President. His support among independents gone straight up despite the intense opposition of the media and the democrats. More positives. At the president ial town hall, mr. Trump suggested a vaccine is possible by december. Dr. Fauci says january, if everything goes well. That would be a major step towards a fullscale return to work. However, the president also said he could impose fresh tariffs on china. He called that the ultimate punishment. We should point out that there is a new report this morning suggesting china deliberately manipulated the virus for its own advantage. Lets get to the market. It will be opening lower this morning. In part because of the threat of tariffs. Look at the dow, down maybe 200 points. Nasdaq down about 55. S p down about 20. And then theres Warren Buffett. Big news there. He has sold all his Airline Stocks, all of them. He no longer has any money in that industry. However, he did lay out a big positive. He said this economy will come back, quote, not
Stocks after the worst day for the averages in two years . Does it make sense to bail on the market when the dow just plunged 1032 points, s p 500 plummeted 3. 35 , and nasdaq nose dived 3. 17 is that the right thing to do or should we treat in melt down like a buyable pull back honestly, it depends on five factors. So lets check them down one, do you have enough cash to buy or do you need to borrow to make that happen if you dont have a decent amount of cash on the sidelines, you shouldnt do any buying. Do some selling in a moment of strength history suggests we could bounce tomorrow take advantage of that lift, do some selling promises are not going away. Look at your bank account, do you need that money in the near term, say the next 12 to 18 months, if you dont think youll need it and you havent bought anything yet, then i think it makes plenty of sense to start putting that cash to work but only if the market gets hit again. Do not buy a rally please. Get a rally, you missed it it
Retail earnings over the next couple of days. Thirdquarter earnings better than estimated at 1. 13. They see their fullyear adjusted earnings raised from what they saw before on the 5. 91. D, looking at. It looks like on first blush, a beat and a raise for the rest. Global exchange for the rest of the year. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you the news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are underground with the latest. China and the u. S. Agreed to stay in touch on remaining issues to get to a phase i trade deal after a phone call earlier, in which topic a shooters top negotiators from both sides discussed core concerns. They agreed to maintain communication on the remaining issues for the first phase of negotiations. Enda curran joins me from hong kong. It is a long, convoluted way of saying they are still just talking . Is all about the mood music. It is another day of incremental news that seems to bes adjusting that governments are on track for some kind of
Pressure well dig into that. Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch stocks are at record highs the dow back above 28,000. 28,012 right now while the s p and nasdaq notch new records check out some of the new names hitting highs today. Jpmorgan and fresh records there while General Electric is at its highest level. Melissa. Driven by merger mania. A market responding positively to a flurry of deals this monday starting with Charles Schwab just one month after both brokerages eliminated commissions and a luxury you have lvmh growing its empire with tiffanys, 16 billion. Also a way to increase its exposure to china. Ebay is stelling stub hub. In total, four big deals, 56 billion in deals announced just today. Theres a common thread. First lower rates to take out debt to fund these acquisitions. Third, the prospect of an Elizabeth Warren presidency. Thats enough for a reason for some of these companies to put money to work now versus later were looking at the s p at a new high
Believe it or not, this is actually the kind of decline you want if you are a bull. We cant keep realallying on the news over and over again. President trump and president xi could hammer out a trade deal. Rallies need more and more fuel. Without it you end up on a day like this one. It reminds us that stocks can go down, too. So what did make today so soggy . All the red hot cloud based enterprise stocks, they were dethroned today. Yesterday sales force told us it was buying Capital Software for a huge premium. Everyone figured that every company in the sector and cloud kings would have takeover biz. These stocks deserve to come back down and they did. They got what they deserve. Helps businesses. Work day just reported terrific quarter down seven. Cooper software, like them. Amazing companies, amazing companies, also stocks get hammered. Think of it as cloud royalty being led to the yesterdays cloud rally was all about froth. Anyone in the industry can be a target. I think thats absu