Gaining. It is time to admit that conventional wisdom has been wrong every step of the way. In this market, patience is not a virtue discipline cluster of fortune. Buying the most obvious stock, well, that has been a strategy that was easy i struggle about how this is possible i am not used to a mark that reward investors being late to the party. We found out moderna has a vaccine that may work better than pfizer. Thats getting off the table we got uncontrol spread over america. And mayors and governors refused to shutdown the bars and restaurants. Those are the main places we are getting infected no, it is at home, jim this pandemic is steam rolling us the prospect of a vaccine keeps on plotting it and shutting everything down. I am sure you are wondering, given the numbers that we see, how is that possible first every now and then there were moments that well stood on our head. Time like these is not sell. You must be willing to suspend judgment how far stocks can reasonably go. Than
Has the details. I just spoke with kirk over at isi i wanted his take. He said microsoft is firing on all cylinders, beating all three major categories, Strong Quarter across the commercial franchises it was better than the street was looking for. Kirk said growth is translated into increasing profitability. He said are enterprises willing to spend giving this backdrop and in one of those segments he mentioned 12. 3 billion up 11 . Commercial revenue gross of 20 . Intelligent cloud 13 billion up 20 . And more personal computing, up 6 shares not doing a lot in the after hours. The forecast will be delivered on the call which starts at 5 30 a. M. As josh mentioned, no guidance i am sure every one wonders what they will say about Enterprise Spending especially with the news delivered yesterday what do you make of the quarter . They hit on everything. Josh went through it across the board better, with the Cloud Services area. What we are waiting on now is what is the forecast, what do thin
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
You need to prepare yourself for some intensity all the most Important Companies in this entire market. I do not have time to kofcover of these let me tell you what to look for from the biggest names there are so much tech they think tech is done, especially the big dog, microsoft, apple and facebook. It was driven by a belief that the economy is about to get stronger because of a stimulus bill and the only way you should play is sell, tech and buy the industria industrials. Well, we are going to get to see this it is probably not until the election take monday. We are from otis worldwide some people see this as a stimulus otis is more of chinese elevaorr maintenance. Biden stock, people perceive biden is being soft on china monday night, two major tests, i keep on telling you about the bull market. Listen to nxp. The other there are periods of happening. They dont last that long. Few companies are more richly. Tuesday morning we get results for some big drug companies. Pfizer and merc
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