Josh brown , some of the individual runs look amazing amazon 7, facebook 7 how long can this continue the other streak thats happening through the Looking Glass is continuing on pace as well small cap stocks look Terrible Bank stocks are the worst place you could be right now now you have the cruise lines and travel related stocks. Those are rolling back over again. I guess retail and energy are hanging in a bit better but the have notes are continuing to have not and so those trends can go on for a lot longer than most people can stomach watching them especially if they are on the wrong side of that its a very difficult market whats important to point out, its not just that nasdaq stocks are doing well the gains are particularly concentrated among the largest nasdaq stocks. We know that all you have to do is look at a ratio chart between the triple qetf and the qqqew which is the equal weight nasdaq etf. Yes, such a creature exists in the wild qqew is negative 2 on the year while the
Revived trade war with china this time, the chinese are threatening to label some of our best companies as unreliable, meaning they wont be able to sell in the peoples republic. Then we got some mid retail Sales Numbers that werent just bad. They were grapes of wrath bad. But just when it looked like it would turn into a the buyers came right back. Plus, all sorts of Companies Keep reporting and telling us that april was much better than march, which bodes well for may. S p advanced 3. 9 . Nasdaq gained. What a turn. Now, that in mind, whats on tap for next week . Well, first, im dreading well come in on monday and hear about an escalation. The president s new containment strategy against china the market got hit earlier today because we are getting tough on huawei, the huge Chinese Company that the white house views as an unofficial farm of t unofficial arm of the communist party. There is a legitimate concern and if we give it to them, it is a security risk. Okay it its something he
The country without Serious Health consequence where does the confidence come from i mean, havent lets see, we adopted universal testing yet . I dont think so we dont have contact tracing. We dont have enough gloves and mask to keep everybody protected. Lucky me yet the markets have an incredibly strong month. Even with todays mild dip, dow slipping 32 points, s p edging 5. 2 , nasdaq climbed 1. 4 , they crushed fang put it out there are we whistling past the graveyard here not so fast. Theres a ton of confidence in the safety net, the one that covers Large Companies even it as it fails to protect a lot of Small Businesses and doesnt do nearly enough for individuals. Remember we dont trade hair salons here. Theres no ticker for diner, no barber shop, gyms, no. We trade Big Companies companies that have more access to funding than i have ever seen in my life courtesy of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department who know that the stakes are high. But you also got a lot of hope driv
Decline and that is a forwardlooking indicator on this, not so much tragic deaths but we like to focus on that is assigned to come to the process and we to go to the hospital and then you see what youre doing in the hospital in the most severe cases and ends up on a ventilator, and then sadly you die at that point but that is a logging part, if you see a downtrend in the number of people getting in to the hospital and encouraging and keeping an eye on it, the governor of new york is outlining other promising developments as well, we will get into that later in the show, minutes await the president signing off on the 484 billion Small Business stimulus measure, some are calling relief, whatever you want but it is going to be widely seen as an opening with more stimulus down the pipe, blake has more on all of the above. Hi, you see our colleagues lined up in the Briefing Room meaning they are still awaiting to go into the oval office, we expect the signing at some point later this hour,
We could slay the bear today as the dow is rallying for the Third Straight day despite a shocking, shocking record high weekly jobless claims number. Take a look at the markets right now. We just went above 1,000 a couple minutes ago. The dow is about 1,006 higher. The high was 1219 points for the dow. We are watching that number. S p is up 116. Nasdaq is up 296. A gain of 4 . Again, the dow and s p could notch three Straight Days of gains today. Weve got an hour to find out. So the dow is trying to break out of that hibernation. The number to watch, 1,109. 77. Write that down. If we can close above that, we will have rallied 20 from mondays low. That means we technically exit the bear market. Our floor show panel will give us more perspective on what that means to all of you. And as the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus tops 1,000, one tech company is working to help john hopkins and astrazeneca to find a treatment or cure. Hes here in a fox business exclusive. We have been talkin