I turn to you first, laura set the scene first. How does the market look to you . What are you focusing on its really, really an interesting time in the markets right now. You have this dichotomy where were seeing some strength in the markets. I think were a little off today but youre seeing some read through or look through in the market to say, hey, were going to see optimism on the other side however the economy hasnt quite caught up yet to the markets i think we are going to need and we need to focus on making sure that the legislature realized we still need stimulus, we need the consumer thats twothirds of this economy back in full swing. Not getting it. Not right now what does that mean if i tell you were not getting it, were not getting it any time soon. Soon is relative as well, right . Theres a lot of levers that can be pulled here i think that were getting things together and, you know, i wish we could get it during december at some point youre right, it does not look like it
Banks, airlines all up while faangs are taking a bit of a break. If you ask me whats the best Case Scenario for the market to the end of the year, i would say this whole narrative about how its like the top five stocks driving the market, i would like to see that come to an end and Everything Else play catch up and start to participate and that is literally what weve seen take place. We had a breadth thrust a week and a half ago where almost every stock broke back above its 200 day. We now have more s p 500 components that are up on the year than down on the year for the First Time Since march i think alphabet is the most recent performer but the faangs are not part of this the whole narrative out of the window that this is index fund money and only microsoft driving this is gone now you have a broadbased rally, not based on nonsense, companies have rising earnings expectations, almost every sector weve even got performance at companies that six months ago you could have made a case to
Between antifa and Trump Supporters on the streets of washington, d. C. What can be done to curb the growing division in america. A look at market this is morning futures pointing to a rally at start of trading up 275 points right now. On the dow industrials nasdaqup 57 and s p higher by 29. The dow the best performer last week while the tech heavy nasdaq struggled with a selloff with the dow industrials up 4 on the week and nasdaq lower by half a point. And the s p higher by 2 . Covid cases on the rise across the country mean wheel as world waits for a rollout of the vaccine. Well be talking with new york state senator brad and who is one of fact pfizer vaccinings patients his insight coming up. Plus american i think knew try bring you highlights from latest spacex launch with four american astronauts onboard mornings with maria is live right now. European markets take look like this pretty much a firmer tone s p 500 up 45 and cac up 60 and dax index higher by 69. Pretty much about ha
Moderna says its vaccine is nearly 95 effective moderna up 9 , 10 right now while the other vaccine stocks are actually dipping we are awaiting president elect bide wren to give remarks about state of the economy after meeting with top Business Leaders and ceos today well get you there when it happens as power lunch starts right now. Thank you, ty. The dow was soaring to alltime highs, just shy of 30,000 today. All signs pointing to a continued rally except for one, a very important one lets go to bob pisani for more on that. Bob . We are seeing that moderna is helping the market overall and continuing a trend that we saw for the last really week and a half lets take a look at the sectors here the story is valuelike banks and Energy Stocks has been outperforming growth areas Like Technology for example nen weve seen cyclical sectors like industrials, for example. Generally outperforming defensive sectors like consumer staples. Generally small caps have been outperforming big caps in is
Close at the open. The road map begins with that renewed vaccine optimism and detailing their own strong data. Plus as for the market, the u. S. Stocks poised for new records and the futures are and investor optimism about that vaccine and dow is within striking distance of 30,000. We have a lot of deals this morning. Pnc looking to become one of americas largest banks and set to buy spanish bank and 11. 6 billion the Purchase Price and other deals to tell you about this morning carl lets start with the moderna news excellent news for the second week in a row. Dr. Fauci on some of the networks earlier today saying the data are striking and the results are just as good as it gets i really think we have to go back just a couple months and recognize that even if we had any hope that there would be a successful vaccine maybe 70 , 80 . 50 to 60 for the flu is something we learned moderna Insider Selling was bad and turns out the Insider Selling was bad meaning they sold badly i do think wha