Headlines hit on the coronavirus. New york city is halting all inperson learning starting tomorrow it comes as the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing nationwide. And a new all time high for s p. We have a Record Number of cases of covid in america and retailers are hitting an all time high. How can this be . The haves and havenots kudos to karen and tim target numbers were extraordinary. It should come as no surprise. Thats a name we have talked about. If you love walmart at their valuation, you have to love target at theirs walmart quarter i thought was very good. There are a lot of good individual stories, but i dont think it speaks to the economy per se there are names we also mention that seem to be topping out. The price action in restoration hardware, William Sonoma and we dont need to go down the road of what they sell. Those stocks popped out a couple of weeks ago thats concerning. Do you want to play at the 100 earnings table, gap earnings on the
Day. Pete, i come to you. Jpmorgan the quarter was good Loan Loss Provisions were surprisingly good. The commentary today is a surprising show of coronavirus resilience thats what i just read. Why is the stock down . You know, initially it had a nice pop to the up side, scott i think people step back and say the financials, we need to hear a lot more about what theyre going to be able to do at some point in time thats outside of the trading spot because thats another area the Loan Loss Provisions, you just brought that up but how about the trading numbers . The trading numbers are outrageous for them and for citi that is an area we expected to be strong. It was Even Stronger than expected but theres more to the bank than that. I think thats what were going to be struggling with for a while with these financials. And when you look across just about every name, scott, other than Something Like a black rock, asset manager. When you look at the banks and the financial world there, they jus
What is affecting the markets, especially when it comes to economic concerns. Lets see how markets are shaping up for the asian session. We are joined from hong kong. Isshery, the spreading japan off for the long weekend, which was to mark the start of the tokyo olympics. We are seeing futures for asia pointing to losses. We will be watching to see if those concerns around the u. S. Tech rally will weigh in the region, what the nasdaq looking bubbly. We are also looking to the aussie dollar, holding declines below 71. Is trading atlar the highest level since april 2019 throughout this choppy week. Pulling up the terminal, the asiana is tracking towards 77 after a four month decline, but it has not been able to track to that level yet. Increased option activity this week could lead the way for more gains for this currency pair. In hong kong dollar and offshore yuan options. Yuane seeing offshore taking a breather after a twoday advance. Traders dont seem to be expecting too much Materia
Taken individually they can mislead us but taken together they are like high beams who can keep you from straying into the wrong and dangerous lane [ screaming this was a good day for the bulls. Dow gained 3919 points nasdaq advanced 5. 2 more importantly, though, every single stock, on my go list like the go pattern in football, a go list was up today. Meaning that something very big could be afoot that is highly unusual whats on my goal list im talking about the companies that are doing okay right now. But if the pandemic were to end or be behind us, theyd be putting up breathtaking yearoveryear comparisons and we care about yoy, year over year by the Time Next Year well have found a way back to normal or at least an almost normal situation. And its probably going to happen much sooner than that im going to rip down that list to show you what a go pattern looks like but before that buyers have decided that science will beat covid sooner than expected so youd better get on board or mi
Alley were seeing more push and pull this morning in this case the dow and the s p are green. Were getting decent bounces in names related to travel. Of course the covid cases out of florida at 11,000 plus is not good, but it has been off set by the data out of gilead lets talk about where were going in the coming weeks. You have been riding names like facebook and alphabet and is any of that betting tired the nasdaq 100 has bet the s p for ten straight months. At this point i think the s p this year is down 1 and the value index was down we started our careers at the same time. We saw the tech bubble we saw how bifurcated it can get. We saw how they still have value. Other companies doing exceptionally well it is not available compared to what we see in other sectors what is an example of that . Lets take leer if your family owned the business, you would say we made a billion and a half dollars a couple years ago and a few years from now we will again, but the market is offering to bu