Things, our country looks a lot more like the juggernaut it used to be, and so does the stock market thats the only way to interpret the incredible pin action that we got today from adps incredible their National Employment report, and it showed that private Sector Employment decreased by just 2. 76 million jobs last month, when most economists were expecting something more like 9 million. Hallelujah. That and some early positive data about the opening of restaurants and casinos are how the dow surged 527 points today. S p jumped 1. 63 were gaining back all our losses here, people. You see this kind of animal spirits of the market coalescing with the pent up demand for ravenous consumers and you get the insane gains like we saw by the way, taking us to the most overbought level, 11. 1, in the s p since july 24, 2009. Any time its been this high, its actually okay well have to do more on that later this week. Look, i know there was a time really not that long ago when 2. 76 million job
China. Of course, we are going to get that 9 30 a. M. Press conference. Stocks as you saw look to higher look to a higher open. Dont worry about china iphone weakness why one key Analyst Thinks apples china woes are overblown. And two big tech names are moving in opposite directions. Oracle is falling on a revenue miss adobe rallying on an earnings beat we got broadcom to get to, costco, number of earnings this morning. Lets start with the Broader Market investors are trying to digest conflicti ining headlines. The Chinese Commerce ministry set to hold a News Conference half an hour from now. And, jim, we dont have a heads up in terms of what theyre going to discuss whether or not were going to learn about their view as in, yes, were all in or not. Kayla tausche last night, basically, you dont know where we are it is in flux. At 5 00 a. M. It was x, at 7 00, it was that, 8 30, new view. But the one thing is certain, this story that made the rounds, that the president has put out that h
Times Peterson Foundation poll, only 14, 14, 14 of families own stocks outright. Meaning the market is creating all this wealth for the few, not the many 60 of americans dont even know that stocks are up for the year and theyve advanced 24 hallelujah so after a sedate day where the dow gained 28 points, the nasdaq climbed 0. 05 , lets talk about what the heck is going on here i think its a lot more complicated than simple ignorance. The first reason why people who can afford to own stocks are sitting on the sidelines earning very little, the disastrous bear market at the turn of the century impoverished a whole generation of individual investors who got burned by chasing, yes, the hottest stocks imaginable when the dot com crash hit, it ended the greatest love affair ever told. I was part of it i started the street. Com in 1995 immediately found hundreds of thousands of people with a thirst for any investing knowledge to level the Playing Field. Between the rich and the not so rich at
But after a session with the dow dropping 160 points sell, sell, sell. The super bowl backslid 0. 49 . And the nasdaq lost 0. 80 . Really that was a day. You need to understand the economy doesnt work like that it is not like were teethinger between good and bad well have one set of good numbers from the Domestic Companies doing just fine. As long as the trade war continues well have another et self bad numbers from companies that are hostage to the Global Economy and doing terribly the chinese trade delegation went home early, instead of hanging out with farmers in montana, suddenly the market rolled over. A lot of investors believe until the big sky country darkened we might be close to a deal but there is knock on the horizon. If china would do something as low stakes as this farm visit, hence todays selloff as i told you it will be harder to reach an accommodation with the peoples republic than many people seem to think that is a good place to start our game plan. I think there cou
We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk