Today. With the dow jones average skyrocketing 530 points, s p 1. 32, nasdaq 1. 72, one point before more saber rattling with china. All sorts of beaten down stocks, though, were higher. While the covid19 winners, well, they got slammed theres just one tiny problem with this action we dont actually have a vaccine. Does that mean the stock market is getting ahead of itself lets unpack the issue first this rally is based not just on hopes of a vaccine but a firm belief that the whole virus problem isnt nearly as dire as we thought a lot of people feel it has been blown out of proportion by the media, and the president s right, the people feel the president s right when he says we should open up everything betting on a vaccine makes sense. Since the beginning of the pandemic they warned us a vaccine would take a long time the fastest was the mumps which took four years. Every day were bombarded about another attempt to end this nightmare. Today we heard merck is working on a Magic Technol
You do you reach for the stock equivalent of comfort food something that tastes just like the great bull markets of thats right you reach forfang, my acronym for facebook, amazon, netflix and google this session its more like fang because microsoft has become red hot. Netflix suffered a rare decline. The tech stocks led us higher. With the s p rising 1. 67 , and the nasdaq zoom being 2. 80 , it was a matter of time before we return to the tried and true this market has been going through groups like theres no tomorrow first we had the rally in the defensive Consumer Staples during the work from home nuclear winner the stocks rebounded we started reopening hospitals for nonessential medicine a run up in the big box retailers. That group seems a tad exhausted. Weve seen a surge in the Semiconductor Stocks as demand picks up from china and 5 g. Build out looks good continue with analog devices, amdi a decent quarter. A run in industrials as people bet the economy might be coming back as a
Benefits, is this the fabled v shape recovery that so many people were hoping for well, thats what the markets saying even as the average didnt do much, dow inching up 12 points, s p climbed 3. 4 , nasdaq losing 6. 4 see, thats the problem. I think were looking at a vshaped recovery, but its a vshaped recovery in the stock market and that has almost nothing to do with the vshaped recovery in the economy. Prosper when you look at the nasdaq 100, the tech heavy index that hit an alltime high today, it doesnt seem indicative of the broader jobs picture airlines and hotels and casinos put in the less bad catery, less bad a than we thought, a trend that could last people do fast gaming. It does peter out. Its musical chairs. How can the market rebound without the economy . Because the market doesnt represent the economy. It represents the future of big business the bigger the business, the more it moves the averages and that matters because this is the first recession where big business alo
Claims and 21 million continuing claims better than the week before. But still incredibly bad on an absolute basis same thing with the stock market we get crushed today sell, sell, sell. Obliterated wrong. Once again, the averages spent most of the day well into the black despite still more hideous macro data either we sold off the end of the session, dow 148 points, s p falling 1. 2 nasdaq easing 4. 6 , again, the market was up most of the day. The climb were about the incredibly weak labor market what happened when we heard the claims numbers right from the oechg . There is fear actions the president might take against tech because of his anger about social media and the president s plans for punishing china over hong kong, punishment that could reverberate to our own companies that do business there so then why did the stock market open up big when those hideous figures at this point its become a cliche to insist that wall streets tote lit disconnected from main street. After all, h
Research finds very different experiences of black and white americans when it comes to the economy and the shutdown and the coronavirus. And these different attitudes come from very, very different experiences. Looking at views on the current state of the economy, you can see that 28 nationally see the economy as excellent or good right now. Thats the same number as you have for white americans black americans 5 view the economy right now as excellent or good. Thats reflected in some of the Economic Data weve seen that shows that africanamericans have been hit harder by the shutdown similar attitudes by differences about the outlook. 38 of americans nationwide are confident or somewhat confident in the future. Black americans, 16 are confident or somewhat confident in the future. Perhaps reflecting the differing economic experiences right now a lot of this comes from different experiences with the coronavirus itself 92 of africanamericans are concerned or very concerned about the coro