Inperson activities shut down can the nfl save football from a covid collapse announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with shepd ard smith. Good evening. Doctors and Health Experts warning about another surge of covid cases. More on the cure in just a moment but first, a look at where this pandemic stands heading into the month of december. The United States now averaging more than 162,000 cases this past week. This month alone, we reported more than 4. 2 million new cases. That means near lily one third all of the cases have been added in november. Right now 93,000 americans are hospitalized with covid. As you can see here, the deaths are climbing towards that peak it comes as millions of americans struggle to dig themselves out of financial holes caused by the pandemic so far congress has failed to provide more relief. The consequences of the inaction growing by the day but its a different story on wall street. The dow rose by more than 11 in just
Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Welcome to squawk alley. The at Home Technology story continues to deliver big you can see there sonos up 26 this morning after strong earnings want to talk to the ceo in a minute and nvidia also delivered solid results on pc and Data Center Demand beating on both earnings and revenue. Sales up 57 from the same period last year though its lower this morning on modest guidance second biggest gainer on the s p 500 year to date though. Julia, its really interesting how, you know, stay at home stocks maybe suffering a bit but some of the Underlying Technology driving some of that action doing quite well well, jon, one stay at home stock that is not suffering today is roku. That stock up over 6 . Driven in part by the circulation of reports saying that roku could be near a deal with at t to have an agreement for hbo max to be included on roku which would be a big deal and speaking of hbo max, i have to mention that news that wonder woman 1984, the big wonder woman sequel that was scheduled
Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech trade, given how far so many of these trends have run . I think some of these trends existed before the pandemic and have be