Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p
Thank flirks i didnt say anything i wouldnt want them to hear we have our Investment Committee today, joe, jim, jon, courtney, the president of luke capital markets. Brent is managing partner at requisite. You can stop the music now, right . I dont hear it hear music there we go thank you. All right. Lets see where stocks are likely to go from here whether its possible to have that seven week surge. The headline that the market stock had been reacting to in the last ten minutes, reuters exclusive. Trump xi meeting to sign u. S. China trade deal could be delayed until december as discussions continue over terms and venue. Market didnt like that. Yeah. But a blip. Just a blip because weve been basically going back and forth across break even all morning, scott i think what were doing going to address here is what would be the driver other than that that will be a driver if thats signed even if it is signed before december 15th for instance if its signed after f that, then weve got other
Walmart saying its seeing a slight pullback for certain Food Products because of those weight loss drugs. And disneys dismal run. The stock is back below 80 bucks a share, its lowest level since october 2014. Lets begin with a drop in oil prices. Wti on pace for the worst week since march, jim. We got down to 82. 35 this morning. Yesterday, biggest drop since may. The department of energy numbers were weak. Gasoline numbers were weak, the lowest, what, since 1996. When you speak to the chieftains of the Oil Companies, they just want to stand there and buy the shares because they dont think this is the right market. They think the higher price is the right market. I look at whats happened with oil, and i say, if you have retail weakness, if you have fewer people from student loans, fewer people going places, obviously, theres going to be a backup in gasoline, but i think this price is actually real. I understand that the Oil Companies want to buy back stock, but the oil stocks never wen
Immigration real quick. Yesterday, i guess, a group of House Republicans put out an immigration plan that would deal with daca but also do a whole lot of things that werent under the umbrella of the four things you outlined in the meeting why. Was that helpful . Was that not helpful to getting to a deal ultimately . Does the president wish they take that off the table so that you can focus on what might be happening with senator flake or others in the senate . How does a a complete package. We think its a great starting point, a great place. Reporter even though it went beyond the parameters what the president specifically and later you laid out . He felt it had to be included, not just what could be included. Certainly, we think that this is a good starting point. Part of the negotiation process, if we could get everything done, we think thats much better than getting part of it done, but were okay with getting a deal done as long as it falls into the parameters that the president lai