You can see the dow is reacting. The nasdaq has turned positive by. 1 or 12 points and we are entering, of course, the most crucial month for the retailers. Many stores still shut down but the stocks are rallying, especially Department Stores, as you see right there. Look at the macys, and nordstroms. Once again, power lunch starts right now. Thank you, tyler im kelly evans. We begin with the markets this hour the dow was up 11 in november that would be a good year. It would certainly make it the best month for the index since 1987 up 25 today. Dom chu has more on the action its a catchup trade for the dow. It has been for the better part of 2020 lagging behind certainly the nasdaq composite and in some cases the s p 500 as well. Remember, the green lighne, the nasdaq far outperforming other indices. Now the dow trying to play a little bit of catch up here. A good month for the dow shaping up well see if it holds as we head towards december another big thing to watch is whats happening
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. Its a mixed fwoog day retail earnings, amazon pharmacy, covid19 restrictions, fed speak. Were going to begin this morning on capitol hill as both Mark Zuckerberg and jack dorsey testify before Senate Judiciary on censorship, suppression, and, of course, the 2020 election our Julia Boorstin is monitoring this and can tell us what happened so far. Julia . Well, carl, senator Lindsey Graham focusing on what he sees as a need to revise section 230, thats the rule that protects social media platforms for legal liability for content. He says facebook and constituenter wetwitter were making editorial decisions and far more transparent standards are necessary. He called out the Mental Health risks associated with social media use. On the other side of the aisle, richard bloomenthal, he is calling for breakup of the platforms. Mark zuckerberg supports change to section 230 dorsey pointing out they need to walk a f
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Welcome, everyone, the kboel im sara eisen, here with wilfred frost. Pfizer says its covid19 vaccine candidate developed with biointech is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 in a phase three study the cow and s p 500 hitting record highs in todays session, this after strong gains last week as well as the Election Results come into sharp focus. Seeing down sectors like airlines, cruises, banks, and energy are seeing outsized returns today on the vaccine news while the stayathome winners like zoom, peloton, and amazon are coming back to earth. Nasdaq is actually negative with this more than 1,200 point rally on the dow 59 minutes left to go on a historic day on wall street. Nasdaq hovering around the flat line. Big gains for the dow. Coming up on the show, a massive guests line ups. We will discuss the vaccine, the election, what it all means for your money with huge names nelson peltser will weigh in with his thoughts on what the market is doing as we speak. The chamber of com