Successful launch, the apple card issued by Goldman Sachs hit some snags in 2019. First, our top story. Tech continues to be the outperformer in 2019 with the nasdaq on track for its best year since 2013. The tech index is up 35 , just 3 shy of 2013s banner year. It is largely due to apple and the chipmakers. Joining us is abigail doolittle. I am showing on my terminal a chart about divergence, winners and losers. What is your take away from the divergence . Abigail the clear winners, apple and facebook. Apple up 85 , facebook up 55 . The others up closer to 20 or 30 . Still great gains. And the complex is overall higher. 2019 really the year of record highs. The complex overall, the last record high overall back in july but those two Companies Really pulling away with the lead, apple and facebook. Apple putting in record high after record high. And behind that buying power, you have to think it had something to do with 2018. Because between october and december 2018, apple fell about
Apple att price for 300 per share. But first, to our stop our top stories, a u. S. Air strike that killed one of irans top. Ilitary officials in the wake of the attack, the director of the u. S. Cybersecurity and infrastructure warning agency, heeded urging the public to brush up on iranian tactics in order to Pay Attention for political systems. Fromscuss, we are joined boulder colorado were tom telemann and in studio bloomberg. Eporter want to start with you. Thank you for joining us. I often read that iran will respond to our sanctions and increasingly it now looks like cybersecurity. It do you see increasing Cyber Security threats . Organizationst are constantly being bombarded by iranian actors, anyone who has the capability. The question now after the attack in what way does that change . In what way might new tactics me in play and how exactly the major glands Major Companies and organizations that manage or control system respond bolster their defenses . That iran will be respo
Will the tesla turnaround continue . And price targets for apple raised to 300 per share. Rbc and bank of america. We will discuss the optimism of iphone sales in the holiday quarter. But first, to our top stories. A u. S. Air strike that killed one of irans top military officials. In the wake of the attack, the director of the u. S. Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, heeded warning urging the public to brush up on iranian tactics in order to Pay Attention to critical systems. To discuss, we are joined from boulder colorado by tom telemann and in studio bloomberg reporter. Want to start with you. Thank you for joining us. I often read that iran will respond to our sanctions and sometimes it has been the in and increasingly, it looks like it is cybersecurity. Do you see increasing Cyber Security threats as you have been covering them . I think there has been persistent threats. I think most organizations are constantly being bombarded by iranian actors, russian actors, ch
And joining us now to see what 2020 has in store is managing director, victor anthony, and Portfolio Manager at needham growth fund, Chris Retzler good morning. I look at the tech stocks that did the best this year, a lot of them were kind of underdogs, roku, top of the list coming into the year, people talked about netflix would beat up on them this year, the narrative seems to have shifted. Apple is another one people thought apple would have a bad year not only trend wise in tech whats important in 2020, are there underdog names you particularly have in mind . Victor well, mostly on small cap large cap, i see amazon, alphabet, google, facebook continue to outperform those arent underdogs. Are they no. Angies Home Services which underperformed significantly in 2019, i think another one, comscore, unforeseen event, management departures, outperformed significantly Online Dating app, the meet group, meet glad it is spelled that way different kind of stock if spelled another way. Up abo
Successful launch, the apple his calls for 2020. Google undergoing oracle card issued by Goldman Sachs hit some snags in 2019. Undergoing a big transformation. How do you see facebook entering what is a pretty crowded cloud first, our top story. Business . Tech continues to be the john it is crowded at the outperform or in 2019 with the application layer. Nasdaq on track for its best you have salesforce and all of those Different Software service year since 2013. 35 , justndex is up companies. With what amazon does, the aws 3 shy of 20s banner year. Service, there were really only ofis largely due to the three competitors, at least in north america. Microsoft as newer microsoft 2013s banner year. Aws, and google cloud. It is rgely due to apple and above the chipmakers. I am showing on my terminal i think the thing that chart about divergence, winners distinguishes these guys is obviously they have done a lot and losers. Of innovative stuff, but it is the clear winners, scale. Facebook,