Nasdaq up 151 points and looking to open about 31 points higher it has been a wild ride for investors all week the dow and s p are down over 2 the last three trading sessions the s p on pace for its worst twoweek performance the nasdaq has been a big mover. A lot to chew on after a tough week true, andrew. Tough in that it had been up so much we sort of glossed over september 11 19 years when you say it, dont you say, oh, my god, september 11 for you, it is about half your life for me, about a third of my life it went really quickly 19 years i remember so well mark hanes and Everything Else that happened. Year after year, constantly on september 11, it is amazing how quickly time goes. Since last year, weve seen our share of tragedy as well up until this pandemic, well see how history looks at all of this i would argue that 9 11 was the most consequential thing that happened in the past 50 years, maybe 100 years with security and how we live. You can define the world in many ways by th
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
Highest on the street. Well debate in our call of the day. Plus ten Growth Stocks that look attractive right now. The Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right no now. It is good to have you with us on this wednesday steve weiss, carrie firestone. Also with us on set is mike wilson, the chief u. S. Equity strategist at Morgan Stanley we begin where else . The market stocks are reversing significant overnight losses to be mostly positive now, s p and nasdaq hitting new alltime highs clearly this seems is the marke making a bet, that while tensions with iran may continue, the conflict will not. Lets see if we can simplify a complex situation. Obviously the geopolitical tensions cause volatility. What keeps the market on stable footing is liquidity and the fed and everything its done to increase liquidity and give stability. Where you go in the short term is a balance between those two were seeing struck right now. In the long term, we know what we need. Earnings g
Concerns over production of the 737 max jet. And positive news on the housing front, as home builder confidence jumps to its highest level in two decades coming up next hour, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us to discuss trade and the economy. You do not want to miss that and with us for the whole first hour of theshow, dan nathan from risk reversal advisers. Dan, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Great to be here. More optimism on trade or whatever you want to put it down to is a lot of this news not already out there . Are you surprised to see ongoing rallies to new highs yet again at the end of the day, you like to see followthroughs. So friday, we had a muted react. A lot of investors expected some kind of surge, similar to what we had at the end of 2017 after the big tax cut. A lot of this was priced in. I think the continuation of last weeks rally into this week is obviously pretty establibullish. Also fairly seasonal as we are looking down the barrel of a week
Chaos. Power lunch starts right now the dow is hanging onto gains. The s p 500 is in the green. If it finishes lower on track to snap a 7week winning streak check out the big winner target the best performing s p stock this week. Shares jumping double digits after its earning report earlier. The stock sitting near record highs. With those weekly winning streaks in jeopardy, are stocks setting up for the winter blues. Bob is at the New York Stock Exchange its way too early to get bearish. Look at that big move up for the month of november, all the right stocks have been moving thats sickically cal sectors. Banks are up the industrial sectors are up. Energy is up health care is doing great thats a little more defensive where is the markets now its important to remember why were at highs theres three reasons why were hitting highs. The fed is neutral and has been expanding its balance sheet. They are tariffs, there is no expansion of the tariff war yet. The market believes there will not