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I turn to you first, laura set the scene first. How does the market look to you . What are you focusing on its really, really an interesting time in the markets right now. You have this dichotomy where were seeing some strength in the markets. I think were a little off today but youre seeing some read through or look through in the market to say, hey, were going to see optimism on the other side however the economy hasnt quite caught up yet to the markets i think we are going to need and we need to focus on making sure that the legislature realized we still need stimulus, we need the consumer thats twothirds of this economy back in full swing. Not getting it. Not right now what does that mean if i tell you were not getting it, were not getting it any time soon. Soon is relative as well, right . Theres a lot of levers that can be pulled here i think that were getting things together and, you know, i wish we could get it during december at some point youre right, it does not look like it ....
Everything else not having the best of days pete, i come to you first. You get the first crack at this. The bar was high and they got over it. They did. Youre obviously talking about apple. And amazon and facebook that was high for the whole entire group, pete theres no doubt about it facebook being probably one of the ones watched most closely, i think. When it comes down to apple, the reason that stands out is they had a record q3. You look across every part of their business model, their eco system and it phenomenal the growth is there. The double digit growth is there. I think the big surprise coming in iphone because people were looking at a number far less. The real key is service, not only the growth but look at that revenue. Add that with wearables and you get almost to 20 billion youre getting the other side of the equation and far better margins. Thats why i think apple still has plenty of room to the upper side because they have room in the wearables, the services. The servi ....
1 2 3 boeing is having a big day today. The reopening trade is in full effect Piper Sandler is up today. They say the pain trade is up. They reiterate their 3,600point yearend target for the s p, which sounded crazy when they first put that out, but now i wonder if we have to start looking at that as a coming formali formality, as crazy as that sounds look, ive been adding capital to the market and if you asked me a month ago what i would be doing, i would tell you, i would be down 50 in my exposure not for performance, but for taking money off the table this has sort of hit the frenzied period. The reason why its doing that is because its a valuation holiday, its a fundamental holiday. And when you see things that are happening in the real world, the social injustice, the division in the u. S. , the division in terms of International Relations with merckel not wantin ....
Bremmer, and Gabriela Santos the dow is down now almost 700 points again coronavirus fears sending the market plunging. The dow falls at one point more than 1,000 points at session lows all sectors going into correction territory which means 10 off their highs. Stocks are off to the worst level of the session after jay powell came out with a statement saying the fundamentals of the u. S. Economy remain strong and bond yields are plunging again sending Mortgage Rates to their lowest levels in eight years joining us for the hour, the final hour of trade is lindsey bell from allied invest. Also with us is senior markets commentator mike santoli as always to take you through the bell lindsey, what are you getting from some of your clients and what are you telling them . Our clients are retail clients. They are definitely concerned. So were telling them first and foremost, please ....
Are straight ahead this big bank is underperforming the peers and today one veteran analyst says sell its our call of the day Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. It is good to have you with us on this thursday. Our Investment Committee today liz young is the director of market strategy. Another high for the nasdaq. Pete, this ramp continues into the end of the year. S p is at 23205 phase one what we talked about led into that thing. People have gotten comfortable we continue to kick things down the road because of that i think its given people more fuel to want to be somewhere else in the market particularly in some of the nasdaq stocks with growth. Some of them have easy still, the valuations arent too stretched. Some of them are that the ones im starting to avoid more and more. I think that some of these names are great. Theyre ....