The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
We will bring you fast money trades straight ahead. We start off with a zombie ap k apocalypse on wall street. Many icons are among the walking dead like macys carnival, delta. Nearly 200 companies have joined the zombie rank since march. Total debt obligations nearing 1. 4 trillion dollars a lot of these names are names we talk about trading on this show how should we start thinking about this before we get into the walking dead, i want to point out, a great job by our crack staff leading with the cranberry zombie, and delores was the founder of the zombie. I may have gone with Something Like this if the crack staff is listening. We are now two minutes into the show its important to point this out because folks at home are paying attention apparently more important than actually trading our first topic in what is known as the ablock of the show. Its not more important its important we will talk about ablock and Zombie Companies last night we talked about macys and we talked about the
Amazon partners with an old text stalwart. That is blackberry. How they plan to revolutionize tech. Those stories in a moment. The u. S. Stocks posting another record high amid news of new stimulus talks. They are progressing with a plan to pass by the weekend. Abigail doolittle has more on that. Also, i know you have been following the latest Earnings Results out of snowflake. Shares down after hours a bit. This is a big test for them after their blockbuster debut. Abigail it is. Lots of big movers relative to earnings after hours come snowflake being one of them. With snowflake, what you are referencing is that huge ipo, biggest ipo of the year back in september. This is their First Quarter as a publicly traded company, so they are finding out what it is about to these shares are absolutely plunging in the after hours, down 19 . This is an Application Software company, up just 37 year to date. They have struggled a little bit, and in this quarter they posted a wider loss than expecte
Was when the ceiling went. It is interesting to see reporter what is happening in the bond market. To see what is happening in the bond market. We have seen curve flattening throughout most of this week. We see a little bit of steepening today on the back of the payroll number. We see that ripple around the world, and that is reflected in the german 30 year. Twostens in the state basically back to where they were almost a month ago. Alix thanks very much. The s p now dropping like a stone. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking right now. She is saying to everyone, be calm, be confident, be patient, but she did call biden president elect biden, having a strong mandate to lead. She says she is hoping republicans can come back to the table on stimulus. Moments ago, we also heard from larry kudlow as well that they also wanted to try to move forward on stimulus and come to some kind of agreement. Will they or wont they is really the big question, what the s p taking a nosedive as we are stil
For those two companies, it was a tale of two different big tech quarters alphabet has certainly been the laggard this year. Underperforming not just its big tech peers, but the nasdaq amazon has been a standout, 70 gains. Alphabet had a low bar and amazon had a high one. Did they deliver we can look at a number of metrics, what i want to drill down on particularly is cloud. These are the companys newer growth engines cloud numbers came in only in line with expectations revenue up 29 year over year. Love large numbers but google cloud, revenue was up 45 and now the company is going to break it out as its own segment. Have a listen to what was said last night. Given the progress we are making and the opportunity for the cloud in this growing global market, we continue to invest aggressively in our gotomarket capabilities and extending the global footprint you will see information about the scale of our investments so investors are going to be able to see exactly how much google is inves