From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
First, new highs for several growth tech keeps going up it does its funny, though, we see our sunrise and reallocating into some areas that, you know, im sure for longerterm holdings, but theyre moving them into some of the retail and travel names. So were seeing some folks take some profits, which i wouldnt necessarily be doing right now, but taking some profits out of those highflying tech names and moving them over a bit right now my personal portfolio, obviously, im very keen in whats going on in the hightech names and holding on to the facebooks of the world i have moved into some financials and other places, but its interesting to see what folks are doing out in the market. Well get to some of the things you have done in a some in kevin, sailing or a swoon this weekend . Good news on a vaccine from pfizer today well hear about vaccines in the months ahead, a lot about the elections the months ago. I think there will be a lot of concern about all of these issues i look at the news
Anticipate what will work in that time frame and what wont but after another shocking day, particularly for the sell in may and go away crowd, where the recovery stocks roared, the dow gaining 533 points, nasdaq advancing 7. 7 , the market does not lend itself to that easy divining right now the future is too binary the market feels much more like a horse race where there can be only one winner in a very crowded field of contenders. But its a long race and were still far from the homestretch so it could go either way. Who is running in this race . The first group is the subset of the cramer covid index the storks that enable the stayathome economy think everything from zoom, video, papa johns, dominos. Papa johns 33 sales, thats good news for that horse second group, the recessionproof stocks, mainly the food and consumer Package Goods plays especially ones that make hygiene supplies. During the lockdown, worries about covid, hey, but covid may be waning, lockdown is ending. Third, you
Coronavirus fearing weighs on the market, surpassing 100,000 worldwide. We are expecting a briefing from Vice President mike pence a bit hear this evening. Though that survey was conducted in the middle of february before the outbreak took hold in the u. S. In just a few moments well talk about russ cost rich he says the u. S. Consumer remains strong and where he is putting to work now. Dan, what are you doing . Not a whole heck of a lot week on week, there was a bit of optimism. As investors star thinking about how to allocate towards equities visibility will be the big point. I think i dont think were going to get that anytime soon right now. That was the low for this move you had a strong reversal off of that we set ourselves up for a powerful rally, but most of that snsht has dissipated, so some say you will have to retest the low, and were doing it right now on a relatively tenuous way, so i still think, given the stress in credit markets, stocks are not yet convincingly saying we
The biggest global coordinated effort since 2018 to save the Global Economy from the coronavirus. Were seeing it react pretty dramatically in the Commodity Prices right now. Look at the dow, were back up 766 points. Crude is up over 5 . Gold got smashed last week on margin calls, it is coming up 30 inhouse. That is pretty incredible run after a big blowout last week. The reason theyre buying gold, if all Central Banks start easing policy, gold might be a safe haven play t wasnt a safe haven play when we were worried about global recession but those odds seem to be going down as Global Central Bank starts to take action. Interestingly enough, last week commodities really got crushed. Grain prices, cattle prices, food prices across the globe, worried that people wouldnt have a lot of money to pie a lot of food. Those prices are coming back. Really a mood change from Opening Sunday night. We got more bad news from the coronavirus and more bad news thing is getting out of control, we open