Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
And lockdowns. Welcome, good to have you with us. You see this outbreak again across the south and the west. I guess the question is did these States Reopen too soon . If they reopened too soon its really odd because they opened in the beginning of may and throughout may very little changed and all of a sudden starting early june and accelerated in june theres a huge spike of positive tests in the states. If anything the lockdowns caused this what happened, why didnt it happen in may and not june and thats a very good question which i dont think we have the answer to right now but its also a question that the media is not really asking. Paul do you have any speculation yourself about why that is . Where are they coming from . You have seen, houston, san antonio, miamidade, Maricopa County in arizona. Alex june has been very hot in the sunbelt states, its typically hot in texas and arizona, driven people indoors and use airconditioning. There may be Real Community spread from that. Clea
Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
Were at post nine morgan and john have the morning off. Interesting setup here were approaching nasdaq 9 k very quickly tech, the best performing sector for the year hitting a fresh record high this morning joining us to day with his top picks in the sector for 2020 is our lead internet analyst. Mark, happy holidays good to see you. Good to see you, too. I want to get right to the large cap longs for next year. Uber is number one then you have two, three, four talk about it. Yeah. Im going to pitch it. Uber is the facebook its our facebook for 2020 it turned out of all the stocks, facebook is the best performer in 2019 because it whats so dislocated at the end of 2018. A lot of controversy around it i think thats exactly the setup or similar to the setup on uber now. We like it we think well see a clear path to profitability i think well see sustained growth in the ride sharing business and if they can fix that eats business, thats going to surge the outperformance and cause the outper
We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk