Calling for the fact that these stockmarkets had gone too far, too fast. The darlings of 2020 finally took the hit. Apple, amazon. Tesla. Gain ondia, the biggest the s p this year. Companies, along with energy, lead us into that fall. Were you the naysayer . Joe ive been predicting this since april 1. My predictions finally vindicated. But it was just so intense. We talked about this yesterday. You had Huge Companies jumping every day. This is like the reversal that we got. Energy had a bad week. Infotech down on the week. The only gainers, materials and utilities. Financials also outperforming. That really is the story. Really hot sectors finally got sold. You have such incredible moves. It is not surprising even if that is a disappointing cliche. Romaine it looks like some of this could have been related to how short a lot of institutional managers and hedge funds and investors were. You are talking about 23 straight weeks where hedge funds had been short s p futures. The latest data
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Boris johnson announces the first step to easing its lockdown. Donald trump combats an outbreak in the white house as he tries to return to work. Vice president mike pence spends the weekend in selfisolation. The European Commission threatens to sue germany. Therong rebuke over Constitutional Courts ruling on ecb bond purchasing. This is the picture weve got. Welcome to mondays program. Of futures, euro stoxx 50 futures up by 0. 4 . Ftse futures upice 0. 7 . Up by 0. 7 . We have seen the nikkei doing quite well. The hang seng doing quite well. Less well in the chinese market, but broadly speaking, positive. In response to a lot of talk about stimulus, we have had talk from the pboc and china, policy coming through in india. Lots to think about in asia. Also thinking about the european context. We will look to where all of that conversation goes. That expectation of fiscal policy doesnt seem to be underscoring the positive move in equities. Reopening gradually, very gradually. Economies
Dow than in any year since 2008. That is not just a week, that is in a whole year. Any year since 2008. That will give you some idea. The tenure yield dropped down. At 117ff of its low waiting for the fed to speak. The vix up to 45. We thought we were high yesterday at 33, we are much higher than that now. Crude Oil Continues to settle. We are just about 45 per barrel. Gold is also selling off today. Down 1. 3 . The stoxx 600, 372 which is down by 4. 5 . Continuing in the german tenyear. I want to show you what the gma looks like. Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of the selling that we have seen around the world over the last few days. This has been since monday morning to now. Greece, 20 . Netherlands, 14 . Yen is up by 3 . Do norwegian is up by 1. 65 . The Australian Dollar is down by 1. 5 . Year, a 45 basis point move this year alone this week alone. It is 100 chance according to the fed funds. Crude is up by 14 . Gas is down by 11 . The market is going crazy. This has been
Dragged down by the more powerful bond market taking 357 points, s p falling. 82 nasdaq advanced a basis point, stunning comback but lets not get too carried away, still the worst woke for the averages since the financial crisis the bond market is bigger than the stock market we dont talk about it because its boring. But its important to the direction of your portfolio. Everythings wrapped up in bond yields always has been. I learned that 40 years ago. There are multibillion dollar programs that sell stocks whenever those yields go down. Its form got as lows a 1. 1 today, closing at 1. 16 thats a record low level, signaling the economy is growing weaker, and quality investors hide money in fixed income, coronavirus supply chain the bond market is screams that the coronavirus is far worse than most people realize Global Commerce will take a real hit and it might even be something similar to 2008 when all hell broke loose i cant tell you whether the bond market is right im not an epidemi