Open, but the dow currently having its best monthly gain since january of 1987. That ev revolution, it is rolling on in the stock market tesla tops half a trillion dollars in market value for the first time shares of nikola sinking this morning. Covid surge, cases and hospitalizations at record levels why experts fear thanksgiving could be a socalled accelerator event. Lets get your take on where you think sentiment is now i saw you writing yesterday about the fear and greed, pointing more to the greed. People are there is a belief phase in this rally that has probably started this comeback from march, eight months ago, ishas fed on disbelief. Between the seasonal forces being strong and the clearance toward this post covid moment with the vaccines, it all did come together. Also, though, with the grab for cyclicals, laggards, anything that moves fast, anything that seems like it was really dented up by this whole phase, now, sentiment, it is not a moment in time people say, all too bu
One of the hottest stocks in the market, General Motors dives in and the ceo will join us in just a moment power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. One bright spot is the Housing Market you have restoration hardware, williams sonoma, theyre jumping and then you have trex, which makes decking and railingtype products for homes and two Retail Stocks hitting new highs, will brands a the a 52week high, target at an alltime high yet again today after its big blowout Earnings Report yesterday. And, kelly, you mentioned the electric vehicle trades tesla a the at a new high is up 20 in just this past week kelly. All right, dom. The dow sliding today and heading now for a down week. Lets go to bob pisani for the action the markets are still having a hard time to figure out on what to focus. Do you focus on the spring reopening in 2021 and Second Quarter or on the covid winter right now . Today a little more focus on the covid winter the good news is tech which has be
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
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
There, about 30 points, 25 points now below that benchmark. That is in part thanks to boeing, that is the dows gain that stock is up about 7 after one of its biggest customers, ryan air, near lily doubles its order of the plagued 737 max plus texas roadhouse that stock is up 200 since the march lows can you say that about many other restaurant chains . I dont think so also near its record high, the ceo, ken taylor, will be with us interesting, engaging guy. Hes going to tell us how he pivoted the business to thrive in this new normal as power lunch starts right now. Hi, tyler. Hi, everybody. Stocks are off the highs of the session but all the major averages are on track for their second week in a row in the green. Lets go to bob pisani for whats driving us higher today im a little disappointed with the action. The comments a stimulus deal was in reach helped early on but has done nothing in the afternoon. Were moving in a narrow range, kind of flattish all the right stuff is moving. De