Transcript:
Tom Vaughan:
Hello everybody, welcome to Tuesday. The S&P 500 was up almost .4% today. Almost hit another all time high close. Hopefully we’ll get there tomorrow. We had some good news today that really seemed to propel the market, I think it’s important news.
First of all, the retail sales numbers came out. Retail sales were up 1.7% for the month of October; that beat expectations. This is important because of the fact that we’ve got this kind of tug of war going on between higher inflation, which can be a drag on the market. And this big jumping, pent up demand of people, kind of coming out and spending their money and what have you. That number that came out today shows that the pent up demand is winning over the inflation, so even though prices have gone up as a whole, people are still buying even more. And so that’s something we’ll want to watch. My feeling is that pent up demand is just getting started and will continue to grow, and might be able to kind of really keep the inflationary piece under control, at least as far as the stock market is concerned, in terms of earnings.
The other piece that came out today, I thought was also very good news. And that industrial output went up 1.6% in October, actually fell in September. And so industrial output is really what they’re talking about with a supply chain. So the more that we can get out, that just means that we’re starting to get to supply chain more organized and start to deliver some things that you know, weren’t being delivered before. Of course, the big benefit, there would be that the inflationary spike could come down, or at least moderate somewhat, and that would be fantastic. So if you still have this pent up demand coming in, and inflation can somehow start to moderate you could really have an even better stock market in my opinion.
So anyway, that’s what’s happening right now. Good things are going on. Market was quite green today. Lots of indexes did quite well. So look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Thank you.