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Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quar ....
I dont know if its so much will these reports be good i think the question is how good do they have to be well, theyre going to probably have to be extraordinarily good we saw what happened with microsoft already. The numbers were great across the board for the most part. The stock went lower and continued to go lower after they gave the guidance that they gave i think thats part of the elements of what were going to be looking at today, scott, is not only the earnings but what does the guidance look like for many of these Different Companies were talking about, the power four or five when you really look at whats going on there, its still about apple one and the bundling package, i think thats huge it goes back to the idea that this was once a Hardware Company that was mass, rigive and the hardware component was huge. Thats been a good thing because the reliance on th ....
Markets sort of whipsawed by the tweets last night from the president trying to figure out exactly where we are how are investors supposed to take this today . Well, you know, i truly do believe, scott, even after the president s tweet yesterday that sent the markets down almost 500 points in a very short period of time, the last hour and 15 minutes of the day, i still belief theres the possibility we have out there, and i brought this up last time i was on with you guys, the idea i thought we would get one done by the weekend or through the weekend obviously with some of the tweets and so forth, but then the president immediately seemed to have flipped back around and be a part of this whole thing. I do think we will see a stimulus at some point in the not too distant future because of that, i think it gives you a great opportunity on that dip yesterday, and obviously youre seeing a pretty nice rise today. We know what the temperature is of the markets and what people want to hear and ....