Do you dunk the entire covid cohort or stick with it on a dow when the rose 183 and the nasdaq gained 1. 8 the reaction to zoom Video Communications after it reported a good quarter that wasnt quite good enough for wall street. This company practically sin none mouse with the new normal and look ban on 2020 as the year of zoom so when you see it down 15 its alarming. You got to wonder what that means for the rest of the stayathome stocks. The answer, nothing. Just because zooms insanely high growth is decelerating that doesnt mean the trend is over in fact, id argue it never had gone away because this year has shown us millions of jobs can be done better from home. No need for that central office. Why go to meetings to negotiate or sign documents when you do everything over the web and save millions, maybe ten, maybe hundreds of millions in travel, hotel, dinners, zoom, i mean thats how the 39 billion s p global ihs market deal was consummated as we heard from Doug Pederson on mad mone
Even if all those stuff matter today which the dow lost 222 points maybe we should leave room for Something Else maybe we should leave room for leadership the kind that allows companies to transcend macro out performance. Leadership like the kind of leadership we are getting from dr. Lisa sue, the ceo of amd for those of you who have been living under a rock, lisa sue, may be the formal executive at our time she arrived to our country she went to mit where she picked up her bachelor and masters and phd, shes a total east coast heavy weight she came to amd in 2012, took over ceo in 2014, back when the stock was trading at 2 bucks at the time amd was one of the worth Balance Sheets of any publicly traded company. Lisa su is one of the most competitive people i have ever met even though her background was not engineering. She knew it before she could design new chips that was the only way to go after their arch rival intel when su did raise the money, she got everything she needed and she
Points the nasdaq dipped only. 1 some of these patterns are so pronounced algorithm buying all sorts of stocks i have never been a huge fan of these algorithm. There are plenty of patterns that are visible to the inconsistent eyes. On most days you can spot them before the machines do when you see them, you have to pounce let me give you some examples. Lets start with apple for years you can speak along with me. I am telling you to own it, dont trade it today was a perfect example of what i am talking about. This is a fantastic company and cheap stock. There is no need to get cute there are some days you can buy apple at a lower level days like today, apple unveiled their new iphone the experts described it and they used the most damming words in the english language, incremental. That makes it sounds like nothing special. Thats what they says about nearly every new iphone for years. What happens when theyre in the stores and people buy them i got the special apple. I got to tell you.
Swapping out pfizer for amgen. Raytheon youll hear later today. The largest oil and gas company with one software play dropping a respected drug company for a descent biotech . Kicking a defense contractor to the curb for an industrial if it makes you scratch your head, youre not alone these changes had enormous impact the dow dipping 60 points and the s p dipped and nasdaq gained 6. 7 in all honesty, these moves made a lot of sense they bring the dow closer to the reality of the new cone economyt the memory of the old. Before i delve into each trade, there is an aspect of the dow like the king to the s p 500 Prime Minister same t simultaneously more prestigious. Only included the dow because i had old investors regarded as the most important benchmark we live in the efts of trillions of dollars and whatever name gets swapped in, there is a gigantic wave of buying and selling. The dow has little money invested in etfs its a big deal if you work for them because this is an exclusive clu
Previous peak on february 19th and all i heard is its because were having a v shaped recovery wrong, wrong, wrong. Not just wrong but laughable in a v shaped recovery the Dow Jones Industrial average would be hitting highs but this move is led by the nasdaq and s p including today the dow lost 67 points as the s p advanced 2. 3 , the nasdaq gained 7. 3 you dont need to be a Rocket Scientist to figure this out look at the stocks that have brought us to these levels they are not the recovery plays. In fact, they are the opposite they are stocks that tend to do well because of what we call secular considerations, not secular like nonreligious but secular as in they are doing well because of trends in their own industries, not the economy. Far from it. Allow me to explain. We had a magnificent v shaped recovery in the stock market, but the stock market is not a great reflection of the voter economy anymore. If anything, the actual economy is in precarious shape now that the government stim