Even if today was a dow. S p inching down 1. 3 . Nasdaq climbing 4. 2 the fed is supposed to cut rates when the economy is in trouble, right . How can the economy be in trouble if the s p 500 briefly made an alltime high . I hear a lot saying this but its based on the serious misapprehension usually bring people who dont understand the stock market itself because it is a market of stocks. Its no longer a good gain the indices arent a good gauge to the economy the recent rally tells us lots of companies are doing well. Some are doing well because of lower Interest Rates than the treasury market. Some are doing well. Theres been some fast growing tech stocks that have not been constrained and farm well, farm and fast growing tech tend to thrive in a weak economy. More importantly i think were looking at this backwards. The market roared to these levels because wall street thinks there is going to be a rate cut it would be much lower in jay powell told us it was still on the table that th
Platforms do a uturn and surrender everything it made after that magnificent quarter sell sell sell you dont want to see walmart soar and then repeal the whole move after an amazing quarter no less it is agonizing to witness amd give up a quick 25 points when the future seems so bright but sometimes you have no choice and i think this is actually one of those times we just had another bad day. Dow lost 291 points s p shed, nasdaq tumbled 1. 7 . Boy, did it get ugly at the close. What do you do at moments like this rather than trying to trade in and out, selling everything and then trying to buy it all back at lower levels, i think you need to learn how to ride out these moments. Unless stocks arent for you see, i think if youre patient i believe youll do better sticking with stocks rather than hiding out in treasuries even if they have much more generous yields than they did a year ago. So lets start way key word here, and that word is patience. Two weeks ago we had the eminent market
Help. Nvidia is the helper. Its the expediter. Its the cost saver. Nvidia allows you to get it done. Theres just one problem. Its widely misunderstood because on most days it is so hidden under so many partnerships its hard to capture what they do in a spreadsheet. They deliver productivity per share for their clients. Thats whats being bought or taught where i am out west covering the huge nvidia Gpu Technology conference hosted by ceo jensen huang. Now, theres a whole other world back east, the one that produces the summaries like the indices or dow advance 76 points, nasdaq jumped 0. 82 and went out near its closing lies. I didnt like that. Wall street we desperately want nvidia to predict the sales. Give us some metrics to allow us to figure out if its worth 3. 1 trillion or 2. 7 trillion or 1. 8 trillion like alphabet or amazon. Instead of the 2. 2 trillion its worth now. Yeah, we want jensen to tell us how nvidia will cure cancer while beating Climate Change and breaking down pla
Call me or tweet me jim cramer, the battle between truth and fiction plays out every da i in this market, and sadly, fiction usually wins that includes days like today where the dow shed 181 points, s p declined. 76 , nasdaq lost 1. 15 . Last fall, things have turned nasty, havent they . Im starting to see the same old negative on wheat creep back in the market, plagued by imaginary scenarios, we convince ourselves represent reality, and make us say, who needs this nonsense lets just go sell everything and buy some bonds house of pleasure. The first absurdity, the first fantasy, that somehow theres a correlation between the newly weak bank stocks and reality, because these Bank Failures last spring have left a nasty taste in our mouths. The vast majority are doing well in this country. Guess, what they werent doing it anyway. Almost every class of loans is doing great, credit cards, home equity, Small Business loans, even the dreaded Office Building loans are looking good, which are a
Corrosion but the need to believe in something otherwise, youll miss out on amazing opportunities this market affords you and saw some play out even as the averages were not so hot. Those were well off the lows and i think we have a big problem here on wall street. Thats where im located right now, wall street but simply most people dont trust the market anymore they dont ceos. They dont trust individual companies. Just endless skepticism and little sincere belief. Im playing around a whole series on why we lost faith in the market most people have given up on owning pieces of individual companies, a lot goes down to the fact that daytoday action doesnt make sense trying to gain things. Not showing up or downs for reasons that have nothing to do with underlying companies. But there are moments when the market works like its supposed to i have two nondysfunctional examples most highly gettable. I know that because we own them for my trust eli lilly had a tremendous quarter. It could be