The dow and s p closing at new highs for 2016 and what stood out was an outperformance in tech and financials. Salesforce, action vision, metlife, bancorp, they lead us higher. What say you . I will say this. Earnings expectations have been beaten down so much in tech and i say to you if theres any shed of light whatsoever those that have, you know, that are beating have been rewarded by it as far as guidance is concerned. Look to guidance. If guidance is better. Companies are getting rewarded for that and youll see that in the performance of names and i look at the semis and they have been beaten down so much. Mike ron is a name trading up after hours, a stock thats washed out and i say its probably taking a look at on the buy side. Bar is low for financials. Terrible on financials, and i think at this point its worth at least taking notes so ive said a handful of times even in the last few weeks im not a buyer for financials because i think they are cheap and not because they are goi
Here is what is most interesting. The defensive trades stood out as the biggest winners. Gold seeing the biggest quarterly gain in 30 years. Utilities up 9 . Telecom getting more than 15 . And the tlt rallying 8 for the quarter. So you stick with the winners. Do you stay defensive in q2, guys . I think the defensive nature is why people, specifically me maine still question the validly of this rally. Do you stay with those trades . I think you stay with certain things working. Home depot has been a monster. Cocacola has been a monster. Now were trading up against resistance. Gdx, for example, failed at levels we last saw at may of last year. Steve talks about xlu all the time that is also trading at levels that potentially are double top. So i think there are certain stocks that continue to work in terms of momentum. Some of the trades that have been defensive might be getting a little long in the tooth. You could take a look at the valuation, for instance, grasso on utilities. Utiliti
Unless something crazy happens today, this will prove, though, to be a very good month for most of the stock market. The dow, if youre not paying attention, up more than 7 just this month. It is now 1. 5 up for the year. We are going to take a closer look at some of the quarters surprising winners and losers, see if theres names that you own on either of those lists. Dow component ge in the news today. Ge capital officially filing to have its too big to fail designation removed after shedding a large number of its financial assets. The company does continue to transform. We talked about that yesterday, but well get more on what this may mean for the state and the entire Financial Services industry. And apples new products hitting stores today, but were not seeing any lines of fanboys down the street. The new iphone and ipad not getting a lot of buzz, but maybe, just maybe thats a good thing for apples stock. Were going to dig into that idea as well. Lets get now to this market. I mean,