Openly short the us dollar they openly kick in a stand on their face but what hes doing is by going along japanese conglomerates and including one of them by the way which is called the itochu and it was founded in 858 but 9 among Japanese Trading Companies it is distinguished by not being descended from an Historical Group which is the imperial power groups but by the strength of its textiles business and successful Business Operations and china so in a way its also him going along the end of this u. S. Empire and the rise of i dont know if itll be an empire but a chinese superpower right right exactly so theres a changing of the guards the u. S. Is losing its cachet as worlds single superpower what u. S. Dollar is losing its status as World Reserve currency or moving into a post u. S. Dollar as World Reserve currency era in. And so buffett is picking up stakes and hauling out these hes moving to asia especially the big portion of his portfolio and. Deleo who has another huge day when
Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden will make the speech intentionally of his lifetime. The day started down pete with a rise in jobless claims. Yesterday, we saw a surprise bearish reversal. Today, a surprise bullish reversal, all leading into joe bidens speech. Morning,earlier in the we had stocks down a little bit as the initial jobless claims came back in above a million. But we had a turnaround. Thanasdaq closing up more 1 , so perhaps some folks hoping that those unfortunate job numbers could force congress to approve a stimulus package sooner rather than later. Nasdaq up 1. 4 . , the newa cap index York Stock Exchange faang index, up about 2 . Facebook,habet, amazon climbing higher. The stayathome trade back in the lead. Russell down half a percent. Interesting way for the gains to happen. Perhaps not the healthiest. Financials, industrials. All about tech. You were mentioning the dnc tonight. Joe biden making potentially what will pd speech of his lifetime. Going into
Is paying a dividend and he likes dividends but now were seeing this move into japanese stocks and that confirms that hes getting dashing out of the u. S. Dollar because as you point out the fed is them now muscling in on warrens territory right so warren cant go in there with these sweetheart deals and get these bailout deals in the sweetheart deals from these takeovers of acquisitions and huge positions that he builds up because the fed is now out beating him so hes got to go to japan now to find deals probably something he reluctantly to do because it signals that his saying is to as he always says that never sell america short right well thats a buffetts doing hes essentially selling america short so he bought the 5 largest Trading Companies in japan these are the huge conglomerates he bought 5 percent of them and he says he may go up to 9. 9 percent so this is again the ongoing temper tantrum. Hes thrown since april when he told the world essentially that the fed outbid him for th
Report in the atlantic that says President Trump called wounded veterans losers we will talk to the Vice President , but lets talk more about the nasdaq with the tech selloff continuing. Some of the big names we follow closely, tesla is down after a 9 drop yesterday and today its down about 2 in premarket activity. The chip maker also about 9 yesterday and it also looks to open down by almost 4 today. That is free market activity as well. Zoom after a big day earlier in the week seeing major prophet taking in the last two days down almost 2 and apple surging on its stock split monday but then down another about 7 yesterday down to about one and a quarter in premarket activity after an 8 drop yesterday. We are less than two months until election day and joe biden is out and about. He made another. Dot this could be why the democrats want him to stay in the basement. We will play that a little later. We may hear from President Trump as he meets with leaders of serbia and kos about later
Dow plunging and s p plummeting 2. 78 . And the nasdaq nosediving 4. 11 . Its tempting to try to learn something from the big bone crushers of the past so we can apply those bone crushers to the future two are alike but there can be similarities take the. C do. Com bust. The endless run from 1998 to march of 2000 followed by a rapid meltdown, what is happening here now, now that the nasdaq is 10 from size, im hearing about the buzz all day okay, the beat of 1998, the nasdaq stood at 1,585. 1,585. It roared to 5,100 by march of 2000 and plummeted to 3,155 by may. Fast forward to 19 year ago and a round trip to 1 ,585 it is your Worst Nightmare of course, there are horrendous sell offs. The 87 crash averages cut in half in a few hours time the financial crisis, dallas laid the waste from 14,000 to 6500 and the covid crash dow from 295 to 68 to above 18,000 march lows. Nasdaq sank. But its that rebound from the march lows thats drawing comparison to the. Com era the nasdaq surged 82 from