Its a move that could exacerbate Trade Tensions between western countries and china. From october, canada will impose 100 tariffs on Electric Vehicles from china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped on to chinese produced evs that are imported to canada. The government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, said these measures were about protecting its domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional, state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector, talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been, and we simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs back in may, whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
Open, but the dow currently having its best monthly gain since january of 1987. That ev revolution, it is rolling on in the stock market tesla tops half a trillion dollars in market value for the first time shares of nikola sinking this morning. Covid surge, cases and hospitalizations at record levels why experts fear thanksgiving could be a socalled accelerator event. Lets get your take on where you think sentiment is now i saw you writing yesterday about the fear and greed, pointing more to the greed. People are there is a belief phase in this rally that has probably started this comeback from march, eight months ago, ishas fed on disbelief. Between the seasonal forces being strong and the clearance toward this post covid moment with the vaccines, it all did come together. Also, though, with the grab for cyclicals, laggards, anything that moves fast, anything that seems like it was really dented up by this whole phase, now, sentiment, it is not a moment in time people say, all too bu
Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie
Populating wall street are a bunch of weather man everyday you hear the forecast today the dow slipped some points nasdaq declined 1. 2 it is enough to make you take a meteorologist course to see which way the wind blows seems like both ways blowing at the same time. The tail wind dies and the market goes right back down again. You dont care about todays weather, what good is that for you on the forecast . It is easier said than done. How do you navigate your way through the confusing markets. Starting with the winds from the vaccine. We know it is a huge tail wind for the economy. Once people are vaccinated, we can open everything back to normal and more restaurants and retailers will make it and there will be more jubilation. The jubilation that kohls got underneath its stocks and malls can reopen and troubled retailers can be able to shooure and macys the younger robin hood traders are betting heavily on the cruise line, between the vaccine and soon enough well be able to take a cru