U. S. Cases do continue to decline. The fda gives the go ahead for plasma use in hospitalized patients and a potential vaccine fast track and tech on a tear. Shares of apple up nearly 75 this year ahead of its four for one stock split today. Jim, we have all that to handle and jackson hole this week, the rnc and couple tropical storms in and not a sleepy august it should be a sleepy august, and its not august supposed to be a down month and its not people say, wait a second. 70 of the market didnt do well last week. I always find those kind of things because 70 of the market does well this week. You dont have a bunch of anything to hang your hat on when you look at a big apple price target increase basically to where the stock is you realize, wait a second shes the first. But will everyone have to follow every price target is below where the stock is a lot of people feel enthusiasm for the stock split. Of course, that is part of it. I know stocks mean nothing but they excite people she
Virus could soon peak in new york city. Weve already seen the apex in madrid italy is clearly over the hump that means buy storks. Cover your shorts. The bull is backs todays run d 1627 points marking its best day in two weeks s p soaring 7. 03 . Nasdaq 7. 3 . Can it really be this easy or does this represent too much optimism i think its a bit of the latter wall street is a group of index buyers and traders when we care about the new number of coronavirus cases, number of hospitalizations and mortality rate index buying was so intense it moved stocks like they were play things now, does that mean we should buy the nasdaq when we have more ventilators, sell it if we dont have enough personal protective equipment . Do we buy the s p retail etf when we get a decent number from, i dont know, Governor Cuomo . No, its kind of ridiculous. Were simply seeing, though, the flip side of what happens when people were downbeat as they were last week when the president s team told us some pretty ho
Similar percentage moves for the s p 500 and the nasdaq composite as well. The question becomes after the best week for the dow since 1938 last week, the best week for the s p 500 and nasdaq composite, are we starting to see a market bottom play out . Lets start here with our invest Investment Committee joe, what are we seeing here is this a market bottom we can see developing out in the next couple of days and weeks no one knows the answer to whether this is an absolute market bottom. What is going on is theres a significant trading bounce in the market and a lot of it is predicated on the end of month rebalancing we know will occur into equities. Today, very surprising there seems to be a high degree of optimism relative to the expectation were going to get a significant amount of negative news coming this week in the form of ism in the form of unemployment figures and in the form of continued negativity surrounding riding cases of coronavirus here in new york city which is the epice
Cspan3, online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] and the house coming in, getting down to legislative work after the fourth of july recess, taking up seven bills this afternoon. All from the Financial Services committee, including a whistleblower protection bill. Also, the house has announced theyll vote friday on the 9 11 Victim Compensation fund bill which passed by the Judiciary Committee unanimously last month by voice vote. And tomorrow, the house will 733 k on the 7 3 defense appropriations bill. The Senate Passed their version. 750 billion measure. Votes in the house this evening at 6 30 eastern. Theyll be here shortly. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the chair will postponefurther proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded
Equal. Some a whole lot more equal than others the dow gaining six points, s p rising. 1 , nasdaq climbing 1. 15 , falls into the more equal category before i go into this let me explain what makes for a good and bad rally. There are some thing as bad rally. I like a rally that involves the financials, specifically the banks. Since that implies the economy is healthy a bank rally is as solid when bank stocks do well that means theres more credit being lent and employments healther Small Businesses feel confident. Big commercial real estate projects that will put a lot more people to work are getting done the government will get more mergers so it will be good news for the investment banks in short with the bank stock rally its a sign stability and prosperity can be on a rise. Yes, i smile when jp hit an alltime high or when bank of america jumps if this session. Ive studied ballots for 35 years and never seen a bad one thats led by the banks. Strengthen financials is a precursor to ber