Were reports that china wasas on to reaching at leastea a ptial deal. But late today, there were additional reports that even those expectations were being lowered by chinese officials. Investors have been getting used to such mixed messages. Clearly, any time theres even a hint of a pential truce, intentions between the worlds two largest economies, stock rise. Thats what happenedd today. The dow industrial average rose 181 points. Na gained 79. Aq26,346. The s p was up 26. Here is what ton expect whe two sides meet tomorrow. For First Time Since may, the u. S. Trade represeative and treasury secrery will receive chinas vice premiere on their home turf to contie negotiations for a 13th round as the trade waron drags reuters reporting expectations from china for a deal are low, after u. S. Banned business with eight chinese tech giants. I think they feel that im iving a tough bargain. But i have to. In earlier reports, chinese officials suggested they a open to a parti deal and are wil
Youl uber, spotify is testing new lows stephanie we were just talking before we got started this market has to give you a little bit of whiplash. Were up for a second straight day but hold your breath maybe things will change tomorrow. You cant get obsessed with it you have to either have to be a long Term Investor or day trade. Very difficult at this point look trade is obsessing everyone i cant wait for earnings. Im super excited to talk about banks. Im watching technology today. Technology is 26 of the s p 500 waiting. We have gotten a couple of surveys in the last couple of days that suggest i. T. Spending is slowly. 4 this year, 3. 4 next year you have to start to be more selective in technology. Again, a big component of the s p. I still think you want to be in semis, cloud and security. You want to be very specific on software and hardware. We had a lot of calls cash coming after the close last night two days in a row of gains and almost all sectors positive both days so within
The dow has been up seven sessions in a row. S p is up six out of the last seven sessions you are talking the highest closes since late july overnight in asia, the sang high deposit was closed for a public holiday. The hang seng up almost 1 in europe, it looks like now most of those markets are in the green, one exception is the ftse down by about. 1 . If you check out treasury yields in the united states, another big story is what happens to the yields some of that movement started after treasury secretary told us that Treasury Department is looking seriously at the idea of a 50year bond for some time next year. Right now, the 30 year is yielding 2. 28 i saw him later in washington and he started talking about 100year bond for the next consideration. Did you prepare for seeing him by watching the interview we conducted . I did thats why i decided to take the 50 and up theante and ask him about 100. To beat the record, he would have to serve 13 years see, i knew it were you talking abo
Guillotined as the action in the bomb market indicating the economy is improving we dont need those kinds of stocks anymore the market is constantly trying to predict the future, takes inputs, aggregates them, the consistent growers are out and the cyclicals are in thats right, the companies that can build big numbers when the economy is in shape, theyre back theres just one problem, the random set of inputs and outputs is missing a key ingredient, emotion. If you want to be a successful investor, you need to check your emotions at the door and right now thats not happening. Let me show youwhat i mean why dont you take a stock we all know, merck, then amazeingl it spent two decades lots in the wilderness until they discovered keytruda mostly lung cancer, in trials for many types of tumors, the strength of keytruda breathed new life into merck stock. Now merck has dropped five bucks in two days with the darn thing coming back down to 81 at its hideous lows, it was down nearly 10 from la
But after a session with the dow dropping 160 points sell, sell, sell. The super bowl backslid 0. 49 . And the nasdaq lost 0. 80 . Really that was a day. You need to understand the economy doesnt work like that it is not like were teethinger between good and bad well have one set of good numbers from the Domestic Companies doing just fine. As long as the trade war continues well have another et self bad numbers from companies that are hostage to the Global Economy and doing terribly the chinese trade delegation went home early, instead of hanging out with farmers in montana, suddenly the market rolled over. A lot of investors believe until the big sky country darkened we might be close to a deal but there is knock on the horizon. If china would do something as low stakes as this farm visit, hence todays selloff as i told you it will be harder to reach an accommodation with the peoples republic than many people seem to think that is a good place to start our game plan. I think there cou