Extremely that would send an already sagging market even lower to the weekend when President Trump spoke, he was so mad that the market was able to make a comeback, now ultimately dipping just 18 points the nasdaq surging 1. 29 lets understand our idea of measured response is not chinas idea of a measured response. I think theyre going to see this as a real provocation, and theyll feel compelled to respond, which brings us to the game plan for next week. Mondays all about retaliation from china at this point, we all know how this story goes, right it always is tit for tat every time President Trump lands a blow, its met with a counter blow we have to presume china escalates things, if only to show they understand the end game, which seems like containment or isolation except this time maybe were the ones being contained. For decades we refused to recognize the peoples republic of china and our government treated them like an outlaw or the outlaw that they were. Then president nixon in
Only given consideration to more recently because of the phenomena. Well end up meeting the ceo a couple of months or whatever after we have made an investment it puts greater burden on us for Due Diligence and for the backgrounds of the people who are involved and the experience. Its probably going to end up with some good results actually. Thats interesting. Weve had some discussions on air about the degree to which lack of persontoperson meetings means can you close on a house, can you close on a transaction, but youre saying its not necessarily a deal killer it definitely is not. I think that will be for early stage companies. The Later Stage Companies where theres more substance involved and theyve been around longer is a bigger problem. Were in the early stage, a round, b round, period i think well have less of a concern about that we also obviously are focused a lot on follow on rounds for our existing portfolio which is fairly extensive at this point hi, alan, its jon fortt, go
Inspect a face mask production facility. Its a clear signal hes out and about for the first time in weeks. The markets like this. The opening up, that is. Look first at the price of oil. Th 23 a barrel. Thats because production has dropped sharply, limited supply and the likelihood of a pickup in demand as more businesses open up. The president just tweeting on that literally moments ago. Here it is. Oil prices moving up nicely as demand begins again. Thats the backtowork movement evident in the oil market. Stocks, they are going up, too. Reopening is popular with investors. Look at this. Lot of green, lefthand side of the screen. The dow is going to be up about 300. The s p up 36 and better than a 100 point gain for the nasdaq. Yeah, tuesday, may 5th, a positive tone today, if you ignore the everwhining media. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart lets get right at it. We will bring you an update on the reopening of the country. California and new york, both outlining their plans.
And say the market is reaching extremes of being oversold theres been signs of internal panic and we were set up for at least some kind of snapback. A couple caveats there, we did have a couple tuesday rallies of 5 and 6 the past couple weeks that did not arrest the downtrend. One thing you can hang a little bit of weight on right now is the fact that over the past several days youve been able to look below the surface of the indexes and see more differentiation, separating winners from losers and a little more stock picking and less indiscriminate selling all sets us up for a good bounce on obviously expectations of policy traction that were getting from the fed and congress likely. All that seems to say its a bounce, a very strong one, its an overdue one will it carry on to anything i dont know that we can say for sure, but i like to say every bottom start with a bounce, not every bounce becomes a bottom. In the meantime just i think to put your point into one phrase, its turnaround
Worst. Yep. Talking about the coronavirus. Which the needs now tells us cannot be contained. And thats really why the dow plunged another 879 points today. S p 3. 3 , and the nasdaq 2. 7 on top of yesterdays hideous losses the dow has now lost 1,911 points in a row. Thats a decline of 6. two days now, you dont need me to tell you that this is serious stuff, especially if the director of the National Center for immunization and respiratory diseases told us this afternoon to now expectist significant disruption in our lives. Instantly that became conventional wisdom, thats the reason we told off so hard of course it is more complicated than that, right the stock market is following the much larger fixed income market where buying yields are currently hitting record lows. All sorts of maturities. The ten year is at 135 . The stocks got crushed the market is screaming that this pandemic will cause dramatic decline in Economic Activity both here and around the world. When the bond market sp