Stimulus package to stave the stock market thats ridiculous. Today, we got an idea what happens if theres no grants as far as the stock market is concerned, its not that big a deal the dow gained 52 points, s p inched up, nasdaq advanced i dont want a stimulus package to save the stock market, i want a stimulus package to save an industry i know all too well, the hospitality industry, which i can tell you from my ownership stakes, is getting destroyed by the pandemic millions of jobs are on the line but they reside in Small Businesses ones that dont show up in the averages but individual stocks sure do. And the winners today tell you everything you need to know about the losers and the broader economy. Especially the biggest winner, which is the one i want to focus on the winner is the stock of olive garden strongest stock on the s p 500 yes, i am telling you right now that the strength in the stock of darden it should terrify you. Dardens winning, because its private competitors cant
Under valued it sounds crazy. We had a remarkable blitz up we just came after that brutal sell off all the buyers vanished. Now suddenly were back dow surging 328 points and s p jumping and nasdaq pulled 1. 87 . Why . Why did it happen . Why was so great today because today is merger monday monday used to be the day we always came in and merged and stopped. Guess what its back and bigger than ever so i bought out the merger both. Merger. Merger merger. Yes i havent used the merger both, i dont know, four or five years and its back. All right, all right, all right. Back and bigger than ever. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what stocks are worth, right the price to earnings. Price to sales and book value. All that stuff we try to do. There is another way to value this business. You look at what another business might be willing to pay for that business and today we got a wave of huge mind numbing deals that suggest there are many real bargains in mna. Merger. Merger merger. L
Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas
Russian vaccine. Yeah. Which i guess is, i dont know i dont know are you going to take a russian vaccine . Thats about now, were really talking about a tremendous leap of faith a russian vaccine which i think theyve dubbed did chernobyl ii. Im going to pass. Is that a hard pass yeah, hard pass chernobyl its been approved even though its had trials. Easy come, easy go. Remember, they spent a fortune on the trial and a couple people died i dont think thats the russian way. Nor do i think when 28 people died in world war ii did necessarily everybody come to a fight with a machine gun fight and they have very little fear and its demonstrated in certain trials, really well, listen, we can hope theres great science there and there is something well, they used to have great science. And plenty of scientists, no doubt. And rockets they stole a Hydrogen Bomb from the rosenbergs, they can do that. Lets read what putin had to say, as far as i know a vaccine against a new coronavirus has been regi
Dow surging 461 points, s p gaining 1. 21 , nasdaq advancing 1. 31 . The s p up for 2020 now including a 47. 5 gain from the march lows im repeating that, a 47. 5 gain from the march lows. All of the airlines, arent that he mazing . They wont quit. Some goes for the cruise lines, the hotels earnings who needs earnings bother me later. The casinos are on fire. Who can resist now that theyre open again oils warring. The price of crude up 75 from that bizarre bargain, take some will you, this is a vshaped recovery like this, and then theres boeing, up more than 150 from its lows in march. 12 move today the biggest winner of the dow and best month ever can you imagine, humor me for a second, could you imagine if they got some orders it all makes sense even if this run all the recovery stocks are low, so theyre off the highs, and thats why its easy to see why theyre so irresistible since we have no faces here. Buy, buy, buy and any earnings can spoil the party but there are none that said,