And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Check out this rally right now all 11 sectors are in gree green. Taking a look at some of the stocks were watching. Salesforce is under pressure for the second day in a row, down about 7 in the last week as it gets set to report earnings after the bell and reportedly to make a deal. And we have exclusive data on how the bitcoin boom is boosting this payment stock first lets get over to bob for more on todays rally. Hey, bob hello, melissa. Good start to a traditionally good month we got talk about a new stimulus plan, janet yellen on the air and, overall, 11 sectors all on the up side. Bank stocks leading the way but technical stocks also. No dig selloff in tech that was also a november play there. Theres energy you have your value play with banks, energy up you have your growth play with tech, cyclical with industrials up and even more defensive groups, Consumer Staples on the up side as well. This is what i mean when i say the goldie locks
Highs. Coming up a busy news day, and a series of big interviews as well. The ceo of gap, jonah snngal, her first interview since taking the job in march talking about the post covid lavin escape and the partnership with kanye west. Plus we have patrick frisk with his partnership with steph curry. We will discuss the fierce competent anything footwear. And salesforces deal to buy slack is expected to be announced today after the bell we should get those details. And sales details also out after the close. Looking forward to that. Slack up a little bit today. Lets get to the Market Action mike santoli is tracking it. As stocks moving higher but off the highs of the session. For three weeks they have been mostly sideways around the recent highs right now we are a little less than 1 above the intraday high from november 9th. Est that was the day the election was called. Then you had the vaccine from pfizer that was right in here intraday high. At a record. 67 above the march 23rd low righ
Stock hitting what . An alltime high ahead of its investor day next week, despite all the obstacles that face its parks and movie businesses weve got those details. Look at disney run and later the director of National Intelligence says china is the greatest threat to the United States and wall street may be getting stuff in the middle of the war of words we will explain as power lunch begins right now thank you, ty. Record highs across the board including the russell small cap two 2000 lets go to dom chu. The composite index is still up on the yeartodate basis offer the last few months, the gap or difference between the dow and s p has stayed relatively constant. Still, though, the s p up 14, the dow up 5 to 6 on that yeartodate basis looking at other trends in the markets today, look at shares of caterpillar. One of the bigbigg egebiggest ie biggest contributor. Caterpillar shares up 4. 5 we put a gold star up there as well one of the other things that were watching right now is what
Airbnb expected to go public this week. Analysts saying it will surprise above its target despite all the headj winds the travel industry is facing. Well explaint iwhy ase xdp lunch starts right now. Thank you, ty the dow pullingqback but still above 30,000 only six dow stocks are higher right now. Teq apple is one of fthem the dow industrialso so far today as well as theee nasdaqe pos t composite and russell 2000 each have hit a record high intra day despite the fact the the dow is lagging, only up 5 and 13 gains over here for the Overall Index for the russell 2000 look at other parts of the market were also watching as well look at the semiconductor. Dze cord highsf pushing the semiconductors, possibly a leading indicators for the rest of the markets and another set of record highs tesla. Billion, would make it close to around the sixth biggest stock in the s p when it eventually goes in. That happens before the open of business on december 21ste1. And perhaps Short Co
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look