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Parts of the economy are too good. We no longer need to be frightened that strong earnings mean look out. The Federal Reserve will make that earnings number the last good quarter. What a welcome relief. [ applause ] as march goes out not like a lion or a bear but a bull, the dow gaining 84 points, North Carolina up. 47 . How did this happen given how bad january was . I think we need to listen to the cautious janet yellen, the fed chief with the common touch who doesnt want to bring down the economy or bring down the world. Which is what january did, didnt it . Until she spoke yesterday we had...

In the last 45 days, we are back in the green, at least for two, if not three of our major indices. The s p 500, in the green. We will call that flat. The nasdaq has not been able to get out of the hole it dug itself into. Some earnings weighing on some of these indices. , microsoft, cat missing estimates. I want to show you the General Health of the s ps 10 sectors. One of the big reasons for the rise in equities is because of energy. Part, hasr the most been up for the entire day up 1. 2 here the biggest leader in the s p in terms of sectors. Financials are up a little bit more than 1 . On t...

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, ...

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 y...

And were going to get more numbers today. Our roadmap begins with apple shares falling in the premarket after the Company Reported a drop in Quarterly Sales for the first time in 13 years. So what happens now . We got reports that comcast in talks to buy dreamworks animation. That has the stock soaring this morning. Well give you the latest. And twitter shares down about 15 after reporting revenue that misses estimates. Well hear what jack dorsey had to say about the quarter. First up, the miss for apple taking a toll on the stock, quarterly revenue down as iphone sales slide for the first tim...