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Split. Well tell you why invesetors ae piling in today. Energy companies have shut in production we have the latest on the impact of tropical storms marco and laura. Power lunch starts right now thank you, tyler as you mentioned its shaping up to be another record breaking week on wall street. That means even more evidence mounting that stocks are getting pretty expensive bob is following the markets for us bob. Yes it is. Right now we have very light summer volume. We have fairly narrow trading range today. I like what i see and i like what i see for one particular reason for once its not all about Technology Stock it started out that way at the open but it quickly changed and investers decided maybe the tech stocks are too pricey afterall today were seeing Energy Stocks bank stocks out performing, even industrials out performing the Technology Sec tore. Thats a big change of pace for the last couple of weeks i want to show you something to give you an example of how it changed. Apple
Index climbing sharply higher. In the month of august, the cyclicals are leading the way on the year. It is all about tax. It is all about tech. Interesting to see how the month of august plays out. Right now a sleepy summer day. Taylor it does not look like it will be sleepily for much longer. August goes quickly. It is a volatile month. We are in an election year. Abigail it is interesting because there are lots of reasons to think we could have a volatility spike, including the fact we are in the seasonally higher volatility time, august, september, october. The vix curve speaks to a big spike in october. The panic index is at levels close to where it was prior to the selloff in february and the selloff in 2018. The fundamental backdrop for this is despite the fact we have a better initial jobless claim today, which is excellent, but it is still extraordinarily high. It is not even put the financial crisis you cannot see the numbers around the financial crisis relative to where we a
It did not shy away from staying there. The dollar continues to be weaker at 93. 20. A strong british sterling. 1. 3082. In euro also a little stronger. Crude oil at 42. 20. A rare glimpse into the Research Division at bridgewater. Our next guest overseas a team of over 150 at one of the largest hedge funds. We are in a new era of policy. Kareng us now is karnioltambour of bridgewater has 100 60which billion in institutional investments. World . Isn np3 karen as the world changes, investment need to change with it. Interest rates were the primary driver of fed cycles. The fed lowered and raised Interest Rates, and that was the most important thing to drive the economic cycle. Then we got to the financial crisis, and quantitative easing became the most important lever. But at the end of the day, you can print all you want but the Federal Reserve doesnt have the mandate to figure out who will get the money. A lot of money went to Financial Assets and not the real economy. Andworld is cha
Groups have switched from bear to bull market territory and they still have plenty of room to play catchup. Even when we get hit with waves of bad news. Nasdaq, did okay, quite a difference when i was out there when it was just a sea of red. Stocks opened up terribly. But then the strong bull markets that im talking about, the ones that are underneath, they surfaced, they quickly took over and we rolled back a big chunk of the decline buy buy buy something i pointed out on squawk on the street. When a rally has leaders from many different groups, and the better breath we have, the more kissable this market is, and thats what were seeing right now. Who are these leaders im talking about . Some youre very familiar with, because we talk about them all the time yes, bull market number one, the work from home cohort, which is a cluster of smaller bull markets. Zoom video, and at the orefron are the cybersecurity Stocks Companies need to be about protection when they put everything on the cl