I see london, i see france, i see you in your underpants i always hated that diddy when i was a kid but you know what . It perfectly describes todays actions. Sellers caught with their pants down tipping just. 15 . Yep, this morning investors saw london and they saw france, not to mention milan and madrid. Specifically the europeans getting hammered as covid back on the continent they figured wed import those losses from europe so they furiously sold their stocks to get out ahead of the weakness. Many of these jokers probably trading in their pajamas the feet with the dr. Dentons. Panic pretenders here dumped shares at a 10 1 ratio, meaning there were 10 shares for sale or down for every 1 share someone was trying to buy. Now the late, great mark haines, one of cnbcs finest, always used that 10 1 ratio to call bottoms, including the generational bottom that he nailed in march of 2009. When the ratio sellers to buyers is 10 1 hed say you have to hold your nose and buy because that kind
Maybe call it the ultimate catchup trade. If you missed the markets record rebound, fear not because we have three stocks that could be primed to pop later, tiktok you dont stop giving us news, that is. Theres a strange new suitor for the red hot social media app that our traders have our own take of who should put a ring on it so much to get through in the next hour, but let us begin at the beginning a brand new record close for the s p 500. This is by far the fastest bear market exit in history it has been just over 100 days since the benchmark index plunged with lows of the year. Need i remind you of the pandemic panic of march. Were up 55 since then. Its close today by the ever so slimmest of margins putting an official end to the bear market. Guy, the market acting like the pandemic induced lockdown and mass job losses simply never happened is this all, thank you, mr. Federal reserve . Of course it is y the Balance Sheet in february was 4 trillion, now howevering on the side of 7
Perfect sense. But then there are days like today when i cant take how stupidly bullish this market can be the dow gaining 164 points nasdaq climbing 0. 35 . You often hear people saying that the whole things been manipulated. Its a desperate Federal Reserve and its a scared powell and its President Trump winning the election no, the feds just doing its job. And if the white house wanted to juice the stock market, dont you think they already wouldve cut a deal with the democrats on the next round of stimulus see, there is a much simpler explanation. I call it clueless buying. I always say you should never underestimate the wall street promotion machine. But never underestimate the power of enthusiastic buyers who do not know what theyre doing they know nothing some people accuse me of taking the thing too far. They say im not willing to call people out for being morons that are more likely to put retire clorox ceo than i am to put a departing Ceo Jim Hackett on the wall of shame. They
The auto sector. Ford and nikkola news coming your way just about to flat line with 59 minutes left in the session. We have a big lineup of ceos coming up on todays show. Dan rosensweig on the back of cheggs earnings it is a moon shot. Then the head oof another stock that has been on a terror, henry ji, ceo of Sorrento Therapeutics and its a huge earnings news, disney, nikola and well speak with the ceo of ww right after the numbers hit. We have 58 minutes left of trade. Mike san totoli is tracking act and phil lebeau. B mike, start us off with the Broader Market it is flat. We alternate the days between when the indices look better than the majority of stocks and days like today when the indices are doing nothing but holding near the highs take a look at the s p 500 here we are on a year basis. You have the pop and turn pattern. You pop above the highs and then chops around right now were above that june high 3350 or so would be a 50 rally off the closing low for from 23rd that is 19
Dow surging 461 points, s p gaining 1. 21 , nasdaq advancing 1. 31 . The s p up for 2020 now including a 47. 5 gain from the march lows im repeating that, a 47. 5 gain from the march lows. All of the airlines, arent that he mazing . They wont quit. Some goes for the cruise lines, the hotels earnings who needs earnings bother me later. The casinos are on fire. Who can resist now that theyre open again oils warring. The price of crude up 75 from that bizarre bargain, take some will you, this is a vshaped recovery like this, and then theres boeing, up more than 150 from its lows in march. 12 move today the biggest winner of the dow and best month ever can you imagine, humor me for a second, could you imagine if they got some orders it all makes sense even if this run all the recovery stocks are low, so theyre off the highs, and thats why its easy to see why theyre so irresistible since we have no faces here. Buy, buy, buy and any earnings can spoil the party but there are none that said,