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
Split. Well tell you why invesetors ae piling in today. Energy companies have shut in production we have the latest on the impact of tropical storms marco and laura. Power lunch starts right now thank you, tyler as you mentioned its shaping up to be another record breaking week on wall street. That means even more evidence mounting that stocks are getting pretty expensive bob is following the markets for us bob. Yes it is. Right now we have very light summer volume. We have fairly narrow trading range today. I like what i see and i like what i see for one particular reason for once its not all about Technology Stock it started out that way at the open but it quickly changed and investers decided maybe the tech stocks are too pricey afterall today were seeing Energy Stocks bank stocks out performing, even industrials out performing the Technology Sec tore. Thats a big change of pace for the last couple of weeks i want to show you something to give you an example of how it changed. Apple
Like a market rather than an Amusement Park ride. The dow gaining over 200 points and the nasdaq climbing 1. 6 im calling it a refreshing p e pace the options are hanging in i think because the market already crashed. People dont get it. We went from down 29,000 to down 18,000 in a couple of weeks. February and march were hideous. Its okay april gave us a little bounce package good stocks and the railroads and even a casino. Las vegas sands. I didnt know you could go to one. Next week is a tougher one household names have run up substantially. Its going to be a true test were going to here from nxp semi theyre a chip maker with a window to apple. Listen to what they have to pay. I think they have too much auto exposu exposure, but its worth focusing onto for insight into apple. Pepsico reports on Tuesday Morning. We know cocacola saw adecline on soda post quarter because the restaurants shut down. Even as home consumption was up. Pepsico is more diversitied. They own frito lay, and whe
Look, any way you take it, employment in april was a disaster. We are looking at an Unemployment Rate that is likely approaching 20 . We get those numbers, the unemployment numbers for the whole country, next friday. However, got to tell you the backtowork movement is really gathering steam. States across the nation are modifying their stayathome rules. Businesses are reopening. Oklahoma reopens some businesses tomorrow. California will allow some elective surgery. This, however, is receiving mixed messages. President trump says georgia is reopening too soon. He says he strongly disagrees with georgias decision. However, he will still leave it up to the states. Heres a positive. The Field Hospital built specially for virus patients in houston, texas, may be dismantled, not needed, underused. Lets get to the markets. First im dealing with oil. Look at this. Moving back up again in price. 16. 71 is the production price right now, but production is being scaled back very very sharply. Sup
Up acronym for not as bad as fear while it seems to gain on the surface, the nasdaq rising 0. 40 , underneath there were some bewildering moves that remind us the market doesnt always behave the way we expect it to. In particular, a bunch of stocks rallied today, even though they reported what looked like simply awful numbers. If youre befuddled, you have come to the right place. How does the stock end up going higher in the wake of a seemingly ugly quarter, its all about my buddy, pal, friend nabaf. Let me show you how it works we start with the railroads. The railroads are the best example. All aboard this Morning Union pacific reported by what even by its own admission was a disappointing quarter. [ crying ] their sales were weaker across every single cargo line. Unreasonable downtown 20 . Premium, that includes the position down 9 , ag off 1 . Industrial down 1 the cause of this weakness some cargos have been troubled for a long time, like coal but most of them are just plain econo