Electric vehicle stocks are scorching, oil stocks are gushing. To chase or not to chase, thats do question ill be the question ill be asking some of the best. We are waiting for the paddenning of the thanksgiving pardoning of the thanksgiving turkey or turkeys. All that and so much more on making money. Charles the broad market propelled out of the gate powered by continued excitement over that midday announcement yesterday that janet yellen will be heading the Treasury Department. Then theres also the transition of power at the white house and continued strong corporate earnings. Wall street professionals find themselves chasing a train long after its left the station. Remember, they were complaining about this or that. Blackrock, in fact, says its now overweight u. S. Stocks with 40 technology and Communication Services alone, only 11 in european stocks. While theyre not really the worst problems like buying stocks or holding during those violent selloffs, chasing bigtime rallies is
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
12, maybe. And jpmorgan says dont give up on nikola. Thats ahead we start with the markets. Dom chu has that for us. Weve been on either side of the unchanged line well call these markets stable. Weve seen some fractional gains and losses fractionally to the down side. A quarter percent to the down side for the dow the s p off a third of a percent. Similar moving for the nasdaq composite. Key level to watch for the nasdaq, 3401 at the highs of the day, we were up 19 in the s p and down 18 at the lows a good amount of symmetry with regard to the trading range today. A hot part of the market is the Cloud Computing industry this etf, ticker clou, has been a massive upside mover up another 1 today. Record highs for this etf and again since the pant lows wep lows, were talking about a 116 gain one other place to watch in terms of the stock, l brands, price target upgrade by analysts at jpmorgan, that stock was given up for dead quite a time ago. Up 87 almost a twoyear high this is victorias
Your portfolio. And sony and microsoft are set to reelite next generation video game console ahead of the holidays, is and most repreorders have already preorders have already sold out. On the round table, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, i thought the debate might be the big story of the week until we all woke up friday morning to find out thats president and first lady have covid19, but the market largely shrugged it off. Whats going on . They say that the market hates uncertainty, but investors have been planning for a lot of it. If you look at the vix, the markets fear gauge, theyre expecting a heightened level of volatility all the way through january. So Something Like this comes along, and it shocks the market, but it doesnt shock it, i think, as much as people would have normally if it had just come out of nowhere. And theres also stimulus talk going on, and actually i wouldnt say in the background. That was taking up a lot of attention this week
Means for the Energy Sector and your portfolio. And sony and microsoft are set to reelite next generation video game console ahead of the holidays, is and most repreorders have already preorders have already sold out. On the round table, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, i thought the debate might be the big story of the week until we all woke up friday morning to find out thats president and first lady have covid19, but the market largely shrugged it off. Whats going on . They say that the market hates uncertainty, but investors have been planning for a lot of it. If you look at the vix, the markets fear gauge, theyre expecting a heightened level of volatility all the way through january. So Something Like this comes along, and it shocks the market, but it doesnt shock it, i think, as much as people would have normally if it had just come out of nowhere. And theres also stimulus talk going on, and actually i wouldnt say in the background. That was taking