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
In terms of gains. Can tech keep up its recent hot streak joining us now to discuss is jeffries Senior Analyst brent thil and tom forte gentlemen, good morning to you both tom, ill start with you the fact that were seeing names like apple, the semis rally on this u. S. china trade truce over the weekend and what it means for some of these companies to be selling into china, how should investors be thinking about that sure, i would say the truce is nice, but we would like to see is an actual resolution. So one point in time, resolution looked like china agreeing to buy billions of dollars of Agricultural Products from the u. S. So, again, the truce is nice, but we would like to see an actual outcome, and something were monitoring closely, because we would argue it had the biggest impact on tech stocks in the first half of this year brent, what it means for alphabet, as well. I mean, i know they had put a hold earlier when huawei got added to the intent tis list here in the u. S. Is ther