Dont take it from me on a day when the averages got hit. [ sell, sell, sell ] with the s p sinking 8. 1 . Tou down 123. You heard it from Warren Buffett and the ceo of general electric. Warren buffett says it is obscuring the greatness. It is an Election Year and candidates cant stop speaking about the countrys problem which only they can solve. As a result of the negative drum beat Many Americans believe their children will not live as well as they do. Thats dead wrong. Those born today are the luckiest crop in history. At least in terms of your weekend reading time it goes deep into politics. Surprising for me. Current business environment, whats unique in this cycle is the difficult relationship between business and government. The worst i have ever seen, end quote. Wow. He goes on to write Technology Productivity and globalization have been driving forces during my business career. In business if you dont lead these changes you get fired. In politics if you dont fight them you cant
Luckiest crop in history. At least in terms of your weekend reading time it goes deep into politics. Surprising for me. Again, quoting him about the Current Business environment, whats unique in this cycle is the difficult relationship between business and government. The worst i have ever seen, end quote. Wow. He goes on to write Technology Productivity and globalization have been driving forces during my business career. In business if you dont lead these changes you get fired. In politics if you dont fight them you cant get elected. Immelt says most government policile is antigrowth, end quote. These perpetual roadblocks perpetuate a cycle of slow growth, poor job creation, populism, low productivity, poor policy and more slow growth, end quote. Wow. Globalization. It hurt a lot of working people in this country. Im not going to quibble with the caustic nature of the political backdrop that makes doing business more difficult and makes us less willing to pay up for the stocks of any
You heard it from Warren Buffett and the ceo of general electric. Warren buffett says it is obscuring the greatness. It is an Election Year and candidates cant stop speaking about the countrys problem which only they can solve. As a result of the negative drum beat Many Americans believe their children will not live as well as they do. Thats dead wrong. Those born today are the luckiest crop in history. At least in terms of your weekend reading time it goes deep into politics. Surprising for me. Again, quoting him about the Current Business environment, whats unique in this cycle is the difficult relationship between business and government. The worst i have ever seen, end quote. He goes on to write Technology Productivity and globalization have been driving forces during my business career. In business if you dont lead these changes you get fired. In politics if you dont fight them you cant get elected. Immelt says most government policile is antigrowth, end quote. These perpetual roa
Closed up 22 points. S p. 18 . That is resilience. Im going to tick off how much bad news this market takes on a given day after very big run the last four weeks and the darn thing just keeps fighting. It can take a jab. It can absorb multiple upper cuts and simply wont stay down. Lay flat on the campus. First, former market darling. Aggressive Pharmaceutical Company punching back for months now, share price got cut in half today. Here is the stock that had come down from 263 seven months ago to 69 yesterday but it still managed to plunge another 35 in this one session. A sound is worth 1,000 words. Valeant including Hedge Fund Billionaire bill ackman. A year ago it was one of the best performing of all time but an astonishing tail spin since last august. You would think that valeant could shake up the whole market with the gigantic stunning decline, but hillarys wrath against the company hasnt resonated beyond this one poster child. Dont ever believe, by the way, anyone that says you
The second week of february we have seen this phenomenon play out and today was no different even as the dow did slip 80 points s p declined 8. 4 . Nasdaq lost 1. 1 . [ sell, sell, sell ] it was up yesterday. What do i mean Pricing Power . Im talking about a companys ability to raise price on its goods and not meet any resistance when it does. The ones that can have stocks that bounce back quickly from marketwide turmoil or they hang in like champs. The ones that cant, they dont come back. Or they fall behind when the market bounces because their earnings per share numbers are in jeopardy. Who has it . All right. The market was down. Many stocks consolidated gains we have had over the last couple of weeks in a way that showed me the companies underneath can with stand promotional and discounted pricing. Take apple. [ bull bellowing ] one of the reasons i say own it, dont trade it. [ buzzer ] is because am has the ultimate in pricing pou. I get tired of wall street flitting in and out o