Welcome to closing bell, everyone im wilfred frost along leslie picket in for sara isen today. Nasdaq holding on to some gains ahead of the holiday tomorrow. Pain in the labor market as new Employment Data underlines how tenuous the economy is nasdaq higher, growth out performed value. Energy under some pressure for a change after a huge surge in november and weve seen strong numbers from Corporate America mastercard said spending remains steady gap the counterpoint that stock is down 20 today alone. 59 minutes and oneday holiday coming up, of course, tomorrow the dow is down 0. 6 . Coming up on todays show, Website Security Company Cloud flair shares are up. Well speak to the ceo plus, riding with unicorns well talk to Founders Fund keith rabois Steve Liesman has a look at todays economic data. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Deir deirdre bowsa has details. Steve, start us off with the economy. A busy day today. Yeah. The Federal Reserve earlier this month at its meeting d
Many of indices. The nasdaq is 3. 2 higher. We are also seeing a recovery for oil. We are still below 40 per barrel. The vix is up there but well below 30. For all the recent volatility is favorable for some investors, lets welcome our first guest. She is managing director and head of longshores equity. Talk to us about the strength of a strategy these days. It has been a couple of years for hedge funds. What is the driver of this . Thank you for having me. This is such a great question. It is head spinning which way the markets are going to go. There is daytoday volatility. We have the election, a vaccine, theres a lot of volatility in this market. Whats important for strategies most importantly is dispersant. To see winners and losers. Short Equity Strategies struggle predominantly more because of the short book. It was the short book that was a challenge in this rising market. Accelerate to where we are today in the cycle and where we are today in the pandemic and we have real oppor
We are just crawling back to flat on the nasdaq. P half a percent. Big moves in treasuries, if you can call it that. Except two basis points on the 10 year. The dollar index relatively unchanged, although other currencies have seen strong swings against the dollar this week. The mexican peso stronger by. 4 . Yen also stronger but are 3 . Lets stick with treasuries and the relatively large moves this week. The industry has more than 12 trillion of assets but record low yields on treasuries are causing a problem for the industry expected to deliver annual returns in the high Single Digits. For more on the subject, we welcome brian chappatta. It seems like maybe once upon a time but right now nobody has an expectation of high Single Digits for their 401 k s or Pension Funds more general. You are not getting it in treasuries. When i was talking about pensions staying away from treasuries, the 30 year bond yield was at 1. 4 . Morning, 1. 24 this which is rare in the fixed income market. Tre
Second week in a row that its starting out just in the right way. Yeah. I think theres people who just feel that this great shutdown is over obviously its worldwide the spending will begin again. I keep hearing that theres a surprising number of survivors that its not as bad as we thought. With the exception of some mortgages and some credit card, the forbearance wont really reverberate through the system reverberates to the banks. I know theres people who want to try to get the banks going. I say stick with whats working. I know its boring i know people want to rotate its something that Portfolio Managers love to do. I dont like to rotate into any stocks that have numbers cut thats really important. Im looking at david faber, who looks, of course, fabulous im thinking about him because its the credit markets we have to worry about, not the stocks they look great. Whats your concern in the credit market specifically, jim . Like hertz. Its not like theyre nothing. Hertz owns a lot of ca
Mim im melissa lee, this is fast money. Everyone here inhouse we start with the potential warning signs of the market. Major indices with solid gains the do w adding 400 . The nasdaq, not far behind but not everyone came along for the ride check out apple, pulling back more than a percent and a half today. The worlds Biggest Tech Company is now more than 9 off its alltime high hit in midjuly. Thats not all microsoft managed a gain today, but down 10 from its record high last month. So, is this cause for concern or a sign that the rally has actually broadened out, that we can move beyond just these two, you know, generals, dan . Yeah, so, when you think about the moves that the two of them have, okay, technically, they have broken the uptrend in place for most of this year. Thats important in a market where people dont really care much about valuation if you think about how far microsoft and apple have come, they make up 14 of the s p 500, two of the stocks together if you look at the r