning the breadth. Very well. Apple up 2. 4 . Tesla continuing its rebound. Disappointment for another day, up 3. 4
Nasdaqs going to be up about 60 at the opening bell. From the low of march 23rd to the close yesterday, the value of all publicly traded companies has gone up 12. 2 trillion. You have never seen anything like that before. Next, tesla. Musk does it again. Grabs the headlines with a five for one stock split. That may bring in more Retail Investors. Doesnt change teslas business, but the stock is up bigtime premarket. A gain of 84 bucks per share. Apple announced a four for one stock split a week ago and apple this morning is leading the big tech rebound. Its up four bucks. Then theres this. The big ten, now the pac12 have canceled their football seasons. Looks grim for the college game. This is a financial story. Colleges will lose billions. That virus changed everything, didnt it . Larry kudlow joins us again later. What does he think of a 12 trillion increase in the value of American Business in less than five months . Hes got something to say about it. Hes on the show. Wednesday, augu