Well, my view is that were coming into this election and were expecting uncertainty. Youre seeing Institutional Investors hedge against a longer period of volatility following this election. Theres clearly an expectation that perhaps tomorrow night we will not have a decision on who is going to be the president of the United States. With that being said, i think, you know, if you look at positioning into the next six to eight weeks, i think its going to be consistent with what were expecting for next year, which is an improvement in economic growth, perhaps an end or an improvement to the covid19 situation and likely stimulus from either the republicans or the democrats. It will look different depending on whos sitting in the white house and if we get a Democratic Senate but for the most part i think that investors are anticipating some stimulus coming out of this the next two to three weeks could be very choppy if we tonight hadon have that decision but i think investors are instituti
Territory in a single trading session. For some, it was even worse than that check out shares of apple down it lost 180 billion in market cap. That is the largest oneday lost for a u. S. Listed company on record if that isnt enough to get your attention. Apple lost more in market cap yesterday than the individual market capitalizations of 470 of the companies in the s p 500 it wasnt just apple microsoft, alphabet, microsoft and even tesla saw their market caps shrink. Microsoft down by 115 billion amazon off by 93 billion. This morning, things look a little better. You still have the dow down 150 points right now, it is reverse that up 300 points the nasdaq saw the biggest declines, up 27 points right now. We have to keep that in context a few things in here as well talking to people all day yesterday, here is the list. Youll want to know exactly what happened it was the nasdaqs largest drop you dont go up 400 and down that will be highspeed trading. That would matter until they do. Va
Cyclical recovery here. I guess thats something for the day. Based on the Technical Levels like the 200 day moving average, there are bullish signals out of the small and midcap space. Caroline what is the number one risk on your mind . Please ask that again . Caroline what is your number one risk . U. S. China . Deteriorating earnings . Coronavirus and a lack of a vexing . Vaccine . There are always risks that keep you up at night. Longerterm, ive never seen the monetary stimulation i have seen in the last six months were money growth is rowing at 80 annualized. I think ive been wrong that inflation has not surfaced but i do believe it will so longerterm i worry about inflation because it erodes the real return of the tone of stocks. I worry that post qqq earnings season as they move into the number that we have democratic sweep and what it does to the Corporate Tax rate, that is a risk as well. Caroline great to get your expertise. Breaking news. Microsoft out with earnings. The clou
Second. I do not believe theres Public Comment on that piece. All those in favor say aye. For closed session for today, before we go into closed session, is there Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, weth. The other Board Members will join us shortly, but i do not want to lose a quorum. We have several action items important action items to hold this afternoon. With that, we need to come out of closed session. So moved. Second. All those in favor . All right. Well start with Public Comment. The general Public Meeting rules apply. Please follow the normal rules that are posted about turning off your cell phone, etc. , etc. Open for Public Comment. My names john stinson. Im a 45year member of our pension fund. There were two things the public Pension Funds have in common. Number one, theyre all underfunded. Number two, one of the reasons why theyre all underfunded is because theyre over diversefied in highrisk investments like hedge funds. Most Pension Funds want 7 to 7. 5 return o
21, 2020 special board meeting. Move that we dont disclose. Second. I do not believe theres Public Comment on that piece. All those in favor say aye. For closed session for today, before we go into closed session, is there Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, weth. The other Board Members will join us shortly, but i do not want to lose a quorum. We have several action items important action items to hold this afternoon. With that, we need to come out of closed session. So moved. Second. All those in favor . All right. Well start with Public Comment. The general Public Meeting rules apply. Please follow the normal rules that are posted about turning off your cell phone, etc. , etc. Open for Public Comment. My names john stinson. Im a 45year member of our pension fund. There were two things the public Pension Funds have in common. Number one, theyre all underfunded. Number two, one of the reasons why theyre all underfunded is because theyre over diversefied in highrisk investments