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The investors are watching for signs of trump progress. And apple is up 24 in the first three months of the year. The best gain that stock has had in five years. And musk for the win. Tesla delivered a record 25,000 cars. Were others able to keep the pace . First up, despite the dow and s p snapping four month win streaks in march investors have reason to smile. Dow and s p each extending the quarterly winning streaks to six while the nasdaq outperforms both in q1 with a 9. 8 gain. April, jim, is seasonally strong. Havent had all three down since 05 in the month. Well get earnings. I think the industrials which have kind of plateaued, the banks, are going to be up first. For the most part if you get the dollar to stay weaker, you hear about International Orders i dont know if anyone saw that european pmi, but europe is strong. They could lead a lot of the industrials. Asia better. But i think that were going to start off com ....
Board right now. We have not only corporate earnings, but also centralbank decisions including the fed as well as the doj later this week. We are seeing some pressure today. The s p 500 down half a percent halting four weeks of gains. The dow is also down as much halting nine days of gains. The nasdaq is also down a quarter of a percent. Take a look at the s p index in context. We are seeing some losses today. The fact is the market peaked twice at 2175. 2159 arounda low of tuesday and thursday. Today, with the losses we are seeing above that. The nasdaq, the blue chips on the nasdaq take a look. Ground, they are losing we have to say that they are not performing peers. We are talking about the s p 500 and the dow. We are trying to pitch some one meters. That is related to the adoption of it was until they announced on friday after the markets closed. Tesla is also up more than 2 as we hear more impending news of a merger with solar city. Whole foods market also up. They upgraded the s ....
What they call a limited mission. They say. Will stay the same. Were seeing more today from the arrest of a Pleasant Hill man accused of going on a shooting spree. The defense says he was intoxicated at the time. Police, say otherwise. 24 01show me your hands, show me your hands. 24 04 police say 33year old pete polson went on a shooting spree last november. Officers caught up to polson a short time later. And found gunshot residue on his clothing. Along with a gun and shell casings in his car. The defense claims he was too intoxicated to know what he was doing. But officers have their doubts. 34 39how would you describe him . The best i can describe was indifferent, just normal was just another day. Was there anything about his demeanor that indicated to you he was under the influence of any substance . No. Two people were wounded. And a third just narrowly avoided i instantly knew it was a gunshot, i turned, i hit the ground, i k ....
Today a pair of deals. Endo buying parr pharmaceutical and for just over 2 billion. And potentially a third in the making i can confirm that they have resumed talks around a possible deal. Well have more timely to help, tim cook tells graduates not to live lives on the sidelines while apple acquires a gps startup. The dow and s p just shy of new alltime intraday highs. The dow, as we said about 16 points away from record territory. People wonder if this is the breakout of the wedge weve been watching for so long jim. Its certainly possible. We saw things last week that were really kind of very positive for the market. One, Interest Rates were good. We need them higher because the financials roared last week. The other thing that roared were the health care stocks. We still dont have the transports. I know that i was doing some work on the oil lines on the train lines for oil, with rbn, which is my energy source. There theyre going ....
Philly fed survey and the National Association of home builders. Friday, Housing Starts, productivity and cost and consumer sentiment. The equity picture this morning at least ahead of all that not looking too great. Dow futures 77 points below fair value. The s p is off 10. And this is coming after the dow last week was down for the first time in seven weeks, when you look at the major average for what was happening. A little bit of rockiness out there after a long, steady climb higher. In Global Economic news, japans economy grew at a slower than expected rate in the Second Quarter. Gdp coming in at 0. 6 . Also, Capital Expenditures unexpectedly fell for the sixth straight quarter. Economists say ....