Google all on tap. All that and much more is coming up this hour power lunch starts right now kelly, thanks im scott wapner welcome to power lunch our reporters are all over every ae angle that matters as you know, today the busiest day of earning season. Meg tirel is watching the race for a vaccine as coronavirus cases continue to climb. And Steve Liesman has the details of a muchexpected gdt report hey, bob before we get to earnings, were having a nicely midday rally here let me show you the s p. Some technical aspects we broke above the earlier highs in the day. People do trade on technical calls on in kind of market you see that nice, quick, steady move up here there may be seasonal aspects coming into play, art cashin noting were moving into november, a seasonably strong period of the year for earnings, the early reports have just been spectacular here, generally half of the s p reporting now, 85 beating expectations and the key story is the average beat about 19 , way above the h
Credit market. Thats coming up in the next hour were also going to talk to matt shay about the pain the pain out there with retailers weve heard about furloughs from gap to macys. What kind of unemployment statistics are we going to be talking about for the biggest private sector employer in the United States and do they qualify for relief in the new congressional package. Lets focus on the big stories were watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani joins us with a look at the quarter mike has a deeper dive on the s p 500 today. Steve has more on the feds latest move and what the economic signals are telling us. As we get ready to close out the quarter. Boy, good riddance and good riddance, exactly. Treasuries up and rebalancing. Buy stocks, sell bonds might help a little bit towards the close. Corporate Investment Grade flat and high yield down. Reminding us that in a recession, high yield tends to act. I want to show you the charts here boeing, have you seen anything go to 150
Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Its good to have you with us on our wednesday. Jim lebenthal, Pete Najarian and from naples, florida, lizann sonders. Highs of the day, approaching big numbers, dow 30,000, nasdaq 10k, not that far away and cooperman weighing in on the state of stocks, telling us its not time to worry, yet. I would say were in the early stages of knocking on the door of euphoria but not quite euphoria certain parts of the market, like tesla, are in euphoria. Other parts, like energy, are in pessimism. These big numbers not all that far away, pete. All good, the market depends on what were focusing on. Are we focused on the coronavirus . If so, we go down. Generally were focused on earnings and we go higher. Thats where the market has been trading. Yesterday was interesting because apples with a little bit of both, right you look at apple. It was getting pushed down because of their guidance about what they were facing right now, what they were seeing Going For
Exchange this is epic as well why do you get squawk box specific mugs. I dont think we have that on closing bell. You think your set down at the ant kuwaited New York Stock Exchange the whole Stock Exchange is our tv set. The whole future is nasdaq. Its moving forward. The specialists, the middle man. You want to be here, my friend its a lovely new set. It is. I wonder how much these costs, these mugs. I love the New York Stock Exchange we love both. Just kidding we do get territorial once in a while. Im glad you like our new sets and our mugs dont take that with you treasury yields this morning, i looked 190 on the ten year recession fears have faded trade concerns are so 2019, i think. Arent they . Theyre just so 2019 the dollar. Thats supposed to weaken im doing another show today exchange. So am i. Closing bell. Thats your normal show what happened over the weekend . U. S. Military carried out precision defense strikes in syria against a Militia Group following a string of attacks
Days well see what the last second to last trading day of the year has in store for us road map today starts with the recordbreaking year for stocks. The s p within striking distance of its best yearly gain since 97. Plus, teslas china play, the automaker ruling out first sedan from the shanghai factory with ramping up next month. We begin with the year end rally and the record run for stocks mike, it has been quite a year and we go into 2020 seemingly with a lot of momentum. Been a very, you know, kind of orderly low drama rally in december a lot of folks say we may be set up for a pullback. I think we keep having to remind people, it has been a great year, successive record highs for much of the year we started in a deep hole. I think thats important not to sort of downplay what a Strong Performance stocks have had had this year, but to point out theyre not necessarily all that far out on a limb because theyre up 30 of the 12month basis because theyre up about 11 from 15 months ago,