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Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazo ....
The 27,700 level. Remember, it was 18,000 on march 23rd. The s p, what, nearly 3400. New alltime high. The nasdaq well over the 11,000 mark. Who would have thought of that. Add it all up and yes, we are now in a brand new bull market. Heres another reason for the rally. Terrific performance from major retailers, target, out today with a blowout report. Online sales nearly tripled. It was targets best overall growth rate ever. That stock is going straight up. Add this to the numbers from walmart, home depot and its clear the major retailers won big by staying open in the lockdown. Really, though, kind of tough on the smaller operators. Got to get to it. The convention, boring in my judgment. Tv ratings way down. Wheres the excitement . Everything is on tape and the whole thing lacks the spontaneity of a live crowd. The performance of the old guard, bill clinton, john kerry and a grim chuck schumer. The bright spot was aocs oneminute appearance. She nominated United States , Hong Kong , New York , Colorado Springs , Saudi Arabia , Cassie Smedley , Elizabeth Warren , Gregg Smith , Holland Hill , Jay Wright , Nancy Pelosi , Joe Biden , Tim Cook , Martha Maccallum , Biden Harris , America Stuart , Joni Ernst , Andy Biggs , Tjx Lauren , Trevor Lawrence , Grady Trimble , Larry Ellison , Eva Longoria , John Mccain , Bernie Sanders , Tim Scott ,
Maybe call it the ultimate catchup trade. If you missed the markets record rebound, fear not because we have three stocks that could be primed to pop later, tiktok you dont stop giving us news, that is. Theres a strange new suitor for the red hot social media app that our traders have our own take of who should put a ring on it so much to get through in the next hour, but let us begin at the beginning a brand new record close for the s p 500. This is by far the fastest bear market exit in history it has been just over 100 days since the benchmark index plunged with lows of the year. Need i remind you of the pandemic panic of march. Were up 55 since then. Its close today by the ever so slimmest of margins putting an official end to the bear market. Guy, the market acting like the pandemic induced lockdown and mass job losses simply never happened is this all, thank you, mr. Federal reserve . Of course it is y the Balance Sheet in fe ....
The s p thought biggest rise in two weeks. Saw its biggest rise in two weeks. Korea may send troops to the dmz. Seoul remains on high alert. Shery lets get a quick check of markets. U. S. Futures under pressure. We have the s p 500 rising the most in more than a week. We had seen optimism over the u. S. Economy really offsetting any can turns over a second wave of virus infections. Nikki futures unchanged at the moment. We are waiting japans may trade data. The deficit likely narrowed. We had the boj increasing at support for corporate financing yesterday. Futures up 0. 6 . This after the best day in over two months. Yesterday, we did get the rba june Meeting Minutes with more concerns that the economy is likely to need policy support. Gaining. At the moment stocks reversing five sessions. Do watch out for new Zealand First quarter gdp numbers out later this week. Lines getti ....
Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla. ....