Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
The dow did go down. The nasdaq went down 4 or 5 . I spent the better part of this year studying the pandemic i was right. You know what we just cover . The professionals are not the only covid that matters. We have a Massive Group of investors who become professionals. They dont care about the same thing as the experts theyre the ones who were the marginal buyers and sellers. The investors have changed the entire character of the market what made you not be able to sleep at night it was very little belief in stocks for the past 20 years, the convention says stocks could no longer be trusted. They continue to lose their values way too quickly when something goes wrong on top of that, the convention only a fool to try to pick individual stocks. You may as well stop trying to beat the mark and put some of your money in an index fund and invest safely in bonds the last eight months, that convention has been stood on its head by a new generation of investors after the rise of Commission Fr
Million. And beyond meat, those shares are down sharply amid slowing sales, while mcdonalds launches a new plantbased product line carl well get to that later, guys first, jim, a lot to unpack with the covid cases, pfizer news, lilly news today, azar on squawk saying the timeline for a vaccine delivery is getting pretty specific now. Right look, were back in that same world and i listened to the fund manager speak on squawk, got to buy value and sell growth where were they yesterday whenle have you went from being okay to being overvalued in about a threehour session i find that when i look at some of the stocks that i like in the industrials, they have gone so far that i think now everything has to happen right and these arent going to happen righting. They are hostage to earnings Cloud Computing stocks, they have a lot of room to go down because theyre so high. When you look at faang, for instance, does it make it so alphabet is worth less the principle method of how alphabet makes i
After a hideous day like today where the dow plunged 923 points and s p plunged and the nasdaq down 3. 73 would it be liberating to dump the shot shoot match and cash in your ira and take out your 401k and sell funds to preserve some cash perfectly sensible emotion sure, thats the problem emotions whether trading or investing, you cant make decisions based on your feud you want to vanish the pain, i totally get that you are probably making a mistake. Look at the tsunami of selling that we have today i may tell you to stand there and let the wave crushes you, i am simply telling you not to panic. I know from experience and i have been doing this for 40 years and i am not a calm guy. Every time i panic, it costs me money. In four decades, i can remember one moment when panic was a strategy thats why in the fall of 2008 i made a rare sale everything call at the time it was collapsing. The incredible call to get back into the stock market. 2020 is not 2008 we got a run away pandemic and ho
Loathe last nights debate, you know who loved it . The stock market which is why the dow surged 329 points today and nasdaq advanced 4. 7 what did the candidates say that got wall street so excited honestly, its more about what they didnt say, a lot of investors were worried trump and biden would try to score points. These companies if you dont plan to do anything about them not this time. When the candidates lay off the health care sector, the stocks roar one of my favs runs government sponsored health plan and does it better than anybody guess what happened . Stocks zoomed 4 . Anthem, cigna, united health, even cvs managed to rally. My trust owns it follow along by joining the actionalertsplus. Com club. Its been awful. Own your mistakes. We just bought more. 3. 4 yield i have parsed every word of that debate that was hard if you read the transcripts, it was bad. Chris wallace often picked on who told the president quote you in the course of these four years have never come up with a