Dragged down by the more powerful bond market taking 357 points, s p falling. 82 nasdaq advanced a basis point, stunning comback but lets not get too carried away, still the worst woke for the averages since the financial crisis the bond market is bigger than the stock market we dont talk about it because its boring. But its important to the direction of your portfolio. Everythings wrapped up in bond yields always has been. I learned that 40 years ago. There are multibillion dollar programs that sell stocks whenever those yields go down. Its form got as lows a 1. 1 today, closing at 1. 16 thats a record low level, signaling the economy is growing weaker, and quality investors hide money in fixed income, coronavirus supply chain the bond market is screams that the coronavirus is far worse than most people realize Global Commerce will take a real hit and it might even be something similar to 2008 when all hell broke loose i cant tell you whether the bond market is right im not an epidemi
Courscourse jim cramer right now the stock market and the bond market are like two heavy weight champions duking it out. And todays stocks had a very good round dow surging 1,173 points, the s p 500 skyrocketing, the nasdaq soaring 3. 85 . Hallelujah. Who are these two boxers . In one corner you had a stock market that had gotten viciously oversold thanks to the coronavirus outbreak and wall streets existential fear of a Bernie Sanders presidency. In the other corner, well, youve got the bond market specifically u. S. Treasuries every time they go up in price, we go down in yield. Lately their yields have been plummeting sending chill through the spine of all investors who follow both markets. Now this is a vicious and i will tell you somewhat scary for us, but bond yields so frightening low theyve been decking the much smaller stock market, as surely as muhammad ali sent so many challengers to the canvas the bond markets still screaming that were not out of the woods, that were being
After a session where the dow and s p 500 have their worst single day point drop in history, what stocks make sense to buy in this new stay at homer ra that has been hammering the major averages, the dow plunging 1,191 point, the biggest point drop on record, the s p plummeting 4. 42 , and nasdaq nosediving 4. 61 . This is panic, okay this is what panic looks like. Particularly the last 45 minutes. We dont advocate panic because its not a strategy. You can have all the obvious defensive names. You can talk about the staples i can do that any day of the week, the stuff you need to stock up on when the outbreak sweeps through the country you buy stuff like this. The stock market seemed to be signaling in todays lows the last 45 minutes. I think the lows could be revisited. What the hell, the virus is a threeweek incubation period so well probably see more and more people getting sick people of course never went to china, which is always scary now, right we got the first one in Northern C
Eeked out a two basis point gain but it could have been worse and it should have been worse and was at one point in the day very ugly but the nasdaq rallied in the close taking the market with it. I kept from the very beginning, from the opening bell, where are the sellers. Where are they why arent they reacting to that ugly warning that we got monday from apple why is everything no matter how negative treated as a buying opportunity. It is like there is always something to be said for instead of and i think i know the answer. I think it is the index funds. 60 is coming in via index funds and they buy everything, including the stocks that should be getting hammered by bad news. And they buy in waves and they are in control of this stock market not mutual fund or Hedge Fund Managers either. Yes, index fund buyers i know people call this market a bubble and blame an easy fed but maybe, just maybe, listen to me, there is no one toblame. You simply have Many Companies doing well and compan
S p shed 8. 3 . Although we were down a lot more earlier in the session you say i got to say its about darn time hallelujah things have gotten too easy. How do i know . Because the uber driver was make together much on tesla because the shoe shine men have finally picked a winner, and that winner was amd. Because these moves have gotten way to too crazy, and they had to stop. In end, even the saint Virgin Galactic, it was felled. Yep, they even got to space, symbol spce. Or spice, as i like to call it look, all selloffs are not created equal. Some are a lot worse than others this is not a slash and burn selloff its more like the kind of pruning you do to trees that are too new the power lines. Sure it looks ghastly chen theyre done with the wood chipper, but it beats the alternative which is a california style wildfire. I like the market because when trees grow back, hopefully they grow back stronger, slower, steadier still was an odd day for the market to take a dive. There was a lot