Ive got to go to the pandemic and the fold in to our foundations of this coming quarter, our foundations to 2021. Youve got to comment on what the eu saidd yesterday. Jonathan a call for more fiscal stimulus across the continent as well. Christine lagarde pretty clear about what she wants to do in december. The colder it gets, the harder it gets in europe. Cases are going up. More restrictions are coming on. Big question for the United States, whats next the deeper we get into winter . Tom weve gone back and forth this morning with differences of opinion. It is a movable feast. I would say that the one item this item as the president adjusts his plans for what he will do Election Night because of the pandemic. He had plans to go to his hotel. He will not. The rumor is he will stay at the white house. Jonathan according to open what the new york times. According to the new york times. Lisa we will get some earnings from exxon mobil, the thirdquarter earnings. The reason i am interested
Facebook reported amazing number last time. Amazon gave you an amazing upside surprise and it got steam rolled it was hideous nonenonetheless, and i know that. There is the right way to look at it or the wrong way we dont look at the action and we are back to form an opinion about the quarter. Thats the wrong way the right way when a Company Reports great number and the stock gets slammed, you look at the set up often because of an event like say an impending election. I am expecting massive confusion. One of the most confusing weeks of my career unless the results are blow out this day, we may not know who won plus with mail ballots nobody wants to unstock a bowl of confusion why not sell everything on monday for starters, you are too late what the heck did you think was happening. More importantly you are not nimble enough to get back in after you gotten out look at our quality stock selling off right now. You definitely want to get back in take amazon and facebook with unbelievely g
You know what, there has been a persistent bid as we call it underneath this market for months, despite the virus and the unemployment it is a puzzle enigma. I am trying to figure out why people keep buying i had an epiphany last night i was going over preparations for my monthly club talk this time looking at it through the lens of the election, it is only 20 days away. You know what . Of the 32 stocks we own for the trust, fully twothirds of them would do better under a biden presidency that caught me by surprise we were trying to bail out the election honestly i have been under the assumption that the market may take a hit if biden wins he wants to raise Corporate Tax and Capital Gains tax and rich people pay your own stocks. Is that good policy . I dont know given biden has been getting some incredible poll numbers the last few weeks it has become a real possibility. Many of you assumes it is bad for stocks thats what i thought or at least what i thought before my big club call rev
Apple beat on the bottom and top. Iphone revenue, the street was looking for closer to 29 million. And mac and ipad beating expectations i talked with ceo cook about that the decision not to offer a q1 forecast saying the pandemic is causing too much uncertainty right now. Saying naturally naturally, iphone, saying they are not seeing the benefit of sales like last year telling us we have a number of tail winds we launched four new models. 5g is a onceinalifetime opportunity. We have a large and loyal base to sell into and in the United States there are aggressive carrier promotions initial data points, cook said, are quite good he talked to us about the stores the vast majority of 500 stores are open, but in different ways. Some as usual, some by appointment only cook said the call is just starting now. I will bring the headlines as they come. Thanks, josh. Guy, no guidance for what should be its strongest quarter of the year what do you make of that it leaves you in suspension suspen
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