Were at the lows of the day thats where we are. About a 600 point loss for the dow. Nasdaq a bit more than that. The russell which has been a real outperformer giving back 5 now. S p coming off its best month since 1987 we have come a long way off the lows april was an incredible month. We said best since 87. Are we primed to go higher in may . Are we poised to go lower because of how far we have come . You know my answer is i can make the case for either way but what im going to tell you is the weekly closing candle is disgusting now we had a huge comeback but even at its peak which i guess was some time yesterday or the day before, only 0 of s p 500 names had gotten back above their 200 day. So you had almost a third of the market back in some semblance of an up trend and we rolled hard look whats rolling. All of those beaten up names that rally this week, the airlines, the oils, the stuff we said okay, thankfully those shareholders got a breather trashed again today. Rollovers and h
Is time. A governor who doesnt want to see these businesses destroyed a person who has said, look, weve got the baseline we know what can go wrong. We have the ability to handle it medically. And initially when i saw this, carl, i said this man, this governor is a reckless fellow. The more i read his excellent speech yesterday, the more i realized the stakes are so high for so many people, im rooting for this man i think hes doing it in a way that makes me feel like if youre going to open it, open it this way i wanted to wait for the vaccines i wanted to wait for when we got s ser roll gist ologyists who coue antibodies it may seem illadvised, when you drill down to the speech he gave yesterday, i have to tell you, i was impressed i know everything has become politicized, but this is a man who is feeling for the Small Business people and recognizes theyre about to be done Scott Gottlieb on squawk this morning did say to him they picked the businesses most at risk and decided to open th
A similar loss on the s p. Big loss on the nasdaq composite. Why the nasdaq down so much . Well, just look at this. Big tech being taken to the cleaners this morning. Start with apple. Look at that. Its still a trillion dollar company, way down this morning after its Financial Report late yesterday. Ive got more on all this. Amazon, huge drop, down 120. They are plowing their profit into coping with the virus. Microsoft, not much impact from the virus but its caught in the downdraft. Microsoft is down nearly 2 , 3. 46. Next case, the political news. Topping that this morning is joe biden. He has denied a Sexual Assault allegation. He says quote, this never happened. Ive got more on that in a moment, too. Got a big weekend coming up. Texas opens up a lot of businesses. Who will go to the store, the barbershop, the restaurant . Thats going to be a pretty good indicator of the urge to get out of the house. In california, the governor has relocked down the beaches. How will that go down .
The big market mover is gold, and this is a classic flight to safety. Its getting closer to 1600 an ounce. Thats a sevenyear high. 1577, up 25 bucks as of now. Price of oil, 63 a barrel. Can you imagine where the price would be if the general had been killed a few years ago, before america became Energy Independent . Got it. Here are the late news developments. The iranians threaten retaliation. Hundreds of thousands marched through tehran for the generals funeral. The iranians say they will no longer comply with Nuclear Enrichment limits contained in the nuke deal from which mr. Trump was already withdrawn. No backing down from President Trump. Oh, no. After the iraqis demanded the withdrawal of american troops, the president threatened to send them a bill for the bases we had built for them and he threatened to respond to any iranian attack by going after cultural sites. This has been hard line trump. In washington, Speaker Pelosi will organize a vote this week to restrict the presid
Where i was over the weekend among the headlines and there were a lot, a warning about potential risk for the u. S. If Tech Companies decide not to do business with the pentagon. My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on department of defense, this country is in trouble. That just cant happen so we have to, it is up to the Senior Leadership to say i understand these are emotional issues, we dont have to agree on everything, but this is how were going to do it we are going to support the department of defense. This country is important. Meantime, heavily redacted 103 page document that was just made public a short while ago, amazon says President Trump launched, behind the scenes attacks against the company, which led to it losing out on the major jedi contract for Cloud Services that we have been covering so closely. Guys, in general the bottom line from jeff bezos at the event this weekend is amazon, you could make the argument origin, the Space Company looking for Nation