And joining us now to see what 2020 has in store is managing director, victor anthony, and Portfolio Manager at needham growth fund, Chris Retzler good morning. I look at the tech stocks that did the best this year, a lot of them were kind of underdogs, roku, top of the list coming into the year, people talked about netflix would beat up on them this year, the narrative seems to have shifted. Apple is another one people thought apple would have a bad year not only trend wise in tech whats important in 2020, are there underdog names you particularly have in mind . Victor well, mostly on small cap large cap, i see amazon, alphabet, google, facebook continue to outperform those arent underdogs. Are they no. Angies Home Services which underperformed significantly in 2019, i think another one, comscore, unforeseen event, management departures, outperformed significantly Online Dating app, the meet group, meet glad it is spelled that way different kind of stock if spelled another way. Up abo
The s p 500 by the way is having its best year since 2013 we do have a if you more trading days left in the year and you can still notch the best year since 97. Well see where things shake out but people are already apparently going for the egg nog. Trading was little light, as they say down here today certain lay different tone from last years Christmas Eve joining us to talk about the markets. The senior Portfolio Manager paul hickey, cofounder of the Investment Group and the Portfolio Manager. Great to see you all ill start with you. What do you make of todays Market Reaction . Yeah. Just light volume. I do think this year were in a complete market meltup. Kind of an interesting time where things can get a little bioverdone and i would be kind of cautious here and look to maybe take some profits and sell some of those names in the portfolio. It might be overvalued here. And i would understand if you think that you do get some selling once you turn the calendar over. People dont want
Unified party. One democrat switching sides, some others may vote no. But the end result is not in doubt. The president will not be removed from office. Now look at this. The market is going up again. The dow is being held back a little by boeing. The journal says it may halt or cut max jet production. Boeings a dow stock, way down, hurting the dow average by about 90 points. We also have to tell you that bank of america is talking about a melt up for the market into next year. Look at the market go. The dow is going to be up about 80 points despite the news on boeing, up about 80 at the open. S p, big gains, 17 points. Thats more than a half percent. The nasdaqs going to do well, 50 points higher. That is a rally this monday morning. In britain, landslide winner, Boris Johnson, is pushing hard for a brexit vote by christmas. Then he wants to work on a trade deal with trump next year. Defeated socialist Jeremy Corbyn says he won the battle of ideas. He just couldnt convince voters he w
The premarket. It is down two and a quarter percent on mcdonalds right now. Under armor under investigation, the Company Reportedly facing a federal probe over its Accounting Practices. How it recorded sales, stock is plunging this morning on that news. Under armor shares down 16 and three quarters percent. U. S. China trade optimism fueling the broader averages. President trump in Constant Contact with chinese president xxijinping. A deal could be reached this month. Futures indicating a gain in the p p triple digits at the start of trading this morning. S p 500 is up 15, nasdaq higher by 51. Mornings with maria begins right now. Youre the only thing i know. So wont you take, wont you take me home. Maria good monday morning. We have a big show this morning. Joining the conversation, lee car first here. Cfra director of Equity Research, ken leon is here and mitch rochell. We have a big shakeup going on at mcdonalds this morning. The Company Fired the ceo over a consensual relationship
Center stage and treasuries weaken with the curve flattening after last weeks definitive move higher. Joining us for the hour, dan nathan a real Holding Pattern here today. Are we waiting for news out of washington heres the good news, right we had this big rip up off of the lows last week on optimism that there would be some sort of grand deal as far as trade is concerned. The fact that it doesnt look like that were going to get that at the end of the day, the fact that were not down in a meaningful manner is fairly establish. Could things change pretty quickly if the fed decides top pull our negotiators away and we know were dead in the water for a couple of months no doubt about it. Its kind of interesting on a day like today, where we dont see staples and utilities. These are two of the bestperforming groups, deemed to be defensei you dont see them rallying and dont see the s p 500 down a lot either it seems like a lot of nothing despite some really potential for volatility later i