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Away from the alltime record high, there you have it the worlds most valuable company, apple the stock is up again, the worlds most innovative dynamic seller, amazon the stock is up again. The market, that is digested a lot of Bank Earnings already, goldman did very well in the dow is looking at 80point gain and look at the nasdaq up about 26, 27point again, i see a lot of green this wednesday morning. Heres the headline dueling townhouse tomorrow night instead of a second debate, mr. Trump working with nbc, joe biden working with abc, obvious question why not reinstate the debate, the Electoral Commission really blew it by insisting on virtual. Did you see Speaker Pelosi getting rattled on cnn, in primetime will blitzer asked her what was wrong with the president 1. 8 trillion stimulus plan, why not pick up the phone, call the president and make a deal. She became very flustered and accused blitzer and his colleagues of being an apologist for republicans. Have you ever watched online
Its competitor, nikola the Airlines Holding up after Morgan Stanleys bullish call on the group. The analyst will join us kelly, first over to you major aver raages are hitting their lowest levels. Bob has a look at the stocks making the biggest move today. Bob, lets start with you. Were in a 40point trading range. Were about to break out on the upside i know this sounds crazy lets look at the sectors and whats moving. Were not getting a lot of help from technology. It rallied early yiier but hasnt been moving as forward were getting nice moves from the industrial and Health Care Stocks these stocks rallied earlier off of their lows. Apple was 119 earlier. Its not moving the market forward here in the middle of the afternoon. Still off of their lows. Same with microsoft, nvidia, lam and some of the work from home stocks they were lower earlier but not rallying dramatically. All of them down wayfair was briefly positive slack has turned positive. The stocks are all off their lows most of
A half percent. Another thing i am watching as the rnc tax policy. Toer this hour, we are going look at taxes and how they play into wealth inequality. We are going to do that with Dorothy Brown november university. First, economic data. Confidence, 84. 8, the market was looking for 93. Ist is a week number that a weak number. This tell us something about the stimulus debate, the employment market in terms of the present situation. That has weakened significantly from the 94. 2. The expectation number has weakened as well from 91. 5. We have an 85. 2 this time around. Newhome sales continuing to drive onward. The Housing Market showing no respite. Look at the lumber prices. Sales, 901,000. That is a 13. 9 permit very strong number. Consumer may be starting to show signs of weakness and concern. Lets talk about the market today. We have already indicated what we are seeing is stocks, global stocks continuing to push on very strongly. What is the excuse . U. S. Chinese officials holding
Like it is getting down through thursday lows. We are seeing pressure. I love covering the markets. Europe is a snooze fest from an equity market point of view. There is nothing happening. Light volumes. Market trapped in a tight rein from an equity point of view curate we are going nowhere in a hurry. The Energy Sector is reasonably well bid but not spectacularly. The euro is back towards the middle of its risk range. Brent catching a bigger bed. We have the opec note coming out later this week. Reports worth paying attention to. Overnight, we do not see much out of china. You are seeing a little bit in terms of the nasdaq. Alix yes. That is a good point. He saw mike wilsons note at morgan stanley. He came out in the note last week talking about it was a pull forward of demand for tech where sustained acceleration. If there is a pull forward, how much earnings estimates increase can you see in 2021 . You also wonder moving into cyclicals, may be moving into cyclicals and out of the gr