For splits and which Companies Might be next. Also robin hood finish not the guy in tights, the free stocktrading t. A. R. P. Why its outgrowing the competition. And as investors wait for a covid19 vaccine, powerful new treatments could soon make a difference. We look at the companies racing to test them. On the barrons roundtable, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, let me start with you about stock splits. They used to be common. Weve been through kind of a drought. All of a sudden there are a couple of high profile ones. They dont change the value of a company, its like me giving you a 10 for two 5s, but investors are responding. What do you think is going on . The first thing is we actually are some high profile stock splits. We havent had these in years. Companies have been letting their stock prices just rise well into the thousands in the way they never have before, so now all of a sudden you yet two high you get two high profile companies, supposedly
Barrons virtual round table, ben, weve been talking for weeks about how the market is rallying, seeming to ignore the horrible economic news. But this past week investors seemed to notice. Yeah. This was the week that we learned big tech cant hold the market up forever. For a while now, the datas been terrible, but the markets just kept going up on the backs of apple and amazon and microsoft, stocks like that. But this week began with rising tensions for china, and that should really hurt these stocks. When they started to fall, so did the rest of the market. And this week weve been getting some really, really bad data. If you look at the jobless claims, another 2. 6 million or so. Retail sales were awful. Those were released on friday. And Industrial Production is terrible. Just really terrible news thats coming out. And investors are really getting on edge over whether congress is going to be able to come together and deliver more stimulus to this market. Jack interesting crosscurren
Barrons virtual round table, ben, weve been talking for weeks about how the market is rallying, seeming to ignore the horrible economic news. But this past week investors seemed to notice. Yeah. This was the week that we learned big tech cant hold the market up forever. For a while now, the datas been terrible, but the markets just kept going up on the backs of apple and amazon and microsoft, stocks like that. But this week began with rising tensions for china, and that should really hurt these stocks. When they started to fall, so did the rest of the market. And this week weve been getting some really, really bad data. If you look at the jobless claims, another 2. 6 million or so. Retail sales were awful. Those were released on friday. And Industrial Production is terrible. Just really terrible news thats coming out. And investors are really getting on edge over whether congress is going to be able to come together and deliver more stimulus to this market. Jack interesting crosscurren
Barrons virtual round table, ben, weve been talking for weeks about how the market is rallying, seeming to ignore the horrible economic news. But this past week investors seemed to notice. Yeah. This was the week that we learned big tech cant hold the market up forever. For a while now, the datas been terrible, but the markets just kept going up on the backs of apple and amazon and microsoft, stocks like that. But this week began with rising tensions for china, and that should really hurt these stocks. When they started to fall, so did the rest of the market. And this week weve been getting some really, really bad data. If you look at the jobless claims, another 2. 6 million or so. Retail sales were awful. Those were released on friday. And Industrial Production is terrible. Just really terrible news thats coming out. And investors are really getting on edge over whether congress is going to be able to come together and deliver more stimulus to this market. Jack interesting crosscurren
Barrons virtual round table, ben, weve been talking for weeks about how the market is rallying, seeming to ignore the horrible economic news. But this past week investors seemed to notice. Yeah. This was the week that we learned big tech cant hold the market up forever. For a while now, the datas been terrible, but the markets just kept going up on the backs of apple and amazon and microsoft, stocks like that. But this week began with rising tensions for china, and that should really hurt these stocks. When they started to fall, so did the rest of the market. And this week weve been getting some really, really bad data. If you look at the jobless claims, another 2. 6 million or so. Retail sales were awful. Those were released on friday. And Industrial Production is terrible. Just really terrible news thats coming out. And investors are really getting on edge over whether congress is going to be able to come together and deliver more stimulus to this market. Jack interesting crosscurren