Prices,ngs, equity asset prices and risktaking. It is not without its consequences. You have to think about what the cost of building has become. Have soared, adding thousands of dollars to the price of any new home. Tech valuations, volatility. Joe, these record low borrowing costs mean you can also lever up. A. T is why we are seeing m seeing know why we are these pictures when we are talking about market exuberance. Extraordinary morning. We were on our news call and news kept breaking. When we were discussing things. Nvidia buying the semiconductor from softbank. Oracle in some kind of deal for tiktok, it appears. Gilead buying immunomedics. Animal spirits that helps fuel the market on a day like today. Romaine other big biotech deals. Gnc looking like it might have found a deal. If you look at the performance, and that market cap jumping on the day. Oracle, a lot of enthusiasm. Verizon, it kind of makes sense. We had one of the executives on and he kind of made a case to why this
Oracle shares rising on news the company could be the winning bidder for tiktok but it will not involve an outright sale. Bytedancehinese owner Sarah Ponczek has been following the ups and downs. Tech has been leading the comeback. Also, this latebreaking news ikola, and the sec investigating the company over shortsellers. Sarah the last i had checked, down about 8 or so after the market closed. Examining nikola based on this claim that came from the platform hindenburg. 30 , 35 ors fall so from last week. It has been quite the ride for nikola. Still up more than 200 this year but certainly getting hit pretty hard after these original allegations took hold. Now, getting even more focused with the sec taking them on. Emily this on the back of gm taking a huge equity stake in nikola. Lets talk about tech more broadly. News, continuing development. Oracle is in the leading position but a potential deal still under review. Oracle shares did rise. Walmart could still be a part of this. Sara
But is quite rapid the last few days and it tells us more and more, volatility it is going to be here to stay. Patient capital, as it always has, will win. You have got to look at where the secular plays are going to take place in what is a Game Changing event, whether number one or number two or number three in my investment career. These are Game Changing events. Where is the secular story going to the cute the banking area . Names like ally. More online pension purchases, as i talked about with nike. You have got to think about where is the secular story going to be we will get a cyclical rebound. That is going to be beneficial for investors. Joe i know you want to keep talking micro. You mentioned we shouldnt get too excited about hopes for the second half. We dont really know if the threedate bounce, volatile as it is, is sustainable. You mentioned a couple names. Big picture, where do you see investors have the safest cushion, the biggest margin for error, or even if they are buy
The sectors where you might want to hide out, each down by at least 4. 5 . Volumes down as well. Industrials, 106 above the industrial average in canada. Canadian stocks fell 10 on the day as the country recorded its first death from the coronavirus. Romaine european stocks flirting with the bear market. Of course, we had that big drop in crude. We know what sovereign bond yields are doing with the treasury yield. Scarlet everyone is looking for different technical levels, searching for any kind of hint. That is what Abigail Doolittle does so well. Abigail i want to start out with what stood out to me most. Capitulation, even though we are probably not close to a capitulation bottom. The dow transports in a bear market. Oil clearly in a bear market. The s p 500 down almost 19 . Hard to see the s p 500 not slip into a bear market. What the impact will be to the global economy. This is the chart that really, on this day, stands out the most the dow transports today did something it reall
India italy locking down the whole country. Lets get straight over to the markets now, we are joined by Sarah Ponczek. One of the one of the highlights . Helling say the the selling has not stopped. Saw a limitafter we down in futures yesterday, we and at the same time we have new zealand coming on, getting closer and closer, well below the 200 Day Moving Average which served as support earlier on. At the same time, we have seen dollaryen moving closer and now the yen is trading at the highest level. Prior to the president ial election in the United States, and also, the vti crude oil extending losses again after the worst day since the 1991 we have seen absolutely massive moves. Day, we didf the close down 7. 6 and if you look at the different barometers, we have seen massive moves. The average move over the last eight trading days has been 3. 7 , that is the largest going back to 2008, so to put into context the amount of volatility we have seen, the vix also at [indiscernible] lets