It sums up everything that you need to know in the markets. Equities are down, which means you are getting a flock into full faith and credit. You are getting massive dollar weakness for three straight days. The weakest we have seen on the dollar since 2018. The story of the week, all about gold. Investors watching back in as a hedge against low rates. Big concern about the trajectory of this economy. As i mentioned, some of that trajectory is coming from the fed. They are extending most of their emergency Lending Program until the end of the year in an effort to support the economy amid the pandemic. The fomc kicks off their twoday meeting in washington with a Rate Decision due tomorrow. We are joined by Kevin Nicholson riverfront investment group, Global Fixed Income ceo. I love days like this where i can get a fixed income guy talk about equities. You are talking about the tactical favoring of equities. How much is relative value, where a dividend yield is worth it to basis points o
Jonathan of course, by all means, go on. Dir. Kudlow you had a sermon jonathan with all respect, that was not a sermon. Dir. Kudlow there are other ways to do with these problems. Throwing money at them is not the only answer. You have to create Economic Growth and incentive. We are willing to spend money. Thats not the point. The president has endorsed another round of direct mail checks. He has endorsed that. He has also endorsed continued unemployment assistance. The question is, what is the overall policy to make sure that it makes sense that there are incentives to go back to work . We have a very fullfledged plan to do exactly that. We want to reward people and the businesses they work for to go back to work. We will extend the tpt. That is part of our package. Im not going to negotiate, but that is in the mix. We have retention credit for new jobs, we have benefits for reemployment. We should give existing workers a tremendous boost to income. Even in five months it will be 1200
The best day in two months. This may suggest that despite the fact we have a huge gains to the mega cap stocks, there is uncertainty from whether there will be fiscal stimulus from d. C. , other earnings report, big oil doing poorly. Not a lot of cyclical bullishness at this moment. There are concerns showing through that haven yen getting such a big bid on the day against big tex strength. Taylor when you talk about that big tex strength it is the big tech strength is exacerbating the trend hows that faring as the winners continue it to extend the gains . Abigail it shows on a yeartodate basis. Apple is up yeartodate as a sign of the winners. Chevron, which also reported today, down more than 30 . If we were to take a look at this relative to the s p 500, we will see on the year apple and amazon up in a huge way. On the other hand, the s p 500 flat. The s p 500 equal weighted index is down almost 9 . This is the tale of two stories relative to stocks around 2020. The pandemic haves, t
Between an unfilled gap 3259. That gap needs to be filled with some bullish moments. As you know, we are well above 250 100 day moving average. As you said, those smallcap stocks, big performers. Really beaten up so far. Finally getting we are out with earnings as well. One that you and i have been. Secondquarter revenue seems to eat gnificant significant beat. Revenue coming in at about three and one quarter billion dollars. The Forward Guidance looks strong. That might be why shares are up. And to why the Forward Guidance looks higher, what divisions within that is this are showing strength. That busyness are showing strength. Caroline the companys conservative forecast could add to the fact that it is likely to beat overall. Worried about the global auto sector, industrial gear shipments. The is a notable beat for second and Third Quarter. Maxim last week saying they will be teaming up to take on the likes of texas instruments. Revenue for the Third Quarter looking pretty strong for
After the adp report, employment is still a bad number. From 43. 1, so42. 1 that feeds into the narrative that even if the economy opened up a little bit in july, we are going to see fewer people working, and we will probably see adjustments to peoples payroll forecasts for friday. Alix is that the one take away from today, the slower rate of job hiring . Michael that is the important thing. You can open up the economy and get a yield sitting in the middle of the street or a restaurant, but the people who serve you are not coming back as quickly as they would hope. That will slow the economy overall. Alix you mean in new york you literally have tables in the street. I appreciate that take them. One other sign of hope in the race for a vaccine you have shares surging to their highest in five years. I two shot experimental covid19 vaccine generated antibody responses in healthy adults that were four times higher than in people who have already recovered from the virus. I am joined by the