Lynch. Thats a mouthful, they are under the same umbrella. Talking about the money pouring into the market. Individual money in the latest week, a record 33. 2 billion in the stockbased funds. That is through wednesday. I guess they do it that way. To put that in perspective, stepping back, 278 billion for all of 2017. If you were to maintain that pace and it were to continue to go at that frenetic pace, the gist of the merrill report is things would be looking frothy. Now theyve been saying that for many years, you could go back to a few years into the bull market that celebrates its nineyear anniversary in march. But among some of the things out there, and a big disappointment for me was starbucks. They were very high at holiday sales and a lot of that had to do with dismissing the pumpkin latte. [ laughter ] moving the peppermint latte to the front of the line, and i warned the baristas here, locally, i said youre giving up the cash cow, they said what do you want . And that was it.
Task. Nevertheless, as youve been hearing, the markets are anticipating that an environment where the gop needs even Small Victories to the count for something, this is something. Of course, the dow many record territory, the in record for story, the s p and nasdaq in and out of that. Weve been watching on the technology front, this is a very busy week as you probably know by now for earnings. Were going to get into that. 180 of the s p 500 Companies Reporting just this week, and most of those numbers not all, but most have been better in cases of some, far better than expected. So how much of an impact will this measure have on not only wall street, but main street . The hope again being that this sort of paves the way for something, all sides can agree on. I say all sides within the Republican Party, this is still a Republican Party effort with democrats left out. Now, theyre complaining about that, but they have also the republicans say done little to advance in anyway. So were goin
Getting. Now 300 confirmed cases. And there in south korea looking close to 1,000 cases. It was at 31 just a week ago. More incidents in iran, iraq, so are investors. Not too scared to buy stuff, but safe havens from stuff including bonds, driving up prices and driving down Interest Rates. The yield on a 10year treasury has never been lower ever. Mortgage rates and Home Equity Loan rates all crashing down with them. I could be good news. He has seen this before. The wall street legend to say the details might be different this time. What you make of it. It always feels the same even though its a little different, neil. Theres not a lot of tolerance for the pain when they go the wrong way. Clearly we have been going the wrong way for the past couple of days. Neil when you look at this as the market is investors have a great run i continue to have a great run. Whatever is going on this year. Its a heck of a ride. What do you think . Yes, it has been a heck of a ride. Everybody gets a lit