And s p 500, nas in six weeks. Yeah. Well start with tech. More broadly, ipos and big tech valuations have been surging culture questions continue to brew in Silicon Valley as well i want to talk about that and a lot more with long time venture capitalist whose newest venture is a private and middle school with entrepreneurship baked into the curriculum Draper Associates founder tim draper joins us now. Tim, good to see you i want to start with your take on these markets i was talking just yesterday to the founder of rike. He said he isnt going public this year because he underestimated how well the ipo market was going to perform in a pandemic has that surprised you and what are you saying about it to your Portfolio Companies . Absolutely. I was blindsided i didnt realize that the government was going to print 13 trillion it has been strong for bitcoin and it sure has been good for the Public Markets particularly the tech stocks that have benefitted from that and i think people many p
Were following all of that today. Well get to the markets in a moment we do begin with our top story the president and first lady testing positive for the coronavirus. Our shep smith joining us with the latest its news on the east coast here is the news the president and first lady are positive for covid19. The first lady reports she has mild symptoms but feels good the white house says the president has mild symptoms. President trump is in good spirit ossen ca spirtss on a call this morning. President trump is in both categories he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. We have talked a number of times this morning i got the five or six things that he had tasked me to do, like i do every single morning he is wanting to make sure that we stay engaged. I think the other thing that is critically important, the doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of first Lady Joe Biden sent his thoughts to the president and first lady for swift recovery now th
Strong gains and this morning you will see that there are green arrows once again, the dow indicated up by about 88, s p by about 9 1 2 and the nasdaq indicated up by 48 points if you watched what happened in the treasury markets, we did get a lot of fed speak and it sounds like there is a little bit of confusion. You can see the ten year note has ticked up a little bit, 0. 769 is the latest yield andrew and lets take a quick look at the dow transports, gaining another 2. 5 yesterday, also hitting a record high, the two as to beings to watch this morning, eli lilly and he regeneron both big winners on Covid Treatment hopes. And President Trump touting both of those in a video that he released over twitter late yesterday. Well tuck a lalk more about th. But also take a look at shares of tesla, new Street Research upgrading that Company Stock to a buy saying that to sees a decade of hyper growth ahead, this call makes the firm the second highest priced target on the street so in lead wit
All right, welcome everybody to power lunch. Kevin is with us dominic too. Welcome, dom good to see you. Here is whats on tap. Stocks are at session highs right now after four weeks of losses the dow is up 500 points both the dow and s p on track for their biggest two day gains since june high stakes stimulus how Speaker Pelosi says she thinks, think, republicans and democrats can get a deal done before the election and tom lee says thats just one reason to buy stocks he will join us very shortly later, which president ial candidate could be better for the economy and the markets . Moodys is out with a new report that takes a look at those questions investors need to know power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Looks look at the bigger wins today. You have fedex leading the industrials over at Deutsche Bank raising target price to 318 a share both those stocks up around 2 Virgin Galactic getting two more buy recommendations. Eight wall street analysts say the same thing bu
World and its not necessarily a disaster or risk for the market, that is collective and i thought i would pass it along. We will be looking at the mail about it under ballot situation, and new theory being pushed that sends more democrats seem to be voting by mail, you could have a situation where on election day itself since republicans tend to favor voting in person the early results on election day could favor donald trump and then the mail and results which take a little bit more time to tabulate in places like pennsylvania delayed up to six days, you dont have a clear winner because neither side is budging, its kind of an interesting conundrum, particular in the bottle around states, we will be monitoring that we also have the ceo with us, that is a very, very popular means by which i would just say everybodys taken advantage with airports in a beach traffic and all of that. , blake is doing okay through all of that, we will follow that as well. In the meantime the dow is about 32