And lately its proving which. Were talking about technology ocks. Thesi nasdaq com dominated by tech closed at yet another record high today, now on track for the best year in a decade as a matter of fact. Theector as reflected by in etf is up more than 40 so fa this year. And its been helped by a 50 gain in sem conductor stocks and a doubledigit rise it in social media shares. As it happenings the nasdaq was the only of three major indexes to finish higher. Lthe dow f 102 points. Back below 28,000. The s p fell by 1 point. Bob pisani looks closer at techs big run. The markets clearly overbaulgt butot much worry not yet. The major averages chewing in which and eit highsry day. The s p up 10 off 3 trading day this is month. The marketic tecns dont seem crn the market is getting too far ahead of its. There is the fear offis ming out calling it f. Omo. He is that is forefactor the s Technology Store the big leaders in particular. The top ten having big gains above the s p 500. Look. The s
Some fears over china trade. Retail sails topped expectations in october, climbing by 0. 3 and oil pointed to surging Global Demand in the quarter. Joining us is lindsey bell thanks for joining us. Good afternoon. We mentioned on track for three record alltime closing highs at the moment and also on track for the sixth week in a row of gains for the s p thats a remarkable run. It is absolutely a remarkable run and theres a few things that have gotten us here we have more clarity on the fed. Theyve cut for the third time and theyre willing to maintain the stance where they are right now, keeping rates where they are. The Third Quarter earnings season was very good and weve seen an easing of trade tensions while theres a little bit of uncertainty there, that could rattle the markets going into the end of the year. All things understood, the economic environment though does still feel pretty good. Lets focus on the big stories we are watching today. Kayla has details on those china trade
Records. The dow 28,000 thanks to optimism on a trade deal, ral in Health Care Stocks and uppete report on retail sales, an indication the consumer which has been powering the economys still strong. Here arenghe clo numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 222 points, to4. 2800 the nasdaq up 61 and the s p 500 added23. The sixth straight weekly gain for the s p 500. The longest win streak for that index since 2017. Bob pisani takes a look at what to make of the bullishness. Another day of record highs. The s p broke out of therading range into record territory, universityia is growing and pretty fast frankly. A number of technicians have but notust the chartists ently feeling good about the trends. Eventrategistnd everyday Retail Investors are getting gunning hoe on the market. Barclays for example s that small caps are at a turning d point and poio outperform. Morgan stanley also saying a key rotation from Growth Stocks to value stocks is beginning. Even the average Retail Inves
Pinp rally pushed the dow into record territory. Today a mere 6point gain did the same thing. Record highs. D s p close at but the moves didnt come easy. Stocks wavered between gains and losses. But in the end helpe c from trade optimism, earnings moment up and deeson Economic Data. Today as i mentioned the dow rose at 6 points, now mat 27681. Nasdaq up 40, the s p added 7. T in f all major amples higher for the webb. The s p finished the fifth consecutive week of gains. But the big question for investors now is can stocks move higher . As bob pisani reports, the answer my lie in the bond market. Reporter beyond the ral in the stock market we have seen a rally in bond yields. The yield on the. S. 0year treasury notariesen sharply the past seven days invenors ha seen that move in bonds since before the 2016 president ial election. Now this recent spike in yields mass pushed bank scks back into ahi leade position with regional banks like coamerica and key cor hitting highs omile utilitie
And we got better than expected manufacturing data here in the u. S. , but the imf did lower its Global Growth forecast joining us for the hour is steve grasso from Stuart Frankel you know, we hit these highs earlier in the session didnt hold on to it for very long what do you make of todays action we didnt hear about impeachment. We didnt hear about china trade, really. We havent heard much about a lot of things, but we did hear mostly about were earnings so the market wants to get back to something that they can look at and say, its binary. Either services it was a win, it was a beat, they got it higher or lower and were going to run with the market there. Not enough to make new highs, but were on our way there with earnings, i would guess. It is interesting to look at companies fundamentals, actually push the trade headlines aside just a bit still hopeful, perhaps but let the day be run by earnings its true everybody has been run by macro lately so twothirds of all stocks trade with