John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
At a record high for the dow the s p set a record high on friday up another 30 points and the nasdaq, an underperformer last week, is indicated up by close to 60 points stocks have been on a big run. If you look at last weeks returns the dow was up just over 4 last week the s p was up just over 2 . And the nasdaq was down only by half a percent you are talking about the third week out of four that is seeing negative returns and that has been the underperformer. Really across the board a lot of strength the russell 2000 hitting a record high last week and big, big moves. Remember, its only been a week since weve heard from pfizer. That set things off especially ones underperforming as people stay home. The ten year is yielding 0. 885 . Joe, that was a wild ride last week, too, watching what happened with treasury yields. Potentially getting up to 1 but now were back where we started. All part of, i guess, reopening. The market given the backdrop i will talk about right now the market is
Member at your place of worship. Maybe it saves the lives of one of your childrens teachers. Maybe it saves your lives. So, please, i implore you, wear a mask do it for yourself do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start pulling the country together i want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable or take something away from you. Its to give Something Back to all of us, a normal life the goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible and masks are critical in doing that it wont be orever, but thats how well get our nation back, back up to speed economically so we can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays again so we can attend sporting events again, so we can get back to the lives and connections we shared before the pandemic. It doesnt matter whether or not we always agree with one another. It doesnt matter who you voted for. We are americans and our country is under threat. And now
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,
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p