153 points, nasdaq advanced 0. 19 . Well, then look no further than the stock of tesla this is an amazing market, but its always been an amazing Challenging Market individual investors, though, are back they now make up north of 20 , some say 25 of the action and theyve weathered everything from frightened, screaming billionaires to the nastiest president ial race in living memory to a horrifying Global Pandemic theyve steeled their hearts against the lack of Covid Vaccine or even a therapeutic. They arent oblivious to the incredibly high unemployment rate, yet they havent let it change their minds about trying to make money in the stock market whats the perfect symbol of that attitude . Tesla. Not the man, not the car, not even the company but the concept. A time our country feels it doesnt have much to root for and a world that hates us. I dont remember if no, i cannot remember a time in my life when we were this hated, and i lived through the Nixon Administration now, tesla reported
U. S. Cases do continue to decline. The fda gives the go ahead for plasma use in hospitalized patients and a potential vaccine fast track and tech on a tear. Shares of apple up nearly 75 this year ahead of its four for one stock split today. Jim, we have all that to handle and jackson hole this week, the rnc and couple tropical storms in and not a sleepy august it should be a sleepy august, and its not august supposed to be a down month and its not people say, wait a second. 70 of the market didnt do well last week. I always find those kind of things because 70 of the market does well this week. You dont have a bunch of anything to hang your hat on when you look at a big apple price target increase basically to where the stock is you realize, wait a second shes the first. But will everyone have to follow every price target is below where the stock is a lot of people feel enthusiasm for the stock split. Of course, that is part of it. I know stocks mean nothing but they excite people she
You do you reach for the stock equivalent of comfort food something that tastes just like the great bull markets of thats right you reach forfang, my acronym for facebook, amazon, netflix and google this session its more like fang because microsoft has become red hot. Netflix suffered a rare decline. The tech stocks led us higher. With the s p rising 1. 67 , and the nasdaq zoom being 2. 80 , it was a matter of time before we return to the tried and true this market has been going through groups like theres no tomorrow first we had the rally in the defensive Consumer Staples during the work from home nuclear winner the stocks rebounded we started reopening hospitals for nonessential medicine a run up in the big box retailers. That group seems a tad exhausted. Weve seen a surge in the Semiconductor Stocks as demand picks up from china and 5 g. Build out looks good continue with analog devices, amdi a decent quarter. A run in industrials as people bet the economy might be coming back as a
Where does this leave us pete, good time to answer that question i think our viewers, investors everywhere are wondering we had this big comeback weve had a bit of unsettlement in week. Now what yeah, i think we have reached a point now where theres been some pull back and everybody is looking for that opportunity those that have missed a little of some of these moves youre look for something. We had a huge range. We started to change the what we have been seeing which is contracting range and that sell off late day im surprised we havent seen an acceleration to the downside i think theres nervousness in terms of a lot of things the retail number we knew about. We knew it was worse than we anticipated. Thats a big deal. You look at the smh. Thats a great reflection of what im talking about they are hammering those stocks. They have absolutely hammering those stocks today josh brown, what do we do with the fangs what do we do with the chips fang stocks have had such a great run. Today w
Hour with our Investment Committee today. They are our committee let oos get a check lets get a check on the market. Stocks are marching higher we are right near session highs. Lets take a look at what exactly is driving things and for that, well start with josh brown because youre in the box right next to me right now what can you make of what this jobs report told us and why does the market continue to rally given the fact the economic prospects may be so dim . Im pretty comfortable saying this is the worst monthly jobs report any of you watching will ever see for as long as you live this is it this is the ugliest youll see we have lost 20 million jobs the all time record was two million jobs after world war ii and the worst we saw during the great financial recession a generation ago was 800,000 in a month. Youre not going to see this again. I think whats important to point out and i want to be delicate in the way i say this wall street is coming around to the fact that for the most