About. Serve eagerly anticipating why . When the vast majority of investors agree something is going to happen that, is priced into the stock market. The real economy moves at its own pace, you got to broer money to build out equipment and use that equipment to manufacture goods and wait for the cost to buy them the stock market has no such limitations. Stocks dont travel the speed of light. Well, how about the speed of thought . They come close. So they decide the economy is slowing or speeding up or flat lining stocks start trading like thats the case. Instantaneously. Usually takes some time to build that consensus which is why you rarely see the moves happening all at once. But once the big institutional Portfolio Managers are on the same page about something, you can be confident that its baked into the averages. I say that week. It will happen that week economists take an ivory you to area proech to the discipline. They have models for how the world is supposed to work. Also they
And check out the nasdaq. Also at record levels, a whopping 44 this year. Did you guys all have your money in nasdaq stocks this year . As you know, were not allowed to hold individual stocks. But you can hold nasdaq and qqqs. Its on pace to have the best performance in 2003. You act like you didnt have it. I have a 401 k . You want me to ask. Where do you have europes, steve . In a boat, a couple of boats. Yes, thats right the s p, half a percent. That index is up just 24 this year. And, of course, you made some money in treasuries as well if you invested at the right time. Take a look at treasury yields. There we go. 4. 01 on the 30year, 3. 87 on the 10. 3. 87 on the 5, and 4. 29. I dont know. Do you think 2024 is the year when we disinvert . Thats a question we have to be watching. Yeah, definitely, absolutely. Do you think happens . Why has it been inverted for so long is the question . As the fed does its thing, you would expect a disinversion yield curb. Eventually. It may not ha
Today. The single most important piece of information that they release. The dow gained 29 points and the nasdaq fell. The market is down right shocking the bank stocks have been rallying for days since the economy is red hot hot enough that the fed might have to raise rates repeatedly the hope of fast paced rate hikes have been driving the financials higher and i have told you that the financials are the most important leaders of the sector out there not tech, not health care. Not even industrials but the fibs as we call them is to help the Banking System with a big job loss in retail, no doubt thanks to amazon and online brethren the industrials and the transports caught fire the former because maybe the fed wants to strangle the rapid rate hikes but a lot of the transports are connected to the ecommerce throw in the big pushes from the Analyst Community from amazon and apple, two of the market generals and you get new winners all plumped up to feed the beast. So can the beast contin
Abigail doolittle is here to tell us what is moving. Abigail we have nice gains for the major averages, and for the doubt, another record high. We dont have that you can that yet, at least for the s p 500 and nasdaq. Interesting if we see more of the volatility we have had the last two days from where the s p 500 and the nasdaq have woven into small declines. The day is young, but the bulls are out. We have weekly gains once again. Lets hop into the bloomberg and look at g btv 6636. We have all the gains so far in 2018, and not surprisingly, that has led to the best month of the s p 500 of 6. 6 since march 2016. That was the big rebound after the correction we saw earlier in the year. Pretty bullish action for stocks. Hoping today some earnings winners. Lets look at the likes of intel, among other stocks. Intel trading higher, and its highest level since 2000. They also offered an optimistic avi, thea drugmaker, up 6. 6 but 8. 6 . And we have a report out where companies are beating th
Crude oil prices also, which yesterday ended relatively flat. Prices have picked up slightly to 48. 25 for p ti. Brent crude up as well. Existing home sales come out at 10 00 eastern time. Expected to have a risen but at a much slower pace than march. As for earnings look for campbells soup, deere, foot locker and the buckle. Its stubhub. They got pay you 500 oh okay, how much . Oh pay me a thousand o go. Kind of a negative Interest Rate thing where they actually pay you do come. Its ban busy week on the retail front. The latest name to report. Gap. The retailer posted earnings in line with previous guidance but it is giving a cautious outlook for the rest of the year. Warning it needs trends in the Apparel Retail environment if it going to hit wall streets earnings target. Amid that slump gap plans to close all Old Navy Stores in japan. Also some banana republics, mostly outside of north america and lit do that by the end of the business year. Following the latest reports s p downgrad