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Many of indices. The nasdaq is 3. 2 higher. We are also seeing a recovery for oil. We are still below 40 per barrel. The vix is up there but well below 30. For all the recent volatility is favorable for some investors, lets welcome our first guest. She is managing director and head of longshores equity. Talk to us about the strength of a strategy these days. It has been a couple of years for hedge funds. What is the driver of this . Thank you for having me. This is such a great question. It is head spinning which way the markets are going to go. There is daytoday volatility. We have the election, a vaccine, theres a lot of volatility in this market. Whats important for strategies most importantly is dispersant. To see winners and losers. Short Equity Strategies struggle predominantly more because of the short book. It was the short book that was a challenge in this rising market. Accelerate to where we are today in the cycle an ....
How one hedge fund may be getting ready for double or nothing after a historic run to the march bottom this is monday august 17th, this is Worldwide Exchange. What a day to start the week. Appreciate you joining us to kick off your weekend here on cnbc and see record breaking remarkable rally can roll on and futures indicating that it can and it might but still they are off the s p 500 is now up 45 . Its now just 0. 6 how is that for a pacific. Hitting an all time intraday high if we go more than just a half a percent we have a new closing high and theres now four dow components that are each up more than 10 thats in august by the way. Traditionally the worst month of the market where is the money coming from people may be selling bonds to buy stock because you may not know this but its huge for the last few days. The ten yore yield surging 25 yes, i know thats only to 0. 7 of what we are right now but a five day, 25 move in t ....
Growth is slowing down due to the outbreak across the sunbelt. We have been at one point up 6 . Were now up 0. 7 . At one point we got to the highest level since the pandemic began. Ahead on todays show, stocks seeing a big rally to start the week Jeff Rosenberg of black rock says the bond stock model does not work in this environment he will join us to discuss where hes putting his money to work right now. Plus, entertaining in the age of coronavirus. Well speak with pitbull about how artists are navigating a World Without live events, and his efforts to help latino businesses lets focus in on the big stories with 59 minutes left of trade. Bob pisani tracking the action phil lebeau is watching the surging stock prices of electric vehicle makers joining us with his thoughts on the race for a vaccine and the biotech name is michael ye from jeffires start us off with the market ....
Up for an eighth straight day. The mega cap tech names making the new milestones josh, the big five as we say amazon, apple, facebook, alphabet, microsoft all but alphabet hitting the new highs today crossing 6 trillion as you flag end market cap for the first time ever. They, amazingly, are now equal to the next 24 largest s p 500 stocks combined. You flag that. Yeah. What do you make of it . Yeah, so my research. We put this up last night. Just incredible when you think about the companies that make up that next 24 were not talking about small potatoes were talking about jpmorgan which is a 300 million cap and pepsi, coke, mcdonalds. Its really wild and these stocks now are just going parabolic. I think i want to maketwo points very quickly. The first is that this is not unprecedented. In the mid 1960s just two stocks General Motors and at t made up 14. 5 of the total market cap of the s p 500. And the top ten names in the mid 6 ....
Company holiday to the calendar. And he are everyone tz artz o raise serious cash thats all here on Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to wherever in the world you may be watching. Here is how the money, your markets are setting up their day. Stock futures indicating the dow is likely to rise at the open. It is early. We are in the green. We are 116 pointsto the future side as well snapping the threeday streak. It did during the second day o temperature. With that pull back, blue chips need about 1,862 to complete that selloff look at the wild swing after a relatively calm one. Watching the credit and bond markets as well. 10year at 0. 73 look at oil. New data that shows Venezuela Oil output has collapsed to 570,000 barrels per day. That is down from more than three plus Milli ....