You do you reach for the stock equivalent of comfort food something that tastes just like the great bull markets of thats right you reach forfang, my acronym for facebook, amazon, netflix and google this session its more like fang because microsoft has become red hot. Netflix suffered a rare decline. The tech stocks led us higher. With the s p rising 1. 67 , and the nasdaq zoom being 2. 80 , it was a matter of time before we return to the tried and true this market has been going through groups like theres no tomorrow first we had the rally in the defensive Consumer Staples during the work from home nuclear winner the stocks rebounded we started reopening hospitals for nonessential medicine a run up in the big box retailers. That group seems a tad exhausted. Weve seen a surge in the Semiconductor Stocks as demand picks up from china and 5 g. Build out looks good continue with analog devices, amdi a decent quarter. A run in industrials as people bet the economy might be coming back as a
President. His support among independents gone straight up despite the intense opposition of the media and the democrats. More positives. At the president ial town hall, mr. Trump suggested a vaccine is possible by december. Dr. Fauci says january, if everything goes well. That would be a major step towards a fullscale return to work. However, the president also said he could impose fresh tariffs on china. He called that the ultimate punishment. We should point out that there is a new report this morning suggesting china deliberately manipulated the virus for its own advantage. Lets get to the market. It will be opening lower this morning. In part because of the threat of tariffs. Look at the dow, down maybe 200 points. Nasdaq down about 55. S p down about 20. And then theres Warren Buffett. Big news there. He has sold all his Airline Stocks, all of them. He no longer has any money in that industry. However, he did lay out a big positive. He said this economy will come back, quote, not
Welcome to the entire committee. Lets check on the markets first this hour. We have run out of steam the dow is marginally to the down side. Down about 31 points in the red. The s p 500 just about even right now. Flat on the day. Level 2798 there the russell 2000 flat as well. As you can see that steam running oult as we rallied so strongly off the lows that we saw just about one month ago lets go to our Investment Committee with the traders here and perhaps well start with you. Youre the one right next to me in this box. What exactly is happening right now. Have we run out of steam for this particular rally . Well, i dont know necessarily running out of steam is a bad condition markets, generally, when they rally significantly need a pause and that pause is generally a consolidation type of pattern in the markets. I think right now, most investors and most speculators are anticipating a rollover and the concern that identify is a lot of people are positioning for that rollover and los
Californias new reopening rule. And we know the nations meat supply has taken a terrible blow from covid19 but what about the Fruit Industry . Berry picking season is upon us, and the president of driscolls berries is here on how the outbreak changed his farmtotable supply chain and we have a very special Family Affair in this hour, gastrointestinal gastrointestinal it gas Charlie Gasparino and ir joined by the real stars, and the top Infectious Disease expert and charlies brother dr. Jamesgaspa rino is in the thick of the covid storm and in a very special interview with charlie and me they will both share their knowledge and stories from the frontline and the global battle against the deadly coronavirus and well ask which drugs and therapies work and which didnt and when do they think its safe for all of us to return to the workplace with less than an hour to the closing bell on this friday lets start the claman countdown. Liz and speaking of drugs and therapies we have this breaking
The answer is not for a long time even the greatest optimists think a mass vaccine in the middle of 2021 maybe something smaller this fall the idea of something that is just given to you in the hospital iv that makes it so it eliminates the lets say the odds of you dying, its something that makes us feel like maybe this is the tamiflu for this dreaded disease i think, of course that makes people feel more optimistic. Everybody wants the country open, but nobody wants to do its been that stark, that bipolar. How about we get it open versus getting really sick. Thats something that people will say open it up, thats why the market is flying its not the tamiflu, its for when you are already fairly sick its very important i dont want to discount it in any way, listening to Scott Gottlieb has been one of the more rational voices on this throughout. He frames it properly. We actually do still need those antivirals that would be taken earlier in the course of the disease to mitigate its effect