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Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quar ....
The dow industrial average, remember that apple is a dow jones stock. This loss 220 points roughly at the opening bell, that wipes out yesterdays game. Smp on the downside and nasdaq down about 1 . The loss they are because of tech stocks. The virus is also a negative with severe restrictions on travel and businesses in france, italy, germany and spain. Their resurgence has a stalled not good for us. Youre at home a record i think 882,000 new cases reported yesterday and restrictions are spreading, thats not good for this market. Four days till the election and even joe biden is picking up the pace going to three states today come i will, wisconsin, but will he answer questions about hunter maidan repacking the Supreme Court or the influence the socialist have on his campaign . Politico quoting three sources saying Elizabeth Warren wants to be and is the front runner for tre ....
Theres some interesting things in the Options Market that could keep the market down for a bit of time. I do think people are underestimating, a, youve got a good economy with a tremendous amount of stimulus coming in and i think that will continue to drive the market higher. Plus youve got a dynamic where the fed has made much of the fixed income market on investable with treasury and mortgages where they are today, when you take the earnings yield well into the 4 off next years earnings that is a pretty attractive asset class and i think it will propel the market higher so election uncertainty doesnt matter much in the near term stimulus talks, negotiations may not. How does that factor in . Its a big call that you make. Youre the one that suggests in our notes today that it mossably could happen or at least start before the election. Yeah. I mean, so listen, the election the election does matter i think what people have started ....
At one point, they were convenience not absolute indicated up about 300 points on necessity as in the activity that positive news out of moderna. The s p is indicated up about 13 couldnt be performed, so even if youre working out of your points and the nasdaq would open home in new jersey, new jersey says wait a minute were not by about two points after a giving you a credit because you performed the work here. Strong dayyesterday. We get to tax you too. So both sets of taxes. All of those states are facing severe crunches at this point so i would imagine all of those states will be pretty aggressive about it. When you say you could do the work some where else, new york city was closed down, offices the nasdaq was up by 1 . Have been closed down. Employers didnt want people back in the building lets look at the treasury seems like a little extraordinary during these times. Do you think eventually what happens the states gettogether you will see the 10year now and work something out whe ....