Investor's Edge with Gary Kaltbaum - Quite the week in review! [12.20.2024]

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

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your host. A thanks of being with us today. Glad you hear, ladies and gentlemen, happy that you are listening. It's Friday, December 20th, 2020, 24. Hope you have it a good day. Hope you have a good weekend. next week is three and a half days. I believe it's half day, Tuesday. Wednesday is Christmas, right? Yeah. Whatever you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, or anything else. Enjoy.

As always, we have lots to cover. We don't mess around here. Serious talk on everything that affects you. The markets, the economy. Your job, your industry. The debt and the deficits. And the clowns in D.C. Have you seen what's been going on there now?

Believe me, my expectation. are 0.0, as John Verdon said in Animal House. We'll cover it all. And if you do not get this radio show in your city, we'll post it at GaryK.com. We'll also post it on our Twitter feed, which is now X. We'll also post it on podcast apps. Go check it out. If you'd like to email us, just be nice. Because we're nice. All right, I got a lot of questions yesterday on the same thing. I had mentioned somebody who came out with a meme coin. I said I could not explain. I didn't really want to say what the meme coin is because it had a connotation to it.

So I'm going to give you the person's name. Haley Welch, you can go look it up. And let me say for the record, she has now answered the call of why she's being sued that her meme coin went down 95% within hours. And she wonders why she's being sued. What an idiot. I say that with no joy. I just think these people are idiots.

I remember Dennis Rodman came out with a pot coin that went by-bye. I think Mark Cuban came out with a coin that went to like nothing the next day. You'll be careful. There are people. There are people that bought into this meme coin from this woman, Haley Welch that is known for a moniker, well, you go look it up. You can go look it up. And the reason we bring this up

is because we've experienced the GameStop, the AMC, the SPACs, the no-sales, this and that. And we know it's going to happen again. But we have to alert while it's going on. And right now you have crazy moves in things about quantum computing. We mentioned yesterday about a stock that has been trading since 2008, 16 years and they still have no sales. And the stock just skyrocketed because quantum computing.

And robotaxis, which nobody knows if it's going to proliferate, All I know is I've been told about it for like 15 years. And maybe one day, there's going to be no drivers. And maybe one day we're going to have things going over our heads like the Jetsons. But if a company has no sales in a $5 billion market cap and you lose 80% of your money because you decided to invest in it, catching my drift. And don't get wrong because if you. can catch some of these specs right. Holy crap is there a lot of money to make. I've seen some

things go from five to 50 in the last two weeks with no sales. I'm looking at one right now. The problem is typically, typically, typically, I, who watch the markets all the time, don't see them until they're already up big because they're so off the radar. So be careful. It's a mean world out there when you speculate with nothing but your emotions. And we're not here to tell you what to do. We're here to tell you what we think. And you get to decide. It's your money. But when I read, that some girl, that by the way, was not famous up until a few months ago, comes out with a meme coin,

and it drops 95% overnight. I guess it's down 100% now because you can't sell, right? There's no liquidity. And she puts out a note, I'm so sorry, and this is the lawyer. You need to cont. Hey, thanks. But is it her fault?

Or somebody else's fault to jump in on something like that. Which segues to the miscreants in D.C. I'm not going to get into the back and forth. I'm not getting the legalese of a continuing resolution versus whatever, this, that, and the other thing. I'm just going to state to you the continuing scam perpetrated upon you with the help of a media that doesn't say a freaking word. I saw them interviewing Hakeem Jeffries. He is the leader of the Democratic Party and he's blasting the Republicans. Oh, and they're going to take away your Social Security and this and that and we need to fund the government, this and that, Hakeem Jeffreys

Party brought to you by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the Democrats, and the Republicans that signed off is running right now a run rate

of $3.7 trillion this year in deficits if nothing changes. And the media, all they have to do is say, to him to Hakeem Jeffreys

all they've got to say to him but what about the $300 billion dollars of deficit you are running every month now because of you and Biden and Harris

and your spending bills nope and they know it the media they know it the media they know what's out there. They know it. Nothing.

These people are committing what are not crimes legally, but they are crimes on you, the American taxpayer. Biden's for giving more student loans today. That you, the taxpayer, are paying with more debt. They're so lucky I'm not one of those reporters on Capitol Hill. they would kick me out. They would kick me out. $312 billion average the first two months of the fiscal year 25.

If you extrapolate that out 12 months, that's 3.744. And if interest rates go higher or the economy heads south, the number shorter rock, much higher. And they're whining and complaining that they don't have enough money. and you want to know why I'm pissed. And Trump now, tigers eating their young. In my humblest of opinions, huge mistake on his part.

Going after his own party when he should be doing that behind the door. Chip Roy is a very good conservative that cares about debt and deficits and Trump's trying to take him out. Insanity rules. And I got news for you.

two years from now keeps it up, Dems are going to have the house again. And you know them vengeful Dems have in the House and the committees, guess what they're going to do to Trump again? Just stating the inevitable if they don't get the job done. Just stating the inevitable

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You're listening to Hey, this promises to be fun. Investors Edge. The last bastion of quality programming. With Gary Coltbaum. It doesn't get better than this. And welcome once again to Investors Edge. And just so you know on these continuing resolutions and this and that and they're, you know,

I was watching today and they're interviewing the House and the Senate and McConnell's up there and this guy is up there and that guy is up there, explaining what they have to do on the debt and the deficit and that. And all I'm doing is just writing down the person's name and then Googling how long they've been in the House or the Senate and realizing they're all the culprits and they're still in power. They're all the culprits and they're still in power. And they nauseate the hell out of me.

And of course the Dems are trying to make Musk the fall guy. They're calling him President Musk. and I think he needs to be careful too because he has a lot of influence and I think he's done some dumb things on Twitter I'm going to leave it at that you know my stance so this morning

I go to my screens the QQQQ is down eight bucks eight dollars that's 2% it's 2% last I looked

that's about 400 NASDAQ points the Dow was down about 350 this was about 730 in the morning like what the hell's going on here we knew the market was in

rough shape but wow we came in today very oversold what does that mean by oversold well it just means the Dow just dropped 3,000 points in the last two, three weeks. It means that the Dow got clonked on Wednesday from the Fed.

It means some of the oscillators that I follow were just bright red. And all that bullishness turned to bearishness. The VIX, the volatility index that I don't talk about a lot, was 20-7-8 bucks shot up too quickly and usually it comes down. Well, by the time the market opened, it opened okay, and then boom, we were up 800 points at the high today. What? In fact, we were 43216. That would be about, damn, 376.

We were up about 860 points at one time today, getting back a bunch of Wednesday. We finished up only four nights. but still finish up 498, which is good news. Though, when the Dow drops about 3,500 points to the low this morning, and it did open down, make it 3,400 points. You will eventually get a bounce. The job is to gauge the bounce, and may I be clear, I can't gauge it as of yet. But in a minute, I'm going to tell you what I can't.

can gauge. The NASDAQ at one time today hit 19758. That's another 180. Was up 370? Finished up 199.

We'll take the 199. And the NASDAQ did hold the 50-day moving average on the pullback and finished on the 21 day. so definitely better strength in the NASDAQ than the Dow. And of course the Dow suffers because of United Health, which is still down,

500, 610, 110 times 6.5. You can add that up, right? 660 Dow points in the last 10, 12 days. So good bounce today. And I must also say, at the end of the day, I guess they did some rebalancing today because I watched Tesla in the last, let's see, last minutes drop a bunch. I watched meta drop from 595 to 484 in the last 10 minutes. but I watched Apple go from 253 to 250.

They were rebalancing things. What that means for next week, beat the heck out of me. Just letting you know. But what I really want to mention is the sore thumbs as we go into the weekends. Just to give you a little heads up. By the way, I also noticed, got to make sure I see this right. or I'll take it back. Yeah, forget it.

Anyway, a bounce today. But I want to start by saying, you know all those areas that I've said to you to avoid? Well, they all bounce today. I scanned them all. They look like a blip. And what do I mean by that?

Well, I have mentioned to you a United Rentals, right? The URI, because I believe it's one the most important stocks in the economic sensitive area. It was up 11 today. We'll take it. It is dropped in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 days, $160. Bounced 11 today. A blip. Got to be careful about that. And in a downtrend. What we want to stick to is anything that's in uptrends, not downtrends. We are not interested in down 10 up 2. Down 20 up 5.

Stair steps to the downside. And as I did my scans, the oils, bad. Defense stocks had a better day today. Lockheed was up 9 today, in fact. The 488. Mid-October was 619. Down trend. And you do realize in downtrend,

you get bounces to relieve what we call oversold conditions. Drug stocks bounce today, but not NVO. Something about the obesity stuff that's down 18 bucks today. And by the way, that thing was 148 in June what was being touted because of the obesity drugs. I don't know what the heck's going on here. I really haven't followed it, but it got slammed today. They bounced a little bit of the transports. It was a blip.

They bounced the medicals today. I went through all of them. They were up today. Blips. Up next. Other blips? But then the important stuff. This is the one only investors edge. Hello, hello. I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? one advice to them. Pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example. If anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago, they're already five years behind it. If anybody is not using AI to make their developers

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A lot of what I see is just like chronic bloating, chronic stomach aches. Like I get a stomach ache every time that I eat. And it just becomes like a lifestyle where, oh, yeah, you know, I just, I have a stomach kick every day. Or I'm constantly feeling like gassy. And all of those things are not something that generally, if you have a healthy gut, you should be living with. So that's when we deep dive. We deep dive into your medication.

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He's a Cinderella boy. With Gary Colbomb. It comes highly recommended. You're going to feel better if you talk to him. And welcome once again to Investors Edge. Whenever I see a headline like this, I read it to you. Downfall of America's most famous retailer hits new low, his beloved brand is left clinging on in only four states.

Sears. I'd even know Sears still had stores. It used to be the largest in the country. They just closed an outlet in the South Center Mall in Tuckwillah, Washington. The store was there for three decades. Sears only has eight stores left in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Texas. Why is Sears gone? Why is Kmart gone?

Because they refused to Walmart themselves. They never changed with the times. In case you don't know, these places sell the same thing Walmart sells. Kmart sold the same things Walmart sold. Welcome to the world of you better keep up or you're going to get going. Especially in retail, ladies and gentlemen. And in retail, it's not hard to figure out. You just go to the stores.

As I mentioned earlier in the news, I love the media. The Democrats are never extreme. Republicans are the extreme. Republicans are hardliners. Democrats are just Democrats. That's your media. Anyway, they're saying GOP hardliners fail Trump-backed bill last night.

They're calling people hardliners who want efficient, effective government without gargantuan deficits. Are they hardliners or they are the reasonable ones? You tell me, but the media reports them as hardliners. I call them heroes. I call Chip Roy, who Trump is trying to get rid of, a hero, because he's tired of the debt and the deficits. Now, Trump wants to get rid of the debt ceiling. There is no debt ceiling. A debt ceiling means debt doesn't go any higher. They break the ceiling every time. So that don't matter.

Better English doesn't matter. So that's going on over there. And I guess I think they're going to maybe vote tonight on something stupid. By the way, they started with a 1,500-page document. The Republicans got it down to 150. And in that 1,500-page document was a raise. for these people. They want to raise while they're running

$300 billion deficit when they should be in jail for what they're doing to this country. That was that. That's a little bit of your news today, ladies and gentlemen. But I did have to start it. I did have to start it. I did have to start it with that meme coin from this woman.

or a Paley Welch. Careful with your money, kids. Okay. Back on the markets that were crazy today. And they could have been much better, but they still had a good day. But in comparison to the drop, maybe it's a start.

There are hardly any new highs in the market. A lot of new lows came off today. The advance declines much better today. finally had a good day. That's normal. What I do now, today's first day up in a while, what stocks are already showing

their strength? What stocks are already what I would call in gear? And they're not many, but I can tell by my scans where the relative strength is. Apple hit a new yearly high today. At the end of the day, again, some rebalancing,

but we don't rationalize. Urban Outfitters. This is NASDAQ. Ali's bargain. And I'm not so sure that's a dynamic one, but it's a good retailer. That's it for the NASDAQ new yearly highs. There's a few others, but I see there $3 and $4 with no

sales. Or just not worth mentioning. On the New York, new highs. Tiva Pharmaceuticals. Alaska Air. The airlines have stayed pretty darn strong. Decker's outdoor, the Ugg boots, New Yearly High. Something called Glacos. G-K-O-S is the symbol. I'm going to mention that one. as I go down the list, I really don't, and there's a few more, really don't want to mention any others because they either don't have a lot of sales, lose a lot of money, or low-priced, or non-operating companies. So there's not a lot of new highs, but there is strength. And I'm just going to let you know what's showing inordinate strength on the first day up,

which means maybe something to the future. Everything has to be babysat going forward. But as of this second, things like Palantir, Google, Netflix, I would say Tesla, but that finished crappy and it's still in the trees. Broadcom, which was really strong early. I don't think it finished that great. Let me take a look. Yeah, they pulled it back.

Rebalancing. But still strong. Reddit, to name a few. In financials, American Express looks like one of the strong ones in BlackRock. In a sea of things that have pulled back pretty decently and need some work. Mastercard and Visa act pretty darn well. SAP. That would be a German software company.

strength, to name a few. And what I'll just do this weekend is run through them and run through them again and run through them again. And I have to make decisions. Do I think the market's got more to the downside? Or do I think we've hit a low? And I must tell you, I don't know just yet. It's been a harrowing week or so.

It's been quite icky. And we're dealing with things. What if the government shuts down? Which I don't think it's going to. There's no doubt in my mind, these politicians are going to get something done. What they do is just pull the wimpy from Popeye. I'll pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. They'll put us in more debt.

So those are just a few names. And let me state for the record, we didn't tell you to buy them, sell them, short them, or cover them. We're just letting you know whether. the relative strength is. And Monday's another day. Next week, Monday. Tuesday, a half day, I don't understand why they have a... I don't understand Wall Street has half days.

Just give us the freaking day off. But Tuesday is a half day, Wednesday, Christmas. We'll be back Thursday and Friday. Tuesday and Wednesday will be the best of Gary. I'm not sure which shows we're going to do, but usually when we have two days in a row, we do the bare market. We did years ago a bare market two-day radio show to describe how bare markets work. You should listen.

Up next, this, that, and the other thing. And then I'm headed on another airplane. This is the one only investors' edge. Hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Gambata. we discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI,

coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology?

There will come a point when it will mature. Right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. Hi, I'm Dr. Jake Goodman, host of Beyond the Script, the podcast where I sit down with pharmacists

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One. Ready, go Ininvestors Edge With Gary Kaltba And well, once again To Investors Edge It was kind of weird day for the Bitcoin It was down, but Microstratology was up

30 bucks That's just a weird thing Just so you know when you have a chance Go look at Micro Strategies chart Hit the 50 day within like five cents And just bounced off of it early in the morning Big Wow I've received about 40 emails.

Do you think we're going into a bear market? And I've said on radio. I think we already have bear markets in different areas. But overall, I don't think so. But if I ever said to you, Broadcom, Apple, Amazon, booking, holding, Salesforce.com, Costco, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Netflix,

Nvidia, SAP, and Tesla are going into a bare market. There's your big indices. And all act pretty decently. except Microsoft does not act that well and then of course in a few weeks we'll have earnings and we'll see what comes from that

yields were down on the 10 year.46 today but I think at one point was down 0.80 we want yields to come down for two reasons A it's better and B you got to bail out

Jay Powell if yields keep going up while he lowered rates, that will be a problem. I promise you, that will be a problem. I want to thank all the emails on Neil Cavuto. As I stated yesterday, I've never had dinner with the guy. Never been out with them, but have appeared on TV with them 500 times. and I guess you can tell by a person by reactions on social media.

Sure, you had your ass clowns that he's a never-trumper and stuff, which is a bunch of bull crap. He complimented Trump more than anybody, but he also took Trump the task on the not good, just like we have. But most everybody that knew him have nothing but great things to say. case you don't know, open heart surgery, multiple sclerosis, had a real bad pneumonia, COVID, cancer. He's gone through everything, and he's done it with a smile and has worked his tail off during all that time. And as I've said to you here, I complain when I have a cold. Wherever he lands or whatever he does, I will be watching because he's one of the, one, if not the, bright as bulb in journalism.

I'm hearing now Tesla dove into the close. The company announced it's recalling the 2004 cyber truck, the 2017-25-Model 3, and the 2020-to-25 Model Y for warning light issues. Okay, whatever. I don't think that should affect it for too long.

I'll be flying this weekend. I will report to you on Monday about how it is out there. My family flew into Florida and they said it was pretty busy. I can tell you safely that prices are up for flights, so they're getting what they want. And of course, the pay for seats are a joke. Very high. I haven't talked much about the real estate,

but here's a little real estate report. Not a lot of sales going on in Florida, kids. at all, and price is coming down from Fantasyland. And we've been watching from every price point. As I said to you, there are people that are putting up houses that were $2 million three years ago for $4 million. And they ain't getting it. And then they go to $3.5. And they ain't getting it.

I don't think they're getting three. I don't think they're getting $2.5. Is that a disaster? think so. I just think people are insane. We'll see how that plays out. And it's happening in many cities in Florida. Fantasy land, we call it. Quite the fantasy land. My hopes that today was some sort of real good low. Can't go there yet. And to be clear, if it is, leadership is going to be narrow. And we don't mind narrow as long as they keep working. My biggest worries remain, all that debt, all that deficits. And they don't do anything about it, even though

they've been beating the drums from the new administration coming in and the 10-year yield. If it comes down, good, if it goes up, not so sure it's good. I have a question on why all the economically sensitive stocks have been getting hit hard? Is that telegraphing something? I must tell you that months ago when we had a bout to the downside, I asked the same question, and the economy did not suffer, though I am worried. A lot of the GDP, a lot of the GDP is government. It's out of hand.

300 and something billion dollars a month over spending. If they weren't running deficits, what would that mean to GDP? But that is the necessity. We got to get rid of this debt or else. It will blow up eventually. Always has. Always will. Until next week, you have a great weekend.

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