Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 60s made up about 50 of the market cap so, we have seen t
Welcome everybody. Our breaking News Coverage of the market continues now welcome once again to my kitchen. Big rally to end the week on wall street. The dow up about 400 points right now on reports that coronavirus patients are responding positively to a gilead drug. Its tale of two dow stocks today. Boeing surging as it gets ready to resume airplane production in Washington State apple is sinking as Goldman Sachs says the stock could fall as much as 20 on lesser iphone sales. Crude getting crushed. Just how low can oil go . What happened with all those production cuts. Kelly. Welcome. Over to you. Thanks so much. We have full Team Coverage we have a rally, kelly. Its getting harder to push it forward. Were now pushing up against the 50day moving average for the s p 500. Sectors that are most beaten up this week are doing well we highlighted this all day. Finally small caps out performing banks out performing home builders, industrials oil down as much today even the energy stock is r
Exchange. This is where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Frombeijing to beirut, istanbul to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. We have chinese pmi numbers that beat expectations, a positive sign as the sectors improvement is crucial to stabilizing the chinese economy. Joining me on the telephone is beijing. s bureau chief how much encouragement should we take from these numbers . Reporter it was slightly higher than what economists expected. New orders also moved into expansion for the first time pointing toall signs that economic slowdown may be reaching a bottom. Looking into 20 20, we also have indications that Infrastructure Investment is going to increase, and hopefully some of that takes. Of course, if this socalled phase one trade deal with the u. S. Comes to pass, that will involve tariff rollbacks, which will also be a boost for exports. Positive signals here in china. Thank you so much. We go now to the
Protests take their toll. Shery china continues to push the liberalized market with a more flexible loan. Japan and south korea have come online. Lets get straight market action. Offie the nikkei 225 is. 3 . Best court of the again since 2016. Asian stocks are drifting toward the year end. We are digesting the latest figures. We are going to be getting hong kong trade numbers. Taking a look at was going on in sydney. We are seeing shares snap a threeyear game. Paul lets get you uptodate with the first word news. Wildfires in australia are expected to get worse this year week amid rising temperatures. 122 millions of million acres of land have burned. Nine People Killed and over 950 homes destroyed. Scott morrison says that firefighters battling the fires in New South Wales will be compensated. This is putting additional demands on our firefighters in particular. It means the turnouts and the callouts have been far more extensive than in previous years. This is beyond and above what is
Freshmen congresswoman. Bernie sanders is about to outline his medicare for all proposal. He is doing so at George Washington university. If he has any suggestions at all how to pay for it. A heat wave expected to hit 2 3 of the country. What you need to know about that. If the citys power grid following massive black out here in new york city. Melissa fox Business Team coverage. Gerri willis on floor of new york stock exchange. Blake burman live at the white house. Deirdre bolton at the newsroom with netflix earnings. I see some numbers crosses here on dow jones. I think well get to those as soon as possible. Sorry . Lets go to Deirdre Bolton right now with those numbers. Deirdre. Taking a look at netflix. 60 cents a share. Thats a clear beat what analysts were expecting at 60 cents a share. If you look at revenue, want to be kind with netflix, say exactly in line. If you want to be critical, a slight miss. Wall street looking for 4. 93 billion. 4. 92what netflix posted. To put it in