We are just 43 days away from the most wonderful time of year. We found out today that the rally will continue into next year setting a year end target of 4300. The question tonight, is santa claus really coming to town or will the grinch steal christmas, guy . With you folks with kids in the room, i will give you a fut secon few seconds to have them lead. I am in the grinch box that was a great tune that bobby helms sang all of the great things, the market is still expensive. In terms of market cap gdp north of 175 which is by any metric the far end of the curve i dont see it getting there i have been wrong before and probably will began. But the vix cant correct all of the things going into january of next year. I am in the grinch camp but bore l Boris Karloff did a good job. Technology finished the day strong we saw a comeback of the trade that looked like it was unwinding. Yeah, may the winter war lock, the heat miser, snow miser, hear it, santa is coming. Its opposite day today re
Dom . How many of us wish we had more time, not just 48 hours but more time in general anyway, the markets right now are in a Holding Pattern thats what well call t. Marginal losses in the s p 500, dow and nasdaq, as you can see there. Just about a quarter to a third of a percent across the board here, but we were positive at one point today so a lot of that uncertainty playing out, but not a lot of reason to wholesale buy or sell so thats what were seeing in markets. One place where were seeing a good amount of positivity today is in the internetrelated names. Social media specifically. Check out this First Trust Dow jones internet etf ticker fdn is off the highs of the day, off twothirds of 1 small of the smaller social media ones are there as well helping to power this particular move remember from the lows up to here, it was up about 96 , and then it fell about 15 here and then up another 12 from there, so thats a move there for the social media stocks that were watching as well, a
The nasdaq up 1 and s p 2. 7 and dow declined 86 points were about to get a set of u e unbelievably set of big numbers but frankly, its horrifying if you think about why they are thriving this week we hear from walmart, from home depot, lowes, and target and if their stocks get hit for any reason, you have to buy them because these major operators are up against general merchandisers, hardware stores, Sporting Goods and lumberyards that cant compete because they were deemed essential and i fear they will never get lost customers back, not with prices big guys charge. The winner haves so many advantages over the little guy im amazed there is any competition whatsoever i feared that there wont be and thats driving me nuts i love when these big household names go higher, but i hate when the reasons they are going higher their Small Business competitors are being wiped out. A lot of these smaller outfits have been able to hold their own before covid, but now the big guys have crafted pheno
Very, very, varied longtime. What does that mean for u. K. Asset . Strategistnvestment is joining us now. David, the u. K. Economic outlook is really bad right now. We have had a bounceback a little bit in the month data, but it makes grim readings. U. K. Asset pricing enough in terms of the downside . Dont think they are pricing enough bearing it was a truly terrible q2 gdp number. That was expected. At the moment, investors are taking some comfort with a decent pmi number for the u. K. Some of these monthly gdp data from the statistics have been revised up for june. After such a big decline, we are going to get a bounce in q3. We may get doubledigit growth in q3. For the headwinds are really significant. It is being massively underreported in the u. K. It has been a sticker shock for investors and for households and consumers from the furlough scheme. This brexit is still hanging out and never seems to go away. Alix what is the down lot what is the Downside Risk to the furlough . Is
Latest kayla . Melissa, this effort by the white house to target social Media Companies for a perceived bias has been under way for nearly a year, but in the wake of twitters Fact Checking President Trumps own tweets, policy officials rushed the executive order out today. Heres what is in it which the president signed this afternoon. Agencies from the fcc to the ftc and many other agencies in between are directed to review liability shields that are provided to these content companies that protect them from lawsuits over what appears on their platforms. The department of justice are directed to organize state attorneys general to enforce the crackdown. The federal government is also going to be issuing a widespread review of taxpayer dollars that are going to these platforms in terms of the governments own ad spending and all of this is expected to happen over the next 30 days. These agencies are supposed to report back and these funding totals are supposed to be submitted to the offic