Sales and the stock is hitting new highs. And finally teslas tumble, why the street is mixed on what actually came out of the companys battery day event yesterday. J j, though, jim, going to be the lead and you just called it maybe the best company we have in this country. Yeah, look, i think that i like triple a balance sheet, i like a company that continues to make the numbers, i like a company that pays a good dividend, has the best pipeline, most robust pipeline in pharmaceuticals and i like a company thats not a hype company. The fact that they are ready to do their vaccine now, full disclosure i am attempting to get into the trial, i think its everybodys duty to get into the trial they are the only one emphasizing the atrisk people they want people who we view as people who we need to protect. I dont hear that from any of the other companies. I like the fact they are willing to give it to their whole employee base. This is the way i think it should be done and i know people are c
Losses in tech. The s p is looking at the best year, potentially here in two decades. Deirdre bolton kicks us off. She is at the New York Stock Exchange whether thedre . Thats a great question, blake. You mentioned the s p 500 is on track to havehe year since 1997. Todays red on screens doone foe year. The groups putting most pressure on the markets right now are ones that outperformed last week. Really sent stocks to all new highs for the christmas rally. They include info tech, consumer discretionary, also communication stocks. Youre seeing that pattern as individual stocks too. Some of the biggest winners of the year are lower today. Here are some top three weve been following. Apple, microsoft, visa. They are all stand out stocks for 2019. Apple, we have to highlight. It is the best performing stock on the dow for the year. It is up 82 . The gains pushed companys market cap back above the 1 trilliondollar mark. Analysts talking a lot about wearables. They are beating forecasts. By
About their role there seems to be some debate about this good morning, welcome to squawk in the street im carl cantonia. At the cnbc, they are delivering at the conference in new york city that was sec jay clayton as you saw. Moments from now, kobe bryant, the basketball legend quickly becoming an investing legend we will talk money in sports, futures in a tirade full of economic data. Of course, delivering alpha. The big story today, a number of heavy hitters at the investors summit a pretty good discussion about the nature of our Capital Markets these days yeah, i mean, look, one of the things we are all trying to figure out is in relation whats going on with the fed, whats going on with business as a force of change. Thats something that andrew is bringing up. Bring up at the Business Roundtable which is very interesting. Its a month or so already right things have Securities Exchange commissioned. Im curious to hear what mr. Claytop had to say. Thats what people buzz with me to fi
Edwin star, war, what is it good for. Welcome to power lunch, im Tyler Mathisen and i date myself proudly, ladies and gentlemen the dow at its low, now down 123 or about a half percent. But why . Well, its basically boeing and caterpillar. S p 500, it is higher by about a fifth of a percent and nasdaq higher about a half percent. Those are sitting at record levels the nasdaq, i should say, despite the hurdles facing big tech as the doj takes aim at the industry more broadly launching a broad review of Big Tech Companies over fresh anticompetitive concerns. Elon moy with more the Justice Department plans to look at three areas of concern. Are the Big Tech Companies stifling innovation or harming consumers . The doj said there are widespread concerns about practices related to search, social media and some retail the doj does not name specific companies, but google, facebook, am amazon and apple could get caught up in this. Without the discipline of meaningful, marketbased competition, d
Joining us is josh brown. I think this is so important, we have this continued strength in the big indices and faang is not leading. This is the thing that everyone has always said. Its a very narrow market, only a handful of stocks. That is not whats get on this year yes, theres been huge performance in some of the faang names. A lot of that was recovery, but you have a broadened rally, something weve been looking for for a long time, and you have great rotation you still can get new highs out of the indices one thing i think is indicative of that, boeing down 2. 7 , give or take, thats the biggest weighting in the xli, almost 9 . Caterpillar, also a bad day. Thats either the third or the fourth biggest weight in the xli. Despite the xli, its doing great. You have other names picking up the slack. And that tells that theres strength everywhere. Thats really what a lot of people like myself have wanted to see. Of course in a price weighted index like the dow, they are dragging. Boeing