Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech trade, given how far so many of these trends have run . I think some of these trends existed before the pandemic and have be
The dow did go down. The nasdaq went down 4 or 5 . I spent the better part of this year studying the pandemic i was right. You know what we just cover . The professionals are not the only covid that matters. We have a Massive Group of investors who become professionals. They dont care about the same thing as the experts theyre the ones who were the marginal buyers and sellers. The investors have changed the entire character of the market what made you not be able to sleep at night it was very little belief in stocks for the past 20 years, the convention says stocks could no longer be trusted. They continue to lose their values way too quickly when something goes wrong on top of that, the convention only a fool to try to pick individual stocks. You may as well stop trying to beat the mark and put some of your money in an index fund and invest safely in bonds the last eight months, that convention has been stood on its head by a new generation of investors after the rise of Commission Fr
Close at the open. The road map begins with that renewed vaccine optimism and detailing their own strong data. Plus as for the market, the u. S. Stocks poised for new records and the futures are and investor optimism about that vaccine and dow is within striking distance of 30,000. We have a lot of deals this morning. Pnc looking to become one of americas largest banks and set to buy spanish bank and 11. 6 billion the Purchase Price and other deals to tell you about this morning carl lets start with the moderna news excellent news for the second week in a row. Dr. Fauci on some of the networks earlier today saying the data are striking and the results are just as good as it gets i really think we have to go back just a couple months and recognize that even if we had any hope that there would be a successful vaccine maybe 70 , 80 . 50 to 60 for the flu is something we learned moderna Insider Selling was bad and turns out the Insider Selling was bad meaning they sold badly i do think wha
Headlines hit on the coronavirus. New york city is halting all inperson learning starting tomorrow it comes as the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing nationwide. And a new all time high for s p. We have a Record Number of cases of covid in america and retailers are hitting an all time high. How can this be . The haves and havenots kudos to karen and tim target numbers were extraordinary. It should come as no surprise. Thats a name we have talked about. If you love walmart at their valuation, you have to love target at theirs walmart quarter i thought was very good. There are a lot of good individual stories, but i dont think it speaks to the economy per se there are names we also mention that seem to be topping out. The price action in restoration hardware, William Sonoma and we dont need to go down the road of what they sell. Those stocks popped out a couple of weeks ago thats concerning. Do you want to play at the 100 earnings table, gap earnings on the
Comfortably. Hawkish headlines on china and weak Economic Data both weighing on market sentiment. The dow is down 300 points yearly it was down 350 about 20 minutes ago. We have 59 minutes left in the session. Big show coming up four. A true 2020 winner, et ceteray stock is up 250 this year we will talk to the ceo Josh Silverman about the holiday crunch and whether his companys momentum can continue. And arthur blank, cofounder of home tee poe, owns the Atlanta Falcons and atlanta mls team as well lets focus first on the stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action into the close meg tirrell has a vaccine update and phil lebeau has an update on nikola, that stock down020 today. Mike santoli first to you and the markets. A mild shake of the tree. Indexes backing off. Some of the stuff that was up the most this month is down the most today seems like a little bit of trimming there are probably unbalanced portfolios there you have we are roughly capped we were