Coming off a fiveday win. A lot of the stocks in the nasdaq are for companies that do better in covid era. Remember, weve got many, many institutions with 80 to 95 of people working home. They require a gigantic change in the supply chain of work. And the supply chain of work is just generated a remarkable new wave of the cloud, of hardware, of software, and the companies that are really rallying for the most part are companies that do fabulously when you have to create new factories the factory is in the home theres a look at steve mnuchin. Well talk to him in a few moments. A lot over the weekend, whether it was mnuchin, kashkari, prepping us for the idea that the worst of the impact is still to come, even after that jobs number on friday which we didnt have you with us to discuss. Here we are i wanted one thing to be normal in my life Everything Else has changed like so many of us. I questioned the notion that this month will be worse we are hearing too many people who are reopening
Whats up, zoom is up, amd, shopfy, nvidia, stocks that would be categorized as stayathome stocks, companies that benefit from people using their computers, using broadband and video conferencing, Something Like that. Maybe thats whats driving the trade for the morning thus far well see where it goes from here, morguen. Thats exactly why the nasdaq is positive, albeit just above the flat line as the quote unquote stayathome stocks, and worth noting that the small caps, the russell 2,000 is underperforming down 1. 5 where the nasdaq has sort of become the stayathome stock shutin index, if you will, because of all of those tech names that are levered to the dynamics weve seen playing out in society in the last couple months, the small caps aremuch more geared towards the reopening and the prospects of reopening, given the fact they are so domestically skewed economically sensitive and tiered to what its going to be like to get workers back into jobs and the like and what that process is g
Our Investment Committee today will debate it we are in the red for the s p and the dow. Were off the session lows like carl pointed out, it may have had something to do with the headlines coming out of the new york Governors Press conference where he mentioned a phased out idea starting this friday the dow industrials only down 140 points the s p down the nasdaq is tech stocks up half a percent 9165 the level there our Investment Committee are making some moves today. Steve, youre seeing a couple of things happening in your portfolio. What have the recent moves done whan and what are you trading in and out of im not trading out of much i did sell some peleton. It worked out tremendously well. Not quite a double but fairly close. I still have some left what ive done is and i did this on friday afternoon is i added to baba in expectation of disney opening in china because i thought that would lift the market ill reduce that position back to a core position i bought some out of the money
Texas green lights more businesses to get back to work but some Health Care Workers worried about a spike in infections as hospitals in houston use virtual icus to monitor covid places. And across much of the country cases still rising. Newly released cell phone video showing this 25yearold unarmed black man out on a jog being chased by two white men in georgia, shot to death in the middle of the afternoon. The men not arrested. The d. A. Now sending the case to a grand jury. All action on hold while the courts are still in coronavirus lockdown. Race for a vaccine. The new hope this morning as one trial begins human testing. How promising are they . One of the lead investigators joins us live only on gma. Reopening disney. The first park set to unlock its gates since the pandemic began. The plans revealed to help protect visitors and what it means for resorts in the u. S. Malia and sasha obama, the former first daughters get candid. Im excited for her to be proud of what shes done. Ope
Dow futures are down by 40 s p futures down by 5. 5. If you want to take a look at the treasury market, the tenyear right now at this point, of course wti, i should point out, is down by 2 still trading above 24. The tenyear yielding 0. 7 0. 697 andrew well get an update on the pandemic the number of cases worldwide, crossing 4 million with 1. 3 million, thats in the United States the biggest hot spots in america are new york, new jersey, massachusetts and illinois all with more than 75,000 cases. Now, new yorks Governor Cuomo saying yesterday the number of new cases was back to the level from two months ago. Lots of good news there, when he first issued the shutdown order. Overnight, india, reported 4,200 new cases in the last 24 hours the largest single day increase in the country they are entering the final week of a nationwide lockdown a few cluster formed around nightclubs in south korea. They eased restrictions last week but on saturday, shut down all clubs, bars and discos in se