Head to pang chayeongchang in a minutes. Were joined by senior Portfolio Manager chief equity strategist bob doll bob, you know, were watching markets this morning sort of bounce around. The s p 500 actually kind of firmly in the green right now. It has been very strong week following that roughly 10 correction where are we right now well, that we bounced i dont think should be any surprise we got the positive technical divergences last week. The surprise is how far and how fast we have bounced its amazing you cant keep a good thing down, i guess. Our view was, you know, 2700 plus or minus 50 s p 500 points and were at the upper end of that now so were going to have to make some decisions here. Were going to have to, i think, pause and do some testing at some point well see what that looks like but this rally this week has been pretty amazing. I agree with you when you say we have to make some decisions here, what do you mean yeah, do we take some money off the table . Do we lower beta do we get concerned that, yeah, earnings are great but Interest Rates and inflation coming back slowly thats the tradeoff. The e of the stock market earnings are great but the ps under a little bit of a cloud, rising rates and inflation do you think there is a chance the inflation story, this kind of mass attention on exactly where the ten year yield is at is racing a little bit ahead of the reality of what in fact the economy is going to deliver . Or do you feel as if, you know, this is the time to be very sensitive to those things . You know, i guess the surprise to me is that we kind of hung around 240 for so much last year on the ten year yield. I would have thought we might have moved up sooner so to me were kind of where we belong as opposed to ahead of ourselves. Time will tell these things dont go in a straight line. Hopefully well get a pullback in the yield on the treasuries and then the earnings, they can do its wonder again. But rates are, i think, going higher, irregularly and inflation is not going to be zero forever bob, just to dig into that more with the ten year yield at or near multiyear highs. On the flip side, the dollar index, lowest level since december 2014. Whats going on there . I think the dollar is a function of the fact that while rates are going up here, theyre also going up there if you will. And Economic Growth good here but improving there as well. And you put that up with some of the trade issues as well and the dollar is going down shouldnt be a big surprise. Ive been keeping an eye on transports they rolled over 10 days before the broader markets did. Looking at transports now, they havent really recovered in sort of the same way that weve seen the dow, s p 500, nasdaq what are the transports telling us i think youre right to raise that question. Are they telling us that the economy is not going to approach 3 real . I dont know remember, they did pretty well last year. They were a little sluggish coming into the new year not a big surprise but watch that one carefully bob, what else would you be looking for in terms of the character of this rally . Lets say we dont race up to the highs here what is the market telling us if anything in terms of what has come back the most or where kind of the muscle memory is of the market right now you know, so i think that waterfall declines demand a look at the technicals inside the market to see the character of the rebound after a big decline. Advance decline lie, new high, new low list, volume, all those this week have been reasonably good so im watching those carefully. And, of course, at some point well have some sort of selloff and does the volume shrink or does it pick up . So its the technical things that im watching carefully. Needless to sashy, the earnings better than expected have come from lots of places. But technology and financials and Consumer Discretionary have been featured there and those stocks have been quick to come back had they not. Bob, thank you. Appreciate your insight. All the best. All right bob doll lets check in with carl at the Winter Olympics in pyeongchang, south korea hey, carl. Hey, mike while were in south korea, we got a rare look inside the dmz, the border barrier that separates north and south korea. The security within it is a joint operation of United States and south Korean Military and they took us to one of the most politically fraught pieces of real estate in the world welcome to the demilitarized zone, 160 miles long, 2 1 2 miles wide its a border barrier created by the korean agreement in 1953 intersecretaries that famous 38th parallel north and divides korea roughly in half. All that you see over there, there are villages and people who live in the dmz. Both on the north and south korean side. Occasionally youll hear loudspeaker propaganda from areas like the north korean propaganda village they call it. And there are residents on the south korean side with all kinds of special rules there are curfews from midnight to sunrise theyre not taxed. And any rice that they grow is bought and distributed as dmz rice lets make a line so here we are. Were inside the joint security area it is the zone within the dmz that for years allowed the north and South Koreans to interact under the terms of the armistice signed in 1953 what youre looking at here are the south korean soldiers with their backs to us but facing the north korean side. I dont know if you can see this sort of concrete barrier on the floor about half way past these blue buildings thats essentially where the border is between north and south korea. Now south korean soldiers face the north korean counter part but when the North Koreans do come out, they tend to face each other and not the South Koreans. This, of course, has been a source of tension over the years. Over time hundreds of diplomats and soldiers have been injured or killed because of tensions between the two sides. Now the armistice wasnt signed in this particular building but sort inform a big tent that was on the same location and that armistice essentially laid down the rules about where soldiers could travel, where you could deploy military personnel, where you could put military equipment. And that armistice has lasted for 65 years if theres a line that divides the two countries that runs down the center of this table technically right now i am standing in north korea. This building is never occupied by the two sides at the same time if North Koreans are bringing a tour in, the South Koreans leave and vice versa one thing youll notice over here is a bridge in the distance they call it the bridge of no return the armistice was signed, pows were given the chance to go to the country of their choice. Across that bridge but were told once they did, they could never go back where are they right now probably inside of that building inside the building and theyre going to check. 3 you see over there officials here tell us the fact that joint security area even exists is symbolic of the hope that one day korea will reunite. But for now, it is the Central Location of one of the most tense military standoffs in the world. Guys, we said earlier this morning sort of a surreal, erie experience you can probably tell everything was kind of hushed when we were there. There is a bit of stagecraft to all of this though, morgan the North Koreans probably know when the South Koreans are bringing in tours of media hence, the soldiers did they know we were there is that why they came out at that exact moment . Its hard to tell. But we talk about geopolitical risks regarding north korea all the time and it was really something, guys, to be standing in the place where ich is the flash pot for that risk. Really compelling reporting here one thing that ive heard and seen reports on is this idea that in light of all of the Ballistic Missile tests weve seen that ratcheted up in the past year, year and a half, you have more young South Koreans looking to move closer to the dmz. I guess sort inform this hedge that any kind of missile attack would go over them did you see any sort of signs of more development closer to this border what struck us is the lack of development. Obviously, the dmz has been untouched. But even our drive up there across the country and north from seoul is not theres not a lot of new construction. There are we were told, at least, some families in the area who perhaps their families long ago lived around there and ended up being split as a result of the war. But it was actually fairly rural. Im sure the trend that youre talking about probably does exist. But im not sure how much security there is in trying to get underneath the path of any on coming artillery. What was the thing that surprised you most about this trip i think probably a bit of the stageyness of the troops youre looking at here. The soldiers that took us in the bus with other International Media had a script we heard from others who have gone on a similar media tour that they i dont know if you can say play it up a little bit, that might be somewhere in that direction. Sort of playing up the drama of the experience its not quite a tourist trap but there are a couple of gift shops just outside of the dmz where you can buy a tote bag that has a logo of razor wire. So all of that fairly interesting. But i wouldnt argue that this is a place where if youre going to seoul youre going to get into easily. Carl, i dare you to bring some of that razor wire back on the plane. No dont really dont do that carl, really compelling stuff. Thank you. Carl quintanilla in south korea. Still ahead, crypto staging a comeback with bitcoin gaining more than 20 this week crossing above that 10,000 mark. Shark tanks Robert Herjavec is here why cryptocurrency could replace ca ithfure u dont want to miss that interview. Feel that . Thats the beat of global markets, the rhythm of the world. But to us, its the pace of tomorrow. With ingenuity, technologies, and markets expertise we create the possible. And when you do that, you dont chase the pace of tomorrow. You set it. Nasdaq. Rewrite tomorrow. Welcome back keeping our eye on bitcoin it crosses back above 10,000. Were joined by robert hershevak of shark tank. What is your take on bitcoin it went up, sold official and now tlraders are saying youre starting to see a rebound because u. S. Regulators are saying theyre not going to quash cryptocurrencies but they want to regulate it. I think were going to see, i mean, bitcoin and, you know, the Underlying Technology is here to stay its not going anywhere. I think youll see the price of bitcoin skyrocket again. I think people are very bullish on it. And i think whats going to drive it is regulation people know that you have to regulate inevitably electronic exchanges. Youll see a regulation the closer we get to that its going to go way up its going to get regulated and its going to go back down so i think its a great investment if youre a spectate lore just dont want to get caught on the wrong end of that. Because as quickly as its going to go up, as soon as regulation comes in, it will be good for it long term. But it will come way back. You are invested in any of the cryptocurrencies right now we own Herjavec Group i cant invest in something that my enemy uses as funds so most of the ransom ware is bought through bitcoin which is one of the early drivers on it we are heavily invested though in two factor authentication and certain stocks that require bitcoin. If i dont know who is sending me the money, identity becomes a big area so there is a bunch of stocks, people like sale point, cyber arc that do identity and can prove that morgan is really morgan on line so youre going to see a the lot of growth in those kind of stocks you mention the Underlying Technology somebody focused on cybersecurity. The security of the block clan block cl block chain is one of the selling points. Very, very much blockchain is the future and the hand shake between transactions and being able to verify, absolutely the down side is the exchanges are not regulated. And so you see some hacks. What is the hack in japan . They stole 500 million worth of bitcoin. So theyre not regulated and theyre not secure you hack anything. But the fundamental transaction is very secure youll see it in health care and consumer businesses and Airlines Across the board im glad you brought up hacks and security i want to get into that more stay with us cybersecurity, a huge cybersecurity event is going on in munich right now. Hadley is reporting the latest hadley the white house now officially blaming russia for the most cost by cyber attack in history, some billion dollars thats impacted Global Corporates including fedex and a lot of questions now surrounding on what happens next i have the chance to catch up with americas cybersecurity chief and asked him who are the most dangerous nations when it comes to hacking lets listen in. The most dangerous are the big we call them the big four, russia, china, iran, north korea. Theyre doing things irresponsibly at the state level that impact our companies, that impact our Critical Infrastructure beyond that though, theres a healthy amount of cyber criminals that are also open opportunistically going after anyplace there is wealth now i asked the cybersecurity chief essentially, you know, who is to blame here is it governments for not protecting corporates or corporates n corporates for not doing enough. Both are a bit to blame. Corporates are a big worry they have to continue to spend a lot of money to be more secure now i did earlier today speak with john harris hes the xoceo of raytheon international. Lets listen to what he said the company is doing to further cybersecurity opportunities for business. Were a world player in cyber. That is, i would say, one of the largest and most important threats to our nation and to our allies the more we are connected, the more we are vulnerable our job is to make sure that we understand the volumer inabilities, we understand the threats and devise systems and solution thats afford us an opportunity to protect our networks now i do want to point out that Munich Security Conference hasnt traditionally been focused on cybersecurity but it does tell you how worried the corporates and certainly these governments really are hadley, thank you hadley gamble from the cybersecurity summit in munich all right. We should note raytheon owns force point. Compelling words there from the top defense contractors that cyber really is one of the biggest risks. I would assume youre seeing that with your company we are. I find it interesting that you have a traditional security conference becoming a Cybersecurity Conference thats a problem you have Traditional Companies fighting tomorrows war with yesterdays weapon im not a big fan of that. The technology is out there. Consumers can protect themselves but so can enterprises thats not going to be done with technologies from older Tech Companies or older defense contractors. Its going to be done with new weapons and new tools. How do you prevent some of these hack attacks whether and you were just sort of touched on the stuff were seeing thats getting really sophisticated where cryptocurrency is concerned, for example. How do you thwart those . How do you get ahead of those . Its the traditional. You have to have the systems in place. You have to have a door and a window in yourhouse. Somebody can break in to it. But the big growth area now is response people arent so much focused on prevention which everybody has its once you break in, i want to know how quickly youre there. So i accept the fact that you can get into my house. But i want to know the minute you step in so i can call somebody to help me. The other big driver is compliance youre going to see more state law, federal law around privacy and so 50 of security spent today is being driven by compliance certainly theres a the love focus here and this is squawk alley, we like to talk about tech a lot of focus on the internet of things and appliances getting smarter, cars getting smarter. But really one of the biggest potential areas where youre seeing digitization is the industrial side of the equation. For sure. Is that where the biggest risks lie . Industrial systems, any connected system to your point heres my view is the internet will stop to exist by 2020 because its becoming electricity. So the ipv committee which sets out addresses for the internet, everything connects to the internet has to have a unique ip address. By 2020, there will be hundreds of trillions of addresses, meaning everything will be connected. So the internet will be electricity. Well only talk about and never say log on well never say bars of power. All that will am b every one of those things is an access point the class that brought down the website last week, the general feeling right now is the olympics were not actually hacked the suppliers to the olympics was hacked and thats how they got in so everything will be an access point that way ambient internet. Its a great time to be in cybersecurity and great time to invest in that sector. Wow thank you for joining us and breaking this down for us. And dont miss shark tank which airs week nights on cnbc Robert Herjavec when there is no curling, by the way. We all love curling though. Cant get enough of it another week or. So thank you, robert thank you we have breaking news on trade policy we want to get to cayla in washington. She has that for us. Hey, david. Later this morning were expecting the Commerce Department to publicize some of the recommendations that its made to the white house on this multimonth investigation into steel and aluminum imports or what the white house called a steel and aluminum dumping this report concerns both steel and aluminum but we have obtained from a source with knowledge of the proposal some of the these recommendations on the aluminum industry according to this source, the Commerce Department has recommended to the white house a 7. 7 tariff on exports from all countries. A 23. 5 tariff on all products from china, russia, venezuela and vietnam. And import quota on all countries, that is a maximum of 86. 7 of all countries, aluminum imports to the u. S. As of 2017 some of the most Important Information will be which countries are exempted thats the information that we are still hoping to obtain butthese high level numbers ar going to be extremely impactful for the aluminum industry and well see how the industry responds and how members of congress who have been pushing for action on either side of the aisle respond to these fwhut is what the Commerce Department is recommending to the white house. The white house has until mid april to make a decision on both steel and aluminum well see what, in fact, they choose to do back to you. Thank you very much whether n we come back, financials helping fuel the rally. The sector is the best performing group tom michaud joins us next to discuss. More squawk alley after this two,that was awful. Why are you so good at this . Had a coach in high school. Really helped me up my game. I had a coach. Math. Ooh. So, why dont traders have coaches . Who says they dont . Coach mcadoo you know, at td ameritrade, we offer free access to coaches and a full education curriculum just to help you improve your skills. Boom thats lesson one. Education to take your trading to the next level. Only with td ameritrade. Financials lifting the s p 500. The group up 5 for the week for more on the rally and other financials, were joined by tom michaud. Tom, good to see you good morning. The bull case for bank stocks has been pretty clear, pretty simple, pretty consistent. We hear people all the time, its rates, bond yields, deregulation, economy is in good shape. They have plenty of capital. Can it be that simple and for i think just described it i would say a lack of or stic os trends are moving in the Banking Industrys direction which is all the things that you just said, improving economy, higher rates, steeper yield curve, the crisis is in the Rearview Mirror so its a good outlook the other piece of that from an investors point of view is the market hasnt priced in all of that. No, its interesting. Bank stocks are up 50 since the election forward earnings estimates are up more. The pe ratio for the Banking Industry today is 1 1 2 times below where it was a year ago. Theyre cheaper than they were a year ago the stocks are up 50 . And thats because there is a profitability improvement story. Banks benefited more from tax reform than pretty much any other industry that was a boost as well retail may have been another big beneficiary as well. Potentially. Of course were still seeing that do we know all the answers yet in terms of the benefits we dont. I speak to many managements. I think there is a the love caution. There isnt everybody in the pool i think banks are feeling better because the profitability is improving. However, i think they are still considering how that benefit is going to flow through to their stake holders, shareholders, employees. That still coming together one thing we heard on a lot of earnings calls across a number of Different Industries so far is this idea of whats going to happen with those tax savings for manufacture the different companies. One thing that keeps coming up is m a are you seeing an increase in m a activity its coming i think what is really interesting is there is a very interesting bill in the senate right now which would remove the 50 billion threshold for increased regulation since dodd frank was signed, only two banks in america crossed 50 billion. But the number of 20 to 50 billion banks in the last decade have doubled it is a traffic jam of banks that arent growing in part because of that 50 billion barrier. If that 50 billion barrier is removed, i think youre going to see more regional champions stand up to be able to compete with the bigger banks. They no longer would want to avoid being systemically important which is that top find. Thats right. So you want to avoid in other words, thats a reason not to merge to go over 50 billion you remove that barrier, then you can say, tom, whats the good that comes out of it . Tom, what is the good that comes out of it . Thats a great question, david. The good that comes out of it is that the biggest banks, the global new york banks, they have picked up market share during the crisis which is interesting. You really need mid sized banks to continue to keep growing to make sure you have a the love competition around the country i think thats whats going to happen with this consolidation the big guys cant really participate. But your point is weve been paralyzed in term of the consolidation at that lower down level. Its while its been picking up and the deals are getting bigger, i wouldnt say its extraordinarily robust that may be ahead of us. And thats another reason why i think the stocks are performing well there is a sense that in addition to being good for the economy, that is good for shareholders its been a missing piece of the story. Tom, thank you for your time great to be with you. Lets get over to dom chu at h. Q. I have the european stocks. Snapping that three week losing streak on pace for the best week since december of 2016 the stocks building on thursdays momentum as investors brush aside inflation concerns and focusing on that Company Specific earnings picture. You got france posting a better than expected 2017 profit. Chinese demand for baby food also Water Products offset the weakness in the dairy business the company is known, of course, for danon yogurt and hasnt been under pressure from active investors to improve the results. But those shares you can see theyre up today also french automaker renault reporting record profits and sales in 2017, helped along by resurgence in european demand and as a result, renault asked the ceo to stay on for another four years shareholders will talk about his reappointment later in june. Both of them yesterdays results and air bus contributing to this weeks rally in france overall the cac index up 4 . The london ftse and german dax each up 3 for the week as well. A nice strong week for the european markets for markets all over the globe. Dom, thank you dom chu at hq. Lets stay there and go to sue herrera who has a news update. Thank you, david good morning once again, everybody. Heres whats happening at this hour defense secretary jim mat is arriving in germany for a Global Security conference. It comes as strains between the u. S. And nato grow over the syria and ukraine conflicts. Meanwhile, secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in turkey to try to ease tensions there. Hes meeting with the Turkish Foreign minister on washingtons plan to continue providing assistance to kurdish militants. Turkey has been objecting to that plan. A developing story here at home in pennsylvania where strong storms may have unleashed a tornado about an hour south of pittsburgh homes are missing roofs as you can see. Utility poles and trees are down and take a look at that. Astronauts wrapping up this live video, take a look from space. Theyre wrapping up months of repair work on the space stations 59 foot robot arm. The space walk expected to last until 1 30 p. M. Eastern time believe it or not, the old mechanical hands are original space station parts. Theyve been in orbit since 2001 amazing. Thats the news update this hour back downtown to squawk alley. Mike, back to you. They might not even be covered by warranty anymore. Im sure its not its just so cool to see them be able to do that. Its kind of amazing, yes, it is thank you, sue when we come back, lots of olympics athletes are leaving pyeongchang with endorsement deals. How do they manage that money . Well take you back to xtatngchang to talk about th ne lets get back out to carl in pyeongchang what a great week of competition its been. Plenty of drama and plenty of things for our segment ask the athletes weve done segments with them when we asked what they binge watch and what the favorite ceo is and now we ask them what their personal finance strategy is unfortunately, my philosophy has been buy high, sell low so far in my life save and then ill splurth out on something rand omly save as much as i can dont waste it invest it in things that can grow we just have to find the right balance of earning and spending. If you really want something, you buy it but if you dont need it, dont spend your money on it i think i spend more money than save. Try to save when its possible but we dont make that much money. I have a guy who takes care of that. Dont think about money that much always make sure youre not living outside your means just because you want it doesnt mean you need to have it. Good advice im always asked, guys, what i like most about covering the games. I think meeting the athletes is actually the great, great things because these guys and young ladies that work so hard to become the best with no guarantee of financial reward representing the United States obviously on team usa and just getting to talk to them has been a real privilege for all of us here at cnbc im wrapping up our week of coverage here. Andrew arrived earlier to night local time he walked up you can see him there as he arrived in olympic park. And hell be taking over starting on Worldwide Exchange after the long weekend on tuesday. Ill see you guys back on set on tuesday. Carl, whats the one thing going on next week that maybe you wish you were going to still be there for what are we looking forward to obviously its going to be some Alpine Skiing lindsey vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin has a couple other chances to win multiple golds. So thats the thing. You either come for two weeks which is a long stretch or you got to pick a week and watch the rest from home so we look forward to doing that too. All right carl, have a great trip back safe travels. Appreciate your work over there. See you soon. Take care looking forward to having carl back and the entire team, amazing stuff from all of our producers. Absolutely. All right. This morning some tech news to get to as well of course a fight that ive been following so closely here between broadcom and qualcomm, i call it a fight. There was conversation that took place on wednesday between these two companies right here in manhattan. The management teams and advisors sat down to discuss if there was a deal to be reached remember, broadcom offered 82 a share in cash and stock. And a certain willingness to divest certain properties. They did put out its response to that meeting and in it it indicated that it is still finding the offer from broadcom unacceptable though it did term the conversations constructive it doesnt really appear to leave that much open, at least based on what im hearing as well from people close to broadcom in terms of the two companies being able to find Common Ground prior to the march 6th meeting, annual meeting of qualcomm shareholders that they will seat the directors that theyre seeking to seat or not this morning in its statement qualcomm did go on to give a little bit more detail on its potential opposition and continued concern whether it come particularly to the antitrust or regulatory concerns surrounding broadcoms bid. It said broadcom continued to resist to agreeing to other commit ments that be he expected to be required by regulators such as the ftc, eu and others it also declined a respond to any questions about the intentions for the future of the licensing business and qualcomm says that would make it very hard to predict what antitrust remedies would be needed given that they felt like they werent getting enough information on just what broadcoms plans would be for that licensing business. Of course, remember its a key part of the profitability at qualcomm theyre having litigation with a lot of the license yeses in addition, they said broadcom wanted to control all the material decisions regarding that licensing business during the period of time of an announcement of a potential deal and close of that deal that could be a year according to broadcom. Maybe 18 months acarding to qual come the point is you want to give us a breakup fee but that is not enough if youre going to paralyze our licensing business for that long period of time, not let us sign up new customers, not let us deal with the litigation and do so many other things we would find ourselves without a significant cash flow, cash flow stream that would not be enough to be compensated by. So a lot of this is done for the benefit of iss, the Institutional Shareholder Service thats makes the recommend togs large shareholders, particularly index funds. They want to see some form of constructive dialogue and qual come can say we tried. We havent heard from broadcom yet. I did have a number of people this morning characterizing the meetings in the less than constructive way lets just leave it at that. All right keep us updated. I know you will. David, thank you very much more breaking news on trade policy right now we have that in washington mike, we brought you the first portion of the recommendations that the Commerce Department made to the white house on aluminum earlier today. We want to bring you recommendations on steel that we obtained from a second source familiar with these proposals. According to this source, the Commerce Department recommended to President Trump a slate of options including a tariff on all steel imports, the second choice is a tariff of 53 from 12 countries including china brazil, costa rica, korea, russia, south africa, tie land, turkey and vietnam the third option is a quota of 63 on 2017 exports to the u. S. On each of those 12 countries. So those quotas as im told by this source would only apply to the imports to the u. S. Coming from those 12 countries. As i mentioned, this is a slate of options im told that these would not be all adopted together in tandem that applies to the steel recommendations and the aluminum recommendations. So basically trying to offer President Trump an array or a menu of actions that he can take that his advisors within the white house are now discussing and have until mid april to announce their decision. Back to you. All right thank you very much. Worth noting, not to cut in here, but worth noting that u. S. Steel, alcoa, steel dynamics, sust Materials Companies are trading higher right now. They pop on that. Yeah, very good to note thank you. More squawk alley straight ahead. Here is a look at the major averages were building on the gains. About. 5 higher for the dow today after a huge week for stocks, is this a sign it is safe so get back in or best let things settle out before making another move well dive n plus, where investors are seeing a rotation. Whats in, whats out . And pete just found some very unusual and bullish options activity in three key areas for you. See what the options traders say may be about to jump the Halftime Report begins at the top of the hour. In the meantime, lets get back down to morgan thank you, brian. Lets get over to the cme group and Rick Santelli with the santelli exchange. Thank you theres a streak going on and i like to watch streaks because to me patterns are very important now you can weve been through this discussion many times with regard to Technical Analysis of course, you have to Pay Attention to fundamentals. But sometimes the strategist thats trade the markets also like to look at charts, observe patterns, think of our own channel, its all about patterns, big data bases of patterns to that end, something happened to ten year note yields on every friday of 2018. The last friday of 2017 was the 29th it was also last trading day of the year we settle a ten year note yield of 241 here are the closes every friday since. You know that intraday is important, daily close is important. Yesterday technically a 2. 91 is the highest yield close going back to early 2014 but if you look at closes, the next most important close outside of daily is weekly which is what were looking at we went to 2. 48, 2. 55, we have one, two, three, four, five this friday will be the sixth week all higher closes what is the highest weekly close so far well the highest weekly close so far is 2. 85 plus from last week. Where are we at right now . Gee, 2. 85 plus now, of course, this one pattern doesnt a sell or buy make but when you combine it with other strategies, other technicals, other fundmentals, you flush those out. I really like Charles Peterman he monitors flows and we talked about how year to date and thanks patty and the research cnbc has done, through february 15th on a year to date basis, meaning up to where we are this point in the year, a little over 170 billion of buybacks many say thats one of the reasons along with Central Banks still record ownership with regard to positions over 16 there are trillion is the reason the market came back and maybe indeed they ar right. So charles said like many that were never going to be able to see the stock market survive the ultimate test, which is when the Balance Sheets really start to go down heres what i think. When the Balance Sheets start to go down, the b possibilities are that when this occurs, if we have we a really good economy and we have really decent productivity, you might see the stock market instead of going up, maybe just flatten out a a bit as it tries to rerace some of the premiums by Central Banks. Its not always a disaster things could happen in ways we cant forsere. At this point, many are still pedal to the metal on equities thank you very much Rick Santelli. Apple meantime is one of the stocks rebounding this week. Back into positive territory after the stock proceeded the market into a correction a t the start of 2018. For more, were joined by kau sacky ceo as well as will power. Joining us both by phone will, will do you sit with the stock now . Obviously, were not back quite to the old highs, but were at levels that we never saw before with apple before december have a lot of the fears about the strength of this upgrade cycle and other things kind of passed it by well, good morning. What a difference a couple of weeks make there were some investor, concern that the bottom was falling out just a couple of weeks back and here we are, i think investors are just refocused on the fact that we still think and grow iphone revenue double digits this year. A lot of that driven by asp. We continue to like the stock here the power of the ecosystem, the strong Free Cash Flow and were at a 200 target price theres still a good upside from these levels ross, in terms of what might be expected at this point on the Balance Sheet side of things with with apple having unlocked all of its cash, net cash, after the tax law and the rest of it, are we just sort of figuring out just exactly how big of a capital return goes on here or is this tlg else we might expect its time for tim cook to show me my money hes holding 3 million of mine at the cash that apple holds of my shares. And weve been talking about this for years with them and they said, oh, once this happen, well give you back the money and now, its happened so apple can easily be a 200 stock just by toidoing a tender offer and buying back. They have 30 of cash, the stocks around 170 so we think they tender up to 200. Return the cash to stockholders. Thats why Warren Buffett is buying so much of this stock its got a forward pe of 15 and its still growing nicely with a huge mote. So we love the stock down in here you know, im not going lie. I love the stock down here a huge buyback of that scale might be good for shareholders might also forestall when they might get to a trillion dollars. You take the shares off the board in that way. I dont know if that matters to anybody, but that is something to keep in mind. I think it will help it grow to a trillion dollars because then there wont be this overhang of all this capital and the it can trade on pure multiple of what the operating business is worth. With regard to the multiple that apple trades at, its colon icalchronically looked cheap on paper. The most profitable by most measures ive often thought because it has this sort of hit driven aspect of it you have product upgrades. You dont know if the its going to be a big one this time or not. Is that why we get the discounty and to you ever think were going to get out of that trap for applapple . Thats right. Were not counting on this trading at a market multiple different arguments would suggest it could or should but theres still an element of Consumer Electronics that said, one of the things thats still misunderstood is this is largely a platform play. Youre talking a Services Business thats 30 billion. Growing double digits. We think is now a an 8 billion business growing at a rapid clip the key will be continuing to i diversif diversify, but you know, that ecosystem we think enables it to at least approach a market multiple and support something thats a mid teen level and dont forget, we look at this on a Free Cash Flow standpoint. Close to 7 , theyll generate 60 million plus thats a big number. Were all sort of digging into this idea as apple as a platform play. Does it bother your to see Companies Like at t doing buy one get one free with iphone ten . First of all, apple is a flat form play at this point. Everybody has an iphone so it is about asp and what theyre talking about next year for iphones is diversitying the rup more and its very interesting making a bigger iphone x making a bigger lower priceded phone. So we think theyre going to kind of hold the line with iphone and its all about the platform but making an aggressive investment into hollywood is all platform and what we really think is that apple has the strongest mote of any tech company in america and so to argue that it doesnt deserve a market multiple is a mistake were paying 200 times earnings for netflix but wont pay 15 times for apple . It seems crazy to me and when ever i think somethings crazy, its usually a good investment we really like apple here, but we want tim to do something with the money. Buy tesla. Or give it back to me. One or the other all right well, he knows his choices now i guess, ross. So thank you very much and hell be getting back to you. Ross and will, thanks very much. Thank you as we head to a break, stocks by the way, sitting at record highs or not record. Excuse me, session highs dow up 170 up almost. 7 of 1 this is the late morning buying away that wee en me back with us squawk alley. Zblncht we have the s p and noz dak in quite positive territory. If you start ed this year and i told you come february 16th, the s p would be up about 2. 8 and nasdaq about 5. 6, you would have said im just fine with that doesnt feel the same given what weve been through not many here start off u going up 7. 5 , so psychology is funny because the past seems to matter, but the rebound has been i think more impressive than most would have expected absolutely. Especially when you see a stock like apple up 11. 5 this week alone. When you look at tech stocks that really outperform, its a lot of names that have been driven by earnings cisco, it continues to be a strong earningin inings season. Yep and more to come. That does it r for us on squawk alley. Have a great long weekend. Time to send it over to brian for the Halftime Report. Welcome, everybody. Bare naked ladies to kick it off. It has been one week since the fall the big stock index is nearly 5 off lows and unless things turn south quickly in the next couple of hour, this will been one of the best weeks for the market in a decade joining us today, steven, josh, joe and in minneapolis, Pete Najarian and in miami, kevin oleary. Right now,