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
Whatsoever theyre pure slight of hand. Do i have more pencil . Stocks are also exactly what we need to help keep this market moving higher like we did today with the dow gaining 290, s p jumping and the nasdaq 2. 13 because apple and tesla gave you fantastic news about what it should be a 4 for 1 and 5 for 1 stock split respectively again, no new value but boy, do people love it theres a reason we have to feed the bull with more nourishing stock blitz and ill tell you why. Years ago individual investors deserted the stock market with the implosion of 2000, 2001 and financial crisis of 2007, 2009 they gave up on the asset class and started tiptoeing back, looked enticing and something would go wrong 2015 mini crashes. But in the past few years, beaten down individual investors, a lot of younger investors intrigued by low to no commissions. Finally started buying stocks again. Despite all the gray beards telling you its impossible to beat the market, despite the supposedly brilliant Mone
Nice trifecta reports for snap, United Airlines and Texas Instruments. Jew julia, take it away. With snap meeting expectations on earnings and beating expectations on revenue, while subscriber numbers came in half a million lighter than expected, what is is putting pressure on the stock, you see its down over 6 , is guidance that snap is planning for t addition of 46 million daily active users the company also saying its combined cost of revenue and operating costs will grow at percentage rates in the low to mid 20s year over year compared to last year the company says these increasing costs are because its investing in longterm growth snap did not give any revenue guidance but said from july 1st through july 19th snap has seen 32 Revenue Growth theyre cautiously optimistic that these trends could sustain over time but theyre cautious that trends are volatile and could deteriorate. Ev evan spiegel saying Certain Industries have benefitted from some of the covidrelated circumstances. Sn
Billion on amazon during the lockdown. The stock is up 169 per share. Facebook, another pandemic winner. 2. 4 billion people used facebook or one of its apps every day. That is global clout. The stock is up 16. Now, google, that is the exception to the stock price rally. They reported a firstever decline in quarterly revenue with the economy lockdown, advertisers slowed their spending. That stock is down 16 bucks. Overall, stocks are going up this morning. I see green for the dow, green for the s p and especially a lot of green for the nasdaq, up 111 points. No deal on stimulus. Democrats and republicans negotiated last night. Neither side emerged optimistic. Politico reports that offers were exchanged. The white house wants a fourmonth extension of jobless benefits. The democrats want much longer. Perhaps a deal is still possible. Here comes the hurricane. Look at that cone. Probably not going to be a good beach weather up and down the eastern seaboard this weekend. What does that do
Andrew is out, so i have to find a way to annoy you what you asked for. Your birthday is tomorrow, right . Tomorrow, not today tomorrow. Its friday. Everybody deserves to be embarrassed. Well do it anyway this is the last day youll be 19 23. Exactly. Anyway, lets check out the futures this morning as joe mentioned, youll see the dow down slightly by about 26 points s p down by four s p off by eight getting ready to wrap up another week the dow up by 2. 5 over the last four days. S p is higher. On track for a Third Straight positive week. A little different story for the nasdaq tech has been on an incredible run. Many of those names have pulled back not by a lot nasdaq down by 1. 4 this week. If you are watching it, the index is up nearly 17 for the year thats about 58 above the march 23 low and above the march intradate high we hit on monday. We are continuing to watch that. The 10year is the one we watch so closely it looks like the 10year is sitting at the 0. 604 . The bottom level o