Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
At their highest level ever. But the best trade may be emerging far away. The eem is far outpacing the s p 500 over the last three months a nosedive in the dollar it is at its lowest level since april 18 is it time to rotate out of the u. S. And look abroad for the next big trade, tim . It seems like it could be a rerun of creating a globe. These are dynamics we havent seen in a long time. If you look at where the dollar is if you are investing in emerging markets, the currency is at least 50 of your return profile and high yielding currency is a driver of this reality but its the turkish and african moneys the blowoff top was around 51. 75. I think you have rates moving higher, but normalizing. Normal high rates for em arent good if you look at the source trade and things moving around the world, some of this is about a global recovery. In some sense at least, the u. S. Dollar and rates will stay lower for longer and thats fantastic for the rest of the world. We may be in the depths o
Theres a live lookin well monditor that for you. The president elect announcing his team today we expect to hear from joe biden at the bottom of the hour and his fed chair nominee, janet yellen josh, i mentioned the dow, best month since 87, russell, best month ever, energy best month since april, industrials best month since 09. Theres a lot of momentum coming into december. Yeah. Look, i think a lot of people are saying this and i actually agree with it and i hate to go along with conventional wisdom but right now it seems as though the biggest risk is that everyones already bullish and there arent that many people left to buy. If you go on like financial social media, you find owl the bears. In real life people are in, regardless of what they might be saying publicly. Right now thats probably the big risk, that things are a little bit too good. You have a great setup with earnings growing, the vaccine being distributed. In london theyll give it out as soon as monday i i dont think w
Of play for stocks as we build into our discussion. Youve got dr. Birx on the task force. The covid surge, quote, the worst event the country will face coming this winter. Stocks have run a lot coming into november. The vaccine is getting closer day by day values been outperforming lately the value etf coming off its fifth positive week in a row thats the First Time Since its fiveweek stretch ending the end of december of 2019. So my question to you to start things off, where do we go from here it seems like the market wants to go higher i think its been incredible all year it seems to definitely be picking up steam in november and pt fir the first part of december, investors are leap frogging, the political discord in washington, the lack of fiscal stimulus and leap frogging that and buying stocks in general and buying growth stocks, buying momentum stocks, buying value stocks, airline, energy, all of the above. It a really good time to reflect as investors, you got to be in it to win
Do you dunk the entire covid cohort or stick with it on a dow when the rose 183 and the nasdaq gained 1. 8 the reaction to zoom Video Communications after it reported a good quarter that wasnt quite good enough for wall street. This company practically sin none mouse with the new normal and look ban on 2020 as the year of zoom so when you see it down 15 its alarming. You got to wonder what that means for the rest of the stayathome stocks. The answer, nothing. Just because zooms insanely high growth is decelerating that doesnt mean the trend is over in fact, id argue it never had gone away because this year has shown us millions of jobs can be done better from home. No need for that central office. Why go to meetings to negotiate or sign documents when you do everything over the web and save millions, maybe ten, maybe hundreds of millions in travel, hotel, dinners, zoom, i mean thats how the 39 billion s p global ihs market deal was consummated as we heard from Doug Pederson on mad mone