Now. New data points to a sluggish economic recovery as payroll, points in the beige book shows a modest increase in activity. 59 minutes until the close were set to have another record highs for s p and nasdaq up 1. 2 on s p 500, sara its utilities leading the way higher for a change. Coming up on todays show, Galaxy Digital back to weigh in on the rally as it carries over into september were going to ask where hes putting money to work right now. Weve got an interesting mix of earnings coming your way after the bell, including work from home like cloud strike, those are hot, hot Cloud Companies Apparel Company pvh and well talk to manny tirico, calvin klein and Tommy Hilfiger mike santoli tracking Market Action as always Steve Liesman with new highlights from the feds beige book joining us to talk tesla and pullback were seeing is craig irwin from roth capital. Mike, start us off with the market every group is higher except for energy you do have utilities and real estate and health
Today. With the dow jones average skyrocketing 530 points, s p 1. 32, nasdaq 1. 72, one point before more saber rattling with china. All sorts of beaten down stocks, though, were higher. While the covid19 winners, well, they got slammed theres just one tiny problem with this action we dont actually have a vaccine. Does that mean the stock market is getting ahead of itself lets unpack the issue first this rally is based not just on hopes of a vaccine but a firm belief that the whole virus problem isnt nearly as dire as we thought a lot of people feel it has been blown out of proportion by the media, and the president s right, the people feel the president s right when he says we should open up everything betting on a vaccine makes sense. Since the beginning of the pandemic they warned us a vaccine would take a long time the fastest was the mumps which took four years. Every day were bombarded about another attempt to end this nightmare. Today we heard merck is working on a Magic Technol
Are close to sealing a merger agreement, telling employees a final pact is coming within weeks. And shares in the lse group trade higher as shareholders prepare to vote on the 27 billion takeover well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs. One of our top stories today, alibaba has closed almost 7 higher after its hong kong debut, the Largest Global listing so far this year the ecommerce giant listed at a price of 176 hong kong dollars to raise 11. 2 billion in fresh capital. And as part of the ipo, the Chinese Company issued 500 million new ordinary shares. Emily tan is joining us live from hong kong emily, the largest ipo of 2019, quite a stellar postmarket performance with the stock up almost 7 in trading how has the reception been overall . Reporter you know what, juwana, the newcomer to the market today was the most heavily traded in hong kong with 1. 8 billion worth of shares changing hands as you mentioned, the stock closed up more than 6. 5 , off the days highs, but u
What are we doing . Interesting but smart leading the feds beige book. Leading with beige. Check in on regional economies is telling two very different stories. How we are adjusting to the trade war. On one hand the beige book highlighting a retail chain that raised prices on furniture but is considering reversing the price hike because consumers arent buying it meantime, in cleveland manufacturers are feeling the pain by cutting overtime pay rather than laying off workers things looking up in philadelphia and new york. This is like a choose your own adventure book choose your own beige book. Are you allowed to do that . Is the economy headed down the path of new york and cleveland or are we Holding Strong like philadelphia and minneapolis . Gia dam uy adami. Ill be optimistic. Things look okay, not great. Thats reasonable. I think that along with the news out of hong kong where things have been tapered down for a couple of days, thats encouraging. The market is up 3 4 of a percent, 8
Josh brown its been a safe spot for august its entirely to be expected where bond yields. I was asking people today, you can have a 30year treasury, or and whatever up side you might get. Yielding 4. 17 , plus a buyback, which one do you want . I was amaze d you dont think tl is volatile . Or look at the balance sheet, too much dead. Theyre supposed to have a lot of debt. The other pushback is the bond picture details something recessionary but there are some categories better than Others Companies that have a business that seems to be less reliant on discretionary Consumer Spending. Its that they will provide padding or cushioning. I dont know how much cushioning there is left at these prices. Bo pisani is diving back into new controversial brexit headlines, and mike santoli nice rally. Energy stocking keep going down okay, most of the stocks are down, and many are near lows routinely. They had very missioned everyone results. Look at the months, and dillards and khols down, most of t