Because we lost control of covid19 today went higher. The the s p gaining and nasdaq gaining 1. 02 . Hospitality and leisure. Has the market lost its mind no we are dealing with cross currents any time stocks get hammered, it seems to trigger visceral vaccine reaction good news bails out. On the one hand we know the cavalry is not coming. It is going to be in the form of at least one, pfizer vaccine, wont reach us until spring. In the meantime the virus is out of control we had 162,000 cases yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and Applied Materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. It is looking like well have a smooth transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration thats a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. I am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine
Buy the cyclical stocks. On a day the market got hammered, nasdaq declining just. 06 lets remember what actually took us to these record levels in the first place because those stocks are still the best in jump you know what i am talking about. Talking about a termite coin i am talking about faang yeah, faang, facebook, apple, netflix and google these stocks gone out of style on the wall street fashion show. Smart money keeps telling me to get out of these small stocks and into the russell 2,000 they want you to forget faang and big on everything better with the vaccine there is some stocks that become a lot less attractive when the world goes back to normal. Oh, but not faang. These companies are living and breathing organisms. They are so powerful theyre not connecting to the economic win theyre in charge of their domestici desti destiny. They dont care whos in the white house. It put a target back while zuckerberg fights the government, it would be better if he didnt have to so they
Gaining. It is time to admit that conventional wisdom has been wrong every step of the way. In this market, patience is not a virtue discipline cluster of fortune. Buying the most obvious stock, well, that has been a strategy that was easy i struggle about how this is possible i am not used to a mark that reward investors being late to the party. We found out moderna has a vaccine that may work better than pfizer. Thats getting off the table we got uncontrol spread over america. And mayors and governors refused to shutdown the bars and restaurants. Those are the main places we are getting infected no, it is at home, jim this pandemic is steam rolling us the prospect of a vaccine keeps on plotting it and shutting everything down. I am sure you are wondering, given the numbers that we see, how is that possible first every now and then there were moments that well stood on our head. Time like these is not sell. You must be willing to suspend judgment how far stocks can reasonably go. Than
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
Well be on and bridge you all of the bring you all of the big headlines. First the november to remember dow surging towards best month since january 1987 s p and nasdaq handing in best work since april energy up more than 25 percent financials up more than 17 percent. Small caps, best month ever. Bulls werent hiding, check this out, each of the past four monday he got big vaccine news before the market open and look at diminishing returns, the market fell despite moderna requesting emergency use of its vaccine. So weve been talking talking black or white or red and green in terms of diminishing returns. I took that economic class my freshman year and learned all about diminishing returns which is why i often invoke it here, i think so, absolutely tell you something, the vix is telling another story. I thought a day like today, monthend i thought the vix would close closer to 25 but here it is closing lower on the day, maybe its a function of that specific security, but ill tell you giv