153 points, nasdaq advanced 0. 19 . Well, then look no further than the stock of tesla this is an amazing market, but its always been an amazing Challenging Market individual investors, though, are back they now make up north of 20 , some say 25 of the action and theyve weathered everything from frightened, screaming billionaires to the nastiest president ial race in living memory to a horrifying Global Pandemic theyve steeled their hearts against the lack of Covid Vaccine or even a therapeutic. They arent oblivious to the incredibly high unemployment rate, yet they havent let it change their minds about trying to make money in the stock market whats the perfect symbol of that attitude . Tesla. Not the man, not the car, not even the company but the concept. A time our country feels it doesnt have much to root for and a world that hates us. I dont remember if no, i cannot remember a time in my life when we were this hated, and i lived through the Nixon Administration now, tesla reported
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We see the kasim terrific vaccine news from the highly promotional mo dederna. Nasdaq advancing. 95 . Despite the case numbers from florida, texas, california, arizona, we might be able to go back to normal sooner than we thought thanks to moderna or frankly, the dozens of Companies Working on a vaccine including astrazenika. The vaccines, thats the light at the end of the tunnel it led to ludicrously bullish action cruise lines, airlines, restaurants, the retailers, the Covid Vaccine gain if everything goes perfect, it will be months for the vaccine is ready, maybe years. You got to finish studying before you inoculate they havent faced trials. They need to make sure it works and no serious side effects when presented on mass, not just this little group and manufacture hundreds of millions of doses, in the interim, there is only one serious fairly foolproof method to bridge us to a successful vaccine and that is stimulus from the federal
Get started here this morning. Look, i think that we are actually experiencing something that we havent lately which is that the analysts are almost entirely positive, and yet there is an underlying current both from the unemployment claims, which they are never going to be good until we get a vaccine. And also a general on wee that we dont have it under control, there i am talking about covid19 so why own anything . I think that thats an incorrect view there were many many piece this is morning that talk about what i can only say i am going to borrow a term from larry kudlow, green shoouts. There is much thats good in the economy. It is just not where we thought it was going to be, david. It is not all encompassing, but there are some areas that are very strong. All right so go over those and explain to me why they are not what we thought they would be. I think we thought travel and leisure would come back. That cruiseships would come back, that there would be Corporate Travel only on
60,000 new cases in a single day for the first time oil is holding 40, gold topping 1800 for the First Time Since 2011 david, it was a quiet calendar already going into this week, but it does seem like today in terms of looking for inputs traders are really on their own this morning they are. I mean, you know, the only calendar, carl, that really seems to be getting busy and staying busy is the ipo calendar which we should mention as well just because it is some sort of reflection of demand in certain parts of this market the latest of course Rocket Mortgage, thats going to be an enormous ipo, we can talk a bit about that later if you want other than that not that much to key off of clearly, mike, this is not a market that seems to be particularly concerned in terms of keying off of the rising cases of covid that were seeing around the country and the reversal of reopenings, the slowdown in business, certainly in travel, leisure, restaurants, that is resulting from the rising caseload.
Major amples we saw a surge in cases for example, in other parts of the country that had not been as hard hit jim, i can go through a list of things this morning that perhaps would give investors pause in a different environment, whether it be beijing, and the recent closure of schools there as they deal with a surge in cases it is only 137 but nonetheless. Flights also there we will get the update from beijing. Layoffs at the likes of at t or hilton quest giving us gooit guidance that still speaks to the weakness of that business. Yet here we are with potentially another rally in store a half hour from now. David, all of those things you just mentioned were things that maybe we expected to happen im looking at 25 pieces of research that i have sent to you in synopsis, the vast majority of them are raising price targets. Why . Because the targets were slashed before we knew that the Federal Reserve was going to back stop all of these companies so the Federal Reserve is saying if you ar