Janelle yellin continues to demonstrate genuine horse sense in her desire not to use higher Interest Rates to combat financial risk taking. With the dow climbing 90 points. Nasdaq decline d. 02 , i think its worth explaining why i believe this bull can actually keep running. Even though you could get garden variety pullbacks along the way. Heres the thing. Sometimes you need to sit back and try to wrap your head around why a stock thats been a terrific performer could still go higher. I say sit back. When we see a stock that had a huge run, our Natural Inclination is say too late. You look at the markets winners winners keep powering higher. Why dont we take a moment to go over the winners. Defined as stocks that have moved up the most since we hit dow 6,000. I will show you how to buy these stocks. Its still imminently reasonable. Let me take the other side of the trade. Tell yourself you missed each one of these moves and move on. Let me take the other side of that trade for a second
U. S. But europe playing catch up to yesterdays rally. The gains over there, about 1 . Pmis looked pretty good too. Oil settling back after rising 9 of the past 11 days. Tip years around 1. 91. The first rate hike shouldnt come until the second half of next year. The deal in delivery space. Fedex buying tnt express for 4. 8 billion. Thats a deal that u. P. S. Failed at just two years ago. We do have the ceo of fedex coming up in a couple of minutes. Speaking of deals, also the largest lbo of the year informatica taken private, 5. 3 billion. Samsung sees profits plunging 30 but still better than what the street was expecting, as apple ramps up the release of the apple watch coming in the next few weeks. First up fedex make ago move to boost its presence in europe. The company agreeing to acquire dutch Package Delivery firm tnt express for 4. 8. The deal comes two years after u. P. S. attempt was blocked by european regulators. Well talk with fedex chairman and ceo fred smith this hour.
And the nasdaq diving 3. 3 . That knee jerk reaction should not surprise anybody. There is always a knuckle head that did not expect the most widely telegraphed action to happen. They think that stocks are somehow in a bubble. Theyre designed to boost employment. Now that these things are improving, theyre raising rates. The wisdom here is that Better Business activity does not counteract the Federal Reserve removing what do stocks need to do . They need to be lower. Now that the fed has withdrawn their support. Is that true . I think it is a dramatic oversimplification. There are genuine bubbles out there. Youre not being compensated enough for the risk of owning some high yield bonds like the ones in the oil patch issued by companies willy nilly. To me that is the most dangerous part of the whole financial super market. I see a bubble in european bonds. The idea that the french tenure treasur treasury. Those countries economies are in tatters versus our business environment. That is
And europe is hurting especially spain. Lets start with the markets and the stocks set to open in the red as the dow and s p are on pace for their worst week in a month and a half following a slide in several emerging markets and the international currencies. Microsoft set to open in the green after reporting stronger than expected profits. And starbucks getting a jolt set to om higher after First Quarter earnings top estimates and starbucks raised its guidance for the rest of the year and well talk to the chairman and ceo shoulder shultz later on this hour. First up, though, futures are falling one day after the 176point drop in the dow and the s p on track for a second week in declines in the wake of the selloff in emerging market assets. Slower Growth Prospects in china and various local political issues among the key factors. Of particular note a big drop in currencies like the lira which hit a record low against the dollar this morning and the argentinean peso. It has authorized c
Reserves. This chatter permeated almost every single moment of todays session. So in the interest of trying to help you make money, did you hear that, make money, as opposed to trying to force feed you some political nonsense about what bernanke should have done if he had half a brain and, yes, the commentary at that time, at many points today was that ugly. Boo let me give you a check list of what matters to the stock market and what doesnt because thats what were about. First of all what matters is the future, not the past. One of the chief criticisms i heard today is that given how strong the data has been today, hiring, very good housing statisti statistics, what the heck is bernanke doing by not getting Federal Reserve out of this ridiculous bond buying program. This is an unacceptable and foolish, lacking in rigor, line of thought. I want you to ponder for a moment, just ponder the notion that ben bernanke instead of running the fed runs a huge retailer. I want you to thing like