All the fast moving developments. The back to improving trend here but the markets are chewing on that, i guess assessing not improving fluff. What is your take . I agree with you. If you look at continuing claims, they have fallen pretty dramatically. The weekly claims there is sense by the market to keep the momentum going. Maybe that is a stimulus package. We dont know. Obviously the market takes it as a slight negative. We have had in the economy last couple months is housing boom, explosion in building. It has driven up commodity prices. Lumber prices. Multiyear highs. Multidecade highs. There is a concern that may cool off a little bit. Housing starts slowed down a little bit in august. There is a little bit of concern, that maybe that bright spot in the economy is starting to go down a little bit but not so much if you look at the oil market. Look at the oil market it is kind of signaling Better Things ahead. Weve seen a big jump up in oil prices, the last couple of days, a big
Yesterday carl was a discouraging day for a lot of people who have been chasing momentum because last week was maybe one of the best momentum weeks i can recall since 1999, which meant that if you bought it went higher and how much fun is that . Yesterday was the day that you bought it went higher and then you got crushed. So i think that usually takes a couple days of reset where maybe you can after stocks that arent as hot, say, as tesla. So you would focus, say, on Something Like the banks ive been through the banks and i know dave and i talk about this all the time, they are incredibly complex beasts, they are not like, oh, tesla, hot and when i first went over them i thought they looked pretty good but already theyre reversing. This is not an uncommon pattern as people find one line or two line that they dont like and then they sell these stocks. David, its happening once again. You know that these banks could have had littered with bad loans, its not, they have great trading, the
Here lea lets debate that today. Good to see everybody. Lets take you right to the boards and show you where we are trading. The dow is at 23 about 300 point gain S P Still Holding on the a 1 gain as is the nasdaq. Theres a russell at the far right hand side of your screen up just about 2 all right, jim, youre holding onto this cash we have come a long way from the bottom s p is up 26 . Nasdaq up 25 take stock of where we are and where you thip we may nk we may here taking stock of where we are, the price market has priced in var shaped recovery in economy and profits. That shows that 2021 earnings, they are looking for the best ever i disagree with that i think you will see a recovery in 2021 but not a v shaped recovery, a u shaped recovery. As the stock market comes to grips with that, im still preaching caution and patience i see the move today and yesterday. I have the 12 cash. I feel a bit uneasy about it i got to say i expect more bad news on the virus, on the Economic Impact and
The yield down below. 6 last time i checked, it was at 0. 597 dr. Fauci saying the first human trial testing for a covid19 vaccine is now on track calling it the ultimate game changer but that public distribution is still 12 to 18 months away. President trump was asked if the stom pile of personal protective equipment was nearly depleted. We are sending it directly to hospitals. We dont want to take it before it gets there. We asked many states to do this. Many states have people or where they make clothing, we said see if you can get it directly from those manufacturers. The president considering halting flights to hot spots in the country, which would be a shift in this batter and also potentially have an impact on when and if the economy will return to some normal si in the meantime, total death numbers have topped 5,100. Confirmed cases have topped 200,000. In new york, topping 81,000 cases. In italy, the lowest daily death toll the new number of active cases declining. The hate he
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