The ones that go up all the time and barely ever go down on rare occasion when theres a marketwide pullback like we had this morning s p edging up, nasdaq gaining 3. 7 from a very ugly opening. You have to buy these up stocks. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy hanover fist. In a market like this one that has a hard time staying down to begin with, even with a weak jobs number or a president that seems determined to overturn the election, hes not going anywhere, the up stocks just wont quit back at my hedge fund where i compounded 14 for 14 years id sit down with my staff and say, okay, give me your best stocks, the up stocks, the ones that never seem to go down. I want the unstoppable ones. I dont even want to know what they do, i just want them the staff would be incredulous there would always be a young whipper snapper saying, whats an up stock . Thats not our usual methodology. I adopted a no more mr. Nice guy attitude, like id ever been nice so i just demanded they give me their up stocks or
Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines
Russian peacekeepers are deployed as part of a cease fire deal to end the fighting in nagornokarabakh and calls for a ceasefire in ethiopias, a region where hundreds have died and thousands are fleeing into sudan. About he discovered in doha, with your support as the head of english football, resigns of the using a racist slur while speaking about the game in his country. U. S. President elect joe biden has called Donald Trumps refusal to concede the president ial election an embarrassment, but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january that will see him take on the worlds most powerful job. As despite the trumpet, ministration, reportedly refusing to assist the president elects transition team, and blocking them from accessing vital resources, biden himself has been calling some of americas biggest allies, including the leaders of the u. K. , germany, and france, who all congratulated him on winning the election. I just think its in the barest quite frankly, the onl
Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be
Consumer confidence relatively judge the michigan consumers intimate data is a good guide. Lets break it down a different way. Current conditions, 85. 9. That is above expectations at 84. 9. This is what i was really looking for, expectations also ,oming in ahead of expectations but they are still below current conditions, 79. 2. They are not going down, which ethic is the really important thing, as we see the virus picking up. Alix and we didnt get stimulus, counterintuitive to what many thought would happen. Big tex stocks are lower on a stocks big tech are lower on a flurry of data. Now with us, mark st oeckle. Are you buying the dip . Tok i think people need keep it in perspective. The reports were good. I think what we are seeing today is skimming a little but of the froth out of the valuation adjustment. I think they are all very wellpositioned and very well performing companies, but lets also not forget weve had a big run up into these numbers. The interesting part is you look a