Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Was up by better than 5. 7 also watching whats been happening here with the treasury market in the United States. Keeping an eye on those things and youll see that right now at least it looks like a ten year is yielding 0. 689 just below that 0. 7 that we had the last couple of weeks. What was that i dont know. Im trying to explain this. I could make up a bunch of reasons. Because were reopening its the same thing over the weekend. New records were hitting the states where they were talking about more than 10,000 cases a day coming in and here you are watching the markets this morning saying yeah, okay. I was just listening to Worldwide Exchange and by the time he got done talking we should be at 10,000 on the dow look at whats happening and this, that, gaps here that are it can all end badly. At this point, this is really serious when you got this many people obviously that have passed away from the disease remember at one point i said we need a reality check i think that overall, may
We want to wish them the best, we like to see flattening of a curve in italy, madrid, new york theres the earnings world the earnings world doesnt bend. The earnings world responds. There are a lot of companies doing poorly, sometimes their stocks have reflected that sometimes their stocks havent i warn people that if youre going to do buy or sell stocks based on what the president says or what Governor Cuomo says, youre not being thoughtful it takes a thoughtful person to figure out whether you want a lot of exposure here or not. Does that mean if we did see more signs today some people theorize maybe theres a weekend bias to the counts if we got some affirmation over the next couple of days, what would it take for you to change that view . To say the market is looking through the Health Numbers i think we need to see testing, testing, testing. I would like to see the beginning abbott labs shipped its tests on thursday. I would like to see empirical evidence that people have antibodie
Treasury, the efforts to stimulate an economy in free fall jim, you got off a call or an interview it was a call as well with secretary mnuchin what stood out to you . That you shouldnt lay people off. I want to point out i got a correction, he said on Small Business payroll, two weeks, he meant two months two months means you do not lay people off without, i think im not saying its irresponsible but everything is being done to keep businesses open Small Businesses open. David, with the fed, i think theyve taken off to me anything involving credit the secretary talked about anything involving liquidity we cant produce demand. You keep people around for two months, but they wont be able to produce demand. There will still be a burden on Small Business not sure how that will be resolved thats an interesting point jim, we did we were watching the futures, which appeared to be limited down at different points in it the evening last night after japan opened as well then we got a fed announc