Abigail doolittle who has been over this story. Nasdaq another record high today. What are you hearing about sort of the strength that we saw into end of todays session . Its pretty amazing. We have another record high for nasdaq. Nasdaq 100, big tech stocks continuing to do well. Those are the stayathome stocks this years defense. Theres an odd tension that you have this years defense and new hitting record high after record high. Interesting,t earlier today, you had tech slightly lower. Bulle end of the day really rushed through supporting technology. Investors looking past virus numbers. Its not going to slow the that it hadhe way on the shutdown. Back in february when the virus was raging in china, that down, stocks here ignoring it. It feels we are ignoring some of fundamental data. Take a look at the moves that we have on the day. Wasnt just tech. Tech actually on the day a sector. Ower as financials up 3. 5 . Bit of a nice cyclical tilt s p 500 beings s p helped out by bond fall
This rally but also this volatility. Taylor you have been nailing this because we should have had a clue. Gold has been higher all day long and you were on top of that in the past few weeks. Romaine base metals up, too. Copper up 2. 5 in london earlier today. With regards to some of the positive stories. Pepsi did manage to finish the day higher, largely i presume on the back of that she does mac cheese. s mac cheese. Senior, avoid a Portfolio Manager and Asset Allocation head. Apologies for some of the technical difficulties. Lets talk about the earnings season, your general expectations, and whether valuations are in sync with that. Earningsms of startingons, you are to see revisions start to climb. The market is really looking towards 2021. On isg thing to focus central bank liquidity. That drives asset prices. When the economy is acting below potential and the quiddity is being pumped in, it tends to drive up asset prices. One thing we are watching very carefully is the growth rate
Economic front. P equities, that is a lie, calculated it. He said after 10 different quarters of gains in the s p was always followed up another 5 to 10 gain in the next quarter. Having off the strong secondquarter boats well is well. R bodes positive quarters could still lie ahead. Romaine referring to pd, one of the many people behind the scenes who keeps this program looking smart and feeling smart. Eaton vance codirector still with us. Thank you for being patient. Talk to me about volatility. We have seen the vix come down from the highs. It is not back down to precovid19 levels, but definitely there is a lot of calm in markets i think would be an encouraging sign. Absolutely. We started the year only looked at the vix, someone called it we began as a teenager and it quickly began to be over 80 over a short time. We are looking at this 30 level, that is good because it bodes well for the sentiment and calmer markets and individual idiosyncratic stories. That being said, i think the
Markets moved to the downside, Morgan Stanley at the Economic Team out with a note in the last few hours, talking about some of the risks. Markets as youhe start to see this payrolls turned back negative. What that means for the Downside Risk for the market at valuations that are by some measures full at this point. Romaine lets bring jim polson back. Upay, you see the nasdaq 100 0. 8 . Snp down half a percent. Down 2 on the day. Smaller, midcap cyclical names, that has kind of disappeared. That some of these names could come back anytime soon . Jim i think that whenever we have jitters about the virus reemerging, that creating a slowdown in economic reopenings , we will get the kind of today we got today where the market itself, great leadership by what is perceived as defensive investments, which is the new communications, consumer discretionary, that has growth outside of reliance solely on the economy. But i think we are in a new economic recovery and new bull market. Ultimately, i
Turning lower. The virus setting new records across the u. S. Californias hospitalizations jumping to a new high. Rates of new cases also hitting new levels. I want to bring in kailey leinz, who has been all over the Market Action today. We were hitting a lot highs yesterday but the selloff seeming to accelerate in the final hours of trading. Snapping eight five day winning streak on the s p 500, as we approach the close today. It seemed to be a story of tech outperformance throughout much of the day. That weakness heading into the end of training. The nasdaq holding up relatively better than some of the other major averages. It was still down by about 0. 9 . But that was not as great as the laws we saw on the nasdaq or s p 500. The russell 2000 down the better part of 2 . Much more sensitive to the Economic Growth story. That seems to be the issue today, that investors are kind of pondering whether or not the recovery will take a lot longer than perhaps previously thought. You saw tha