Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Retiring its entire boeing triple 7 fleet has offered employee buyouts says our southwest and American Airlines Credit Suisse analysts surmised that we have moved well past the point of no return with respect to covert 19 and its potential to have an enduring multiyear impact on the commercial Aviation Industry kristie this pandemic reminds us how much we have taken for granted we used to just be able to go to a baseball game or to get on a flight. American airlines and all the others were vying for our business with fare wars can we get back to air travel business as usual. Its definitely going to take some time because if we look back a history the other several times where the airline suffered shocks the one most clearly was 911 and i can an 11 happen it took approximately 3 to 4 years before demand and capacity and people felt safe to travel again so it is going to take some time and then afterwards subsequently you have the sars virus as i mean isolated within asia but even so the
Major amples we saw a surge in cases for example, in other parts of the country that had not been as hard hit jim, i can go through a list of things this morning that perhaps would give investors pause in a different environment, whether it be beijing, and the recent closure of schools there as they deal with a surge in cases it is only 137 but nonetheless. Flights also there we will get the update from beijing. Layoffs at the likes of at t or hilton quest giving us gooit guidance that still speaks to the weakness of that business. Yet here we are with potentially another rally in store a half hour from now. David, all of those things you just mentioned were things that maybe we expected to happen im looking at 25 pieces of research that i have sent to you in synopsis, the vast majority of them are raising price targets. Why . Because the targets were slashed before we knew that the Federal Reserve was going to back stop all of these companies so the Federal Reserve is saying if you ar
At 4 00 though sometimes go into extra innings but at least we got some sports, it happens to be in the form of a stock market had sports gamblers descend because they have Nothing Better to do, nothing else to do. Does that explain the action today when the dow gained 131 points and s p claimed nasdaq jumped but be careful, there were late day reversals or just investors pouring money into the same members of the new high list based on a winners win philosophy maybe driven by foreign buyers honestly, at this point it could be all three and the problem with these constituent sees is they make things more dangerous for the rest of us how do i know this i made it up no let me first, i did some first class work by my friend david, the master of research at goldman sachs. In his mustread u. S. Weekly kick start, he talks about how Foreign Investors with largest net buyers of u. S. Stocks in the First Quarter and notes that there is a surge in retail trading. Retail meaning like regular peo
Been in stay at home mode lately the airlines have slashed a reported 75 percent of capacity parking 2 thirds of the fleet delta which is retiring its entire boeing triple 7 fleet has offered employee buyouts says our southwest an American Airlines Credit Suisse analysts surmised that we have moved well past the point of no return with respect to covert 19 and its potential to have an enduring multiyear impact on the commercial Aviation Industry kristie this pandemic reminds us how much we have taken for granted we used to just be able to go to a baseball game or to get on a flight. American airlines and all the others were vying for our business with fare wars can we get back to air travel business as usual. Its definitely going to take some time because if we look back a history the other several times where the airline suffered shocks the one most clearly was 911 and up to 911 happened it took approximately 3 to 4 years before demand and capacity and people felt safe to travel again