Which is how you get to the dow today where it lost 129 points, 5. 3 of the nasdaq nose dive 1 . But the first two weeks of earnings season things were pretty straightforward sure this economy might be slowing down, but the consumer was doing so great backed by a strong job market, higher stock prices and i have to tell you, it was offsetting any industrial weakness hallelujah. This week its a totally different story. The markets no longer on its meds while twothirds of our economy is consumer oriented indeed, the other third has gotten so bad so fast its crying out for some kind of government intervention. Thats what caused todays weakness because the nonconsumer economy is plain worrisome. Tonight were speaking to electric power thats the largest Transmission Power Company in the whole country. If youre trying to get a read on the economy, theres Nothing Better than getting the power datd a it took my breath away when they said the biggest economic head wind we have at this point is
False sense of security. Youll hear it even if youre a sedate daytime today where the dow gained 69 points s p climbed to an alltime high, i should add getting bored by those, and the nasdaq advanced by 2. 2 . Heres my question what exactly are we too bullish about . Are there individual stocks, sectors, that have gone crazy . You know what, i always like to break things down. Lets take them one by one as opposed to making a sweeping judgment are we really being irrational with the banks, large sector in the market after last weeks run, tough to tell when you see major dividend and buyback boosts after, of course, the federal government review, they have good reason tore positive how can you feel the same way about the stock of Goldman Sachs when the company just increased by nearly 50 and rolled out a 7 billion buyback hey, thats more than 9 of the shares outstanding in the end, it got better off the crash test results and even here, i cant say theres that much enthusiasm these stocks
Higher than expected. Plus tesla shares, well, they continue to have a very rocky ride this year. In fact, they are the worstperforming stocks so far on the s p for 2024. Another firm cuts their price target on that stock. And former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin telling cnbc just last hour that he is putting together an Investor Group to try to buy tiktok or the u. S. Business of tiktok. Lets begin with the Market Reaction to ppi and retail sales as well. Last months decline, a little bit tight. As you mentioned, the market trying to look past it, struggling to do so, maybe. Cpi this week, you had these big treasury auctions that maybe we thought it would knock the market potentially off course. Now, there was a hiccup lower in the indexes, and bonds definitely are registering this hotterthanexpected inflation number. Tenyear up to 4. 22 . If this were an acutely feddependent stock market, it might matter more on a daytoday basis to equities. Its not been the case. If you dial bac
100 off by more than 1 for much of the day. Alpha apple and alphabet has been bucking the trend. Look at the semi index, getting smoked, often more than just about 3 , that is the smh, big names are facing selling pressure. Broadcom is down. Marvell is down. That is after its own earnings report. This takes us to talk of the tape, bubble trouble, whether the one soaring semis are in danger of a bigger pullback. It is good to have you back, starting to watch what is taking place in this market. Nvidia, a 100 intraday move. Almost 10 . What do you make of it . I was joking earlier, maybe somebody went to close too close to the sun. They are up 70 yearoveryear. Nvidia is up 80 year to date. I dont worry much. Core businesses were not good for marvell. I think that weighs on it. People are looking at nvidia getting awfully close to the magical fourfigure, 1000 number, maybe some profittaking. I will be honest, on a noisy day like this, i dont read too much into it. The space still has had
Nasdaq edged down. 26 , the star of the show was the Dow Jones Industrial average, which briefly crossed above 40,000. Hallelujah before pulling back a bit and closing down 39 points. Still, thats a huge leap from where we arrived at dow 30,000 back in november of 2020. So you know what . I think its worth exploring what stocks got us here and why. During this period weve constantly been told that tech is the market leader. But when i look at the top ten stocks up the most during dows trip from 30,000 to 40,000 very surprising group. Only two of them from tech. We also were told Interest Rates is all that matters but thats played a smaller role than expected too. Only the tenth stock really impacted. Instead its an odd grouping where the main thing these companies have in common is very strong exceptional management. Lets run them down so we can learn what the market really wants here. I need you to think about this even though we didnt close above 40,000, this is what matters. First i