Dow plunging and s p plummeting 2. 78 . And the nasdaq nosediving 4. 11 . Its tempting to try to learn something from the big bone crushers of the past so we can apply those bone crushers to the future two are alike but there can be similarities take the. C do. Com bust. The endless run from 1998 to march of 2000 followed by a rapid meltdown, what is happening here now, now that the nasdaq is 10 from size, im hearing about the buzz all day okay, the beat of 1998, the nasdaq stood at 1,585. 1,585. It roared to 5,100 by march of 2000 and plummeted to 3,155 by may. Fast forward to 19 year ago and a round trip to 1 ,585 it is your Worst Nightmare of course, there are horrendous sell offs. The 87 crash averages cut in half in a few hours time the financial crisis, dallas laid the waste from 14,000 to 6500 and the covid crash dow from 295 to 68 to above 18,000 march lows. Nasdaq sank. But its that rebound from the march lows thats drawing comparison to the. Com era the nasdaq surged 82 from
The averages pulled back this afternoon with the dow sinking 170 points, s p shedding. 6 and nasdaq advancing the companies that help you deal with post covid reality take it in stride. Analysts finally realize people are investing in homes like we havent seen since the financial period or maybe a whiff of paint and Stanley Black and decker moving power tools or mortgage numbers. Lows hit a new alltime high 4 just like that and you can get this stuff this is not exactly Rocket Science when youre stuck at home of course you spend money on Home Improvement its a capital, not an expensive when uncle sam writes you a check for 1200. Were in an old enough to repaint moment you buy the stocks of lowes or home depot you cant go out for anything. Movies, no, sports, concerts, nothing. Everything is cancelled gatherings are too risky you stay at home and get a cheap firepit, light up the kings ford, clorox product, wipe down the chairs with cclorox, can you go anywhere without these now . I can
Lipton with the details. Josh so melissa, apple of course already designs processors for iphones, ipads and watches now it is the macs turn apple has reportedly planned to announce later this month that it is switching from intel chips on its Mac Computers instead, macs will have an arm based chip designed by apple apple stock is on a roll the team at ever core likes what they heard here. They say apples ability to design chips like this inhouse is under appreciated by investors in their opinion as they believe this can help give Gross Margins a boost. The report indicates these new chips are more power efficient with better graphics lighter, thinner macs could be on the way if these machines are attractive, it could help them stand apart from laptop rifvals bottom line, how concerned should intel investors be by all this this wont have a big Financial Impact for the chip giant. By his math, apple is a low single digit customer. But it could have a reputation impact if consumers get mo
Nosediving 3. 97 . At one point it looked like we would go to war and we were actually lucky, lucky it was only down that much because if things dont break right, were going to be experiencing a lot of weeks that are worse than the depths of the great recession. Why . Were fighting a twofront war in this country. We need to beat the coronavirus, a scourge thats unrelentless easy to catch and requires hospitalization, far more than we can actually provide. At the same time we need to preserve the economy, an economy in many ways is no longer open for business there are 100 million workers who could potentially lose their jobs if we dont shut down covid19 soon. Peoples life savings are going to be pulverized as companies suspend dividends and people sell like a mouse in a fear of an unrelenting panic because they need cash, need cash right now. Its like a slow grind financial hell apocalypse. The plummeting of oil isnt helping either we need to get crude back over 30 or the last of the p
Meet the new flu, same as the old flu, except it spreads faster and more easily the dow gaining 116 points,. 47 , and the nasdaq. 87 , record highs. But you know what, you know where the real action was, it was in the highest of flyers and the basis of speculative stocks. Thats what withe need to focusn partly because of the coronavirus and the old guys will say, this is the top i dont think that but im giving them their due what am i talking about, Virgin Galactic, plug power, and countless others that have become the darlings for younger investors. Look at my twitter feed. Read reddit, rather than reading the register for the news hour. Speculation, i think its good, even essential, essential to speculate on stocks, just part of your discretionary market youve got the retirement money, of which is completely wrong to speculate on, then you have a mad money portfolio, a group of stocks, within that group of stocks, you can have speculative stock. One or two i wont try to talk you out