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Lets milk this and go back and forth. We dont even finish each others sent answers it will be awesome this is the first time you are back at the nasdaq in a while. I go away and then im quarantined. I went away in july and finally got back here. I went away again and came back and been quarantined another two weeks. You got to start going away whachlt are you doing . I wish these states would drop off there is 57 states on the list no there are a lot of states on the list not all states i was in a county that was like an island, nobody was there i am glad to be back there is a big krispy kreme thing. Most lights ever i was looking and i was thinking about you. I got to stop thinking about you when im not at work thats not what i want in my life you may draw me back to time square but so will crispy cream. We were talking about this the last couple of weeks i havent been in there in ea while. He said there is no one around nobody on the streets. Is that the case there is people here. A
Of mind blowing. Check out these numbers, the six biggest tech stocks losing more than 1 trillion in value in three days apple, microsoft, amazon, microsoft, tesla and facebook. This is kind of unbelievable on the way up, we kind of get i wont say we get used to it. Complacent. We dont quite notice it as much after the split, was apple up 40 or something remember when we were arguing about tesla at 500 a share . Look where it went eastbound the s p was up almost 60 since march. You get these crazy moves to the upside we should have been able to watch this after all these years and how quickly the corrections can come to get that move and have a correction in three days maybe we need to even revise the terms for how we talk about it given what the nasdaq has done, that perspective it is nothing it is not that shocking if you are a longterm investor, this is no big deal. If you were looking at this. Those six stocks losing a trillion in value, they are still up several trillions you are
It and shares of astrazeneca falling premarket, the drug maker hitting pause on its late stage Coronavirus Vaccine trial. Jim, you just tweeted coming to us in a few. Fired up about what . Fired up because i think that people have given up we had 10 correction, most of the people i heard except for jim pullsen in the previous show basically say, look, this is a dangerous its a bubble, its a bubble, its a bubble. Now, i think that anytime the market opens up big, carl, i dont like it but europe is up strong, i think that this idea that its a bubble, what is the it is the it tech is the it apple . Is it tesla . Lets take it case by case ive seen things that have come down a lot that are very interesting. Its just that im not sitting here saying this is the moment where you must buy all the zoom in the world but zoom just fell 30 zoom had a really great quarter. I had cloud strike on last night. People will say these are viciously overvalued, but they have come down and maybe this is the