The nasdaq hitting a new record high and amazon shares crossing 3,000 bucks a piece for the first time ever. Shannon, well start with you on this one what the you make of the rally is it legit and why is it happening now given everything we know negatively about the coronavirus virus . Were just continuing to see investors look at the sentiment thats coming out of the surveys and anticipating this continued v shape recovery we have seen the v shape recovery in the stocks already were anticipating a v shape recovery in the economy. I think that really rests on the fact that despite the fact were seeing this pick up in cases, theres not a widespread expectation that we go back to the lockdown that we saw in march and april. They really anchor themselves to the most recent period which was a very difficult period from an economic standpoint. Investors are continuing to look forward. They are continuing to see the Second Quarter being the earnings trough from this particular recession look
Begin to resume, as many assume in june and maybe be back to something more normal by this summer, i think a v is possible, but i am worried that the outcome will be worse. It really depends to my mind on just how much damage is done during the time that the economy is shut down in the way it is now. How much damage is done joining us is bob dole, chief equity strategist. Thanks for being with us i want to get your thoughts on the potential for this recession and subsequent recovery and specifically how thats factoring into your outlook for the markets . Yeah. Im not using a u or v im using a checkmark, kind of the big decline and then a noticeable, but slower uptake than we had on the downside. As you know we shut the economy off. We turned it off its not something from the outside did it we chose in order to fight coronavirus to do that therefore, we can turn at least some of it back on it will take longer to convince people its safe to come out from under the covers when it told the
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