Public comment. Reminder to all participants to mute themselves to minimize background noise. Please note gray indicates unmuted. This is caption test. Use the live item 5 action item. Of the august 12, 2020 retirement Board Meeting. Its a motion for the august 12, 2020 Board Meeting. So moved. Madame president we received a request to the Administrative Changes to the minutes. She made Public Comment and we indicated she represented the retired employees. She would like the title of her organization to be spelled out in the minutes. I would propose that we make that one correction on page 9 [indiscernible]. Sorry for the interruption. Ill second it. Accept the change. Moved and seconded. Well adopt the minutes with the requested changes and accepted by executive director huish. At this time well take Public Comment. Thank you. Callers, if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been un
Many of indices. The nasdaq is 3. 2 higher. We are also seeing a recovery for oil. We are still below 40 per barrel. The vix is up there but well below 30. For all the recent volatility is favorable for some investors, lets welcome our first guest. She is managing director and head of longshores equity. Talk to us about the strength of a strategy these days. It has been a couple of years for hedge funds. What is the driver of this . Thank you for having me. This is such a great question. It is head spinning which way the markets are going to go. There is daytoday volatility. We have the election, a vaccine, theres a lot of volatility in this market. Whats important for strategies most importantly is dispersant. To see winners and losers. Short Equity Strategies struggle predominantly more because of the short book. It was the short book that was a challenge in this rising market. Accelerate to where we are today in the cycle and where we are today in the pandemic and we have real oppor
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Growth rate and job creation, now if you put the fed statement and higher jobless claims together, thats whats pushing stock prices down this morning. Look at it. The dow is off about 100, s p 60, nasdaq about 31, more on that in a second. All right, did you watch night 3 of the Democrats Convention . It was hate trump night. Speaker after speaker layed into the president in personal terms. He gets the blame for everything. Seems to me like the democrats have not gotten over their loss 4 years ago. The president was live tweeting all the way through. We will show you both sides of this, of course, but seems to me like all of the democrats have is hate trump. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart look at the red ink on the markets, first of all, down across the board but not that much. Lets get right at it. Larry kudlow, director of Economic Council at the white house. Larry, negatives this morning. More than 1. 1 million jobless claims, the fed says the virus is hurting growth, back
Still in the red but a much better picture than it looked this morning. Abigail what a roller coaster on the day and the week. We had big gains from apple and tesla. This week, not so much. Nonetheless, the worst week since june for the s p 500 and the nasdaq 100 since march. The nasdaq down 1. 3 . Pressurehat selling really came off. The new york faang index down 1 at the end of the day. Some of this happened as value money seemed to give a tailwind to the macro sentiment. Yields really backing up on the day. Not confirming the degree of the selloff. I think what we had going on here, technical selling, the moving average, really looking for it in the morning. A very solid test there. The question is, will those nearterm buyers continue to step up . If yes, probably some Choppy Movement to the upside. If not, it could get ugly really fast. On the week, talking about really brutal losses here, the faang index down sharply. However, we do have one bright spot. I was mentioning the cycli