Colleagues. It was a mostly ugly week for the market, and it ended really strongly. Its kind of schizophrenic. Whats going on . Well, the market was due for a fall after having the kind of rally it did, and it finally got an excuse this week when covid hospitalizations started rising. Its not in places like new york that have been hot spots before, but in places where it really hadnt been like texas and arizona. And that kind of freaked the market out because if there has to be shutdowns around the country at different places, it means that the economy cant come back as quickly as people thought. And this became a big risk. And with positioning extended the way it was, it was just the perfect rest recipe e for a selloff. Jack any idea why we had that nice bounce on friday . It was oversold going into friday morning . I think thats a big part of it. There really wasnt any news out there to make it go one way or the other. One of the things that might have been overlooked in the selloff
Colleagues. It was a mostly ugly week for the market, and it ended really strongly. Its kind of schizophrenic. Whats going on . Well, the market was due for a fall after having the kind of rally it did, and it finally got an excuse this week when covid hospitalizations started rising. Its not in places like new york that have been hot spots before, but in places where it really hadnt been like texas and arizona. And that kind of freaked the market out because if there has to be shutdowns around the country at different places, it means that the economy cant come back as quickly as people thought. And this became a big risk. And with positioning extended the way it was, it was just the perfect rest recipe e for a selloff. Jack any idea why we had that nice bounce on friday . It was oversold going into friday morning . I think thats a big part of it. There really wasnt any news out there to make it go one way or the other. One of the things that might have been overlooked in the selloff
Apple have shut a number of Stores Across the country. Microsoft shutting all of its Retail Stores today. Joining us break it down is Abigail Doolittle who has been following all of the action by a rough day for stocks. This virus is really starting to weigh on investors. What do you see . Abigail stocks are lower in the selling pressure never relented. We have stocks responding to data as it comes out with the big drop on the data from the u. S. The nasdaq and s p down. Confirming the risk off, the fact that haven bonds rallied once again. We will bring welcome to the picture. Investors want out of risk. This week, they are not tiptoeing, they are running out of these risk assets on fears , perhapsaps the virus this is the first wave. That it could hurt the u. S. Economy. Emily you have been talking about havens rising as stocks have been down. What would you point out . Abigail it feels as though this week is new in terms of this risk off. And wednesday, we had a big down day and a b
Colleagues. It was a mostly ugly week for the market, and it ended really strongly. Its kind of schizophrenic. Whats going on . Well, the market was due for a fall after having the kind of rally it did, and it finally got an excuse this week when covid hospitalizations started rising. Its not in places like new york that have been hot spots before, but in places where it really hadnt been like texas and arizona. And that kind of freaked the market out because if there has to be shutdowns around the country at different places, it means that the economy cant come back as quickly as people thought. And this became a big risk. And with positioning extended the way it was, it was just the perfect rest recipe e for a selloff. Jack any idea why we had that nice bounce on friday . It was oversold going into friday morning . I think thats a big part of it. There really wasnt any news out there to make it go one way or the other. One of the things that might have been overlooked in the selloff
Colleagues. It was a mostly ugly week for the market, and it ended really strongly. Its kind of schizophrenic. Whats going on . Well, the market was due for a fall after having the kind of rally it did, and it finally got an excuse this week when covid hospitalizations started rising. Its not in places like new york that have been hot spots before, but in places where it really hadnt been like texas and arizona. And that kind of freaked the market out because if there has to be shutdowns around the country at different places, it means that the economy cant come back as quickly as people thought. And this became a big risk. And with positioning extended the way it was, it was just the perfect rest recipe e for a selloff. Jack any idea why we had that nice bounce on friday . It was oversold going into friday morning . I think thats a big part of it. There really wasnt any news out there to make it go one way or the other. One of the things that might have been overlooked in the selloff