Transcript:
Tom Vaughan:
Hello everybody, welcome to Monday. The S&P 500 was up almost .2% today. Another good day all together. Although the S&P wasn’t the real big story today, a couple of other pieces that were really interesting. First of all, the Dow briefly got over 36,000. Fell back below that a bit, but it looks like we’ll probably get over that at some point here in the near future. But even more importantly, the Russell 2000, the Small Cap index was up almost 2.6% today, which is really amazing.
So we saw sort of a shift today into kind of the smaller and Mid Cap areas. So even though Microsoft and Apple were both down, we still still saw all of the indexes up today. There was a lot of broad based support coming from other areas, which is great to see. Generally, a really healthy market will have some rotation,from certain names to other areas.
One of the areas that’s doing really well right now, one of the stocks is Tesla. It has had a fantastic run. It was up almost eight and a half percent today. So and that’s now in the S&P 500 in the NASDAQ indexes. So that really helps those indexes also.
So really fascinating timeframe. The market keeps going up. And I feel like the the positive vibe that’s happening within the market is really pushing it. We could have a very good year-end rally here.
With this week, we do have a meeting with the Federal Reserve, and they’re going to talk about how they might be tapering back on the bond purchases. So that could create some volatility for the market. But that’s a fairly well known outcome unless they say something surprising. I don’t think it’ll have a huge impact as far as that goes. Again, they’ve been talking about this since you know earlier in the year.
So altogether, great market, great day. Things continue to do very, very well. And this is a very, very nice market to be in right now. So look forward to see what’s going to happen tomorrow. Thank you very much.