The s p up 11 the dow up nearly 13 on pace for its best month since january of 1987. The nasdaq up about 12 . Check out the small caps because the russell 2,000 is up almost 21 in november alone. Thats the stock world but, melissa, our other favorite topic, bitcoin thats been moving a lot, too. Maybe joes favorite topic, at least bitcoin after recently hitting 16,000 were seeing it recoop some of those losses in recent days its up by almost 2 today, above 18,000, 18,540 guggenheim is reserving right for 5. 3 billion Macro Opportunities Fund to invest up to 10 in the Gray Scale Bitcoin Trust which is only invested in bitcoin and of course this follows many large investors including stanley drunken miller voiced support for this krip cro currency, joe. Yes, it has been getting traction interesting recent trading and good to see you, melissa and andrew its tough to come back from vacation, but having you here, melissa, i dont know, it just makes me feel very, very comfortable, happy my he
Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued stock to play with there is pressure to answer and three u. S. Restrictions are hurt something chip makers like xilinks and theres no end to that in site good morning, guys pat, are you surprised not a the hoff overlap here. So in that sense, maybe this deal isnt at risk but, hey, not a lot of overlap here. So maybe this is risky the. Yeah. The so as you said before, amd needs to grow. When i look at valuation, im sure stacy will will weigh in on this, it had to do something organic growth isnt
Eastern time. Take a look at the dow. The dow specifically tumbled to lows around 11 30 a. M. Eastern after House Speaker nancy pelosi said in her Weekly News Conference there will be no standalone stimulus without a broader coronavirus bill that includes money for schools to properly open and stay open. But then the dow climbed back. Actually, the nasdaq and the s p never went negative but the dow did climb back when pelosi stressed she remains open to negotiations. Our floor show traders are about to tell you how to play this moving target. Flying higher in the middle of the pandemic. While major air carriers remain stuck at the gate waiting for more stimulus money, private jet travel, affordable private jet travel, is booming. The set jet ceo is here. He will demonstrate to you exclusively how contactless Security Systems that hes just installed dont have you having to remove anything metal or even take the loose change out of your pocket. And how are they expanding routes while the
Very, very first new years eve celebration that is we are going to get throughout the hour on mornings with maria. Weve got a big show this morning, joining the conversation michael, Founder Michael lee, market analyst francis and real clear politics cofounder president tom bevin. Happy new year, guys. Happy new year. Cheryl weve had a phenomenal year. Typically when the market moves people get hesitant, just thoughts to stay positive in 2020, so in the summer of 2018 the market actually had roughly 10 below here, going off into the end of 2018, i think that spells well for 2020, this could really keep going, its been a good decade for stocks. Cheryl francis a lot to watch obviously for you this year, its been a blockbuster year. Its been a blockbuster, whats important is the catalyst that kept the market going, we kept getting news on the front and the fed keeps injecting money into the system which is good for equities. Cheryl i think its 2020, though. For sure. We have politics happ
More than a decade earnings in focus, state of texas, ea, match, humana and amds chief lisa su will join us later this hour. Apple sports books reportedly reaching a new streaming deal with the pac12 lets begin with the fitch downgrade. Downgraded the u. S. To aa plus you talked about this last night. Is the market shrugging it off or not i think it has to in some ways, its just an upgrade of the way we run our country, and i think you want to go back and think, well, what happened in august 5 of 2011 when the s p downgraded us s p was at 1,119 it had gone down to 1,095. So, there was a big decline. Then, one year later, it went up so, in other words, if you just take the worst case scenario, which is what happened in 2011, it was an amazing buying opportunity. And when people looked at it, i think they said it was quizzical. Tim geithner was very angry, said it was wrong. This one says, youre a completely dysfunctional country, and we recognize that but all countries are dysfunctional