We often talk about volume as a validator. With that big rally were seeing back up. Yeah, volume has been much heavier on the down side, on thursday, friday and saturday excuse me thursday, friday and tuesday, we saw much heavier volume than on days when the market was going up in the prior days, like monday, tuesday, wednesday last week. This happens when you get the blow off the tops, and then the skeptics say im not buying more into this,le vote tends to get a lot lighter. Then with when you start seeing the momentum, you have heavy volume, they want to take profits really fast ahead of the next guy, so today the volume is a bit lighter than on the three days where the selloff was really intense all right bob, thank you very much bob pisani lets talk about big tech leading the market higher, can you trust this bounce . Mark lehman is the ceo of J P Securities mike at jones is chairman of caravelle concepts michael, i begin with you. What do you make of the warnings from druggkenmill
Live this hour. Plus records watch, the plus ive got it, carl the dow aiming to erase 2020 losses and the s p heading for the best august since 1986, kelly. Wow and cocacolas restructuring strategies amid plans to streamline the drink portfolio they are setting voluntary job cuts for thousands of its workers. David, it is friday, and kelly, friday and you just sort of think back to what this week has brought us, guys alltime highs, obviously news in sports in the nba, hurricane laura, the rnc and we will hear from what the president said last night tiktok, microsoft, walmart, oracle, you name it, david, but large discussion this morning about how the thing thats going to probably stick with us for the weeks and quarters to come is going to be that historic powell speech and we will have to decide whether this long end is bringing us noise or something more yeah, i mean, im glad kelly is here because im sure she was home studying every word after it took place, as you know, not my area
Perfect sense. But then there are days like today when i cant take how stupidly bullish this market can be the dow gaining 164 points nasdaq climbing 0. 35 . You often hear people saying that the whole things been manipulated. Its a desperate Federal Reserve and its a scared powell and its President Trump winning the election no, the feds just doing its job. And if the white house wanted to juice the stock market, dont you think they already wouldve cut a deal with the democrats on the next round of stimulus see, there is a much simpler explanation. I call it clueless buying. I always say you should never underestimate the wall street promotion machine. But never underestimate the power of enthusiastic buyers who do not know what theyre doing they know nothing some people accuse me of taking the thing too far. They say im not willing to call people out for being morons that are more likely to put retire clorox ceo than i am to put a departing Ceo Jim Hackett on the wall of shame. They
And individual names getting lower. That keeps it pretty much unchanged year to date we have a massive show coming up discuss the latest stimulus negotiations th thats any minute now its the key question for the markets today. And then as the heat gets turned up on big tech, well talk to the always candid ceo about the precious ceos facing testimony tomorrow and the stay at home trend a huge swell of tech earnings coming to day and later this week. Lets start with the broader markets. Mike, over to you. Thank you we have markets on pause for the most part today. Bond market is qui wet yields at the lows stock market, too, is hugging this very familiar area, basically flat on the day. That is an area of attraction. Well see fit lasts for now. It is the defensive factors. The ones that benefit from low yields that are up today, real estate, staples and utilities. Take a look though at a couple of indicators as we wait for the fed decision tomorrow. Whats going on and how quiet the bond m
Well talk to an influencer and you have no idea how much i want to be an influencer about how she is making money on tiktok. Later, godiva chocolates is remolding its business amid the coronavirus pandemic the ceo will be here to tell us whats working and a lot is working for this company in the consumer space power lunch starts right now thanks welcome back welcome to power lunch. You can see that tech continues to dominate the market today the sector up more than 2 outperforming everybody else thats in large part to apple up 3 today shares of apple are now up about 50 on the year. Its been an incredible run. That brings the companys market cap to 1. 9 trillion and change. Were within tuouching distance of a 2 trillion dollar market cap. Also take a look at nvidia today. Its up more than 85 this year. Nvidia has been a monster. Tesla up about 4 to just under 1500 share. Theres one wall street analyst chasing shares well have those details shortly. Tyler, back to you congressional lead