Because we lost control of covid19 today went higher. The the s p gaining and nasdaq gaining 1. 02 . Hospitality and leisure. Has the market lost its mind no we are dealing with cross currents any time stocks get hammered, it seems to trigger visceral vaccine reaction good news bails out. On the one hand we know the cavalry is not coming. It is going to be in the form of at least one, pfizer vaccine, wont reach us until spring. In the meantime the virus is out of control we had 162,000 cases yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and Applied Materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. It is looking like well have a smooth transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration thats a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. I am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine
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
Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be
Dont bet against progress thats the lesson for todays stock market where the gross name came roaring back the nasdaq surged 3. 85 . I know what you are thinking. It feels like the whole republic fringes. Well, excuse me. We are having one of the greatest rallies i have ever seen despite all the worries, the woes about the market tanking if Election Night was in indecisive indecisive like it or not, the people spoke. Whether biden or trump ends up on top, it looks like buy den right now. The democrats will have the house and the republicans will have the senate. At least two years of boring do nothing government even with the pandemic and the high unemployment and of course just kind of anger, americans seemed satisfy with the status q quo. They certainly dont want higher taxes. Something that would have been on the agenda if the socalled blue wave has washed in. Thats a big deal. I know based on the polling, i was worried what may happen to stock with a blue wave just stocks. I am sure
Sell off until they realize they cant keep paying for things like snow flake because when they have to sell Something Else i think is why we have another bad day. Dow dropped 245, s p fell and nasdaq lost 1. 70 . It bounced from the lowest percent. Once again, were reminded the stock market is first and foremost a market. And markets are government earned by supply and demand. Right now the supply of new stock is overwhelming demand so the whole market just gets hammered until you trade for a living, you might now understand how this works the software a video game plan and they dont have spare cash lying around, what do they do . How do they get that piece easy they sell. They sell the stock and companies that dont understand it anyway. If you have a stock on the deal and you flip it, well, thats free money free big profits and you got to take free money when wall street is giving it to you. Take public at 52 if you got some at 52 in the deal it scored to 75 where you can cchaching. S