Tesla getting set to take off. And tesla is up 9 today. Were going to take a look at the growing musk empire. And booming sales at walmart and home depot but the stocks not getting that same boost today. Power lunch starts right now welcome once again to power lunch, im john fort boy, its hard to swim up stream in the amazon. Cvs, wall green, right aid and dorsey and zuckerberg and ceos testify in front of the senate one bright spot in the s p 500, cruise stocks as norwegian is near the high of the session for more on the market action, lets get to bob pisani. Hello, john its sort of a choppy, indeterminate day. The market cant quite decide what it wants to do today. Weve had a great run in bank and material stocks. The cyclical names have done really well recently those are on the weak side today. Tech is kind of flattish overall today here and then we had Energy Stocks and reits. So energy has been holding up very well today and so has Real Estate Investment trusts on top of that. Te
Record close since february 12th. Right now, its above that at the moment. So we look to the s p 500. That should set its first record since september 2nd. Its 23rd record of the year. We have that moving higher right now pretty significantly. The nasdaq just a bit off the mark at the moment. From the Pfizer Vaccine developed in conjunction with German Company biontech and the stock basking in the halo effect from the blockbuster announcement to the mask makers and Rapid Testing stocks on the move. Weve got team fox business at the ready. Market mavens bill snead, jon core pe corpino and Tracy Maitland and Hillary Vaughn live in delaware, with the president elects plans Just Announced and how it might affect your money. The two matadors in charge of todays record bull rally, pfizer and its german partner biontech. Both stocks hitting 52weeks highs on the news that their covid19 vaccine candidate is more than as we said, 90 effective. Pfizer jumping 8. 33 at the moment. Biontech up 15 .
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They are suspending trading in hong kong. We dont know the reason for that but we will bring you the reasons when we get it. Backdrop, the hang seng up by half of 1 . The authority spending a lot of money to defend the dollar peg. That is something on peoples. Inds as people make a rush 0. 5 toi composite, about the downside. Of what istrends going on as far as Market Action in this part of the world. Lets look at some of the first word news. President trump seems to have abandoned any hope of a virus package before the election next hek, telling supporters that sees a deal coming after the votes. Package covid19 continues to soar in the u. S. In newlizations jumped , ando, 50 in wyoming elsewhere in connecticut. France is planning a nationwide lockdown bid one in four airports in europe are collapsed as the virus europe face collapse as the virus stifles travel. Kar inion people in kash were said toince have undergone checks over the weekend. Authorities found five confirmed asymptoma
8 up. A bit of a conundrum, it weaker than anticipated growth number when weve got Industrial Production and retail sales beating what was going on. Graphically, there you go. Retail sales, 3. 3 to the upside and that is what has been going on in aggregate. A mixed bag, a miss on the headline gdp but certainly a beat for Industrial Production and retail sales. Yeah, the topline picture is that China Remains the only major economy that is recovering at a pace like this but nonetheless, yeartodate, growth around 0. 7 . Year, beginning of the officials had hoped to get around 6 growth for 2020. Nonetheless, the fact retail sales came in well above the estimates will for economists who say we should see a broader economic recovery in china fueled by infrastructure. Straight cap to the pandemic, there would be focus on whether or not the consumer would step up and the numbers suggest that is happening. Ubss headore from of asia economics and achieve china economist. Always great to get your