The dow plunging 280 points and s p 500 down 6 and nasdaq down. 55 but that is not true if the trade war were really all important, the averages would never have been able to surge to record levels over and over and over again as tense as negotiations may be it is more of an issue than most people seem to realize if that is the case, what just happened over the last four days why is the action suddenly become to frightening . What does it mean for your future and your portfolio . You have to think about larry kudlow, the chief economic adviser and Steve Mnuchin and thought china would be willing to open up the economy to American Financial companies if the president would give them a stay of execution on the scheduled december 15th trade hikes. But the hardliners in the white house, no, they warned us. They warned that if the free traders kept talking up the prospects of a deal the Chinese Government with push for better terms. That is thur style weve seen this before every time trump
Hideous beatdown im going to make it real simple for you. The market is spectacular al beit mercurial fashion show. The same stocks that would strut down the runway greeted with oohhs and aahhs will be pelted by tomatoes. Stocks that have languished sell like hot cakes when styles change we call that a rotation on wall street. Investors are furiously recalibrating what theyre willing to pay for and just right now theyre happy to pay up for the stocks of solid companies with healthy dividends and ideally big buy backs. You know what . Theyve lost interest in the stocks of Fast Growing Companies when it comes to revenues. They issued huge gobs of equity and pay people or come up with bizarre new metrics or explain how theyre really doing okay even though they dont have much in the way of earnings if any. In other words, the cloud stocks are up salesforce. Com, adobe, workday, z scale, i could go on and on. These names were all smoking red hot and now theyre struggling you have to wonder
1 it is not the fed. Its not the trade talks, its demand demand for money demand for homes, demand for processing, demand for cancer drugs and programming and demand for cell phones and demand for planes and of course perhaps most important, demand for stocks yet if you listen to most of the experts you here a lot of fury about ow the Global Economy has gotten weaker because the trade war has shut down international trade. I dont want to sugar coat anything the Global Economy has absolutely taken a hit yearoveryear and the tariffs are part of that but here is the thing. Many stocks were trading like were about to get an even more stringent round of tariffs and that didnt happen instead the president started negotiating with china and that allowed a host of flailing stocks to get their mojo back. The tariff made it strong that without the averages demand would have never made it this far. Let me walk you through the places where that demand is m t most palpable first there is demand for
Sure it helped but we were roaring long before that, thanks in large part to efforts of two brilliant chief executive officers stocks were high dow and nasdaq and much comes to the performance of two stocks, cisco and walmart. Which pleasantly surprised us with their numbers these are both turnaround stories people nothing proves worth of a ceo like executing a turnaround. Doug mcmillon, took over three careers ago and led remarkable revolution at retail giant where 100 Million People shop each week, monster company. First thing he did, drop a bomb. Told us would spend as much as possible to take on amazon, seemed fanciful at the time but said do with service and better paid work force. Understood the weakness was keeping good people. Training new people is dead weight raised price they paid people. At the time viewed as heresy now seen as brilliant. Walmart still run with input of the walton family. They want to win phenomenal 50 online growth this company runs like walmart of old, th
Beat after the close, and its stock soars. Twitter reports once of the worst quarters of the year, and again, correctly, it gets crushed i find the action needs two stocks for reassuring companies that have stocks that go higher, and clown Show Companies that have stocks that go lower without everything and everyone its straight forward. Sometimes stocks can rally simply because they repuce to go down. Even when the federal reserves hinting that they might raise rates. The averages barely budged. Dow losing a point. S p declined 1. 2 . Nasdaq advanced 1. 8 . Sometimes individual Companies Just dont give you enough reasons to sell their stocks. When they report. And that can lead to tremendous rallies. I know that its go being up because its not going down. Can sound like some kind of weird zen riddle. So, let me explain. We saw four of these stories play out today. Panera bread, Buffalo Wild Wings, caterpillar and boeing. Two restaurants, voila, a heavy Machinery Company and the Worlds