S p 500 essentially flat year to date nasdaq up some 19 59 minutes left in the session, sara coming up on this friday afternoon, weve got a series of great gifts for you. Red finns stock was on fire the stock selling to have day on the companys cautious outlook as the ceo says the bottom codrp out on the economy were going to talk to glenn kelman in a few minutes. And then apple once again, the Biggest Public Company in the world, surpassing saudi ramco. Continuing the historic run. The market cap now sitting above 1. 8 trillion. Its up over 8. 25 well talk about what an investor should do with this stock next lets focus in on the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli looking at the market and the tech stocks surging to day kayla is looking over the next stimulus package first to you, mike. The story from the morning was that Great Results from the big four of tech did not really lift all votes did you have weakness. Sold a strong open the market firmed up in the last hour or so
From mercedes and. Shares opened shortly. And mission to moscow. With no sign that the kremlin will change its stance on assad. Matt less than half an hour away from the start of european equities trading. Take a look at futures. Basically green across the board as far as European Markets are concerned. The euro stocks 50 futures up a quarter of a percent. The dax up one third of 1 and the cac is a. It is interesting to see the green arrows there especially if you contrast them with the red arrows we saw in asia overnight and the big risk off trade. The s p is battling. Obviously a big feature on that landscape. Lets get a bloomberg first word update. Sean spicer has apologized for saying adolf hitler did not used chemical weapons. It came as [inaudible] ascer said someone despicable as hitlers did not use chemical weapons. Chinas president spoke to donald trump yesterday urging nuclear about the program. Should settled peacefully to be committed to peace and stability on the korean pa
Reserve. Its there for a reason. The word strategic is there in a very significant place. On that front, the proposal by some to permanently ban production in a small sliver of the nonwilderness, which could be the strategic reserve, is just wrong. Its dead wrong. As terrorists threaten oil supplies in the middle east and as state sponsors prepare to make billions of dollars from selling our oil to allies, some within congress are talking about intentionally and severely hurting American Energy production. This hearing this morning is about education. Members of the house and senate and the Administration Must understand the economic and the geopolitical context of the National Interests that we are considering. This committee has a unique perspective, given that over 90 of Iraqi Government revenues are due to oil exports, given nearly 09 of syrias Oil Production is offline and given that oil accounts for over 40 of isis monthly revenue, according to ihs. So you can expect me as chairm
Here. Let me show you oil, wti crude, for a time this rally occurred even though the price of oil was sharply lower, as you see there, until near the close. And look at that turned right around and became positive again. Article carbon reminding us all day that to keep an eye on wti crude because its still calling the shots in this market now. That is an important point, we continue to debate those areas, as Oil Continues to fall or not. Retail names to focus on as well. Get to where we stand with the markets, an hour to go near the highs of the session, dow up 319 points, about 1. 8 exactly the same as the s p is at the moment of 37. The nasdaq adding 88 points a little pit outperformer today but only pie a little bit. Nevertheless, some pressure across the internet name there is, bill. Get to our Closing Bell Exchange for this thursday. We have got cnpc contributeor Heather Hughes with us. Hi there. Jim lowell from adviser investment. Joe hider from cirrus wealth manmanment with us m