How are you doing, will . Super bowl weekend. Will right here. Good morning to you both. Thats right. Im live here in tampa. Super bowl lv. I know you are very excited about that jedediah. We will get your picks later. We know you will change the chiefs or the punxsutawney. For now a hometown battle in tampa. Hometown bucs look to be pretty popular, pete. Pete whats the feel . You are there on the ground. Its a little bit different everything is a little bit different whats the vibe in tampa . Will its excited because there is a Hometown Team for the first time Playing In Home Stadium for the super bowl. Its tampered by the bittersweet relation what would it be like if it were a normal year. Street packed and cash registers ringing they recognize its a little down from expectations. Pete absolutely. Jedediah i know you are waiting for my pick. Im waiting for yours, will cain. I had a conversation about it yesterday. You know what . Im going to wait and hold my pick and see who will pic
Well be on and bridge you all of the bring you all of the big headlines. First the november to remember dow surging towards best month since january 1987 s p and nasdaq handing in best work since april energy up more than 25 percent financials up more than 17 percent. Small caps, best month ever. Bulls werent hiding, check this out, each of the past four monday he got big vaccine news before the market open and look at diminishing returns, the market fell despite moderna requesting emergency use of its vaccine. So weve been talking talking black or white or red and green in terms of diminishing returns. I took that economic class my freshman year and learned all about diminishing returns which is why i often invoke it here, i think so, absolutely tell you something, the vix is telling another story. I thought a day like today, monthend i thought the vix would close closer to 25 but here it is closing lower on the day, maybe its a function of that specific security, but ill tell you giv
Points the nasdaq dipped only. 1 some of these patterns are so pronounced algorithm buying all sorts of stocks i have never been a huge fan of these algorithm. There are plenty of patterns that are visible to the inconsistent eyes. On most days you can spot them before the machines do when you see them, you have to pounce let me give you some examples. Lets start with apple for years you can speak along with me. I am telling you to own it, dont trade it today was a perfect example of what i am talking about. This is a fantastic company and cheap stock. There is no need to get cute there are some days you can buy apple at a lower level days like today, apple unveiled their new iphone the experts described it and they used the most damming words in the english language, incremental. That makes it sounds like nothing special. Thats what they says about nearly every new iphone for years. What happens when theyre in the stores and people buy them i got the special apple. I got to tell you.
But you have to think of where we were and even with todays selloff, it is not really affecting all sectors. In fact more than half are still up. The fact of the matter technology, we just cant seem to pause even for a nanosecond, continues to advance. Well go over all of that, including things that could be weighing on stocks, including some extended shutdowns and restrictions everywhere from texas right now, what is going on in florida as well. Then there is hope on the virus front. That of course is something that is not seen all the time here but on the vaccine, more to the point of the virus, we keep track of this thing. There are about nine premier offerings or combinations being touted by various governments or biotech concerns of that, that are promising everything from an antiagain, quickly can tell you whether you have the virus in matter of minutes all the way up to vaccines potential curse that could be available soon as end of this year. The u. S. Investing a princely sum
S p 1. 5 and the best quarter since 1998 and nasdaq gained 1. 87 and looked fast tas tic fc my own point of view were the stocks with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of great luck. Many were stocks that bounced back from the march meltdown thanks to the 2. 2 millitrillion stimulus package these compapanies got lucky. The government intervened and worth a lot more money but it didnt take any ingenuity for carnival to rebound from the lows they were saved by the fed no, i want to talk about companies that have shown they can survive and thrive during this pandemic so no signs of abating in the u. S if anything, its getting worse. The pandemic is gets work because millions of people refuse to take the virus seriously. They wouldnt wear the mask. They even subjected to some of the guys on capitol hill today they wouldnted a ve ed ed edal distancing guidelines so there are breakouts in the south and west first, sometimes you got to go with the obvious zoom video there were many other outfits t