Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech trade, given how far so many of these trends have run . I think some of these trends existed before the pandemic and have be
The dow coming off its first close ever above 30,000. Still down 180 a lot of focus continues to be on the socalled cyclical trade, energy, banks, airlines all pacing for their best month ever rob, its good to see you again. I come to you first because your note to our producer today really piqued my interest. The last three weeks, you say, were transformational. How so i think going into this, scott, we did not have a prospect for a stimulus plan it pivoted focus to the virus and the virus count really, really increasing. Since then youve had three months of very, very positive news on the virus front. Youve had an election outcome that appears to be more and more benign with the actions of the with the actions of our president elect. Specifically nominating janet yellen it looks like it was an outcome that was squarely middle of the fairway that was not too far left, not too far right. Really goldilocks like from my perspective. Now youre at a place where when you look at major pivot
Amazon partners with an old text stalwart. That is blackberry. How they plan to revolutionize tech. Those stories in a moment. The u. S. Stocks posting another record high amid news of new stimulus talks. They are progressing with a plan to pass by the weekend. Abigail doolittle has more on that. Also, i know you have been following the latest Earnings Results out of snowflake. Shares down after hours a bit. This is a big test for them after their blockbuster debut. Abigail it is. Lots of big movers relative to earnings after hours come snowflake being one of them. With snowflake, what you are referencing is that huge ipo, biggest ipo of the year back in september. This is their First Quarter as a publicly traded company, so they are finding out what it is about to these shares are absolutely plunging in the after hours, down 19 . This is an Application Software company, up just 37 year to date. They have struggled a little bit, and in this quarter they posted a wider loss than expecte
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Banks, airlines all up while faangs are taking a bit of a break. If you ask me whats the best Case Scenario for the market to the end of the year, i would say this whole narrative about how its like the top five stocks driving the market, i would like to see that come to an end and Everything Else play catch up and start to participate and that is literally what weve seen take place. We had a breadth thrust a week and a half ago where almost every stock broke back above its 200 day. We now have more s p 500 components that are up on the year than down on the year for the First Time Since march i think alphabet is the most recent performer but the faangs are not part of this the whole narrative out of the window that this is index fund money and only microsoft driving this is gone now you have a broadbased rally, not based on nonsense, companies have rising earnings expectations, almost every sector weve even got performance at companies that six months ago you could have made a case to