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Created 4. 8 million jobs, and that is much stronger than expected almost every single sector improved, bringing the Unemployment Rate down to 11. 1 . Isnt that the kind of news that makes people want to buy pretty much anything . Then the rally did taper off near the end of the day. The dow only dwayne e gained 92. Those are big numbers, but we got spoiled, didnt we what do these numbers mean what reflects the state of the labor market in the middle of june how does it impact your money . First, you need to understand that were still nowhere near where we are before the pandemic struck we still have a lot of ground to make up. The economy was smoking hot. I, however, think its a legitimate comeback. Its a legitimate comeback and a comeback gives you more latitude to buy stocks that depend on a healthy economy, not just an unhealthy one. But these are before the latest outbreak thats forcing many stocks to go back into lockdown mode, so its a glimpse into a post covid future that we ha
Protesters have created an opening for looters and police sometimes cant tell the difference between the two even from a purely business perspective, youd think people smashing up major retail destinations like the flagship macys would be bad for the stock market, right . Every time the market looks like its about to get clocked we get a stay of execution. Dow gained 268 points. Nasdaq advanced. 59 last night after president trumps fire and brim stone law and order speech, our futures plummet. Declaration of war replete with threatened deployment of the u. S. Army. Thats not the job, theyre war fighters makes you want to sell stocks for certain. Those futures looked ugly. All those images of looting didnt help. The futures stayed soft. I got up at 3 15 a. M. , expecting precarnage. Futures rallied again. An hour and a half later, the futures were up nicely you know what counteracted the pain a 4 rally in the german stock market with several of their borses not far behind. Yes, we actua
You do you reach for the stock equivalent of comfort food something that tastes just like the great bull markets of thats right you reach forfang, my acronym for facebook, amazon, netflix and google this session its more like fang because microsoft has become red hot. Netflix suffered a rare decline. The tech stocks led us higher. With the s p rising 1. 67 , and the nasdaq zoom being 2. 80 , it was a matter of time before we return to the tried and true this market has been going through groups like theres no tomorrow first we had the rally in the defensive Consumer Staples during the work from home nuclear winner the stocks rebounded we started reopening hospitals for nonessential medicine a run up in the big box retailers. That group seems a tad exhausted. Weve seen a surge in the Semiconductor Stocks as demand picks up from china and 5 g. Build out looks good continue with analog devices, amdi a decent quarter. A run in industrials as people bet the economy might be coming back as a
Good. You were with us last on march 23rd you said then, this could be near a bottom. You said that you were, quote, nibbling and it was time to buy a little if you were a longerterm investor are you surprised how far weve come and how quickly weve gone there since that day yeah, its been a bigger move than i thought it would be, for sure but look, theres been a lot of fed action and a lot of government packages since that day and on that day and since that day and, you know, a lot of that probably moved the market than it has the real economy up to this point. So those things happen now the question is, whats the right value for the market now well, thats an interesting question your friend, stan drukenmiller yesterday said this was the worst the risk reward for stocks was maybe as bad as hes seen it in his career. Hes had a long career, david. So do you feel the same way that stanley does how would you put this into context now as to what the right valuation for the market is . Dans