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Sectorsre your main leading the rally today. We should mention this is unlimited volume as well. It is up 11 . In the case of the dow and s p lower than it was a day ago. Passover begins tonight. We might see limited trading. Friday is a public holiday. Monday there might be people off. Jay powell is speaking, and that might provide some catalyst for market pricing. Romaine joining us is christina from invesco. ,hen you look at these rallies it is an encouraging sign, but the market seems to be very focused on the virus data we are getting, the number of deaths and what is a decline in the number of new cases in certain regions. The market will start to focus on little less on the virus count, and focus more on the economic numbers, corporate profitability, the more traditional metrics, and is it going to matter knowing that we know it is going to be bad . Kristina that is the point you are making is right. It is going to be bad. The market is likely not to focus on it which is the rig ....
Valuations, and when youre hitting major levels to get to another new let them, you always bump up against it and come back here youve got the added factors of, number one, a weaker dollar, which is, as he saw in the report yesterday, pushing inflation higher, that was the clothing aspect of it. What ive done over the last few days is ive added some positions that i had i initiated a couple of new positions. In what bungee. Bungee came down dramatically after their Quarterly Report theres lots of talk about an acquisition, maybe adm, their approach last year if it doesnt happen, its a place i want to be because Agricultural Prices are also down, i think its temporary i also bought back delta it hasnt moved up as much as the others ive added to baba, i added to apple, actually, just for pete nicely done, smart move so i think were okay but its time to pick stocks everyt ....
It felt kind of bad and here we are and weve actually gone into positive territory for some of the indices. Were seeing north korea acting up again but nothing has really happened. Until you see hopefully nothing really happens, the markets are going to go up and down and then hopefully we just get passed this again and we look at earnings earnings are going to drive this market nothing is happening meaning the bomb didnt land on land and so, therefore, the markets are saying, you know what, every dip you buy . I think thats what youre seeing so far unless you see a real attack. Yeah, i think its really hard to trade into an event like this we are in an environment where there are irrational actors but in terms of what the Economic Impact would be if war broke out, it would be highly localized to the asian region and specifically to the korean peninsula. So i do think that when youre thinking about it from a u. S. Investor perspe ....
Josh, you said, we talked about this yesterday. Its at 84, up more than a 4 1 3 . When a mega cap name like a wart has a gap up open like this it doesnt slow down so easily. Think about the sheer amount of buying that it takes to get a stock like this of this size to do Something Like a 4. 3 gap and roll and again, this is a high we havent seen in this name since march of 2015. Thats 2 1 2 years of consolidation. Heres the president today meeting with Henry Kissinger at the white house moments ago. If you look over the last 25 years through numerous administrations, we were on a path to well get that tape squared away. The president does have a busy day meeting with Henry Kissinger at the white house. Hes lunching as well with secretaries tillerson and mattis, which should be interesting just given the back and forth o ....
This case. I know the facts of h case like the back of my hand, you told me and theres nothing wrong thats been done. Why did you settle . Well, it was very simple. My lawyers told me winning would be very high. The golden partner, hedge fund manager, im wealthy, enough factoids and impress juries and that the cost of the trial would be 15 to 20 million and go for an a couple of years. We would likely see appeals, but let me make it clear. I vented into whats called a no admit, no deny settlement, which prohibits me from commenting on the governments allegations, where theres strength in my defenses. B i believe it speaks for itself and ill leave it at that. Do you worry some will see this settlement and think youre guilty . That you did something wrong because you settled . Theres always that b possibility. But i think you know, you get due process was extraordinarily abusive. This is one of the reasons im sitting here. Id like to prove things for others who are afflict nd the future ....