Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim
Economy of china well they feel it does have were already agreed upon the both china and the u. S. Simultaneously rollback you know the parents over the course of this year under phase one china is however doing this a lot sooner than expected in part is because they are trying to reduce the cost to employers and make export of goods a lot cheaper in the domestic economy and this is really important as the government is trying to continuously stimulate production in the economy right now and were also seeing in this is you know theyre rolling these back to kind of help the economy to help these businesses work in china now i dont know i mean obviously im not saying this is going to happen but say you know at the end of the flu season its like sars it kind of just eradicate itself on its own and the krona virus is no longer an issue so maybe lets say by mid may almost when were done with quarantines and everything how much is going to take for the chinese economy to actually recover aft
Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim
The backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optimism lately with the resolutio
Has closed factories stores and slowed exports and while china hinted that the outbreak constituted as a force majeure or and therefore will have to delay fulfilling its commitments under phase one reuters now reports quote the u. S. Government still expects china to honor its commitments to which it had agreed late last year many analysts didnt see this happening even before the outbreak started and now it looks increasingly unlikely and it looks like president doesnt even believe that he can strong arm trying to into these commitments as he has preemptively promised farmers a 3rd ag bailout package and as Global Markets inc friday on fears of corona outbreak spreading lets take a look at the Positive Side of this with more than 76000 confirmed cases worldwide only 2247 deaths have been reported as of friday the overall death rate from c. D. C. Study is about 2. 3 percent which is much higher than the death rate of the flu which is around point. One percent in the u. S. But it is much