We take you live to a conversation with senator cory booker. Celebrate the illustrious career of our beloved colleague, distant wrist university professor, james a server. Jim is retiring this year after 47 illustrious years studying american democracy, contribute into it, and enlightening others about it. During that time, jim has done many things. Im sure hell be angry with me, the am going to embarrass him a little bit. [indiscernible] longtime advisor to both congress and the executive branch, a documentarian, acting dean, director of many things, including this center, which he founded. A sponsor of more than three to 50 events of converses, principal invested conferences, principal investigator, an author and editor of over 50 books and monographs, peerreviewed journal articles, and well over 100 book chapters and publications. As my colleague said earlier this week, jim is american university. When we started talking about these dialogues, we asked jim who he would like to inter
Reportedly uncovering Quality Control concerns at eli lilly plant set to manufacture its covid antibody treatment and apple debuts the new 5g phone line speedier devices, also coming with an even heftier price tag carl, back over to you. All right jim, on the banks this morning, conversation once again about loss provisions. Also about bond trading at goldman. I dont think it is just bond trading. I think goldman did a remarkable job taking some share, which i say remarkable because imagine youre at home, zooming and taking sharefrom others. I do believe that goldmans back to its old ways which is that it is a dry cleaner it doesnt have any risk remember, dry cleaner, what do we do with the dry cleaner give them our clothes and pick them up and they make money. That has been the goldman way until a couple of years where i think it got wayward where it became much more about, hey, lets invest in this, invest in that, no, to me, what theyre investing in, that i really like, theyre invest
Higher density battery, greener, but the technological breakthrough towards that are still speculative so the market reacted negatively to that news. Right the bull case is that were seeing built today say that if you were to be able to cut the cost by 56 in three years, it would have enormous ramifications on volume, implications for margins and ostensibly positive for the stock. Cramer said it best this morning, if you were a believer going into the event, you remain a believer and if not, maybe youre not. Fair enough its absolutely true that the Battery Technologies worldwide tesla and everybody elses will continue to get cheaper and better thats a given thats just the all laws that support Technological Breakthroughs support that theory so thats already baked into the price. You know, all the disruptive capacity of the technology is already baked into the price theres Everything Else is just sexy brand, elon cult personality who of course deserves all the credit in the world he adm
Services committee and how the markets may react. Then we will talk a bit about this try yant stake in our Parent Company comcast, what is the behind the thinking at triant and what if anything may owe dur as a result. Teslas battery day, where that stock is trying to recover this morning after yet another tweet from elon musk which is part of the discussion today, jim. Whether or not hes setting expectations in a different way saying that some of this high volume production is a phenomenon still a couple years away. Hes giving us an underpromise, overdeliver, i think, which is highly unlike him, but it could make more a little more pizzazz. Theres been so much talk about battery day, maybe he lowers expectations an blow them out. People come out and want to buy tesla, want to buy amazon, positive notes about apple, positive note about facebook its just become the pattern youre waiting and waiting for when the selling is over and then, david, they cannot resist. Theyre down 15 and 17 p
Todays action dow gaining 140 and nasdaq surging 1. 71 the market reflected everything going right, but totally obscured everything going wrong. Its a tale of two cities. It was the best at times and worst at times but on up days, we focus d on the best and ignoe the rest what do i mean lets start by going over the winners today to see what they are trying to say. You have to define them. They speak to you. The stars of reteail tell the story. The most important winner is amazon this morning, analysts who missed nearly the whole rally here took the recent pull back as an opportunity to upgrade it was very significant. I liked everything in the support from approval to the patience you see, he waited for a double digit decline before he pounced. Most people were flying. Not him. I like that. In recognition of the incredible strength with rapid delivery and the fly wheel approach he says buy amazon is there anything in this note actually, yes. You can make the same arguments about amazon