From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
Say the least after a bit of a rebound the other day when i was on with you, yesterday i was not here for what was a decline overall in all the markets. I think we are in a new era of volatility. Every single time we get an up opening people say, okay, i guess that selloff is over and when we get the printed selloff people say this selloff is going to go on for ages. I urge people to step back and recognize we are in a period where theres a lot of vacuum, a lot of people trying to buy when its going up, a lot of people trying to sell when its going down and just interpret that as just being enthusiasm, greed and then fear and accept it that its here to stay because its really the undercurrent behind these moves. Okay. And what does that mean in terms of this socalled playbook that you often offer people who listen to what you have to say sure. It means that if you think that it is going to bounce today because it was down hard yesterday, dont make the first move wait to see whether the
It. Of we have been watching what has been going on on the louisiana coast for the latest headlines on hurricane laura, that has preoccupied people. Here in europe, also waiting on the latest developments from jackson hole. Just as we see laura weakening to a category three hurricane, although we know they can still linger it still do damage. Tom 120 Miles Per Hour maximum wind, but the landfall of 160 was extraordinary. The shape of the storm has changed as well. With our first word news in new york, here is ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. It is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit louisiana. You were just discussing hurricane laura, it made landfall near cameron, louisiana with maximum winds of 150 Miles Per Hour, plus there is a threat of a catastrophic storm surge and flash flooding. There is concern that damage could leave areas and uninhabitable for months. It will also shut down a third of the regions Refining Capacity. Winds have died down but laura is still a categor
Formally thats where they stop, unlike the oil futures hallelujah. And thats why we got hammered dow plunging 632 points. S p plummeting 8. 37 nasdaq nose diving 3. 48 the house of pain yesterdays futures in negative territory terrified people if you have to pay to get rid of a barrel of oil or a bank that lent to a bunch of oil companies, even though futures rebounded, oil is above zero the more representative june futures plunged to zero digits before rebounding to the teens in the afternoon its not a good sign in other words, today the real physical world of commodities interfered with the paper world of stocks. My cyclical side says we rally hard from the bottom for not much reason. Since the paends the dow crashed to 18,000, and back to 24,000. Dramatically oversold to dramatically overbought quickly. Maybe we got ahead of ourselves. Sure, it looks like we slowed the coronavirus. More on that tonight youre going to like it i think. Were still seeing thousands of deaths per day and
Even though some of might be different directions. Were monitoring that. Monitoring what is the second biggest point gain so far, for the dow jones industrials. All major averages are advancing pretty smartly, right now, amid talk that this deal will get done, timing is only issue here. Whether this stimulus measure. That is out there, will be enough. Including that lockdown in wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus, slowly by surely. Keep in mind that about 60 million chinese remain in this proverbial lockdown. But the biggest of all was instituted a few moments ago with indias Prime Minister, announced a lockdown not for a section of country, not for some in this country but for all. 1. 3 billion indians in his country. This will last for 21 days. Youre beginning to see a trend here that shows the frantic efforts we are taking to provide stimulus to sort of slow the Economic Impact or the a least the arrest the blows in this country. As other countries are sort of dramatically ackno