The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
Headlines hit on the coronavirus. New york city is halting all inperson learning starting tomorrow it comes as the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing nationwide. And a new all time high for s p. We have a Record Number of cases of covid in america and retailers are hitting an all time high. How can this be . The haves and havenots kudos to karen and tim target numbers were extraordinary. It should come as no surprise. Thats a name we have talked about. If you love walmart at their valuation, you have to love target at theirs walmart quarter i thought was very good. There are a lot of good individual stories, but i dont think it speaks to the economy per se there are names we also mention that seem to be topping out. The price action in restoration hardware, William Sonoma and we dont need to go down the road of what they sell. Those stocks popped out a couple of weeks ago thats concerning. Do you want to play at the 100 earnings table, gap earnings on the
Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr
Economy. Eu budget faces more delays after hungary and poland double down, as the polish Prime Minister urges them to reconsider this will lead to a breakup of europe and the European Union. And President Trump moves closer to conceding the u. S. Election saying that he will leave the white house if and when the Electoral College confirms joe bidens win well, it is friday, we made to the end of the week happy thanksgiving thank you very much great to be with you on black friday and lets talk about markets and the price action were seeing on this final trading day of the week, capping off a week of solid gains the stoxx 600 and most of the european indices will ending the week about 2 higher than where we started off this is where we are for the broader european a indices as a whole, you can see the only one trading in negative territory is the ftse 100 down about and a half a percentage point. And we are getting to crunch time on brexit talks it doesnt appear like they are getting clos
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