Stimulus bill. What happens if washington lets us down again and millions of people, especially in the hospitality industry, find themselves struggling to put food on the table . Does that mean we should use a day like today where the averages went up dow gained 122 points. S p climbed 0. 80 to sell everything into strength not so fast. Like i say every night at the end of the show, there is always a bull market somewhere, and even without a stimulus package, weve got a whole bunch of them that should do just fine as a matter of fact, theres a lost of breadth here first, the relentless bull market in housing. You can think tall brothers, dr horton, these companies are huge kinc covid winners. When youre stuck working from home, your housing priorities change who wants to live in a tiny apartment in the city to save time on your commute when you have no commute. This is the zoom economy, people you might as well move to the suburbs or the country where you can have more room thats why t
Realize that this lawns full of weeds and dead grass and bugs and a golf ball okay, this is what the market is really about not this, but this see how the averages rallied again today, the dow inches up 47 points, s p advancing 2. 3 . The nasdaq gaining 1. 06 but almost 3 5ths of the stock in the s p 500 are actually down for the year were in high territory because of the other 2 5ths up a lot heres the real economy. The truth is, the weeds are more representative than the healthy patch of lawn, and in many ways its getting worse, not better, as the weeds begin, i think, to infect the nice part but when you look at the whole s p, you cant see the weeds you see, theyre obscured by Tech Companies with big gains. Who wants to talk about the other 291 stocks that are down for the year when you can focus on the incredible runs in amazon, microsoft, apple, facebook, alphabet its a lot more fun talking about tesla, up 378 than talking about gm or ford down 27 and 21 . Tesla has about 50,000 e
And not simplecism i think it would have been the same result and thats why i believe its a legally correct conclusion. Final question, darren. How important if at all was the testimony there of one of the victims of the robbery victim testimony at parole hearings can be very impactful far more impactful frankly than family members of the defendant who are fairly predictable in their support, but when a victim indicates they have been made whole, can carry a lot of waist to the trial this was a rogues gallery so that can factor into it as well when the board is deciding what weight to give it, but in general victim testimony, very powerful. Darren, thank you very much darren kavinoky, criminal defense attorney and lets bring in bill and kelly to talk more about this ruling in the o. J. Simpson case. Truly a a throwback thursday, hu oh, man, is it. Taking us all back to the 80s here. I dont know about you guys, but it seemed to me listening to each of the parole commissioners that while
0. 19 , nasdaq declining 0. 44 today. Ominous. Now, look, only in a bull market of Epic Proportions would we even think of asking such questions. Selloffs are a natural occurrence, and if they never happen, guess what. We wouldnt be so fixated on dow 20,000. Weve been fixated on dow 200,000. Of course that doesnt mean theres no reason for the decline or that we can ignore it. So lets go there. Lets explore whats sending us lower so we can figure out whether this is a simple garden variety profit taking move or something more significant that we actually need to worry about. First when disseconding any down tape, i like to ask myself which is the Leadership Group that was most bearish . Today it was retail. The standout negative narrative, the nasty miss by bed, bath, and beyond, a general merchandiser with a home emphasis that missed its projections by a mile, earning 85 cents when the street was looking for 98 cents. Negative 1. 4 samestore sales, much lower than the gain people were
Yarn about a letter hidden in plain sight that nevertheless cant be detected because people just arent looking for it in the right places. We see the same thing happens with this market pretty much every day now. Great bull stories passing unnoticed right in front of your eyes. Today was no different. Even as the dow dipped 16 points, s p declined 0. 16 , nasdaq actually closed up albeit fractionally. Let me give you some classic examples. When investors try to figure out why stocks should go up, they begin with the presumption that the United States is a service economy. Since twothirds of our Gross Domestic Product depends on individual spending. But heres the problem. The big time portfolio managers, they dont see any real strength in consumer spending. They dont see it with all the retail store they follow. They dont see it at the restaurants they cover. They dont see it in the home sales. They dont see it in the shopping center, shopping mall, or strip Mall Real Estate investment