These days lets face it can happen to anyone because incidents like this are becoming common. Dont like that, happen last night, the confrontation again in louisville, demonstrators try to set the library on fire, a black cop shot in the stomach, 24 rest, urban violence is an election issue and polls show a sharp decline for antipolice demonstrations. Thats that, lets get back to money. After battling the threat of impeachment, Speaker Pelosi and the democrats are pushing a 2. 4 trigon dollar stimulus plan, and was 3 trillion and now its 2 trillion, now they come down, we dont know whether the treasury secretary will go up from his original trillion dollar, 1 trilliondollar plan. Not that much action in stock so far today, the stimulus plan news not really affected the market, the dow will be down 100 ands and p down a little bit but the nasdaq looks like a gain of 16 points at the state, not Much Movement but look at this, william hill, the reddish bookies getting to takeover bids and
Of the surge in new cases. Ill have more on that in a moment. We are getting new information on the twitter hack. It wasnt just a handful of celebrities. 130 accounts were targeted and it appears to have been an inside job. That is serious stuff. Im not sure that Twitter Twitter is up, thats right. Im thinking of another stock. Okay, twitter is up just a fraction. It is serious stuff about twitter. Weve got an analyst on the show who says it might have been a test run for something much bigger. Time to drop your twitter account . We will ask the question and get an answer. More on that coming up, too. Lets get to the market. This week we have seen a shift away from big tech and towards smaller companies. The russell index of small cap stocks, for example, up 3 this week. The dow industrials, down just over 2 . This morning, we will open with a nice gain for the dow, up maybe 100 points, 26,600. Look at the nasdaq. Theres a bounceback for you, up 100 points at the opening bell. All righ
Taken individually they can mislead us but taken together they are like high beams who can keep you from straying into the wrong and dangerous lane [ screaming this was a good day for the bulls. Dow gained 3919 points nasdaq advanced 5. 2 more importantly, though, every single stock, on my go list like the go pattern in football, a go list was up today. Meaning that something very big could be afoot that is highly unusual whats on my goal list im talking about the companies that are doing okay right now. But if the pandemic were to end or be behind us, theyd be putting up breathtaking yearoveryear comparisons and we care about yoy, year over year by the Time Next Year well have found a way back to normal or at least an almost normal situation. And its probably going to happen much sooner than that im going to rip down that list to show you what a go pattern looks like but before that buyers have decided that science will beat covid sooner than expected so youd better get on board or mi
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
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