Here joining us is chief Investment Officer of the Minnesota State board of investment. Good morning. Good morning, john. How are you . Im doing pretty well i hope you are, too. So, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do with this market your philosophy is to buy the market and not individual equities but this market has been kind of funky i wonder does big techs increasing waiting say in s p 500 concern you . How do you get as diversified as you want to be no. As i said, i mentioned before, we dont look at sector by sector weve been longterm investors and for the most part we buy the market you know, domestically we own the russell 3,000. We do have active managers, but the vast majority of our portfolio is passively managed our equity portfolio is passively managed, same on the International Side so we probably have most stocks that are available to us. Thats done pretty well for you. I wonder with this disconnect between the economy and the market that were seeing does that
California, florida, and arizona. There are the simple facts that valuations are lofty after 30 rise off the lows. I would notice the cyclical rotation weve been talking about in recent weeks, the flood into cheaper areas of the market has done a total 180. Does the growth sectors stocks it is the growth sectors stocks. That is the worst threeday losing streak since march 18, before we hit the bottom. Dragging the least was the classic safe havens. Consumer staples, communication, tech, they are still down 2 to 3 but that is relative outperformance on a day like today as we are seeing investors flock back towards the stayathome stocks. Kroger up more than 2 . Netflix getting a lift. Butox is flat on the day, it is those virus safety plays investors seem to be interested in. There are a few stocks investors are interested in. Theyre only 11 stocks in the green in the s p 500 at the moment. David thank you kailey leinz for that grim market report. A lot of people focus on washington when
And it would obviously be fairly strong gains the week after the weakness we saw in the Broader Markets last week. Not a lot of individual news this morning, jim. But always curious as to what caught your attention. Oil at 40 makes people feel, wait a second, maybe the economy is not so bad. Maybe thats the v. We have of course an apple price target boost a couple of Companies Reported that were not disastrous thats regarded as being positive and the day traders, they dont stop at one point today, were going to have to talk about them because of a tragic instance that happened. Ive been seeing that in my twitter feed as well i think cnbc has done some reporting on that in terms of robin hood very unfortunate and well talk about that and well talk about your friend who i know you follow closely, but back to the Broader Market and back to something we spent a lot of time talking about over these last few years which is china trade. Bloomberg is reporting that they will accelerate its agr
It is not over. It is just beginning the days are long right now. We are going to take that. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We are sitting at the flat line. Dow down about 7 or 8 and nasdaq up by about 13 yesterday, the dow was down 710 points a decline of 2. 7 s p off 2. 6. Came with huge steep declines going as smoothly as people had hoped. All of those concerns added up to steep losses. Looking at the treasury yield at 0. 669 now you see additional pressure as we continue to watch that case count talking about that, the United States seeing a Record Number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. Tallyi tallying 45,000300 that tops the numbers from april reporting that visitors that travel from hot spots to new york, new jersey to connecticut will be asked to quarantine two weeks. Those who defy that order. Hot spots include arizona, utah, texas, arkansas, alabama, north and South Carolina President Trump says he will not follow the quarantine order wh
Here is a look at our recent visit to chapel hill, North Carolina. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. As we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our cable partners, we traveled to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the next hour, we will go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the first africanamerican mayor elected in a majority white southern city. Then in 30 minlutes, the histor of uncs basketball tour as we tour the Basketball Museum. We will speak with an author on the academic scandal that involved the universitys athletic department. We will end our special with local lawyer rufus edmonston talking about delivering a subpoena to pr