Restrictions, giving us clues as to how consumers may react durables down 14 june wti holding at 17 as energy is the only positive sector for the week a lot of discussion about 2,800, are we range bound where is the ceiling now markets giving all kinds of important clues. A lot of analysts, we follow them for a long time they wait and wait until theres a moment where they can go negative theres enough companies that have done well, i have every piece of research in front of me i dont have an upgrade. I have downgrade, downgrade, downgrade. Because the stocks have run, it gives these analysts a chance to say, uh, im so lucky. It went from 29,000 down to 18 it bounced back, and now i can get off and not look bad and thats the whole tone of this morning i find it curious. I think that in general the companies have done a pretty good job just they like to pull their forecast because who the heck knows. If dr. Gottlieb doesnt know what will happen, why should he expect these guys to know wh
Coming off a fiveday win. A lot of the stocks in the nasdaq are for companies that do better in covid era. Remember, weve got many, many institutions with 80 to 95 of people working home. They require a gigantic change in the supply chain of work. And the supply chain of work is just generated a remarkable new wave of the cloud, of hardware, of software, and the companies that are really rallying for the most part are companies that do fabulously when you have to create new factories the factory is in the home theres a look at steve mnuchin. Well talk to him in a few moments. A lot over the weekend, whether it was mnuchin, kashkari, prepping us for the idea that the worst of the impact is still to come, even after that jobs number on friday which we didnt have you with us to discuss. Here we are i wanted one thing to be normal in my life Everything Else has changed like so many of us. I questioned the notion that this month will be worse we are hearing too many people who are reopening
Whats up, zoom is up, amd, shopfy, nvidia, stocks that would be categorized as stayathome stocks, companies that benefit from people using their computers, using broadband and video conferencing, Something Like that. Maybe thats whats driving the trade for the morning thus far well see where it goes from here, morguen. Thats exactly why the nasdaq is positive, albeit just above the flat line as the quote unquote stayathome stocks, and worth noting that the small caps, the russell 2,000 is underperforming down 1. 5 where the nasdaq has sort of become the stayathome stock shutin index, if you will, because of all of those tech names that are levered to the dynamics weve seen playing out in society in the last couple months, the small caps aremuch more geared towards the reopening and the prospects of reopening, given the fact they are so domestically skewed economically sensitive and tiered to what its going to be like to get workers back into jobs and the like and what that process is g
As being totally disingenuous. The jd of what happidea of whatt week with the minus 37, theres a couple of Financial Instruments that are wrong they are broken. We dont regard things as broken because it seems almost impossible that something could break. But the future that you see and the actual prices are very different, particularly in the out years. And i think whats going to happen is this has to go to zero again, because we dont have more space i heard the ceo of the largest Tanker Company on friday saying theres no room. Why should this number not go to zero it should go to zero faster than it did last time any chance it will go to zero. Yeah. Any chance that it doesnt because we will begin opening u some of these states thats certainly a hope, but there are times in life where people know that theres an instrument that is faulty. And they can shoot against that instrument and bury these people there is this financial problem that people behind the uso, they are financial peopl
Earnings and econ perspective and focused on what reopening looks like we have Something Like 16 states that have already put forward plans to begin reopening and lifting restrictions to parts of the economy plus seeing some of those efforts take place in europe as well key to all of this, though, jon is testing and treatment, something were going to talk about in this hour. We are certainly. Want to mention the major indices higher, all three, the dow, s p and the nasdaq, by about 1 as we look at this very active week in earnings season, particularly in tech were going to get microsoft and amazon earnings wednesday and thursday everybody likes to focus in on the cloud lines in those earnings because those are the two biggest players. I think the question on cloud for them is going to be which customers are using more services than in the past, which customers are using fewer and then as we start to look out beyond the second quarter, whats the Impact Likely to be in the second half of