Taranova were green across the boards. Dow, s p, nasdaq all green jim, we have a big rebound in the nas names. Best pace on the month since january of 1987. Well, scott, first off, thank you. Every year you and throughout the year you give a lot of respect to veterans. It means a lot to me personally. You and the team at cnbc, thank you very much. Onto the markets look, a little reversal today where the cyclicals are fading and tech is rallying i think thats healthy i mean, look, weve had one heck of a rotation. Not just this week but in the last two months its been going on its time for a pause. And i think the most Important Message here is, anyone whos feeling like they missed out, you dont need to feel that way. If you feel like you missed out on the tech rally of the summer, well, guess what, september and october have given you the opportunity to get into those largecap tech names, the faang names. If you feel like you missed on you the on the cyclical rally, thats going to go on
0. 719 andrew and we have numbers to bring you this morning from United Health group just out with its quarterly numbers. Reporting Quarterly Earnings of 3. 51 per share. It beat the consensus estimate of 3. 09 revenue also above forecasts, saying that medical care trends that had been disrupted by the pandemic are moving closer to normal you are looking at that stock up just marginally this morning and we have three more financials, bank of america this hour, Goldman Sachs in the 7 00 hour and then wells fargo in the 8 00 hour. Joe. Thankthanks, andrew. Another Clinical Trial halted over safety concerns, eli lilly late stage trial has been paused by u. S. Health regulation tors it used a Health Sample from one the first patients recovered from coronavirus ill given you more details. Because it leaves out something important. Of the trials ongoing of the antibody, they decided to add remdesivir along with the antibody and that is when they had to halt the trial for some kind of safety
Were following all of that today. Well get to the markets in a moment we do begin with our top story the president and first lady testing positive for the coronavirus. Our shep smith joining us with the latest its news on the east coast here is the news the president and first lady are positive for covid19. The first lady reports she has mild symptoms but feels good the white house says the president has mild symptoms. President trump is in good spirit ossen ca spirtss on a call this morning. President trump is in both categories he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. We have talked a number of times this morning i got the five or six things that he had tasked me to do, like i do every single morning he is wanting to make sure that we stay engaged. I think the other thing that is critically important, the doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of first Lady Joe Biden sent his thoughts to the president and first lady for swift recovery now th
Look particularly at the nasdaq, its up 16 year to date but the wait is what you have to think about. Facebook, apple, amazon, microsoft google are up 13 year to date. So youre seeing overweight in terms of really big companies. Any meaningful downward movement along them is going to result in broader index. Im not optimistic particularly nasdaq because i think its overinflated liquidation there is it too glib to say if vaccine hopes are met with real positive data that technology suffers from a whithering stayathome narrative, or is that too simplistic . Yeah, its a little simplistic, mostly because of the factors that are contributing to the tech growth are multivariant you have this issue of the low Interest Rate environment which is drawing a lot of yield, but you also have the fact that people staying at home use Digital Services more. You look at the streams services and the semiconductor and tip companies which are underlines and inputs on the digitization thats happening thats
Get started here this morning. Look, i think that we are actually experiencing something that we havent lately which is that the analysts are almost entirely positive, and yet there is an underlying current both from the unemployment claims, which they are never going to be good until we get a vaccine. And also a general on wee that we dont have it under control, there i am talking about covid19 so why own anything . I think that thats an incorrect view there were many many piece this is morning that talk about what i can only say i am going to borrow a term from larry kudlow, green shoouts. There is much thats good in the economy. It is just not where we thought it was going to be, david. It is not all encompassing, but there are some areas that are very strong. All right so go over those and explain to me why they are not what we thought they would be. I think we thought travel and leisure would come back. That cruiseships would come back, that there would be Corporate Travel only on