Small caps having a pretty good day as well. The commentary seems to be the market feels a little tired. Is that how you see it yes i do suspect that the market is fatigu fatigued certainly on monday mornings consecutively weve been greeted with excellent news for society as it relates to the vaccine but markets dont seem to be responding as positively as they did two weeks ago. Scott, you began the show by suggesting that we have a potential end of year run. For there to be an end of year run, we are going to need a catalyst and i suspect its not the vaccine, its not earnings, and it really falls back to washington, d. C. And the ability to try and offer some form of fiscal bridge to get us to the other side in the absence of that, i would just highlight december 15 the and 16th, you have a Federal Reserve meeting. Theres a wild card scenario there where the Federal Reserve steps in and enhances some of the landing programs and provides the bridge in the absence of fiscal policy maker
The last few moments on this headline from larry kudlow, the president s top economic adviser saying that the president now wants to do a deal on stimulus lets go to washington and get filled in a little more. Scott, the president tweeted on the state of the discussions over another Coronavirus Relief package. He said that the negotiations are moving along he encourages the negotiators to go big this as you mentioned white house economic adviser larry kudlow saying that there has been a plan that president signed off on. It is relatively broad based now what we know is that House Speaker nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary are supposed to talk again sometime this afternoon. They had been in almost Constant Contact almost daily contact and we know that president said he is willing to go beyond ppp, direct checks and aid to the air Monica Lewinsky and do something bigger exactly how big . Thats what the negotiators will be talking about, im sure, during the phone call later on today.
You have that poll in the wall stre street journal and maybe the stock market considering maybe we wont have a contested lebs if the polling tells you anything accurate about where this race truly is what do you think investors should be taking from this move . I think thats correct. I think the two primary drivers for the higher market today are certainly the fiscal spending and what it equates to in the near term and the dynamic in the market for a trade and investors to extap larapolate is a rise i yields were finally seeing a welcome rise in yields and that is certainly on the belief of both of those actions i mentioned previously you have that to consider and how you want to trade that it has a direct impact perhaps on growth versus value, the polling on the upcoming election and were thinking about the president s health and what all of this means for the Campaign Going forward. So youve got a number of things in there. Lets start with yields. Rates being 0. 74 as a new high or r
The nasdaq on track for a 5th week worth of gains here and the dow is erasing its losses for all the year at its highest level since late february, its also having its bests august since 1984. We turn to the Investment Committee for this we have just been seeing green, green, green for it seems like weeks, if not nonts months at this point it is surprising the markets have marched higher the way they have over the last several months since the pandemic lows its not all surprising all the factors were looking at from the fiscal side, the monetary side and the virus side are lining up in support of equity just think about what happened with chair powell yesterday and the historic announcement he made about departure from the prior inflation targeting regimes to this averaging inflation concept. What does that mean . That means rate will be low, low, low for the foreseeable future we think thats two years from now. That is very support ifr five f valuations then you have this fiscal stimu
Lets begin with that historic day for apple. It is the most valuable company on earth we shouldnt be surprised, but it just took two years for add a trillion in market cap thats just astounding. Absolutely remarkable its unprecedented to have a trillion dollar company. I added to apple after they announced the split. It makes no economy supplies in terms of benefits to the company in doing that. You can trade partial shares there are robin hood and others, but i thought the market would react positively i added to my core position. I dont want to sell, even though i do have some concerns theres an attack on the app store, which has driven a lot of growth im staying there for now. I think the 5g phone will be the biggest Product Launch theyve ever had around the world. Jim, i notice he own it as well, but to me you sound to be, you know one of the maybe, you know least enthusiastic about where the stock is now and where it can go from here. Do you think thats fair to say . I do, but tha