Dom . How many of us wish we had more time, not just 48 hours but more time in general anyway, the markets right now are in a Holding Pattern thats what well call t. Marginal losses in the s p 500, dow and nasdaq, as you can see there. Just about a quarter to a third of a percent across the board here, but we were positive at one point today so a lot of that uncertainty playing out, but not a lot of reason to wholesale buy or sell so thats what were seeing in markets. One place where were seeing a good amount of positivity today is in the internetrelated names. Social media specifically. Check out this First Trust Dow jones internet etf ticker fdn is off the highs of the day, off twothirds of 1 small of the smaller social media ones are there as well helping to power this particular move remember from the lows up to here, it was up about 96 , and then it fell about 15 here and then up another 12 from there, so thats a move there for the social media stocks that were watching as well, a
Along with kelly evans, im Tyler Mathisen stimulus hopes, the s p reviving overnight. But what about investors are their hopes a little too high this deal is going to get done well discuss that one plus, check out chip maker xilinx upping 14 . Well look into what could be a Seismic Shift for the semis. And jim cramer will lay out his seven sectors of opportunity, including his best picks in the restaurant space as power lunch begins right now. Tyler, thanks. We begin with new developments on stimulus negotiations a short while ago the president tweeted that covid relief negotiations are moving along, go big and reportedly raising his offer and maybe even raising it again ylan nmui, give us the latest. The question is is it big enough they will present a 1. 8 trillion offer to nancy pelosi this afternoon thats still 400 billion less than where democrats are at. Economic adviser larry kudlow said that would include aid for the airlines, direct checks and ppe and mentioned extending hanes
Earnings walmart going on a hiring spree. Home buyers are rushing for mortgages. Is the consumer stronger than you think . Power lunch starts now and welcome to power lunch, im Frank Holland in for Tyler Mathisen nike hitting an alltime high soaring 9 on a blowout Earnings Report Johnson Johnson also higher on its vaccine progress for more on whats driving the action, lets get over to bob pisani hey, bob frank, we are sitting at the lows for the day, 3,280 on the s p, about where we ended on friday and the problem is this seesaw in the megacaps and workfromhome names take a look at megacap, this is a down day yesterday was an up day. Monday was generally a down day. You get the idea hard time figuring out what the right values or prices this high same with the workfromhome stocks theres a theory out there that these will be beneficiaries of worsening coronavirus cases in the United States, maybe, but theyre starting to split. Theyre not always up on the stays when some start moving on
Night because i cant forget welcome to squawk alley for a wednesday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, Julia Boorstin joins us for the hour for which were appreciative interview with intel ceo bob swan later this hour later exclusive with nfl commissioner Roger Goodell a lot to get to. Well start with the s p and nasdaq notching another record intraday high. Got 12k on the comp. Former ceo of twitter now general parter in of owen advisers Dick Costello is with us great to kick off the morning with you. Great to hear you all i dont see you. Julia and i did our first live tv interview together back in 2009 when i joined twitter so to julia. Great to hear you. Thats worth celebrating, dick wow. Takes us all back. Youve had some i always tease you about Capital Management and you had some great tips in recent months that the mongo dbs of the world and theyve worked how long do you think theyre going to continue to work . Yeah. Its a great question. I got to tell you, when i was on
Nasdaq is going for its second day in a row josh, we got within a point. Same narrative here. What now we figure were going to hit new high for the s p those stocks are really all you need to get it done like a nominal new high its been 122 days since the last time the s p 500 had an all time closing high. If you think about the media number of days between making those closing new all time highs its about 90 from one year to the next i guess i would say this is pretty average year all Things Considered i would not be surprised to see an all time record close for the s p very soon. What you need to get there is all working. One other thing i would grow into the mix is put to call ratios have collapsed. Its a historic collapse i think its indicative of sentiment out there. People are just no longer afraid of a resurgence in the virus or a spate of negative headlines that will send this lower. The evidence of that is if you look at a 50day moving average you have to go back 15 years to f