Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
Member at your place of worship. Maybe it saves the lives of one of your childrens teachers. Maybe it saves your lives. So, please, i implore you, wear a mask do it for yourself do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start pulling the country together i want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable or take something away from you. Its to give Something Back to all of us, a normal life the goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible and masks are critical in doing that it wont be orever, but thats how well get our nation back, back up to speed economically so we can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays again so we can attend sporting events again, so we can get back to the lives and connections we shared before the pandemic. It doesnt matter whether or not we always agree with one another. It doesnt matter who you voted for. We are americans and our country is under threat. And now
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Lets begin with a check on stocks lets welcome in brian belski. Thank for having me ambitious call. How do we get there . This will be a transition that takes several months if not into the year you, well into 2022 the unprecedented price moves in 2020 are going to turn into, we think, unprecedented earnings move in 2021 we think financials, Consumer Discretionary will lead the way. Were maintaining our stance of being neutral on technology and Communication Services over the next three to five years theyre by far our favorite sector in terms of growth we think this is going to be a turn around in terms of Earnings Growth theres no doubt that the vaccine is helpful, no doubt stimulus will be helpful, but theres also no doubt we are going to have more stayathome orders in the United States and therefore the stayathome stocks will do very well the bull market continues, we continue to believe that march 23rd, we dcontinue to believe that march 23rd was the controlaltdelete were bullish w
Now, 224 biden, 213 trump. Could be days prosecute we have final vote counts for key battleground states. Maybe were getting a little more clarity on that bottom of our screen right here, nbc news is projecting joe biden wins the state of maine. Want to get that news piece in there as we continue to watch for those votes. Even if biden ekes out a electoral vote, expectations could spell trouble for a democratic agenda, especially if the Vice President ultimately wins the white house for more on the balance of power in congress, lets bring in ylan mui. Good morning. Good morning. Right now its still a tossup for control of the senate. Both parties have a narrow but achievable path to victory Mitch Mcconnell says hes hoping to get more clarity on key races by the end of the day. I dont know whether im going to be the majority leader or minority leader ive been both majoritys better. But were awaiting the judge on the american people. Nbc rates the battle between gop senator thom tillis a