Sector down, not much, but still down utilities, real estate and healthcare are leading the way let us start with oil. Heres the thing, pete weve been here before if youre lock oil, youve had your heartbroken a few times. Yes, i have, indeed. Is this time different . I feel like it is different and the reason i say that weve seen so much options as of late. By the way, yesterday was the lowest volume day in the options for the entire year of 2017 if you exclude some of the half days that weve had. Weve seen paper flows very, very indicative of where the directions are going and seen it in energy time and time again and this time the size and the mass in which they are coming after paper in the xlp, in the xle, in individual names like halliburton and some of the rest, weve even had some in the services index, the oih. Which is up by the way. Right, and it encompass eds, you put in schlumberger and halliburton and thats 35 of that index so you know its fairly narrow, but the energy spac
Blown through nasdaq 7,000, were talking about s p 3,000 by the end of the year. Look how much we already moved we got a lot of milestones falling by the wayside lets get to bob pisani with some of the latest on todays action bob . This is quite an unusual week not just in the intensity and how much the s p is up, but the fact that everything seems to be working. Let me show you the winners this week and just the dow so, whatwere the two biggest losers of 2017 it was ge and ibm. Whats the two biggest movers up this week . Ge and ibm okay often get a little reversion to the mean, but two of the biggest movers in the dow last year was boeing and ibm so they had absolutely outstanding years and they, too, are up big. You get my point everything seems to be working this week. Its a little eery. Look at the major sectors today. S p up over 2 for the week. Small caps are pretty well, too. Growth is up, and value is up at the same time. Doing well thats kind of odd and even all the cyclical n
Decline in the open and s p in 18 best start in 30 years. Buffett on the market, succession planning at berkshire, stocks not richly valued and remains a buyer but not of bitcoin. Tech under fire a powerful gop senator demanding answers from apple good battery gate the s p is off to the best start since 87 and buffett says markets are not richly valued according to rates and what he told becky a few moments ago. What has happened in the market has been very sensible. Nobody thought we would have these kind of Interest Rates for a long time. Additionally you have the tax act which is a huge factor in valuation. Says the Interest Rates are the gravity to value and munger chiming in saying share prices are not crazy. Point blank tell you, this was becky quick, congratulations, unbelievable interview. You sit there and what you get are people who know more than anyone else alive and they are saying, look, theres some interesting things and lets not go crazy, just because Interest Rates go
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