Dow Hits Fresh Record High… And Gearing Up For Target & Walmart Results 8/15/25

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Dow Industrials finally recouping its tariffs losses from April and hitting a fresh record high. The insurance giant helping fuel those gains, and the big stake Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is making in the name. Plus Earnings season continues, with big box retailers like Target and Walmart gearing up to report. What to expect from those results, and how our traders are positioning in the retail trade. Fast Money Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Live from the NASDAQ market site in the heart of New York City's Times Square, this is fast money.
0:07.1	Here's what's on tap tonight.
0:08.9	Joining the party, the Dow, notching an intraday record for the first time this year,
0:13.4	joining the S&P and NASDAQ in the all-time high club.
0:16.4	How to finally get there and can it keep its momentum going?
0:19.9	We'll talk about it and And the retail readout.
0:22.2	Some of the country's biggest consumer names report earnings next week. What they'll have to say
0:27.0	about the impact of tariffs and more. Plus, semi-stocks slumping after a disappointing report
0:32.2	from AMAT. Lift gets a lift amid a board shakeup and bet on draft kings what the chartmaster has to say
0:40.5	about where the sports gambling stock could go from here. I'm Courtney Reagan in this evening for
0:45.0	Melissa Lee coming to live from Studio B at the NASDAQ. On the desk tonight we have Steve Grasso,
0:50.6	Courtney Garcia, Mike Coe, and Carter Worth. But we start with the Dow's Day in the Sun.
0:56.6	The index hitting a fresh record high today. It's first of the year. The S&P marked the feet way
1:02.2	back in February. The NASDAQ followed suit in late June. The Dow, though, has been largely held back
1:07.5	by shares of United Health. Until yesterday, the embattled insurer was solely
1:11.8	responsible for cutting more than a thousand points from the index this year. But that all
1:17.3	changed when Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway revealed a new stake in the company
1:21.0	buying more than 5 million shares in the second quarter. And that sent UN8 shares soaring
1:26.3	nearly 12 percent today. Its biggest gain
1:29.8	since March 2020 and single-handedly kept the doubt in the green today, even if barely.
1:36.5	And while the S&P set an intraday record early in the session, it and the NASDAQ both ended
1:40.9	the day in the red. So what do you make of today's market action
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