What it is, and why it is wreaking so much havoc for social media companies. And it is halloween eve. Night. Iller, but triller we will have the executive chair of the social media platform sued by tiktok. Those stories in a moment. Also this hour, we will be speaking with the ceo of overstock. Com on supply Chain Technology ahead of the busy retail season going into the holidays. Later, i will have an interview with the ceo of blue apron, which reported results yesterday. Dropping, u. S. Stocks capping their biggest weekly route since march after tech earnings disappointed investors concerned the slowing economy will dampen assets. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. It was a crazy week just ahead of the election. Walk us through your roundup. Abigail yes, it was a crazy week, a wild week. Two down weeks. That is another piece of the story that the bears have been at it last part of this month. The nasdaq today not surprisingly with the text selling that you were alluding to re
Nevertheless, the dollar weakness theme is there. And the german tenyear yield. We are seeing a bid on the bond market. It kind of keeps determining what you want to do next in terms of so many of those asset classes. It is friday. And one of the critical things happening is that sports is back. Being on lockdown without sports was really hard. [laughter] but tonight the english rugby season[laughter] , the premiership restarts. We will talk to the ceo of harlequins. With us if youed have ever seen directly and you want to get a flavor for what it watch this player play rugby and you will get an understanding of just how big a sport it is. Anyway, we will get a sense of where the premiership is going. We will talk to what of the Sports Betting companies. Who we speak to now is david kelly, j. P. Morgan Asset Management. The market has taken a few hits this week. It is trying to. Push higher with equities but failed. What do you make of that . David it is probably too high to start with
But i think that the sideways period that we have had, has that cooled off for a few weeks, going nowhere. The s p has been in the tight range through july that whole period netted out we could not get away from upside risk. No selloffs, and you had things like m a popping up today and friday, and the idea that we may get a fiscal deal, and the highest stocks in the world continue to pull in dollars. Yeah, i know in general youre not a huge fan of seasonty and people making arguments based on seasons, but s p only had three positive augusts in the last decade i dont know that it changes that i feel like you have to be mindful of seasonty but know what it means. There is a tendency to have a uptick in compatibility and market action. I dont know if that is market wide or not. I think you have to be aware of it combined with the fact that youre seeing froth. It seems to come together. I find it interesting today that the dollar is bouncing and not really taking anything out of the big in
Growth play so it doesnt make sense but we will break it down. Guy we are getting some data out of the United States, wholesale inventories month on and that number has been trending lower. Trade sales coming through significantly better than anticipated, 5. 4 . The prime number was really ugly and that was 16. 9 which has been revised slightly higher but this is late data so in the rearview mirror. The claims data is more highfrequency. We got that earlier on, a little better than anticipated, lets break it down. Were looking at jobless claims coming in above one million for a 16th straight week in while it was slightly better isn what was anticipated, basically double what we saw during the first of the financial crisis. Continuing claims track the number of people claiming ongoing on a plummet benefits and that declined to the direction is encouraging. Of the hotspot states where we have seen covid flare up, texas saw a pickup in claims, arizona little changed and california dropped
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