The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
English premier league along with a spat with the u. K. , all reports prius president xi jinping could close the u. S. Consulate in showing do. Tension and political Mitch Mcconnell good unveil a gop plan opening up discussions with immigrants. Cost cuts assifies it sees a considerable slump in economic output. Confirms its diagnostics unit. Units from unilever coming from across the wire. What are you seeing . Anna we got the numbers from unilever. Lets get to the story in london. Unilever with underlying sales, down. 3 , but better than the market anticipated. The estimate was for a drop. 3. 89 . That is a good number for the underlying sales story. They were telling us about what they plan for their tea business. They talked about moving it on in some way. Now with a that will hold they will hold on to some of it. They are retaining the tea businesses in india and indonesia and interest in the ready to drink tea joint ventures they have, but they are telling us the operations they w
Nasdaq, we keep talking about this, up 4 on the week. Names thatl these have just done gang busters here. Up 10 on the day and you have lot of other names beaten down like the carnival cruises and some of those names. Really bounce back today. Up 8. 5 . Aluminum is big. Deflationarye forces that continue to hit this market and you really wonder if way for Market Participants search out companies with the strong cash and strong balance sheet. You have to think inflation comes as soon as some of that online. Omes you wonder when that demand comes online and how you turn around some of the disinflationary forces. Us Global Market strategist over there. The nextlook at earning season, which takes off on tuesday here in the u. S. Investors will be as forgiving as they were the previous earning season, given a little bit more clarity about how the economy is doing and the Health Pandemic is doing. Its a big week next week. Second quarter earning kick off next week. 22 over s p 500 companies
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And thats sort of roughly the same i think throughout whether shipping it across country or across townbut what if automation drops like another 90 percent . And its as easy and cheap to send a box of something across town as it is to send a text message. What does the world start to look like then and what kinds of things do people start to do with that . And around the time i was thinking of that i started thinking of what was going on in china with delivery and china basically went through the us 20th century experience with this decline in shipping costs and the increased speedand shipping in like 10 years. So when ali baba started it took three weeks to ship something from their headquarters which i think is in outside shanghai to wuhan or another big city on the other outside of china. And 10 years later that was a 24 hour thing and ali baba has 5 million, or sorry, gd has 2 million. You can do anything in any chinese city and under 24 hours. And on Something Like singles day whi