Gaining. It is time to admit that conventional wisdom has been wrong every step of the way. In this market, patience is not a virtue discipline cluster of fortune. Buying the most obvious stock, well, that has been a strategy that was easy i struggle about how this is possible i am not used to a mark that reward investors being late to the party. We found out moderna has a vaccine that may work better than pfizer. Thats getting off the table we got uncontrol spread over america. And mayors and governors refused to shutdown the bars and restaurants. Those are the main places we are getting infected no, it is at home, jim this pandemic is steam rolling us the prospect of a vaccine keeps on plotting it and shutting everything down. I am sure you are wondering, given the numbers that we see, how is that possible first every now and then there were moments that well stood on our head. Time like these is not sell. You must be willing to suspend judgment how far stocks can reasonably go. Than
Futures, big corporates with news flow in particular sap. The guidance has been disappointing for that stock so were watching implications there. But a number of themes for investors as we look at the opening signals on the benchmark, investors eyeing the u. S. Trade and whether we get any progression on stimulus this week, counting down to the u. S. Election and we have tech earnings, thats a feature of the market where were seeing a kshape on markets alsotodriving the u. S. Stock market forward well eye the earnings to see if it justifies what weve seen since the start of the pandemic weve dropped more than 1. 1 , thats a big reversal from the. 6 gained on friday you can see from the amount of red on the market its fairly deep in the negative territory on the market. Oil and gas 2. 1 lower, this is reflecting the spot prices were witnessing as we talk about coronavirus cases, weve been assessing the impact on demand for oil you can see as we go through this process, a second wave of
You know what, there has been a persistent bid as we call it underneath this market for months, despite the virus and the unemployment it is a puzzle enigma. I am trying to figure out why people keep buying i had an epiphany last night i was going over preparations for my monthly club talk this time looking at it through the lens of the election, it is only 20 days away. You know what . Of the 32 stocks we own for the trust, fully twothirds of them would do better under a biden presidency that caught me by surprise we were trying to bail out the election honestly i have been under the assumption that the market may take a hit if biden wins he wants to raise Corporate Tax and Capital Gains tax and rich people pay your own stocks. Is that good policy . I dont know given biden has been getting some incredible poll numbers the last few weeks it has become a real possibility. Many of you assumes it is bad for stocks thats what i thought or at least what i thought before my big club call rev
Reportedly uncovering Quality Control concerns at eli lilly plant set to manufacture its covid antibody treatment and apple debuts the new 5g phone line speedier devices, also coming with an even heftier price tag carl, back over to you. All right jim, on the banks this morning, conversation once again about loss provisions. Also about bond trading at goldman. I dont think it is just bond trading. I think goldman did a remarkable job taking some share, which i say remarkable because imagine youre at home, zooming and taking sharefrom others. I do believe that goldmans back to its old ways which is that it is a dry cleaner it doesnt have any risk remember, dry cleaner, what do we do with the dry cleaner give them our clothes and pick them up and they make money. That has been the goldman way until a couple of years where i think it got wayward where it became much more about, hey, lets invest in this, invest in that, no, to me, what theyre investing in, that i really like, theyre invest
We have seen the g10 space benefiting from that, especially when it comes to the pound. There are brexit negotiations starting today in brussels. So far there is possibility of progress. It looks like we are in this seeing people are are saying this is the yen buying path of least resistance. We are looking at, when it comes to commodities, the gold futures. Right now. Silver and aluminum having a big comeback. You see brent crude hovering around 42 right now. One big interview to tell you about today. We are talking about market debuts in hong kong, gto express. Here is the bond market first. Not a lot of movement when it comes to the aussie 10 year yield. 77 basis points as people wind back the rate cuts. 3. 11 for the chinese 10 year still. This is what i was talking about. He is joining us for an exclusive interview at the bottom of this hour. A pretty stellar debut to start the week. Haslinda like you said, a lack of conviction. From get Market Analysis the asset strategist at j.