Should dow gaining 22 points. S p advancing 1 nasdaq 1. 2 the truth is there is a lot of rot underneath and many investors are in denial about how bad things can be for some of the weaker players out there. The ones actually involved with the economy, the ones that dont have bullet proof Balance Sheets consider this weekend Warren Buffett presided over a somber annual meeting instead of festive investing. We had an older gentleman with brilliant answers followed by questions with becky quick tell you to stick with it. This time he wasnt bullish by any stretch of the imagination last week i told you it was time to start doing some selling. I still think thats the right call without a big bounce in the bottom the Charitable Trust was selling heavily at the end of the week go to actionalerts. Com Conference Call this thursday. I have to defend losers tyson foods which we bought for the trust when the trade war with china ended because they had a pork shortage. I always say its better to b
So bad that were going to be debating whether were in a serious recession or depression. We have pockets, though, of strength Like Technology and health care. But those pockets cant offset a very weak backdrop, can they we saw it again today. The dow lost 218 points. The s p 500, it tumbled. 7 . But the techheavy nasdaq also had the darn gall to rally. 51 , and was up a percent most of the day. Oh, the indignity. If you make technology that helps businesses cut costs by firing people, or having them stay home, youre doing great. If you make something people literally captain live cant live without, medicine, terrific Everything Else is a drug here staggering layoffs and the big drop in the index i am worried about, or at least a lot of what im worried about which is 9 s p 500. It gets worse. If you run a business leave it to the u. S. Economy and not chinas economy, well, now your stock is getting walloped. Over and over in the earnings season we see Companies Report an incredible 2 1
The market did give back gains we had seen earlier in the session. Part of what we had been seeing with wti prices. Oil prices up. Wti potentially having seen the worst. Talking about disney in a minute they are reopening disney shanghai on may 11 wti up 3. 5 . 23. 40 it has been a long time since weve seen these levels, andrew. It is joe, or becky. We may have to get tacos for joe at the end of the month. Dont worry about me, andrew. Thats like 6 for 12 tacos. What we have to worry about is the hypo allergenic malte opinion poo or whatever. I told you id be happier to see stocks higher so i could buy my own dog i thought, wait a second. Doughnuts for andrew taco bell. Then she slips in the hypo aller againic labradoodle. Shes smart. Andrew, where are we at we could be at 3,600 or 1,100 by the end of may who knows the reason i said that. Over time, i would have never bought stocks on may 1, which makes me think i should have well see. By the end of may, well it may be obvious to buy on