Julie a flip of yesterday where the doubt was the winner and the nasdaq the loser. Dow losing steam. Nasdaq points as the gains a half of 1 . Not recuperating all of the losses we saw yesterday. Making progress in that direction. In addition to the tax plan jockeying for position, we have ended your positioning and rotation we have been talking about. Lets look at the bloomberg to see what is up in what is down. Technology is the best performing group in the s p 500. Health care and financials also getting but not by nearly as much as with utilities and telecom the two worst performing groups over the course of the session. To emphasize the move in technology a little more, large cap, we are seeing some significant winners. Amazon, nvidia, alphabet trading higher. Amazon potentially getting a boost from stories out today. The wall street journal reporting big advertising firms plan to boost advertising spending on amazon between 40 and 100 next year. Amazon declined to comment for the
Nasdaq the dow also closing at a record high it looks like well open sharply lower. The dow losing 124 points right now, the s p down 13 nasdaq down about 44 what was weighing on the markets yesterday and probably today, the yield on the tenyear note 2. 584 right now thats the highest since march 15th a big move in the tenyear treasury yield thats challenging the equity rally today. The yen continuing its strength after the boj said it would continue its bond strengthening services the hang seng up by 0. 20 . Over in europe, right now at hope the dax down by 0. cac down by 0. 6 looking at the price of crude oil, highest level since 2014. Wti, 63. 43 breaking news this morning. Lets get to becky quick live in omaha. Good morning good morning. Theres breaking news from Berkshire Hathaway the company out with a statement saying that its going to be increasing its board of directors by two members to include two key members of its Operations Team who people have been looking at for a while
Welcome to power lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Melissa said strong rally to end the week, the dow, s p 500, nasdaq, russell 2000, dow transports all hitting record intraday highs look at the Dow Jones Industrial average, dow 25,000 is so last week were 250 points away from dow 26,000 second straight week of gains, check out soft om movers within the averages amd downer today taking a hit. The company says its chips are susceptible to the specter security flaw. Its off 1. 5 . That flaw lets hackers steel sensitive information. Gamestop tanking about 10 retailer posting strong holiday sales, however, they took a big charge on iphone x related problems first ipo of the year, first energy ipo of the year Liberty Oil Field Services Soaring about 30 on its debut today. The ceos going to join us in just a few minutes tyler. Michelle, thank you very much welcome everybody. Im Tyler Mathisen lets tell you what else is happening at this hour the National Retail federation says holiday sales
Trade. Heres a good example. 3m, down 4, 1. 6 . Thats almost 30 points in the dow. Another Big Industrial name. Excuse me, scott, lets move over here and showing you boeing down almost 4 thats another 30 points essentially off the dow, 1 . Another Big Industrial name. Then we get to some very specific stores, this Health Care Story weve been telling you about, the berkshire story and amazon story look what its done to United Health group this is the Biggest Health insurer in the United States dow component. 10 to the downside, thats about 70 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average another specific story mcdonalds down 6 mcdonalds had good earnings beat but they have that big 1 menu there are concerns that cheap menu might drag down growth. Thats another 40 points you put these four stocks together, thats about half the decline in the better than 300 points we saw . It the dow dow is priceweighted. Theres not much positive today, but the market is very defensive in tone. Theres some
If Kayla Tausche is at the nyse to tell us whats happening on the floor. Stocks for the dow and s p are in the red right now. The dow having its nay rowest trading range today since august 18th. The nasdaq has been flirting with the flat line for the last hour. It is just slightly into positive territory. The dow, the s p and nasdaq though even with todays trade all remain out of correction territory. Lets get the trading action at the nyse. Bob pisani joins me on the floor. Michelles getting ready to go on vacation, a lot of other traders are and very happy to be a somewhat normal august day here. The s p 500, very narrow trading range. Only 13 points. Got a little droop in the middle of the day. Stan fischer speaking exclusively with Steve Leisman. Some interpret him to be a little more hawkish. I didnt hear it but the markets seemed to react that way. Down just a little bit. Very narrow trading range, 13, 14point bottom to the top. Volume is heavy but declining. Heavy for august but