That is better sequentially and Beat Estimates as well. I should point out that july was also revised higher. At a monthtomonth basis, looking at an increase of 4. 8 . It continues the story of the Housing Market on fire, very strong. That is going to bode very well for home sales. We are even seeing private equity going into buying homes to rent them out. A lot of the news coming out from washington over the last 24 hours. Currently, we have President Trump and the first lady paying their respects to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg any moment. We are bringing you live pictures, and we will bring that to you live as well. Meanwhile, the president refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power as the peaceful transfer of power if the tally shows joe biden as the winner. He spoke at a News Conference yesterday. Pres. Trump we will have to see what happens. Ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots. The ballots are a disaster. People are rioting. Do you can bi do y
It is a decided direction and big tech. The lagging sectors are energy as Oil Prices Fell 2 , and health care. A picture of an economy that has largely stabilized but is also at risk of stalling out, especially if there is a second wave of the virus. No vaccine and no stimulus forthcoming. Jobless claims moving in the wrong direction and new home sales rising more than expected as americans continue to hunker down. The vix inching higher. It did get to 29. Treasuries are moving higher. That means lower yields, or at least it did before the most recent change, and the dollar stronger versus all of the g10 currencies except the loonie. Higher dollar means lower gold prices, and we have seen gold turnaround. They did fall to a two month low earlier. Gold could stand to use more groep to lose more ground. David i want to connect two things. You mentioned uncertainty be out the recovery, how fast it is coming back. Jobless numbers not optimistic. Also doubts about the virus. We heard from j
There are no active considerations right now to reduce the indiscernible 31 , excuse me. The point is that if you thought that equity returns were not so good tactically, you could sell the futures now and buy the long treasuries without going through the option business. You could rebalance the portfolio right now. You have the discretion to do that. Just like you had the discretion to go to 6 treasuries that you didnt do for whatever reason. Well, we look at it that we are defensively positioned right now. Okay. And you dont thank we need to become more defensive tactically in the near term . No, we dont. Okay. Because in your memo you have mentioned how in the markets went down a great deal in 2007, that everybody thought it was going to bottom out and it went down greatly again. So it can happen again. I think that you mentioned how in your career and probably amongst all of us here you have the longest investment career but theres other people who said no one investing today has e
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S San Francisco has been doing a great job flattening the curve and sfds has been a big part of that. The stepsky foundation and Silver Giving Foundation at 225,000 and somaland foundation 476,000, linkedin, 146,000 and the Webb Family Foundation at 70, Golden State Warriors at 50 and walter and alysse haas fund and the Tipping Point community at 25, and the stepski foundation is 20 and i want to thank all corporate and giving foundations and individuals this is a Response Fund the ones their gave before throughout the year and this is the ones for the covid19 response. And toma bravo at 1. 1 and anonymous at 11,000, Golden State Warriors at 125 and the hellman foundation, 50,000 and palms against poverty is 28 and herbert and Gene Foundation at 25 and facebook is 20 and cohen elevators is 20 and the wells fargo 20 and google fiberton 10. Wellington management 10, the 697 and alaskas airline 5,000 and odell family and dennis wulliver kelly and these are all that have given towards are