Climbing 8. 86 how do we interpret the market is the market heartless in response to the plea of the protesters is the Market Making judgments about the difference between violent protest and passive resistance i know many people wish it would. They want the market to be part of the debate. They want it to play a constructive role in the dialogue over racial ee qualiqur go down to express empathy for the troubled times were living through. Thats not how it works. The truth is the markets blind because it has no eyes its deaf because it has no ears its a convenient abstraction, not a personal opinion investors make judgments until recently nobody was investing with an eye toward making the world a better place whatever that might be now there is a Younger Generation of investors with hearts in their heads. I share the sentiment. For the most part people pick stocks because theyre trying to make money we buy stocks at companies, Good Companies with good longterm prospects. Mainly ones th
Gilead sciences, as you heard from maria, positive news from a government trial of their remdesivir and also from two of their own trials. Positive news on a treatment. That sent futures straight up earlier this morning and look at the stock, also straight up, 6. 8 . Thats the effect of this effective trial of remdesivir. Up go futures, up goes gilead stock. More on this in a moment. A second reason for the dows gains, investors expect a strong recovery for the economy starting in the summer. The market always looks to future conditions. Theres a third reason. The Federal Reserve is likely to say today they will do whatever it takes to stabilize your money. Wall streets expecting more stimulus. The dow will be up close to 550 points at the opening bell, close to 2 . The s p up 2 . The nasdaq solid indeed, up over 2 . We had boeings numbers out this morning. Continuing problems, but its cutting 10 of its work force and investors like that. The stock is up nearly 6 . Okay. More on all th
Mnuchin this morning bob with the wild week for stocks rick and the bond market bob bob, we start with you its another choppy day hopefully will end a little more stable than we started below this week was 22. 80. Were well off of the lows for the week but still down today. Off of the lows for this morning. In terms of sectors, its been all over the place all week. For once energy is leading but that was the opposite earlier in the week Consumer Staples are the week one. Banks have been generally under performing the entire week just want to point out the consumer names every one was talking about. Campbell, smuckers a and the food stocks were up. For the last day and a half they have been selling off. I want to point out the bond etfs high yield bonds the junk bonds down on higher chances. Theres 3 currently muin bonds weak. They do the convention center. They fund the transit systems. Quite across the board one bit of solace is the vix is quieting down. If you call in the 60s quieten
Times Peterson Foundation poll, only 14, 14, 14 of families own stocks outright. Meaning the market is creating all this wealth for the few, not the many 60 of americans dont even know that stocks are up for the year and theyve advanced 24 hallelujah so after a sedate day where the dow gained 28 points, the nasdaq climbed 0. 05 , lets talk about what the heck is going on here i think its a lot more complicated than simple ignorance. The first reason why people who can afford to own stocks are sitting on the sidelines earning very little, the disastrous bear market at the turn of the century impoverished a whole generation of individual investors who got burned by chasing, yes, the hottest stocks imaginable when the dot com crash hit, it ended the greatest love affair ever told. I was part of it i started the street. Com in 1995 immediately found hundreds of thousands of people with a thirst for any investing knowledge to level the Playing Field. Between the rich and the not so rich at
The final hour and we did get some strong earnings from industrial names like Rockwell Automation and speaking of the president s speech, we will have the first reaction from the white house right here on closing bell. A live interview with top economic adviser larry kudlow in just a few minutes from now. And we will ask him for some clarity on china and the status to have the trade negotiations joining us now for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Kind of a quiet market day here, but perhaps a little bit of upward bias for a while until just the last several minutes. I think its about everything that you just touched on i think its the majority was President Trump, the expectations coming out of that speak that speech at the Economic Club. Was he going to unveil anything that the market didnt already know so once you get through it and there was nothing new that the market could bite into, the market sells off sort of an anticlimactic feel to the whole day. So we had some a