Painful losers. If you got big gain is a time to take profit . Should you harvest losses and beatendown stocks cannot next, is pandemic togetherness making you feel squeezed in your home . Is better to remodel or trade up for a bigger place . This year americans were given the chance to make penalty free withdrawals from their Retirement Savings what you need to consider on the barrons roundtable like colleagues beverly, jack so beverly, what a year this year we saw stock zooming higher when they benefited from the pandemic and then we saw other sectors get slammed. While we usually recommend a buy and hold approach there are some moves that investors ought to be considering this time of year, right . Spewing absolutely. As you noted, jack, 2020 has been a tale of two markets. Stocks are all almost 40 this year but its been driven mostly by big attack. Apple, amazon for instance, they are both up more than 60 weve also seen pieinthesky evaluations on pandemic stock. As he has nearly tr
President obama. Biden administration going crazy with the orders that even the New York Times is telling joe to knock it off. It might come as a surprise to many americans. We heard him say this on the Campaign Trail. Speak ive got to get the votes. Ive got to get the votes. I have a strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my republican friends and some of my democratic friends even occasionally safe if you cant get the votes by Executive Order, youre going to do something. Things you cant do by Executive Order unless youre a dictator. We are democracy. We need consensus. Maria really . What happened to the great compromise or, unifier . He used to be known for reaching across the island working with him about guns. Now hes just cutting them out the president told us today. Im about to sign two Executive Orders. To undo the damage trump has done. Maria undo donald trump. Now he was talking about todays actions on obamacare and abortion but we can read between the lines. This is th
Painful losers. If you got big gain is a time to take profit . Should you harvest losses and beatendown stocks cannot next, is pandemic togetherness making you feel squeezed in your home . Is better to remodel or trade up for a bigger place . This year americans were given the chance to make penalty free withdrawals from their Retirement Savings what you need to consider on the barrons roundtable like colleagues beverly, jack so beverly, what a year this year we saw stock zooming higher when they benefited from the pandemic and then we saw other sectors get slammed. While we usually recommend a buy and hold approach there are some moves that investors ought to be considering this time of year, right . Spewing absolutely. As you noted, jack, 2020 has been a tale of two markets. Stocks are all almost 40 this year but its been driven mostly by big attack. Apple, amazon for instance, they are both up more than 60 weve also seen pieinthesky evaluations on pandemic stock. As he has nearly tr
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with