Continues to rise significantly in terms of the virus and we talked a lot and well hear from meg again and meg has been following it so closely for us and the market only seems to go up as the cases go up. That is leaving some people scratching their heads and others view it as were going to get to the other side and a view of what the economy will look like and then you come back to the fed, carl, which seems to be the fuel that everybody sort of points to as the key fuel, i should say, for this market. Yeah. Morgan, lots of notes over the long weekend and we hope everybody did have a great, long weekend. More debt and liquidity and asset reflation. That was literally the title of the jpmorgan note on friday. Yeah, for all those folks that were basically still stuck at home or not traveling and getting on airplanes, lots to digest in terms of market commentary over the weekend. I would add to the fed, i would add the expectations that do seem to be baked in around what phase four fisc
Created 4. 8 million jobs, and that is much stronger than expected almost every single sector improved, bringing the Unemployment Rate down to 11. 1 . Isnt that the kind of news that makes people want to buy pretty much anything . Then the rally did taper off near the end of the day. The dow only dwayne e gained 92. Those are big numbers, but we got spoiled, didnt we what do these numbers mean what reflects the state of the labor market in the middle of june how does it impact your money . First, you need to understand that were still nowhere near where we are before the pandemic struck we still have a lot of ground to make up. The economy was smoking hot. I, however, think its a legitimate comeback. Its a legitimate comeback and a comeback gives you more latitude to buy stocks that depend on a healthy economy, not just an unhealthy one. But these are before the latest outbreak thats forcing many stocks to go back into lockdown mode, so its a glimpse into a post covid future that we ha
You cant fell it to roll over you cant get it to fetch. Somehow people imagine there is discipline to the process that the action falls clear patterns. For example, when you get a spike of infections, the average is supported to get clobbered and that is what happened friday monday new ball game nasdaq advancing 1. 20 the bulls look at the spiking number of covid cases next to the not spiking number of fatalities and figure we made Real Progress fighting this disease so buy stocks into any kind of weakness we almost got back to even on the dow because mortality rates look like they are dropping. They are buying recovery stocks, not stay at home stocks. If you believe the spike in infections isnt an issue you want to bail on the covid stocks too many states are gradually shutting down to write this off as no big deal more on the index later in the show what happened today . Lets go over key parts. First, we have a reason that can actually be time stamped to turn around the market. This
We were up 1,000 points on the d dow. The s p 500, 3202. Nearly 3 there. Theres the nasdaq 9817 200 points to the upside josh brown, the dow is now 50 higher than it was its up 50 from march 23rd intraday lows its remarkable. It really is. I think the story here, and aye be ive been hammering thanksgiving is broad participation. Every sector youll see the Smaller Companies out pacing the larger ones. Very big story this week is Small Cap Value which had been absolutely left for dead made a 30 recovery in the last month. I think the bottom may have been when baa rrons called into queso whether dimensional funds would be a fund giant for much longer given thats one of the factors they weighed toward. Small value up 13 this week we talked yesterday about the equal weight nasdaq being twice as good as the nasdaq on the week you can find that all across the board. I think its so important. If you want people to really buy in to this recovery then it couldnt just be amazon, microsoft pushing
Its down 207 but the russell 2000 has the biggest percentage loss. The small and midcaps are getting creamed, down about 3 right now for the russell. Powell tying an economic recovery to a Covid Vaccine and therapies that can cure horrific symptoms including a disturbing new lifethreatening clotting disorder like the blood clots that cost a broadway star his leg. Enter the biopharma ceo mike sherman, here in a fox business exclusive on his new anticlotting covid drug thats on the fda fast track. Boy, are they moving fast. Plus as the covid outbreak destroys huge retail names, its actually bringing back one from a near coma, at least the stock. Speaking of stock, its overstock. Com, not just alive but actually thriving with triple digit sales increases. Overstock ceo Jonathan Johnson here in a fox business exclusive on the steps hes taken to fill a leadership vacuum left by the controversial former ceo, patrick byrne, and the problems of coronavirus. Plus bring on the quarantinis. Alcoh