Manufacturing index hitting its best level since november 2018 but tech stocks as we mentioned lagging. The nasdaq is in the med as apple, amazon, microsoft all trade lower 59 minutes left in the session. Back off the lows. Coming up on todays show, ever corps founder roger altman on how the outcome of the election could affect your machine. Plus mond leez and paypal report earnings after the bell we will bring you all of those nbc first on cnbc with mond leezs ceo as soon as those numbers come out. We start off the month of november with gains after a down ep to october. Bob pisani is tracking some of the action. It is turning out to be a fairly simple narrative to understand today that is investors are choosing stimulus over stayathome plays. Let me show you what i mean. There is a belief there ises going to be very gig stimulus coming somewhere down the road again. Thats taken hold here look at the s p 500, up. Wait look at the small caps, up almost twice as much generally the bep y
Today as republicans look to fast track her nomination before the election day and in the gulf, clean up from hurricane delta continues this morning as nearly half a million residents still remain without power and technology under fire yet again this time from across the atlantic its monday october 20t12, 2020 youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Sh good monday morning kicking off this morning with a hearty congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers you can see them there jumping around they won their 17th nba title beating the miami heat in game six last night 10693 lebron james helping lift the lakers over the top with a triple double himself while Anthony Davis logged a doubledouble of his own you can see the dow jones implied higher by 16 points and the nasdaq up by 134 Big Technology in focus yet again. And with fridays 160 point advance the dow is now positive for the First Time Since september 22nd you can compare that with the s p 500, the dow transportation stocks a
And tiffany mcgee. A were glad to have you on the Halftime Report once again as you can see, on that little bugs the bottom right of the screen look at that the bigger screen for you. The nasdaq s p and look at the nasdaq, up another 1. 2 . The s p, by the way, is on pace trying for its fifth straight positive day you might have heard this. Big tech nom has been leading the way. Hard to believe but true by the way, that sector hitting alltime highs yet again today raids also in focus, by the way, investors awaiting fed chair jay powells big speech tomorrow at the virtual jackson hole event so, joe, theres a lot to get to there anything that you see, before we get micro, on a macro basis, that leads you believe this market is getting too hot, and has to come down at some point, or can we literally go up every single day the answer to that is the market has been too hot for the better part of the last 8 to 12 weeks. The expectation for the month of august is we were coming into a calenda
Have mccabe, you have strzok, you have his lover lisa page, you have all of these people running around. You have brennan and clapper who lied to congress. You have many many people, you have people that changed documents going into the fisa courts, and its a terrible thing and this is an investigation that they said should have ended before it started. It shouldnt have started and if it did, it should have ended immediately because they found as you know as well as i do, they found nothing initially but it went on for two years or longer. And im getting rave reviews for what i did for roger stone and he frankly is going to go and now appeal his case. He had a jury forewoman who hated roger stone and who hated probably me but she went on a false pretense and he wasnt given a fair trial, he wasnt its not a fair trial, he wasnt given another trial. He should have been given another trial. I wont say more. I wont talk about the judge. Im not going why would i ever talk about a judge. But
Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 60s made up about 50 of the market cap so, we have seen t