Against the pandemic and when were losing, we buy the cramer covid19 index. Oh, i wish there were more to it than that. But when the virus seems unstoppable. You go back to the wealth and buy the stocks of the companies regardless of valuation. Thats how the dow gained 236 points today the s p advanced 2. 7 . And winners surge 1. 47 . This rally was extra infuriating to anyone who thinks the market should be linked to washingtons inability to pass another stimulus bill now that the 600 a week benefits have expired the rising case counts in so many states, california over 500,000 that forced closures of flagging businesses. So let me give you the guide to the perplexed. Because when you go to the tape and look at whats winning, its actually very straightforward. Theres nothing counterintuitive about this move. Its not crazy its not illogical in fact, it makes perfect sense. Lets do this. Lets consider the 15 best performers of the covid19 index. First, theres fastly. This is a platform
Vaccine. If you want to understand this market, including today, the dow tumbled 354 points s p lost 1. 23 and the nasdaq plunged 2. 29 with many bigcap tech stocks taking it on the chin. You have to recognize things will never be the same in this country or around the world until we get a vaccine the pandemic, not the fed they know nothing not the election is the most important driver of the stock prices thats right we get a vaccine sooner than expected, we save the economy. But if the process drags on and we dont have any stimulus, were going the need to adjust to the slow to no growth huddle at home normal therefore, our fate is in the hands oh of a few dozen companies. Whoever get there is first is going to make a lot of money thats why we decided to do something new. We surveyed 92 drug analysts, the best we could find, state and local level, to handicap the chances of each of the main players. We dont bet on at least we dont like to bet on lifethreatening situations. This is a te
Me jimcramer. You have a pessimist you have the camp that believes the latest covid outbreak is no big deal because the mortality rate is lower and then the super pessimist that say spiking cases mean no sports, no going out and millions of job losses these four camps, i have to tell you, they are going to they are at war every single day. Including this one, the dow gained 557 points, s p advanced 1. 34 and nasdaq inched up 4. 9 one can win because there is so much money going into stocks the recovery plays dont go up as Fund Managers need to sell one group to swap into another and thats why the dow stocks did much better than the s p that did better than the one scorching nasdaq this is highly unusual but it makes sense if you think out market in terms of competing camps. So who is winning . Or who won today i like to use the sore thumb index as in which stocks stuck out like a sore thumb today . Let me give you todays examples first tell is mccormick. The big spice maker roared to a
And a thousand times a day without thinking about it. At least thats how it feels right now. The inevitability of this outbreak is starting to sink in. What does the fed do it gives us a rate cut a 50 basis point rate cut. Reaction hey, condition rate cut. And it was a resounding texas hud. Ultimately the dow fell 786 points and 2. 189 so why did we get that illnesses, cancellations and this epidemic and im beginning to feel just in what has just been cancelled the emails that i get and the notes from Different Companies that is a shutdown it doesnt change that its not a cure. Its not a hazmat suit or respirator it does absolutely nothing to impact the spread of the virus it somehow boosts Business Confidence i did care about the rate cut. I cared about how wrong it was its totally a sign of the panic from the fed. And a rate cut i say this as someone thats been addiment that easy money is a good thing im probably the biggest single proponent of lower Interest Rates on the entire spect
Sorts of agreements but something about this one feels different and thats why the market erupted today with the s p climbing nasdaq falling. 91 . These were closing level highs the question is why does this stage one trade deal feel so different to me . Ive been a skeptic. For once we have something that the fepeoples republic needs. Pork i think people dont understand how bad this african swine flu epidemic has hit china the country is ill prepared for the scourge. They lost more than half of their hogs to this disease in 2019 unchecked it could be even worse next year because most of chinas livestock lives in something called backyard farms. Contrast that to the United States, we have factory farming with e trextreme bio security. You can visit a farm, a hog farm in america were considered to be big bio risks so were not allowed to go its airborne. China has enough frozen pork to tie the people over for a while. The United States is the only country can enough pork production to mee