Tech in 2020 and Beyond
Motley Fool Answers
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🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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It’s the second part of our series with the help of the folks over at Industry Focus. This week, Dylan Lewis joins us to talk about how the tech sector did in 2020 and what to watch in 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined by Robert. Jingle all the way. |
| 0:09.5 | Brocamp, personal finance expert here at The Motley Fool. Bro, how are you? |
| 0:14.3 | Well, I'm just festive. How are you, Allison? |
| 0:16.8 | You're always festive. I think you started listening to Christmas music back in April. |
| 0:22.4 | Well, maybe once or twice. I need something to lift my spirits during the pandemic. But then I did |
| 0:26.7 | stop around July, so I'm not allowed to do it until right before Thanksgiving. And I'm mostly stuck |
| 0:32.2 | to that. Good for you. Well, enough about that. It's part two of our, I don't know, I guess four-part |
| 0:39.5 | investing series where we're taking a look back at various investing sectors to see how they did |
| 0:46.0 | and then I'll look forward and make some guesses on what they'll do. Who knows? I don't know. |
| 0:50.8 | This week, it's Tech with Dylan Lewis. All that end, bro, on this week's |
| 0:55.0 | episode of Molly Full Answers. So, bro, what's up? Well, a few things, Allison, three to be |
| 1:02.6 | specific. And let's start with number one. And that is giving thanks for stocks in November. |
| 1:08.7 | So we're recording this midday on November 3rd. And so far, the market's down |
| 1:12.6 | today. But that doesn't change the fact that it has been an excellent month for investors. |
| 1:17.0 | The S&P 500 will end the month up around 10%, as will the NASDAQ. The Dow will end up around |
| 1:23.6 | 12% for the month, which, depending on where it closes today, could make it the best |
| 1:27.6 | month for the Dow since January of 1987, quite extraordinary. Loyal listeners may recall |
| 1:34.2 | that on October 20th, we had full analyst Bill Mann on the show to discuss the underperformance |
| 1:38.8 | of international stocks, value stocks, small caps. I'm not saying that we called the bottom or |
| 1:44.0 | anything, but this month, value stocks have outperformed growth, small caps. I'm not saying that we called the bottom or anything, but this month, |
| 1:45.2 | value stocks have outperformed growth. International stocks are up around 13%, and the Russell 2000 index |
| 1:52.1 | of small caps is on pace to return 20 percent. Its best month since the index was created in |
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