From its previous record high close on february 19th february 19th, that seems like so long ago. What a different world that was back then. We want to fire up the fast money time machine for a trip back there to february 19th. Look at that, our traders there on set all together at the Nasdaq Market site that was fun you might be thinking to yours this is some oldtimey footage of people dining together at a restaurant that was february 19th theyre all sitting inside a restaurant can you imagine that they can out the theater goers waiting to see a broadway show while were at it, there was also an nbc news democratic debate in nevada that night. Take a look at that. Hi, bloomberg, hey mayor pete. Theyre hugging, shaking hands, so much closeness. Anyway, the entire world has clearly changed since february 19th but the stock market is back to where it was guy, whats your take on this record comeback . Well, what you didnt tell the audience is you also were playing the piano for this little
Are miles apart. We are focused on that potential record close on the s p 500. The number youre watching for is 3386. 15, a couple points off of it as we stand, sara. Hard to believe that we are here coming up on todays show. S p 500 could close at a record high for the First Time Since mid february were going to talk to wharton professor Jeremy Siegel about whether the rally can last from here. Plus counting down to a pair of key Earnings Results after the bell, lyft and cisco gearing up to report well bring numbers and analysis as soon as they hit. Lets focus on the stories were watching with one hour left of trade. Mark santoli with the action, colin rush from oppenheimer. Lets start off with the broader market, familiar things taking us higher, tech, lower treasury yields and the like. Thats right. A bit of a reform to norm. Yesterday 3381 of about the late selloff. Of course were a couple points above that right now its kind of tantalizing also seems a little bit silly this hesita
Fears. And companies from roku to Western Digital have been tempering expectations thats hurt sentiment a bit. Gold is at a record high nasdaq set for another record close, comfortably now up a full 1 . Continuing that breathtaking rally, coming up on todays show, the bet on pets. The ceo of the company that makes medicine for pets and l e livestock. And more earnings rolling in today after the bell, including uber, dropbox and t mobile also a first on cnbc interview with mike seifeieve seavert eamon javers has the latest on the stimulus stand offin washington, and phil lebeau is watching the airlines. Start us off with the broader market, mike. Today is a good example of how we are now in a market moment where the threshold for rallies on news is much lower than the threshold for a sell out. Nertsd, the market takes most good news and kind of shrugs off the less good news we got the better than expected but still kind of ugly jobless claims number. That palmback went away. We were fla
Right i mean, its not surprising given what the stock has done that insiders would want to monetize some of the extraordinary gains. I cant quite tell how much is insiders any Stock Associated with Insider Selling is fine. I dont know what price its going to get done exactly. Still, its just enormous from where it was it hit 80 and then went down to 40 its been a crazy ride i dont blame them for wanting to take money off the table but i wouldnt be a buyer on that offering. It allows insiders the sale of up to 53. 4 million shares so we knew this is happening in fact, some analysts said this is a ticking time bomb hanging over investors, yet we are seeing an outsize impact on the shares on a day when neo gets rated a sell over Goldman Sachs because of the run weve seen an enormous run over the entire space here. Yeah. Even within the auto, hydrogen fuel, the entire space has been a place where momentum traders have been chasing momentum theyll also be chasing on the way out. Weve said f
Billion market mystery thats how much facebook added in market cap today. The reason not entirely clear many pointing to the launch of reels, the answer to tiktok. We should point out that news was out yesterday morning. Facebook shares today surged 6 to a new alltime high so guy, whats your take on this move well, i have no idea why it moved like this. Id be lying if i said i had an answer i will give credit to karen because shes been on this something we said, you go back to the middle of june. I remember this when rei, north face, patagonia came out and said they were pulling their ads for a month. I remember saying youve got to pull the rip cord on this. Theyre the first but theyre not going to be the last that proved to be correct. On june 26th, the stock traded down to 207, cratered and then closed higher on the day something we said is and ill say it again, theres nothing about facebook i like in terms of the platform and ill continue to say that this reversal tells you all you