Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
How apples shakeup is driving the blue chips plus the online surge, best buy notching is 242 gain in ecommerce sales in the Second Quarter but can it last . Trade optimism, u. S. And china officials reaffirming their phase one commitment, the s p is poised to add to its record run. Jim, i saw you last night mentioning those changes to the dow and your general point was dont be fooled in thinking there is as much money indexed to the dow as to the s p. We said that last night, its been the theme all morning and theres been no sellers. One of the reasons theres been no sellers are the people who are now trading stocks in early hours have tremendous conviction in the face of being wrong its rather incredible because the hubris of these people they must think dow jones has a lot of money to it and it has to come out of exxon and into salesforce david, you have been at the forefront of the network in explaining the nature of the dow and you see this, too. Arent you shocked that even after w
Of that. And in terms of the month on month number we are looking at a 16 jump. So a decent recovery in the Housing Market. It is starting to show signs of life again. We will talk more detail about what is happening in the Housing Market, in terms of construction in the united states, all in a moment. Alix the Richmond Fed Manufacturing index at zero. Could not imagine a world where that would be good news. Coming up onlking what is happening in the Trump Administration and how the markets need to look at midnight tweets coming from the president. Libby cantrell from pimco will be here. And we will break down the housing data a little more closely now with taylor richardson. With nela richardson. You are an expert in housing, so where are we in the Housing Market in terms of a recovery . Nela i think that the Housing Market is holding up pretty well. We might see a great social experiment, now that many of us are working from home. Even as new listings have been pulled out of the mark
Less normally. Lets start there, jim, in terms of the market overall. I have a lot of insight this morning to share on the credit markets where i tend to be focused of late. Like to come to you. When you see a rally, the likes of which we may at the open this morning, what are you thinking what i think about when i see this, the market got oversold, people last night went home thinking theres no possibility of any sort of deal. Without a deal all you have is the fed making sure theres liquidity but nothing in the hands of the people. If you dont get money in the hands of people, people will look at the landscape and say its really just falling apart something has to get done. Now theres an expectation that something will get done. If we dont get something done today with the senate, youll give up this whole rally youre banking on the politics getting together for something, otherwise this rally will be comical and you will wish you never bought in. Well be able to offer hopefully peopl
Talks. Stocks are set to open higher. New records still within reach netflix erasing its gains this year, amid increasing streaming competition. Jim spoke exclusively with the ceo of one major competitor, his name, bob iger the company, disney. Full details from their conversation coming up. And under pressure, federal prosecutors in california, reportedly opening a criminal probe of Vaping Company juul stocks are looking to resume their march toward record highs. Investor sentiment getting a lift after washington did confirm trade negotiations with china will resume in a couple of weeks. Meantime, the president will address the u. N. General assembly in the next hour. Well see how long he goes jim, as we get more news out of the uk Supreme Court, maybe lesser likelihood of a no deal brexit yeah, but i also there is another court over there, just talking about the this is eu court, european commission, gives a big win to starbucks in terms of charging starbucks, violating eu state aid