And then the counter intuitive ones that took us all by surprise the dow did 205 and nasdaq lost 1. 27 . Its important to go over the companies that shocked this year with the outperformance and those that continue to shock want obvious winners are, well, obvious. People are hanging out at facebook as theyre ordering from amazon, search on google. And it didnt take a chance to figure out that the shut down would force people to use the internet if i werent jimmy chill in real life, i would be jealous of the titans even though the ceos are about to be drawn in court on the house judiciary subcommittee im torn because the Big Tech Companies their platforms arguably have too much market power. No kidding they got it by being good at what they do thats captaitalism. Theyve done better job responding to the pandemic than the government but forget the obvious covid winners. I want to talk about the big surprise the things people are doing when you cant go to the movies or ball game or ship y
From its previous record high close on february 19th february 19th, that seems like so long ago. What a different world that was back then. We want to fire up the fast money time machine for a trip back there to february 19th. Look at that, our traders there on set all together at the Nasdaq Market site that was fun you might be thinking to yours this is some oldtimey footage of people dining together at a restaurant that was february 19th theyre all sitting inside a restaurant can you imagine that they can out the theater goers waiting to see a broadway show while were at it, there was also an nbc news democratic debate in nevada that night. Take a look at that. Hi, bloomberg, hey mayor pete. Theyre hugging, shaking hands, so much closeness. Anyway, the entire world has clearly changed since february 19th but the stock market is back to where it was guy, whats your take on this record comeback . Well, what you didnt tell the audience is you also were playing the piano for this little
Whatsoever theyre pure slight of hand. Do i have more pencil . Stocks are also exactly what we need to help keep this market moving higher like we did today with the dow gaining 290, s p jumping and the nasdaq 2. 13 because apple and tesla gave you fantastic news about what it should be a 4 for 1 and 5 for 1 stock split respectively again, no new value but boy, do people love it theres a reason we have to feed the bull with more nourishing stock blitz and ill tell you why. Years ago individual investors deserted the stock market with the implosion of 2000, 2001 and financial crisis of 2007, 2009 they gave up on the asset class and started tiptoeing back, looked enticing and something would go wrong 2015 mini crashes. But in the past few years, beaten down individual investors, a lot of younger investors intrigued by low to no commissions. Finally started buying stocks again. Despite all the gray beards telling you its impossible to beat the market, despite the supposedly brilliant Mone
The s p advanced 0. 64 and the nasdaq jumped 1 the world where the democrats and republicans cant make a deal on the next round of stimulus, so states have no choice but to open up. Open up everything, using masks and social distancing, as their only backstops because otherwise everyone goes broke. You just cant stay shut down without the federal lifeline come on, right the states dont have the money for it but the log jam in washington is starting to get personal you could see that when i interviewed House Speaker nancy pelosi this morning. I may be naively asked if we could at least get a deal with the gop to help out minority owned businesses in honor of the late, great john lewis heres what Speaker Pelosi shot back can we give a huge chunk of money to minorities who want to stay in business and cant, and to people who are trying to go to college or have student loans, who are minorities, who are the most effective, because they have the least chance in our country, thats got to be
Groups have switched from bear to bull market territory and they still have plenty of room to play catchup. Even when we get hit with waves of bad news. Nasdaq, did okay, quite a difference when i was out there when it was just a sea of red. Stocks opened up terribly. But then the strong bull markets that im talking about, the ones that are underneath, they surfaced, they quickly took over and we rolled back a big chunk of the decline buy buy buy something i pointed out on squawk on the street. When a rally has leaders from many different groups, and the better breath we have, the more kissable this market is, and thats what were seeing right now. Who are these leaders im talking about . Some youre very familiar with, because we talk about them all the time yes, bull market number one, the work from home cohort, which is a cluster of smaller bull markets. Zoom video, and at the orefron are the cybersecurity Stocks Companies need to be about protection when they put everything on the cl