Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
That is where we are at the moment. Another down day for crude. Brent also down. Tom lets get more analysis on the market. When you look at what happened with help things are playing out in asia, is it taking offer a stellar quarter . Probably a bit of both. Concern withys the cases we have seen. In cases like texas. They have a bit of a crisis going on there. The fact that new york, new jersey, and connecticut have now set a quarantine for people who travel from these hot zones and the rest of america. Imposing an economic constraint. They are worried there will be another abruptness to this. That the Economic Growth that america had. In states of new york, when they take this action, that is a worrying time. That would hurt businesses on a much bigger basis. That is what wall street is concerned about. The hit to the economy. There has been talk the u. S. Government is getting ready to do a fourth round of fiscal stimulus. There has not been any details yet. The market would be conce
On a couple of data out of the euro zone. Markets also moving on the number of infections rising. Overall, the markets and european stocks edging up as the new quarter starts. Bonds are dipping. I am looking at European Equity futures. The one thing i wanted to show you was a golden earring nearing per ounce. Showed confidence amongst large manufacturers in japan. We will have plenty more on some of this data out in the euro zone. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The u. S. Is going in the wrong direction when it comes to the coronavirus. Thats a warning of Infectious Disease expert Anthony Fauci. He says daily case counts could more than double to 100,000 if behaviors dont change. He added clearly, we are not in total control right now. He declined to estimate the number of potential virus deaths, but said the total would be very disturbing. And the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled his plan for the u. K. To build its way back to prosperity. The packa
That is higher today theres been that move into value of late. Money is coming back in as stocks are on pace for their second positive month in a row the dow is on track for its best week since early april josh brown, you can take stock in this for me weve been talking about a rotation we have talked about growth into value. On a day where you have red in a lot of place, ive got apple, amazon, microsoft, facebook and netflix and i got all of them higher today can we end the talk about a rotation out of those names . Well, i dont know if its the end but this is what has continued to happen. If you look, 29 s p 500 stocks that are up 20 on the year or more, 25 of those are up today its back to the winners 30. 25 on the s p, broadly speaking looks like a logical place to see a pause that was if you remember, resistance back in both july and september. We got through it that made sense for that old resistance to now become support. The technicians i talk to when theyre looking at internals
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