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all in the name of raising money for paid yediatric cancer and research. we have a number of speakers joining us live here throughout the next couple hours. there they are. we have nascar champion jeff gordon and cliff robins of bull harbor group, and a unique way to play streaming media, and, yes, involves teletubbies. oh, boy, looking forward to that coming up. green light capital statement e einhorn, bringing you all the headlines of what he talks about as soon as we get them, but we begin with apple crossing an important milestone today in terms of value. bertha is at the nasdaq with that side of the story for us. reporter: yeah. apple s market cap today crossing $800 billion in market cap. it crossed $700 billion after blistering 37% gain the prior year. already this year, apple s up more than 32% notwithstanding iphone sale numbers in the most recent quarter. the stock is up $100 a share since tim cook took over as ceo in 2011. a gain of nearly 200%, and apple ....
1st. is that what the date was? the fear gauge hitting the lowest level in more than two decades. the volatility index closing yesterday at 9.77, the lowest level since december of 1993. i can t imagine that s not a place where you would buy. though normal stocks that hit new lows what do they do? hit more new lows. stocks that hit new highs, hit more new highs. it can only go $9 more lower. yeah. this only happened five times ever. having always thought in a contrarian way that complacency and when people get participants get bullish, you worry. call ratios, you worry. percentage of investment services. if it s that complacent i admit, okay, it s not going to be le pen, but the world at this point, there s nothing that we re not thinking about that could happen that could throw us for a little bit? it scares me. the flip side is if premiums are so low, you can buy insurance and remain long or replace your stock with calls. there are different ways to us ....
we are inches away from the record. futures steady as we wait for the fed at 2:00. tech titans will meet with donald trump today at trump tower. we re going live to midtown manhattan, watch them as they walk in. two new names officially announced to take a spot in goldman. more on the changes. first, 89 points, that s how much it will take for the dow to hit 20k. the blue chips coming off their 16th record closing high. s&p and nasdaq hitting record territory. all aed head of the fed s rate announcement at 2:00. live coverage will begin right here on cnbc at that time. we will get the forecast. we ll get the dot plots and the q & a. i have to tell you that interest rates are down today. you can see how this market is changed. oil is not up. interest rates are down. the futures are not higher. the banks have a lot of people feel like that the banks are the ones for this rate hike. even the rate hike is now baked in or maybe feel that some people feel the econom ....
good morning. very warm welcome to worldwide exchange here on cnbc. i m wilfred frost. i m seema mody in for sara eisen. good morning to you. nice to have you with us. good to be here. let s check gobel mlobal market. futures or i should say u.s. stocks ending higher yesterday. the s&p closing about 1.6% away from the record closing high. futures indicating a lower open. down 3 for the s&p 500. dow jones off by 14, and the nasdaq off by 3. this as we kick off the earnings season for q1. treasuries have been in focus. yesterday fed chair janet yellen dropping a hint that rates will be likely rising again shortly. the ten-year yield hanging out around 2.3% to 2.4%. right now at 2.34. let s look at equities around the world. asian equities first up. the nikkei and hang seng both down a bit today. hong kong almost down three quarters of a percent. shanghai up about 0.6%. european trade to move on to that, we had some data hit the wires. eurozone industrial outpu ....
yesterday? what did you think? weird, right? what you are talking about? went all the way up. yesterday s session? yeah. what happened midday that knocked that off? they thought it was the ap story about trump s tax plans, how they ll scrap it and start all over again. i don t know. during the day, the guy in north korea said we re this close to nuclear oblivion, the markets just tread water. but then the tax plan. syria saying, yeah, russia said one more move, we re at war. and then the futures didn t move. but then they said something about the tax plan, could be a week late, the markets moved. that s very telling. how do you price it in? you can kind of when the world ends, it doesn t matter might as well trade until it does. flight to safety. i m in safety. it doesn t matter. even oil, with everything happen. when music is playing, you have to dance. quick heck on what s going chec in europe and then oil. the dax down a bit. cac, ....