Welcome to you. And other countries. Now looking at whether. No one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections theyre hooley pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just dont mess around other people. Are only for the very good do that through online video and those former cia for a very good cause. Said the former director of the cia its funny because and when america does it when someone elses even suspected of doing it no no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no not at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. Weve been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven weve used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it weve planted false information for n
Nasdaq up 0. 11 . Theres something important we need to know right here and right now. We have to think about, do activist investors help create wealth or do they destroy it are they a force for good for you or force for bad these are the questions we need to grapple with given that just this morning Procter Gamble narrowly defeated an attempt by nelson peltz to get a board seat putting an end to a bitter proxy fight that weve all been involved with and talked about here now, look. This is very much case by case thing. There are some scorch earth activists who specialize in creating ill will. Nothing else i think those days are largely behind us. At least when it comes to smart activists who know what theyre doing. Let me lay out some individual examples to show you what i mean about this Important Group of investors and what they mean for your pocketbook. Lets start with Procter Gamble, the gigantic Consumer Products company make no mistake, this is a Great American enterprise. Procte
20th anniversary of amazons ipo, a lot of people are musing about how so mathis stock evade most investors. Why dont we leave amazon alone here. You either caught it or you didnt. I still like it. I think it can go higher. It went higher again today. I want to zoom out and discuss some stocks that are hot in todays market. And why its so darn hard to stay in them, even though i think they could be incredibly rewarding. So listen up, lets make some money. Amazon was home depot has been a fabulous performer for ages. But we have all heard the drum beat that amazons finally gotten to home depot, that people are buying housewares and gardeninging equipment online, therefore home depot had to miss the numbers. In some cases that may be true. However this morning home depot reported the best numbers of any major retailer. So much for the short fall thesis. That makes this stock the exhibit a for why people sell winners, theyre scared. Yet home depot isnt your typical retailer. For starters i
Most vicious rotations i have ever seen. It brought some of the rocket ships screaming back to earth. With the dow advancing 85 points, the s p declined. 08 . The nasdaq plunged 1. 8 . Thats just a recovery from even lower levels. Were starting to see that buy f b its a breather, people, it had to happen eventually, you just cant have stocks go up day after day after day on nothing new. Which is exactly what was happening on the supertech stocks. Yesterday afternoon we started to see the money rotating into the down and outer stocks. And then the buying, the template for high growth, but it was an nvidia versus nordstrom battle. Nordstrom had been ice cold until the companys management decided to talk about going profit. To me, that was a wakeup call to cause us to responder whether or not we had gotten too bullish on the market. It got crushed at the opening, it ended up at plus 2. 83. This was just day one of that rally. What surprised me the most today, though, was that the rally al
Minister, and to rose hudson wilkins, our wonderful chaplain, for accompanying me to the vigil for jo last friday. At the priestly statute in the center of that lovely town. We, all of us, were moved by the energy and warmth of the crowd brought together in grief and solidarity. Ive been very moved when the public outpourings since her death. The hundreds of letters and emails weve all received in solidarity with joes family in their hour of grief. And by the outpouring of charitable donations to causes close to her heart, hope not hate, and the royal voluntary services. Last night my honorable friend the member for south and myself held a vigil outside our townhall. One of hundreds of vigils attended by tens of thousands of people the right across our land who are so shocked i what happened, and what to express that shock and grief. Also what you think of the parties in this house who offered their sympathy and support at this very difficult time. We united in grief at her loss, and w