A new ceo at ford, what jim farley needs to do to get the stock out of the breakdown lane. And microsoft in talks to acquire tiktok. Why the videosharing app is so popular and what it means for microsoft investors. On the barrons roundtable, ben levisohn, carlton english and al rupe. Ben, before we get to the dollar and gold, i just want to ask you, were most of the way through earnings season right now. We knew it wasnt going to be pretty, but is we learn have we learned anything new about the health of Corporate America Going Forward . Its a lot better than people originally thought. 82. 3 of companies beat, which is a really amazing number. The last four quarters was about 71 . And historically, the average is around 64 , and they beat by 22 , so these are huge beats. But theres also worries that these numbers cant be sustained, that they were onetime factors that held to the fact that things were going to get tougher ahead. A lot of it is being explained away. Jack ben, you write i
One interesting thing is we finally have a little bit of strength for the dollar after the fed yesterday in a while range, now slightly higher. This is tampering gold. A gold rally is on pause. Not a strong Risk Appetite on the day to say the least. David at the same time, we had the big tech hearings with the four ceos getting beaten up. We had some big earnings today. Does it look like tech might be holding up a bit better . That tech hearing yesterday, they lucked out, or investors lucked out to some degree on the fact the fed was also happening that day. That was probably more of a psychological overhang. The bigger news is earnings after the bell today for apple, amazon, facebook, and alphabet. 100,is 40 of the nasdaq about 16 of the s p 500, and a big question here is whether or not these stocks have run too far, too fast, not just off the march lows but the last earnings season. Amazon up 40 out of the last earnings season, but what makes it so interesting is earnings for the ju
Its the fed on a day where the fed presented the monthly heati lly meeting, surprise we heard endless chatter how the stock market is in a bubble of the feds making. After a good day, the dow gained 160 points and nasdaq fell to 1. 35 . You need to know that i think this is totally nuts yeah, right. The all powerful fed created an environment where equity is the only asset class worth owning and bonds are for suckers. Its our central bank with the illuminati and free masons im sick and tired of hearing were in a bubble that the feds over inflating the price of stocks by printing money to keep the economy moving believe it or not, there is more to the economy than the Federal Reserve and certainly more to the stock market first, im not saying the fed doesnt matter of course, its important. They could raise shortterm rates to five and that could crush the stock market that would make the bears happy. I can hear them coming on air and praising the fed for giving investors a reasonable al
Earth. Charles President Trump announcing executive actions on Police Procedures as congress rushes to respond to the mass demonstrations across the country and the changing attitudes across this country. Well get the very latest from the white house and reaction from gianno caldwell. More advancement on today trucks, being called, cheap, available, effective in the fight against the coronavirus. That is helping this market too. Well give you the details. All that and so much more on making money. Charles so all the major indices are higher right now propelled by more evidence of the economys resolve and of course wall street wants steady economic gains. They still want steady fed accommodation as well. Todays retail sales a record, coupled with todays Empire State Manufacturing survey, join that with the may jobs report and the evidence is pretty clear, the stock market rally is not mindless consequence of a army of day traders but a prescient signal after vshaped recovery. President
After jay powell made down beat comments about the economy just as coronavirus cases were spiking in the south and the west today the fed chief once again made it clear that the economy remains weak and were seeing more gigantic coronavirus spikes in the south and west this time the dow surged 527 points as it jumped 1. 90 , nasdaq pole vaulted 1. 57 . How is this possible how is it possible goes down gigantically, same thing, next time goes up two key differences. First the fed is planning to buy individual Corporate Bonds to ensure Companies Stay afloat if we had survival of the f fittest, powell is doing everything to limit carnage, survival of everybody. Second, we had the biggest sales gain in history up 17 in may. That sounds very vish we have a super accommodating fed at the same time were Getting Better data which means the recovery has staying power and almost broke oil company or restaurant chain wants to issue bonds, the fed would probably buy them i know there are a lot of