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
After a rough day where the dow tumbled 314 points, s p plunged 1. 56 , and the nasdaq plummeted 1. 67 , i think the problems simple a list of stocks that are working seems to grow smaller by the day. Isnt that what it feels like . We have fewer stocks that are safe to own and more that are down right toxic as we saw near the end of the day when the bears crushed the bulls toward antichina fueled trading. Today felt like a vicious pro Football Game where the quarterback was under pressure all day and succumbed in the Fourth Quarter in football, a quarterback tries to do a check down, looking to receivers for the best opportunities down field sometimes the Wide Receivers are wide open. Sometimes the qb has to thread the needle to hit a receiver, a slant pattern. Other times, times like today, the bears are swarming, and its like a jailbreak as they head toward the quarterback if he doesnt get rid of the ball in time, hes likely to be sacked, perhaps for a big loss or a fumble or even an
The Fourth Quarter and also this week we will get the first glimpse oncoming quarter on friday with new jobs report, so we talked about this last week and looks like the economy has slowed a little bit and we have to see whether we get confirmation of that with the data that come out in the next few days. The earnings and the guidance obviously as usual will be important but now the democrats are turning the story, so far no reaction from the markets but the markets are now accusing President Trump of soliciting additional foreign assistance, this time from australia to investigate the origins of the Mueller Probe. The story in New York Times, the president public told reporters in may that he asked attorney general william barr to look at variety of countries potentially involved in the 2016 election. House democrats subpoenaing the president s personal attorney for documents and said Senate Majority Mitch Mcconnell would have to take Impeachment Vote if it makes its way to the senate
Obviously, a nice gain here as we rebound from yesterdays selloff the dow is up 265. Best day here since about the middle of june for the s p all sectors higher for july, boosted by names like twitter and micron on the past month the feds rate cut and earnings at qualcomm, though, top of mind for investors as we go into the first trading day of august. Still, our next guest says, remain overweight in tech until the next bear market jim paulison joins us along with our own mike santoli good morning, guys good to see you. Good morning, carl. Jim, youve been pretty constructive here. Obviously, youre not thrown by numbers like what ism gave us today. I actually think the data has by and large here been pretty good for the united states, carl you know, personal consumption, real personal consumption growth in the First Six Months of this year was up over 4 annualized pace its just bizarre to be talking about a weak economy with one of the strongest sixmonth consumption periods of the entir
Have a separate one, its Unmanned Systems, and its fantastic, in other words, eh, its, you know, a very cossack story, when you, as a free person, can come up with things while in the army, its very regulated structure, a very hierarchical structure, but when you show some initiative in the ukrainian army, at least no one interferes with you, summarizing the answer to this question, it is not from general staff it should go from top to bottom, do it like this , this is the general staff hearing how they work in the fields and , well, just ready to help in this, so i am very hopeful with optimism, i look at this whole story around ground robotic complexes, around Unmanned Aerial Vehicles , because we have a good interaction between a soldier and a man with big epaulettes, that is. Well, of course we have bureaucratic difficulties, i dont think you are interested in hearing about them, but the most important thing is that this distance from directly to the operator of the groundbased gro