Case as soon as today. Preparing for a flood of sanctions. The Trump Administration preparing a new wave of actions against iran in the leadup to a joe biden presidency helima croft is here to weigh in. Theres no stock like your own stock. What Warren Buffett and the folks at Berkshire Hathaway have been at in the past three weeks. This is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc im back, back in the new york well, good morning, good afternoon and good evening im Brian Sullivan im happy to be back in a new york mood. And good to be with you after our epic twoweek election road trip theres so much to get to on this monday morning. You have a new week, a new president elect and the possibility of new policies that could impact the markets and your money certainly so much going on lets jump right into it on this monday futures are surging. Dow futures up 375 the election, after all that, pretty much turning out exactly as most on wall street had predicted and planned for. And positioned for
Authorizati authorization as soon as today and well have analysis of the upcoming Holiday Season. And later on, a 170 mile trip for one lonely owl that you could call a miracle on 49th street you are watching worldwiworldwe exchange right here on cnbc fly free free bird, yeah happy friday, im democrat ni dominic chew u in for Brian Sullivan as you can see, the dow jones currently implied lower by 77 points fr so slight outperformance from the nasdaq here, implied open by six points to the up side. The major averages all snapping two day losing streaks yesterday. The dow on pace for its third positive week in a row, but just barely rest nearly flat on the week take a look around the world, a mixed session overnight any asia as you see, the nikkei down when 0. 5 and similar gains in the chinese markets. Meanwhile trading just Getting Started in europe with about half percent gains for the major forces there, including the german dax, ftse 100 and cac again, green across the screen in eur
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
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,