Now. New data points to a sluggish economic recovery as payroll, points in the beige book shows a modest increase in activity. 59 minutes until the close were set to have another record highs for s p and nasdaq up 1. 2 on s p 500, sara its utilities leading the way higher for a change. Coming up on todays show, Galaxy Digital back to weigh in on the rally as it carries over into september were going to ask where hes putting money to work right now. Weve got an interesting mix of earnings coming your way after the bell, including work from home like cloud strike, those are hot, hot Cloud Companies Apparel Company pvh and well talk to manny tirico, calvin klein and Tommy Hilfiger mike santoli tracking Market Action as always Steve Liesman with new highlights from the feds beige book joining us to talk tesla and pullback were seeing is craig irwin from roth capital. Mike, start us off with the market every group is higher except for energy you do have utilities and real estate and health
Postpandemic academy dominated by americas big tech companies. This friday morning, stocks are going up somewhere, can you believe that, we dont know how were going to close the session but the opening bell the dow will be up another triple digit, over 100 points, s p coming up a series of records of another nine this morning and the nasdaq made 39 records and moving higher again as of right now. That is the market, that is financial history, cue the fireworks, spectacular way to close out the republican convention, they lit up the sky over the white house after President Trump accepted the nomination for second term. It was a long speech, 70 minutes, the president made his pitch, vote for me and ill keep the streets safe and restore prosperity. Joe biden would ruin the country. You will hear it all, and then there is this, senator rand paul and his wife leaving the white house after the speech into an angry mob of demonstrators. That was intimidation that bordered the very close to re
34. 20 is your level. The nasdaq coming off a fourth positive week. Longest weekly winning streak since december the composting a half percent gain at this point courtney, are you surprised at where we are in the markets given what is going on around the world with the coronavirus its been a while good to see you today. Am i surprised im surprised at how quickly the mark has come back however, we have a market that wants to go up people do want the see things better whether its the onlyis ianalys companies, expectations are very low. The fact we have seen a glimmer of hope, these markets wanted to see that i think well continue to see that rise as we move forward if people can put masks on, we might come out of this faster on the economic front the marks are looking 12 months ahead and saying we see ourselves come out of this and were seeing that with the rise in the s p and market overall. The notion of people being optimistic and wanting to be optimistic you want to be optimistic tha
Morning. I could go on and on, mike santoli, but when i have you on the program with me why would i bother i might as well send it over to you. Set us up for the action today, particularly given what weve seen there was that rotation earlier in the week, but it already feels like theyre coming back to growth. Rotated, with he unrotated, we will we will rerotate i do think its indicative of this market that has generally speaking hesitated right underneath the all time highs. We are all looking at that its fascinating as sara and i talked about last night on closing bell we would otherwise be saying, oh, its a quiet post earnings august period, markets in a nice uptrend, s p is up 3 month to date, its supposed to be a negative week, everything looks fine, markets maybe just pausing because its had a 50 run in 100 trading days, but because we are on the verge of that number it seems to gain outside significance in terms of people trying to figure out whether thats kind of an end point fo
Happen late. These briefings of course have been quite controversial with the president sometimes contradicting the scientists standing right next to him and also pushing treatments that have not yet been proven. The president as of yesterday has started urging americans to wear masks, saying to do so is patriotic. All that said, stocks, mixed picture today. Tech leading the losses. Abigail doolittle has been breaking it down and watching the action. Abigail another jittery day and another day where this is not a satisfactory answer, it does not feel like a satisfactory answer to some. It is very hard to say that yesterday was risk off and therefore you had technology and stayathome leading, and today is risk on. If it was a strong cyclical rally and the sectors that were higher were those cyclical sectors such as energy, financials, industrials. A stronger gain has to do with that tech laws. Nasdaq down 1 . More jittery action, that tells you lots of uncertainty as we head into the st