Do you dunk the entire covid cohort or stick with it on a dow when the rose 183 and the nasdaq gained 1. 8 the reaction to zoom Video Communications after it reported a good quarter that wasnt quite good enough for wall street. This company practically sin none mouse with the new normal and look ban on 2020 as the year of zoom so when you see it down 15 its alarming. You got to wonder what that means for the rest of the stayathome stocks. The answer, nothing. Just because zooms insanely high growth is decelerating that doesnt mean the trend is over in fact, id argue it never had gone away because this year has shown us millions of jobs can be done better from home. No need for that central office. Why go to meetings to negotiate or sign documents when you do everything over the web and save millions, maybe ten, maybe hundreds of millions in travel, hotel, dinners, zoom, i mean thats how the 39 billion s p global ihs market deal was consummated as we heard from Doug Pederson on mad mone
Against the pandemic and when were losing, we buy the cramer covid19 index. Oh, i wish there were more to it than that. But when the virus seems unstoppable. You go back to the wealth and buy the stocks of the companies regardless of valuation. Thats how the dow gained 236 points today the s p advanced 2. 7 . And winners surge 1. 47 . This rally was extra infuriating to anyone who thinks the market should be linked to washingtons inability to pass another stimulus bill now that the 600 a week benefits have expired the rising case counts in so many states, california over 500,000 that forced closures of flagging businesses. So let me give you the guide to the perplexed. Because when you go to the tape and look at whats winning, its actually very straightforward. Theres nothing counterintuitive about this move. Its not crazy its not illogical in fact, it makes perfect sense. Lets do this. Lets consider the 15 best performers of the covid19 index. First, theres fastly. This is a platform
Investors seem to be more optimistic as Congress Continues to work on another federal relief bill. The president at the bottom of the hour scheduled to deliver another news briefing. This as tensions between the u. S. And china continue to escalate. The u. S. Has ordered that the chinese consulate in houston, texas to close china to close. China is calling for the u. S. To revoke the decision and is warning that the u. S. Has more diplomatic personnel in china than vice versa. Joining us to break down the market avenue big the Market Action are Abigail Doolittle who has following who has been following the action. Abigail tesla delivered. Considering you have the stock of more than 280 on the year going into that report. Before we look at that stock specifically, it has been another interesting, slightly choppy day. More sleepy at the end of the day. We saw this late day surge climbing. Not huge gains. We had stocks of flat. Nasdaq down at the end of the day. This s p 500 higher. This
Last week, i warned you. Didnt think it wouldlast. More bad news about the pandemic and we would get slammed again thats what happened today dow plummeting 900 points, s p plunging 1. 4 . Nasdaq also nose diving, 1. 4 . Last night the president gave us pretty down beat, realistic forecast for covid19 fatalities if youve been following the experts and a potential death toll in the hundreds of thousands, might not have surprised you. But for a lot of investors it was a rude awakening i cant blame anyone for selling after that miserable First Quarter with very little good news on any front in the battle against covid. Lets be real. This market is an incredibly leaky ship if youve been laid off, having health problems, your family is hurting, supporting a loved one out of work, youre most likely going to have to sell stocks to get through this period. People need cash you cant fight that kind of selling. Thats what were seeing so why not simply dump everything, flee, maybe head for the hil
What we are looking at is a sixmonth chart of the s p 500. We are looking at treasury note futures in white. That is actual price. We see coming out of june we have treasury note futures basically flat and rallying. Stocks went sideways. In september ec a strong downtrend. In todays pullback for bonds ec the downtrend really holding. It could just adjust. December could be what history are,sts decembers relatively strong. Michael one thing we dont talk about is the indian stock market. Etf trading today, msci indian etf is a standout. Very strong move today. Indiaof speculation the bank will cut Interest Rates by 25 basis points tonight. One thing that really stands out you look at the benchmark index in india is its evaluations. It is trading near a record local currency basis, but the evaluations have really sort. Index not trading in more than 29 times trailing earnings. You can see the top line. What is more interesting is the evaluation taste on forward earnings, the lower line. I