Sell off until they realize they cant keep paying for things like snow flake because when they have to sell Something Else i think is why we have another bad day. Dow dropped 245, s p fell and nasdaq lost 1. 70 . It bounced from the lowest percent. Once again, were reminded the stock market is first and foremost a market. And markets are government earned by supply and demand. Right now the supply of new stock is overwhelming demand so the whole market just gets hammered until you trade for a living, you might now understand how this works the software a video game plan and they dont have spare cash lying around, what do they do . How do they get that piece easy they sell. They sell the stock and companies that dont understand it anyway. If you have a stock on the deal and you flip it, well, thats free money free big profits and you got to take free money when wall street is giving it to you. Take public at 52 if you got some at 52 in the deal it scored to 75 where you can cchaching. S
Jobless claims, though, 4. 4 million, bringing the total to 26 million over the past five weeks. Oil bounces, and the european pmis remain historically low 16 in france no, 10 in france 16 in germany. Jim, though, your tone this morning is relatively hopeful. Look, i am a creature of who reports and what they say. And i can literally i find it hard to remember as Many Companies as saying good things, even as obviously were in nidest of a pandemic, and i dont think theyre all clockeyed optimists. These are large cap companies. These are not the companies that the government is trying to protect. These are arguably the winners the companies that are going to get stronger i listened to lee, and Lee Cooperman was talking about what its going to look like on the other side i look at my desk. I have reports everywhere here these are all companies that are going to come through with fewer competitors. And that may be bad for the u. S. Consumer, but its good for the stock market david, would y
We have three markets. Maybe even more. After a day where the dow advanced 39 points, s p declined. 05 , nasdaq did one point, i want you to forget about the averages for a second or a week or a year or until the end of the pandemic. Thanks to the onslaught of the coronavirus, something that no ones ever seen, were seeing Something Else thats incredible not just the complete untethering of main street from wall street, but the disentangling of even small publicly traded companies and medium size ones from the big dogs that have it easy and can handle this hellatious moment. We all know main street isnt wall street. When we get another hideous jobs loss claims number like we did this morning, now were seeing more separation, that is its stunning. In my 40 years of investing, i have never seen anything like what im about to talk about so im going to walk you through what could amount to a destruction of a fair share of American Business that incredibly might not impact much of the stock
Up acronym for not as bad as fear while it seems to gain on the surface, the nasdaq rising 0. 40 , underneath there were some bewildering moves that remind us the market doesnt always behave the way we expect it to. In particular, a bunch of stocks rallied today, even though they reported what looked like simply awful numbers. If youre befuddled, you have come to the right place. How does the stock end up going higher in the wake of a seemingly ugly quarter, its all about my buddy, pal, friend nabaf. Let me show you how it works we start with the railroads. The railroads are the best example. All aboard this Morning Union pacific reported by what even by its own admission was a disappointing quarter. [ crying ] their sales were weaker across every single cargo line. Unreasonable downtown 20 . Premium, that includes the position down 9 , ag off 1 . Industrial down 1 the cause of this weakness some cargos have been troubled for a long time, like coal but most of them are just plain econo
They could see 40 capacity if the federal government will help them get it through. Aneahalt wednesday. Sday. A box truck rearended a golden gate transit bus. One person died, four others injured, thousands of drivers heading to work were stranded. This man works the chase center in San Francisco and said the crash impacted their productivity. A lot of people didnt show up at work either. They were late as well. This was a big accident. The elevator guy wasnt there. We had to carry our stuff on the stairs. Reporter this woman says her coworker was one of the 10,000 extra riders who chose to take bart whi was shut down. Shethe bay brid went to get on bart and parked. She said it was like a sardine. Reporter bart Officials Say it was crowded buto accommodate that usually end around 9 00 a. M. , and we ran extra loops. Reporter wednesdays incident is a prime example why bart says they need to move ahead with their transcorridor for Capacity Program that would add 306 new rail cars. This p