Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr
Populating wall street are a bunch of weather man everyday you hear the forecast today the dow slipped some points nasdaq declined 1. 2 it is enough to make you take a meteorologist course to see which way the wind blows seems like both ways blowing at the same time. The tail wind dies and the market goes right back down again. You dont care about todays weather, what good is that for you on the forecast . It is easier said than done. How do you navigate your way through the confusing markets. Starting with the winds from the vaccine. We know it is a huge tail wind for the economy. Once people are vaccinated, we can open everything back to normal and more restaurants and retailers will make it and there will be more jubilation. The jubilation that kohls got underneath its stocks and malls can reopen and troubled retailers can be able to shooure and macys the younger robin hood traders are betting heavily on the cruise line, between the vaccine and soon enough well be able to take a cru
For those two companies, it was a tale of two different big tech quarters alphabet has certainly been the laggard this year. Underperforming not just its big tech peers, but the nasdaq amazon has been a standout, 70 gains. Alphabet had a low bar and amazon had a high one. Did they deliver we can look at a number of metrics, what i want to drill down on particularly is cloud. These are the companys newer growth engines cloud numbers came in only in line with expectations revenue up 29 year over year. Love large numbers but google cloud, revenue was up 45 and now the company is going to break it out as its own segment. Have a listen to what was said last night. Given the progress we are making and the opportunity for the cloud in this growing global market, we continue to invest aggressively in our gotomarket capabilities and extending the global footprint you will see information about the scale of our investments so investors are going to be able to see exactly how much google is inves
The swing state of pennsylvania. How will voters react one week from the election . Its the final sprint to november 3, joe biden will leave his house to attend to events in georgia and when questioned about his relaxed schedule, he said every day is a 12 hour day. The president keeps up eight torrid pace heading to three states today pulling in huge crowds with tens of thousands attending the three events in pennsylvania yesterday and by the way, 62 million have already voted, 20 million in person and 40 million by mail. To the markets, way down yesterday, closing down 650 with the most modest of bounces this morning no bounce at all actually the dow jones will be down a couple points. Lots of corporate profit reports, they remain strong and we will bring in the highlighted a moment. The big earning report comes as afternoon. Microsoft reports and that may set the tone for the markets. As always, a big show for you with the president on the campaign. Rachel campos who wants her nine k
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