Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. It is cloud week on squawk alley. If you were betting against snowflake, wur oyoure out in t cold this morning. That stock up is 12 same for Cloud Security and authentication specialist okta were going to talk to the ceo to see if this thing may stabilize from here or go higher splunk, that is the sound of a cloud stock dropping 22 after missing Sales Guidance for the third quarterer in quarter in a row. All this happening as amazons cloud conference is in full swing. Salesforce announced the second Biggest Software acquisition ever and we started the week on squawk alley talking to ibm president Jim Whitehurst who came to big blue in what and is still thelargest Software Acquisition ever redhat driven by a hybrid cloud. Julia, investors are betting on further growth from already heady levels we can certainly see that in what is happening with snowflake this morning it is reapproaching the highs that so
Well be on and bridge you all of the bring you all of the big headlines. First the november to remember dow surging towards best month since january 1987 s p and nasdaq handing in best work since april energy up more than 25 percent financials up more than 17 percent. Small caps, best month ever. Bulls werent hiding, check this out, each of the past four monday he got big vaccine news before the market open and look at diminishing returns, the market fell despite moderna requesting emergency use of its vaccine. So weve been talking talking black or white or red and green in terms of diminishing returns. I took that economic class my freshman year and learned all about diminishing returns which is why i often invoke it here, i think so, absolutely tell you something, the vix is telling another story. I thought a day like today, monthend i thought the vix would close closer to 25 but here it is closing lower on the day, maybe its a function of that specific security, but ill tell you giv
Its time to risk less and make more options action starts right now. And that is the motto, risk less, make more. Lets get right to it. Despite everything that has been happening, what a week it has been health care has been flat lining for much of the year but carter, worth, the chart master think its time to yell clear as the sector could soon get shocked back to life carter, you are a doctor you, too, have charts. Your prognosis lets see what it is. Here we go a couple of tables and then some charts well figure it out. The first. What we know sometimes one day says a lot what was the best performing sector the day after election day . Health care. Are there reasons for that sure maybe because obamacare is less under pressure maybe there will be less regulatory pressures for drug stocks but this week its the second best performing sector only to tech take a look at the next table. Is it a good sector . Of all sectors, it has the strongest top line growth of the past three years Reven
Rips into Silicon Valley and defends the companys government work and no symptoms, no test. Why the cdc is quietly updating its coronavirus testing guidelines normally, jim, i wouldnt start there, but you were just tweeting a moment ago about how important testing is as the number the sevenday average of new tests in this country is the lowest since early july. I just think that the main gap in the system is you hear people say, well, my daughter just got it from college and weve been all trying to test in the family, its five days, we dont know what to do. I think that that halting nature of what to do has gripped this country and has changed it from a country where you go places to a country where you stay at home its a country where you do not travel overseas, its a country where youre frightened over a five and sevenday period endlessly and we live with the tyranny of it. Testing would end it, but its got to be instant. Cant be a lab a lab is a big, big obstacle. Yeah. We will talk
After one more record shattering day. The dow advancing and s p gaining 1. 22 . Time for wardrobe change why put on a sweater when its 80 degrees outside because my late mother, cramer, gave me great advice many years ago. Mom loved the stock market but more than that, she loved gambling she loved the ponies the races and liberty raceway. Loved the daily double most of all, she loved the slots. Im more of a blackjack guy. Mom couldnt buy a onearmed bandit throwing away some money. Funny thing, though. She there is us in Atlantic City funny thing, she always had good luck at this game of chance. Im not talking about a row of cherries but peaches, plums, even three bars. One time not long before she passed 35 years ago, we went fishing off her favorite pier and then headed uptown to resorts, thats the one she wanted to play she was an Unstoppable Force she pulled and pulled and the worst she caught was three lemons there was a pile of coins so high, didnt matter. She was hot, hot, hot. A