hello everyone and thanks for tuning into the financial investor channel my
name is Brent and today we're gonna be releasing our video for Monday talking
about Monday's market so Friday we have the stock market rally Friday indexes
across the board we're up point and a half Monday we have the second
consecutive rally sp500 and then in the Nasdaq both of about 1.2 percent
actually have the markets here so if we take a look at the S&P 500 for Monday we
are up 1.2 percent for the Nasdaq we are up roughly 1.2 percent and in the Dow
Jones we are up 1.9 5% so very good day today one thing I did wanted to mention
a lot of financial a lot of the tech companies they were on fire today some
of the stocks that had jumped up 10 you know 3 to 10 percent last week have had
an additional climb today now some of those stocks go ahead and jump to the is
this the futures okay so talking a little bit about Dow Jones so we talked
last week Cisco Intel up more than 3% going into today's week Monday Cisco and
Intel both continue to climb Cisco on the lead at three point zero nine triple
m at three point zero three until at two point eight nine so three solid
companies that we talked about this saturday on our weekly recap cisco was
one of the stocks i was heavily invested invested in as long in Intel as well and
so so far for the month of February the tech-heavy Nasdaq has actually recovered
all that it lost her in the correction so here this is something I was taking
like or taking a look at earlier if you take a look at the one month you'll see
that prior to the correction that took place so this is January we had the
uncertainty a lot of volume going and an out lots of trading taking place then we
had the ten percent correction going into February all of that has been
covered so the Nasdaq is now up by more than 0.1% whereas the S&P 500 and the
Dow Jones are still a little bit behind by around 1.5 percent so all those
losses that we took in the last two or three weeks we were down by 10%
those have been recovered so hopefully everyone that is out there has stayed
and that's it if you did sell your stocks if you bought it bought some ones
at a discount I did sell some of my stocks ended up buying Apple shares I
bought a leveraged ETF which I discussed not doing it's very risky but I did buy
you Pro which is a leveraged SP 500 ETF it's not more than 5% on Monday and
Friday so good returns are there I'm sure you know let's see here let's see
here what also we're gonna be talking about so I did have the stock markets
here S&P 500 the Dow Jones so S&P 500 year today 3.96 Dow Jones four point
zero one but this doesn't include today's change so S&P 500 three point
nine six and then add an additional one point eighteen that's why the Nasdaq
here the Nasdaq was up who more than one more than eight or yeah I run a percent
prior to the hole correction that took place so we'll take seven point five
zero and you add today's one point one five and that gives it a eight point six
five percent increase over the year to date so the Nasdaq has recovered and is
up and again I believe record highs I'm not 400 you know for certain on that one
so today Monday we ended with ten out of the eleven sectors and the positive some
of the ones that weren't doing is good where the real estate investment trust
REITs and utilities and this is all due to you know rise and interest rates they
underperformed but they were positive still the real estate investment area
they still increase by roughly 0.4 and some of the other sectors increase here
so as I jump to Merrill edge you kind of move
this is the Dow Jones we talked about that so let me go back to my research
tab here some of the other stocks down here we can see here real estate only at
point four materials at point four whereas technology telecommunications
financials industrials health care all up more than 1.3 percent so those ones
were carrying the markets on Monday utilities down 0.3 3% right now I am
really considering removing my utility company from my portfolio and jumping on
board and something that has a more promising future I do not like selling
anything at a loss but there are so many better companies out there that have you
know more potential to grow and utilities right now are getting hammered
with rising interest rates they're looking to increase rise in interest
rates more than they had scheduled in it initially for 2018 so I think real
estate investment trusts I think utilities I think they're gonna get
hammered and in 2018 so I do not see you know the Treasury the the Treasury
yields are continuing to climb they're looking at a 10-year note at around a
you know nearly 3% coming up so I believe there was an article here
actually read so one thing I'm looking forward to is tomorrow on Tuesday the
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is going to be testifying before Congress so he just
got sworn in recently in February so he's gonna be giving off his speech and
how how you know basically currently talking about the financial the stock
markets so this is going to play a huge effect on Tuesday and the following week
right now it's looking like we're going to be continuing to rally into this week
but nothing's for sure so investors are worried are the prospects of
accelerating economic growth and inflation could prompt the Fed to lift
interest rates this year more than anticipated which we already know
they're they're expected to continue to raise them there was an article I had
read I was reading about the Asian markets European markets they are on
fire more than 3% though America is up 30%
but European and the Asian markets here if we go back over the Merrill edge up
towards the top we can take a look at some of the foreign markets here and
we'll go ahead and just really quickly cover that so Asian markets here you can
see across the board Japan up 1% 1.39 Singapore Australia so very nice over an
Arab again very positive across all of Europe so great great so far at sea here
so that was basically all that I wanted to cover some of the news that came out
today was mainly talking about Berkshire Hathaway he had what was it what was the
number he had 116 billion dollars to invest and
they they kind of said that this is the whole reason for today there wasn't a
lot of volume trading as far as would take place plac in a couple weeks ago
today not a whole lot of volume I believe that people are kind of holding
off and kind of waiting for what the Chairman is gonna be saying on Tuesday
because a lot of what he discusses about Federer deads raising interest rates
talking about infrastructure and such this could be a huge play for the week
and kind of going on going into the following few weeks and month and such
so Warren Buffett did release his annual letter which we just discussed talking
about he has a cash balance of around 116 billion and he is still looking for
where he can stick his money in order to work for him so he's looking to buy
large companies and a lot of people were speculating in today's markets today and
trying to predict where he would spend that money so a lot of airline companies
jumped a lot of financial companies jumped I think with that um I would take
a look at infrastructure but at the same time I just took a look at you know
Trump's infrastructure plan on how he wants to dedicate two hundred billion
dollars towards infrastructure and then the the total cost would be 1.5 trillion
dollars so he's going to dedicate 200 billion from the Federal Reserve and
then somehow the state and private companies and cities are
gonna try and you know make up the rest of that money in order to you know spur
economic spending and just increasing in infrastructure so I thought maybe
infrastructure would be a great area that Warren Buffett may invest and
actually made some some notes here about some companies that I was considering
looking at as far as infrastructure goes some of them are you know let's see a
quarter a couple of these here that I have in my notes one is Vulcan Materials
ticker symbol VMC they do a lot of crushed stone sand gravel they're one of
the largest concrete producers in the u.s. another one was MLM which is let's
see here they own 285 queries from 28 different states so very large companies
talking about I also looked you know a couple of lime and minerals concrete
just generally a lot of infrastructure companies because with the way with
Trump trying to get as infrastructure plan but everyone is really bashing his
plans so he unveiled his plan all the news has been bashing it because they
don't you know they're talking about where else is all this money gonna be
coming from they're gonna have to try and increase gas you're gonna try and
have to increase taxes they're try you know how big is it and such so
the take in shape so I've been reading a few different articles and how
Washington is looking to even back in a 25% increase in federal gasoline tax to
make it happen so there's a lot of stuff going on oils continuing to rise they're
trying to rise oil prices to try to they're trying to increase that's you
know gas prices that you know gasoline tax so California Washington those are
gonna be hit hard so it's really it's a guessing game right now I don't have any
predictions as far as were Warren Buffett will invest in but you know he's
always one to invest not so much in technology besides Apple being it's more
like a service he understands probably take the technology chol point we're an
iPhone you can make a call that's one of their largest selling devices iPads
iPhones Mac airs Nethergate in the services you know it's something you can
understand so I'm sure that's why he bought into Apple but as far as
infrastructure goes I do think you know he has a lot of railroads a lot of other
banking financial companies so he has quite a large portfolio so some of the
more popular stocks today Apple Google Microsoft I am a huge shareholder of
Apple now Apple is my primary investment kind of going into you know after the
fall where it fell from 198 to 152 I believe is where it bottomed out at I
bought in at quite you know I bought in 150 160 range and Apple so that is
basically it kind of talking about the markets today what I'm looking forward
to tomorrow is again the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell talking about interest
rates financial markets funding boost inflation where it's heading what
they're looking to increase so one thing I'm going to be avoiding and getting rid
of in my portfolio is my real estate investment trusts because I do not think
that those will grow or do very well in the next year or so and as inflation is
increasing as interest rates are increase increasing debt is going to get
really expensive to hold so a lot of these companies that use
debt to to build and continue their infrastructure so utilities they run on
a lot of debt they take out that build and then they work and pay that off but
I don't think it's gonna be working out for them and the near future so that is
basically it for this video just a very quick video talking about the indexes
the Nasdaq's recovery the Tuesday Fed Chairman talking about European markets
Dow futures right now are up in the triple digits so depending on how
Tuesday goes we may see an extended rally going to Friday just based off
what is currently taking place with Warren Buffett and where people were
trying to predict where he's going to be putting those billions of dollars to
work so that is it for this video if you have enjoyed the video remember to Like
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