The biggest gainer is the qqq, the nasdaq etf. China with an aggressive move allowing more flexibility. It is soars today, as you would imagine, up more than 4 . Bob, its a good rally, but were not quite getting back what we lost on friday right . But if youre not confused about the action the last couple days i dont think youre paying attention. We are down 280 points on friday. At one point today we were almost on the verge of getting it all back. Put up that twoday chart. Were basically almost back to where we were. Lets not quibble. The point is whats going on . Why is this happening . Ive asked many traders this morning how to explain the last two days. No alternatives to stocks bob. Theres no reason they should have been down on friday. Chinas going to stimulate other people are saying bob, its an illusion. No matter what its true i think mand,is right, china has been sending some mixed signals recently. By the same time on friday they came out and banned margin financing, theyre
S p backs up. 2 . Would you buy amazon here . My quick response, two very different questions, yes and no. Thats right. Yes, i would buy amazon. No, its not worth 400. Welcome to the world of bull market discipline. The discipline to buy stocks that arent cheap, but are right. A discipline that will be tested in the next few days, at last because of todays last hour selloff sell, sell, sell that shook people out of their complacency. Im talking about the rigor to recognize what the market actually wants, though, not necessarily what you want. The dichotomy that says you would rather have a portfolio that is hated by the intelligentsia and making money than be bound by concerns that may not be as relevant as they should be. Lets start with amazon, which hit at an alltime high today, 399 before being repelled along with many other stocks by waves of afternoon selling. This weekend on the most watched news program in america i caught a terrific advertisement for amazon. It was incredible.
S p back 7. 2 . At jim query, would you buy amazon here . My quick response, two very different questions, yes and no. Thats right. Yes, i would buy amazon. No, its not worth 400. Welcome to the world of bull market discipline. The discipline to buy stocks that arent cheap but are right. A discipline that will be tested in the next few days. At last because of todays last hour 7 selloff sell, sell, sell that shook people out of their complacency. Im talking about the rigger to recognize what the market actually wants, though, not necessarily what you want. The dichotomy says you would rather have a portfolio that is hated and making money than be bound by concerns that may not be as relevant as they should be. Lets start with amazon, which hit at an alltime high today, 399 before being repelled along with many other stocks by waves of afternoon selling. This weekend on the most watched news program in america i called it a terrific advertisement for amazon. It was incredible. A film ab
The jolt report coming out at 10 00. Then we have the Kansas City Fed survey, as well. Equity futures this morning, at this hour, at least, are indicated higher. Dow futures indicated up by about 50 points above fair value. S p up by about 6. 5. Andrew, back over to you. Good to have you back. Thank you. Its good to be back. This is a very different place than cnbc asia and bernie. Well talk about that in a bit. Rr done nelly is going to buy consolidated graphics for 620 million. As joe was just mentioning, bank of america lost a fraud trial over u. S. Mortgages yesterday. Live on fraud for claims related to defective mortgages for funds sold to its countrywide unit. And finally, Lehman Brothers, remember them . The Lehman Brothers holding company, this is the one that sort of went through the bankruptcy process is suing giants stadium. It wants to recover more than 100 million of a canceled Interest Rate swaps contract that would used to hedge bonds issued to the arena. The lawsuit ca
Governments attempt to dictate and bias news stories. Now we learn that this government assault may not be over. All those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern and 4 00 p. M. On the west coast. Our top story tonight, will Arizona Governor jan brewer veto a gay Discrimination Bill passed by the state legislature. Nbc news joins us with the details. Good evening. Reporter of course the poe opponents call it a religious freedom bill. In any event, governor brewer who is on the spot on this has just returned to arizona after attending a threeday governors conference in washington. Shell know that the momentum toward a veto has been building fast. All right. I guess we lost the tape, mike, but we got you and thats just as important. I guess we did, yeah. Im reading the same thing that you are reading. It looks like youve got businesses like apple and the n