Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
I turn to you first, laura set the scene first. How does the market look to you . What are you focusing on its really, really an interesting time in the markets right now. You have this dichotomy where were seeing some strength in the markets. I think were a little off today but youre seeing some read through or look through in the market to say, hey, were going to see optimism on the other side however the economy hasnt quite caught up yet to the markets i think we are going to need and we need to focus on making sure that the legislature realized we still need stimulus, we need the consumer thats twothirds of this economy back in full swing. Not getting it. Not right now what does that mean if i tell you were not getting it, were not getting it any time soon. Soon is relative as well, right . Theres a lot of levers that can be pulled here i think that were getting things together and, you know, i wish we could get it during december at some point youre right, it does not look like it
Because we lost control of covid19 today went higher. The the s p gaining and nasdaq gaining 1. 02 . Hospitality and leisure. Has the market lost its mind no we are dealing with cross currents any time stocks get hammered, it seems to trigger visceral vaccine reaction good news bails out. On the one hand we know the cavalry is not coming. It is going to be in the form of at least one, pfizer vaccine, wont reach us until spring. In the meantime the virus is out of control we had 162,000 cases yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and Applied Materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. It is looking like well have a smooth transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration thats a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. I am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine
Drive this stock for the next end years . And bitcoin is back crypto currency. What is behind the big move in bitcoin. But first we start with goliath versus goliath the battle between two behemoths taking place today amazon taking target at walmart. It offers free delivery for pride members, but walmart has long offered Home Delivery on certain prescription products. This is the latest in the growing turf war between the giants guy, walmart, amazon, who do you have dom, its great to have you this is the big show, like the masters for you. It is like you playing golf against joe kernan they are glued to their television trying to figure out what is going on in this game of would you rather, i would rather walmart i think the stock sold off for two reasons. There was an inventory build, up about 5 i think the street looked at that and said maybe margins in the next quarter wont be great, and wont get guidance amazon, by comparison, you had a september 2 high in october 34. 50 and novemb
Cases are stuck. If you go back into lockdown, you will have a revolt. I am more interested in china. We broke the story that they are looking this was reuters they are looking a little more when it comes to renminbi. I did spend a good of time looking this up, on sunday, china clearly said it was trying to push to have a bigger international this means more pboc report. Reutersst report from we broke saying that china will remove a countercyclical factor in the yuan bay point in that direct and may point in that direction. Halt, shelf will its plan to let hedge cut to let hedge funds conceal stock holding. That is a big decision. That is just breaking. Thatll have to see where leads this morning. Futures up six. Dow futures up 20. We will do the data check in a moment. But now, first world news with ritika gupta. Ritika Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in as a justice of the supreme court. Boothsst of two required administered. Every republican but one voted in favor. Chief Justice Jo