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And individual names getting lower. That keeps it pretty much unchanged year to date we have a massive show coming up discuss the latest stimulus negotiations th thats any minute now its the key question for the markets today. And then as the heat gets turned up on big tech, well talk to the always candid ceo about the precious ceos facing testimony tomorrow and the stay at home trend a huge swell of tech earnings coming to day and later this week. Lets start with the broader markets. Mike, over to you. Thank you we have markets on pause for the most part today. Bond market is qui wet yields at the lows stock market, too, is hugging this very familiar area, basically flat on the day. That is an area of attraction. Well see fit lasts for now. It is the defensive factors. The ones that benefit from low yields that are up today, real estate, staples and utilities. Take a look though at a couple of indicators as we wait for the fed decision tomorrow. Whats going on and how quiet the bond market has been this is the move index it is treasury volatility. It is kind of the vix for treasuries record lows in the last ten years. Pretty at the lows very much stuck below around. 6 for the ten year the entire curve making new lows on the short earned as well. And raises the question, is this almost a Mission Accomplished for the fed . Were waiting for what theyll say tomorrow about potential new efforts to try and restrain rates and keep the economy on a better path. Many speculated they will take a look they have been completely passified by fed policy and this environment in general where there is a thirst for yield. This is high yield bond. This is the yields, not the spreads. So this is basically the going rate right now for high yield debt is around 5. 5 . Record lows on Investment Grade below 2 almost a Mission Accomplished. Corporate whether theyre backstopping municipalities or lending to main street low uptake of the programs in terms of the balances outstanding relative to what the fed authorized it is almost asserting support for the areas. They have done the deal. I guess it leads to a question i have which is what could be incrementally more stimulative or an easing motion from the fed tomorrow that snechlt 23 hours i guess. For sure, mike. Most of the work is done the other thing i guess that stands out today is that the dollar has paused its massive slide of late. But gold has not thats right. Its true. Gold certainly a restrained move silver is pulling back a little bit. Gold is off the overnight highs. But it still does have momentum. I think momentum is the key phrase right here. We have all the rationals for why gold is doing what its doing. It also is a momentum trade right now. It is a chase very heavy in flows into the gold etf for the reasons weve been discussing. So far, its continuing. But as i said, the future, some of the futures clicked above 2,000 an ounce overnight and sort of hovering below that right now. But without a doubt on kind of a blistering pace lately were knee deep into earnings season what you are getting out of Conference Calls and expectations for the future . You are willing to say this quarter was the bottom i think there is no doubt this quarter is the bottom in terms of year over year growth doesnt mean it will be positive growth in the current quarter. Analysts definitely too radically cut the forecast the beat rate right now is above 75 in terms of earnings even the revenue beat rate is well above the long term average. It looks in terms of those metrics like things like 2009 and 2010 where you have the big post recession moves analysts get a little too conservative but the stocks are not really being rewarded for it. I think that, you know, the market already, you know, had a pretty good run going into this earnings season. Its not as if the market was necessarily really anchoring on the forecasts. And what youre getting from management is a sense that theyre going to be conservative on the spending side theyve spent a few months getting more productive. So there is a cautionary tone. I think there is a ceo survey out there that suggested continuing caution among that group. So it suggests that maybe there are not people pencilling in anything like a vrecovery which is okay. The numbers are not bearing that out yet. Mike, in terms of the earnings coming up this week, we know that some of the big tech names like apple and amazon that are reporting on thursday pulled back a little bit off the highs, easing the setup fraction. Tonight amd, that doesnt apply . Yeah, amd it is considered a huge beneficiary of multiple trends including intels troubles the stock had this major run, 30 up this month. Clearly people are expecting great things the company has really been delivering on a lot of the high hopes. We have to see how it goes we might well have lost sara briefly there. Im also not sure if weve no, we do have senator Mitch Mcconnell ready to go. Apologies for that brief little pause in the programming ill hand it over to kayla thank you, wilf our thanks to the Senate Majority leader for making time for us to update us on the process of negotiations. Where do things stand right now and when is realistic to expect a bipartisan package to pass both chambers . Its hard to predict. What we laid out yesterday is how we would deal with this phase of our overall rescue effort remember, weve already passed about 3 trillion of assistance. That is added to our National Debt my view after the bill passed, we needed to push the pause button see what we already passed worked out and then decide where to go from there well, were here in july we have advocated a trillion dollars. Onethird of what the house passed a couple months ago highly targeted to a few things that we think are absolutely critical to get the country back on its feet. Number one, Liability Protection no one should be sued intelligence they were grossly negligent or engaged in intentional harm who is dealing with this brand new disease. Thats doctors, hospitals, nurses, universities, public schools, everyone involved in trying to work our way through that ought not to be subject to an epidemic of lawsuits on top of it. Beyond that, the theme of our package is kids in school, jobs and health care. Leader mcconnell, you mentioned yesterday that the economy remains fragile. When you decided to press the pause button, the virus is on the detroit kline. That is not the case now the Congressional Budget Office found the 600 weekly unemployment speed limit is able to keep Household Spending at prepandemic levels can the economy keep that under way. Why worry about the deficit when there is a Public Health crisis worse than there was in march . Well, unemployment is extremely important. The way the previous bill is crafted, five out of six workers are actually making more staying at home than going back to work. And remember, all of these folks are going to get another 1200 in direct payment under the act that we announced yesterday. So all were saying is we dont want to make it more profitable to stay home and go back to work we want to continue that at the judicial level and back to states so they can continue it for a necessarily longer period of time. But it also involves the principle of not paying your neighbor more to stay home than youre making by going back to work part of the biggest divide between the republicans and democrats right now is on state and local government funding where is Fertile Ground between zero dollars as republicans proposed and 1 trillion as the democrats have passed . Yeah, actually, we havent proposed zero dollars. We propose 105 billion for education. That is 5 billion more than the house passed bill a couple months ago the two biggest item in every state budgets are education and medicaid so the 105 billion that were advocating for education is direct assistance to states and localities with this either the top or the second most expensive item in every one of their budgets. What im talking about in that question was specific funding for government budgets to make up for short falls i want to move on to talk about liability. Democrats said that they will not bend to support Liability Protection you just said a few moments ago this afternoon there is zero chance that the conference passes something without this. Why is this a deal breaker for you . Because there is no chance of the country getting back to normal without it. We cannot have an epidemic of lawsuits on the heels of a pandemic that is not over yet that were trying to get through until we get to a vaccine so that we can finally put this horrendous experience in the rearview mirror. The Public Opinion doesnt necessarily support that a Research Poll we asked voters if it they supported protecting corporations against these lawsuits only 26 of respondents supported it actually only half of republicans supported it Lindsey Graham said this about the current package. I think if mitch can get half the conference that, will be quite an accomplishment. Why dont more republicans support the package as it stands right now . Republicans almost to a person support the Liability Reform and thats not about companies. It includes companies. Its about hospitals and doctors and nurses and teachers and universities and colleges and k12 this is not just Liability Protection for businesses. Theyre included along with everyone else dealing with this brand new disease unless youre grossly negligent or engage in intentional misbehavior, youll be covered it passes the senate. Liability protection is a stand alone portion of the package that you unveiled yesterday. Its a suite of different bills attacking different pieces of the economy and different pieces of the relief effort do you expect some of these pieces to pass and others not to that will be subject to negotiation tw the democrats but were not negotiating over Liability Protection ill be responsible for putting the final agreement on the floor and as i said, it will have Liability Protection in it were not negotiating with the democrats over that. Were willing to discuss with them, we think, a trillion dollars which a few months seems like a lot of money is enough to address where we are today they want to spend three times that much. Thats why were having discussions with them. We cant make a law. Mr. Leader, i want to switch gears and talk about a couple other issues one is nominees. We have senators that have concerns about judy shelton being on the Federal Reserve board. What do you think the down ballot effect of the president s leadership on coronavirus will be come november i think each of us in office is judged how we hand ld it and we have done a great job of delivering for our folks at home i, for example, have visited over roughly 20 hospitals and the last few months. Talking about the assistance we already provided through the cares act. It made a huge difference. Huge difference. For hospitals. Its also made a huge difference for Small Businesses 48,000 Small Businesses in kentucky have taken advantage of the popular ppp loans. To the tune of 5. 2 billion directly pumped into the commonwealth of kentucky so i think all of the incumbents who have been here and working on this legislation will be judged by how well a job they did for their particular states during this horrendous crisis. Very diplomatically talked about what congress has done and that voters should judge congress on those actions. But specifically, the poll numbers for Senate Republicans who are up for reelection this year tracked those of President Trump in recent weeks. What you are telling the members about how closely they need to hugh to the white house whether they should be distancing themselves from the president . Look, what we do know is that this is a very large class of republicans because six years ago we took the majoriti we have 23 members up. Our democratic opponents only have 12. So we have a lot of competitive races all over the country in different kinds of states. Im confident when the smoke clears well still have a republican majority in the United States senate well leave our conversation there. With he know you have other important negotiations to get. To we really appreciate your time this afternoon. Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Thankyou. The phrase, we dont want to make unemployment benefit more profitable to go back to work. Perhaps the headline saying, it will have Liability Protection in it. The were not negotiating with the democrats on that went on to say there may be other areas were willing to negotiate on but that will be a significant Sticking Point if the intention is to stick no matter what to Liability Protection being included yeah. Sort of making that clear that is the red line in this negotiation. Of course, the opposing view on that, im just sort of getting into this a little bit and why its such a hot button issue is the democrats say that its not safe for workers to go back if their employers are completely protected from lawsuits and then they dont have responsibility to keep their workers safe and the workers dont have sort of any reason or any ability to fight to get safe working conditions so it takes the responsibility off of the employers mcconnell came back and said its not just for the private sector its for schools and hospitals and it would be hard to have a normal economy so this is obviously shaping up to be a big issue. A lot of other places where there is a lot of distance state and local government, republicans are painting it as 105 billion that goes to State Government but will go to schools. The democrats say that theyre e way bigger holes and you have to pay the Police Officers and firefighters and everyone on the state payroll. So what happens to them and what happens to the holes i think thats going to be a huge area of contention. Yeah. And also a gap as you suggest as well on unemployment benefit the size of that and the extension either way, the key thing i think for the market is whether or not were likely to get an agreement any time soon. And the headlines from that interview over the last 15, 20 minutes perhaps contributing to the fact the s p 500 is now down 0. 3 it was flat at the top of the hour lost a little steam. More analysis of that interview to come later in the show. Also coming up, a once in a generation rotation to Growth Stocks thats what one top analyst says tesla peaked because of. Later on the show, dirk van de put. Youre watching closing bell on cnbc. Experience the adventure of a bigger world in a highly capable lexus suv. At the golden opportunity sales event. Get zero percent financing on all 2020 lexus models. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Welcome back Eastman Kodak is now Small Company with a big history and its getting even bigger today shares surging after it won a 765 million u. S. Government loan under the defense production act under that loan, the Photography Company will be shifting to producing pharmaceutical ingredients to help speed up Domestic Production of drugs and ease u. S. Reliance on foreign sources like china and india. White house trade adviser saying that the deal was about america losing its pharmaceutical supply chains to the sweatshops, pollution havens and tax havens around the world that cheat america out of its pharmaceutical independence. The stock losing some of the earlier gains. Still higher by more than 200 not really i mean its a tiny stock, a tiny kind of company now buchlt interesti now but interesting to get the second wind when bringing back u. S. Manufacturing and theyre involved in production of this critical vaccine and treatment like we saw the president at fuji film yesterday. I know. And kodak. That is not a stock we mentioned for, i dont think in any of my five year tenure at cnbc maybe in the past before that. Mike santoli days mike remembers all of the companies. Pfizer shares moving higher after strong earnings about the coronavirus vaccine. Meg tirrell spoke with the ceo this afternoon and joins us with the key take aways from the interview. Pfizer and the german partner becoming the second vaccine to get into the latest stage of Clinical Trials before applying for Regulatory Approval. They started this trial in the United States late yesterday this is going to be a phase three study that is going to also include sites around the world. And they say if all goes well, theyll be on track to file for a Regulatory Approval as soon as october and maybe even late september. That is an incredibly optimistic scenario where they enroll 30,000 people and follow them to see who gets infected and who doesnt. Now a key question if they get through regulate sorry approval, how much of this vaccine is going to be available . 1. 3 billion by the end of 2021. Now that is global supply. And this vaccine requires two doses. We asked the ceo about all of this in our interview earlier today. Heres what he told us what i can control is if i can have Product Available by the time now right now our manufacturing sides all over the world are working intensively and going to produce product at risk. So if the vaccine proves to be safe and effective in the october readout of the phase three trial, we will have product in october, november, and december really describing this as a ram up there is more supply in november and december clearly not enough will be available to supply everybody that needs this vaccine right away sara and wilf . Sfwh it will be an issue teslas quote mind bgloging evaluation, our word on the street with a number of name next its easy to get lost in the economic uncertainty. 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Absolutely not you know, could the market, you know, if it sees a recovery next year move away from Growth Stocks towards value oriented stocks sure and so those are some of the things that we worry about they could be a cause for tesla. The sort of idea of a second downgrade to sell got a lot of coverage earlier this morning. I didnt think he was actually that bearish during the interview. The price target was so far below the current level. Didnt really go into what whether or not he thought there was immediate short term catalysts to see a correction. I thought it was a technicality cover your bases as opposed to we think its going down i think in the downgrade he gives all kinds of credit to the very long term, long shot possibilities for what tesla can become whether it is autonomous driving or the supplier to the world for batteries. But saying that stock is already built that in. And not very much has changed about the production expectations and profile of tesla in the last several months even though the stock went from 1,000 a month ago to above 1600 and now pulled back. The big point is the stock has just been the extreme version of this maenaa f this mania and this has a chance of unwinding here. It quantifies the extreme runup in the share price and what thats done to the valuation. It paints a picture. The enterprise value of tesla is now matching that of toyota and voekz wagon. Together they make 20 million cars tesla at 500,000 cars. So he just cant get past the valuation argument which, look, people have been arguing for tesla for years. And thats never really mattered its a stock that traded under 400 as recently as four months ago i mean, its kind amazing when you talk about the ground thats been covered in a short period of time. Which also really came out in the interview earlier today. Scott is pushing him you see the impossible job any analyst had on any ratings and price targets on tesla over the last 12 months it its dinkind of loselose no matter what. If you base it on fundamentals and all the other stocks, there is no way you could have got the share price that they run up to. Majorleague baseball. We have more now what, eric thats right. The Miami Marlins after many players on their team tested positive for the coronavirus, the team will be pausing the season through sunday. The rest of the week they will not be playing any games there will be a couple of other games i think the yankeesphillies game next couple of those not playing as well the big news, the marlins season being paused forrest the rest e week 17 players that do have coronavirus. Up with thing to note, mlb has done 32,000 tests since last friday testing and. 3 , just 99 have come back positive. No other teams outside the marlins have any new on field personnel that tested so so bright signs there. But definitely a big negative spot with one team just sitting out the rest of the week remember, its only a 60game shortened season back to you. All right thanks so much for that. Markets down 0. 36 as we stand update on coronavirus hot spots. The seven day averages of cases in certain hot spots are falling. Down 7 in florida, california, and 24 in texas dr. Fauci today warning of outbreaks brewing in ohio, indiana, kentucky, and tennessee. Other countries struggling to pass a second wave, germany had 557 new cases a day. China reported 64 new cases. The biggest single day increase in more than three months. And irans daily death toll is also at a new high still to come on closing bell, mcdonalds revenue in the Second Quarter tumbled 30 well see how starbucks will compare to that after the close today when they report plus, his stock doubled since the march lows, aaron levie on the work from home trade and the changes the economy is making. Heres a check in on bonds ever since weve gone mobile on the now platform, somethings gotten into the office. I hear you. Feels like theres no barriers between departments now. Do you think everyone appreciates it . I do. Huh. Forgot my glasses. Serivcenow. The smarter way to workflow. Welcome back under 30 minutes left of trading. Time to get a cnbc update with sue herrera. Hello, everybody. Heres whats happening at this hour with the new last name following her divorce from amazon chief jeff bezos, Mckenzie Scott is make going on her promise to donate a significant portion of her estimated 60 billion with 107 billion pledged to 116 different organizations. A new study has found the massive wildfires that swept across large parts of australia last fall killed nearly three billion wild animals that is tripled the original estimates. The figure includes nearly 2. 5 billion reptiles. In one australian village untouched by the fires, there is a rebound of sorts emus have been banned from this pub after two figured out how to walk up the stairs so far, a simple chain is keeping them out they parentally cant figure out that they just duck under the chain. But well keep you posted on that one i like it thank you very much. You got it. Up next, a busy close today with earnings from if visa and starbucks, a many. D and ebay well have analysis and exclusive interview as well. 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Boxs shield product can scan files and classify them based on content and secure sensitive e a box ceo joins us now good to see you, aaron. Good to see you thanks for having me. So tell us what is new about the latest shield product . I feel kind of like whether its you and the past with us or a lot of your rivals recently and in the past always kind of talking up why the cybersecurity aspects are the best but it is really now just a cost of doing business as opposed to a differentiator it is the cost of doing business in the digital age to make sure you have incredibly powerful security. For us, we do think of this as a differentiator just because of how much we put an emphasis on data security, plins, and bringing really kind of intelligence to how we secure content. So this new feature is a first of its kind. It is combining data classification controls directly into our platform. So, for instance, if youre a life sti Sciences Company or bank, youre working with lot of sensitive property and a lot of tense sieve digital data we want to help you understand what is inside that information so you can classify it appropriately so it is only shared with the right people or accessed in the right applications or from the right locations. So the only way to do that at scale is doing that in an automated way as opposed to users going in and applying that level of security. So thats what our new feature does within box shield and were rolling it out over the next month or so to all of our box shield customers what level of demand have you seen for all of your products in the last couple of months . And to what extent do you feel like this is just brought forward this work from home trend, other Digital Adoption trend and other demand if you look at the market sizes that Cloud Companies are going after, usually these markets are much larger than i think a lot of analysts are where the market tends to realize. So the entire kind of World Population of people that go into workplaces, whether thats, you know, working ina retail site or inside of an office or at a doctors office, all of these workplaces and the ways we work need technology so there are billions of people globally that are going to be accessing Enterprise Technology to do their job. And so this is actually pulling in that demand but the market sizes are often much larger than i think are sometimes initially realized the market were going after in the late 90s or early 2000s, there were maybe only tens of millions of people globally that really needed to be able to secure their data, secure their content and be able to collaborate in an efficient way. Today there are hundreds of millions if not billions of people to do that. Thats why youre seeing unbelievable growth in zoom and slack and Microsoft Teams and webex and our job is we want to be the best way to help enterprises manage the corporate data in if a secure way. So were seeing really fantastic growth that we call out in q1 our last quarter in the enterprise segment there are some natural headwinds in this environment just due to the economy in our s b segment. But we have been able to see some progress made within that segment that were really excited about. So overall, i think demand for cloud remains strong and you are going to see an acceleration of Digital Transformation just due to the fact that people have to now start to digitize more of the business processes tomorrow is a momentous day, aaron. Were going to get ceo s of google, amazon, apple testifying and answering questions about antitrust. This is going to be mustsee tv in the business world. Who is under the most pressure who do you want to hear from the most yeah. No, its going to be im going to be just certainly excited to tune in i dont know why they do it as a pay per view option. It will be really interesting. It will be on cnbc. Whats that it will be on cnbc. Well then maybe there is a way to charge extra for that i think it will be super interesting to watch the different dynamics i think the one risk this he environment has is for possible kind of politicalization of some of the topics. And so well have to see if that kind of enters the picture i do think what is really important is as you look at the Digital Economy which weve within in for a couple of decades, but the size, scale, the power of these platforms are obviously larger than ever before what we probably ever could have imagined. I think there is an important discussion to be had around what do does it mean to have Consumer Choice to make sure you have fair, a fair landscape for a new company to be able to compete in kne these markets. This is important conversations for the u. S. As well as i think the global kbhe to be yael i discussing around what does regulation of tech look like if you look at markets like health care, life sciences, banking, telecommunications, weve seen regulation emerge in the industries as they become more important to our lives over time and i think its it certainly makes sense we would see the same thing in the Technology Industry whether its for Big Companies or Small Companies that make sure we got aaron yes i dont mean to interrupt, were running low on time. I guess im just wondering what you think the upshot is going to be google announced the workers are going to work from home until the middle of next summer. Is there anything to stop the companies that work from home plays that got so huge and the ceos so wealthy from continuing to do so do you think this is really a moment where there is going to be some regulation to shrink them well, i dont necessarily know its about shrinking the companies as much as making sure that will a fair Playing Field for other entrants into the markets. I think well probably have to maybe pay less attention to the market caps of these companies because thats more driven b Investor Sentiment and demand for the services and much more around what are the landscapes in which new companies can get started on how can they compete with some of the Big Technology Companies Making sure that there is a high degree of interoperable and choice when you put the data in one of the platforms, are you able to actually pull it out and make sure can you access Different Service . These are really important topics these companies are going to only obviously become more important for our daily lives. I dont think its about breaking them up or making smaller. Its about making sure that consumers have choice when they put the dwrat somewhere they can bhof it around and that we have an open Playing Field for new startups to merge. I think thats what the legislation eventually emerges to go and focus on aaron, gra et to see you. Thank you. This is the last commercial were going to take before we head into the close and into the market zone rdo. Othe s p 500. At leaf blowers. You should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. And you should be mad your smart fridge is unnecessarily complicated. Make ice. Making ice. But youre not mad because you have e trade which isnt complicated. Their tools make trading quicker and simpler so you can take on the markets with confidence. Dont get mad get e trade and start Trading Commission free today. Welcome back 11 minutes left in the trading day. Were now in the closing bell market zone. Commercial free coverage of all the action going into the close. Cnbc mike santoli theer bre tho santoli to break down the market major averages lower today for the third time in four sessions. Earlier this hour, we spoke to Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell about why he believes Liability Protection is going to be a critical component in the next coronavirus stimulus package for republicans. Theres no chance of the country getting back to normal without it this is not just Liability Protection for businesses, although, they are included along with everyone else dealing with this brand new disease. Unless youre grossly negligent or engage in intentional misbehavior, youll be covered and it will be in a bill that passes the senate. Just looking at the market here, mike santoli, stocks are headed south again were now at session lows, down 194 on the dow you think there is some concern about the stimulus getting passed, get something sort of agreement with mcconnell drawing a red line around this Liability Protection which democrats are vehemently against yeah. Combined with other republican senators not being enthusiastic about the leaders proposal from reports during the afternoon, that may be said that, you know, were not heading very quickly toward an agreement. That being said, i think you can also spin it a different way and say the democrats now know exactly what theyre negotiating against if theyre so dead set on the Liability Protection to get more enhanced Unemployment Benefits i point out too that most of the weakness in the last hour has been from those very large tech stocks that would not seem to be most tied to the hopes for fiscal support so it does seem like maybe just another one of the os lags. J. Os we have the fed tomorrow as well is the market ignoring the risk on the monetary side that stimulus does not continue for the rest of the year at the same pace it has for the last few months i think it has. I think the market fully expects to get some kind of stimulus and some package to pass on whether or not there is Liability Protection or not. Shares of mcdonalds sinking to day after missing the streets earnings estimates and posting a 30 sales decline compared to a year ago despite disappointing on the bottom line, there were bright spots in the results the fast food chain did see an improvement in u. S. Comparable sales each month throughout the quarter. While the company did not issue formal guidance on the ceo, he said he believes that q2 will be the trough in mcdonalds performance. We have a snapshot of ow difficult it is for the big restaurant chains even if things improved, they have not improved resoundingly still a long way to go mcdonalds is obviously a play on people moving around and stopping when theyre hungry and clearly not going to be able to get out in front of the broader reopening efforts in various parts of the country i do think the way the market is treating it, yes, backing off today. The stock is holding the vast majority of the gains off the march lows mcdonalds is in the category of when it comes back, not if it comes back this period seemingly disadvantaged them over the long term so 2. 5 and also helping just note that they pointed o ut that the china results appeared mixed the early rebound looked like became a little more choppy and stalled. Eugene, is that any indication of what Consumer Spending is going to look like in this country . Mcdonalds did say same store u. S. Sales did improve and trending positive. Im not sure exactly what it was. China came back online a little earlier. They dont have as many drive throughs that may play some role. Im concerned with that. I think theyre doing as well as you might expect here in the u. S. Lets talk about starbucks. It is one of a handful of big names set to report after the bell kate rogers with a preview a loss of 59 cents a share on revenues of 0 presiden 0. 6 billr q3. Well be looking out for commentary on Sales Performance improving. The company said in june zmekted fiscal f4 earnings to improve and cash flow to be positive by the end of june as most of the locations had reopened in the u. S. With limited capacity mcdonalds ceo did talk this morning about science of a recession. Will well be cure dwrous siousf starbucks echos that sentment. Amd set to report results in a few minutes. Have a preview the josh investors piled into amd. Check out that stock its up about 50 now this year. Its up about 30 just this month. On track for the best month since january 2019 investors bet that amd can capitalize on indeltels latest stumbles one big number to watch in this report, revenue for amds server chips. The companys highest margin product that they sell and also looking for 400 million in the quarter. Back to you. Thank you we talked about how the setup is hard coming into earnings. Eugene, whether it is amd or the chip makers or the Bigger Tech Companies due to report in the next couple of days, if one of them disappoints meaningfully, could that drag do you remembwne nasdaq i think it will be stock specific you know when intel came out about the announcement about the seven chip, it dropped in comparison to amd and the rest of the industry. Rest of the Companies Held up. I think that it will be sort of a warning sign valuations are extended. Yeah. Where do the semis fit in, mike santoli, with the growth trade that weve been seeing thats been a little moody lately definitely still in that uptrend. And that is also the case after intel took the big hit so i think can you look at Semiconductor Group as has been the case as some kind of a bellwether for both growth expectations and also clearly the leader the kind of longer term trends in technology. So far, theyve insulated the market against too much weakness focus on the big tech names that are reporting on thursday the setup for them, is it still tough overall even though they pulled back of late . Its sufficient tough in a s people remain heavily positioned in the stocks. Yes, they backed off coming into this week. It didnt completely take the entire group off the boil. Im not sure today if this is about getting out of the way of the earnings reports or of the hearings in congress with some of the ceos on thursday. The market is trying to dial bass risk. Those are the ones that get hit. Its hard to know if it is anything more than thats where the money is when the market is backing off and that takes the brunt of it. Mike, we are making new session lows dow down more than 200 points right now. 75 . Just over two minutes left of trading. The only stocks that are higher are sectors are higher on the defensive plays. What do you see in the internals . Absolutely. The internals held up better than the overall indices as you might expect you see here advancing volumes they still exceeding declining volume the average stock is outperforming the market cap en that and this has been the pattern. The smashgt proppmarket is prop larger stock is outperforming. And this is a day when the average stock is outperforming the defensive sectors, low volatility stocks way outperforming high beta on the day. But certainly a high beta underperforming. And the volatility index is threaten to make a new low for the post crash period. That is not the case right now above 25 still showing some reserve of anxiety there in the volatility market mike, just quickly as well. Gold is not back up to the highs of last night. It is close to that level. Still has gone back into positive territory no doubt that these are persistent trends and they have wide sponsorship i think the thing to look out for is theyre getting extremely popular in short term. Theyre often orphaned is now evident. So you have to ind koof be on alert in the short term. Theyre benefitting from a lot of things going on in the current environment. There is one minute left. Oil is down 1. 5 today the dollar is weak of late theyre plateauing a little bit. Its up ten basis points without sliding like it has been of late there is the dow at session lows as can you see, down 210 points. 0. 8 session lows across all of the indices,. 6 of decline for the s p 500. 1. 25 lower for the nasdaq composite. The russell 2000 down 1 itself. At the bottom of the pile, materials down 2 . Energy down 2 technology down 1 mike is pointing out the big tech names rolled over into the close. Apple, netflix, alphabet, tesla down 1 . The bell goes, we are down at session lows on all three indices. Certainly taking a step back today. Closing at the lows. Welcome back f youre just joining us to closing bell, im sara eisen along with wilfred frost and mike santoli take a look at how we finished up the day on wall street. The dow down 205 points thats about a loss of. 75 pfizer is the biggest winner and 3m the biggest loser earnings action there. The s p 500 closing down about. 6 . First, actually third negative day in the last four puts the s p 500 still up 3. 8 for the month. And pretty much flat it was sectors like staples and utilities and real estate that do well when bond yields are falling. The nasdaq got hit the hardest down 1. 3 . Investors are waiting. A lot of earnings this hour. Well get results from visa, starbucks, amd, and ebay well have instant analysis of all the numbers coming up here on the show. Plus, well speak exclusively with the ceo about his companys results and whether people are still stocking up on snacks during the coronavirus crisis. As soon as those results are out. First to join us to talk about the market, Eugene Profit is here Wells Fargo Asset Management head of active equity. I turn you to, mike, on what happened today they determine which way the ib dechls dec indices go i dont know it is very news driven there is more anxiety around the likelihood and the timing of a potential next round of fiscal support. You can look at that and say the markets manage to stay well supported. We have a stutter step in growth maybe thats a good thing. On the other hand, no net head way despite the fact that weve been sitting here with a highly stimulated economy and super low yields and the dollar going south and gold taking off. So right now i think its inconclusive except to say the markets had a hard time seasonally getting a whole lot more upside momentum in late july into august so see if thats going to take hold this year as well and in the short term, are there more risks than opportunities . If you look at how gold and treasuries separated from equity and credit, the market is definitely trying to Say Something about the longer term. But when our managers are looking at investments, there certainly are some out there that still look very attractive to us across many Different Industries like what i think when you look at industrials, thats certainly an area where you see a lot of opportunity. You see manufacturing and Home Building picking up. And that v shape recovery is still continuing in those areas. I think the market is telling us that the economy on the other side of this may not recover p its certainly not recovering the same equally across the board. And it may look slightly different on the other side. You may not see the same strength in names like airlines, hotels, travel but you may still continue to see very strong strength in manufacturing and in some of the industrials along with what weve seen in technology, et cetera what do we need to hear from the fed chair tomorrow to keep the market supported well, we would like to hear that stimulus is going to continue they already pretty much said that youre looking at Interest Rates staying low out to 2022. They have been basically stating it will take us a lot longer than a short term to get out of this pandemic. Corporate ceos are starting to respond to that. The market hasnt responded. Thats why youre seeing weakness in the names as we got to the elevated levels yeah. I wonder, mike santoli, last time we heard from the fed chair, the market didnt like hearing he was sort of pessimistic. He used the word uncertainty a million time he wasnt ready to commit. He didnt really see the recovery in any sort of meaningful way i wonder if this time if he has that kind of attitude and expresses the sentiments that the market is happy it with. That means the stimulus is flowing and might come even more yeah. I dont know, to be honest, that market aside from the one day Immediate Reaction that coincided with this comments was really disappointed with that tone even back then. Im pretty sure its a good bet that he is going to again emphasize the down side risk to the economy. The fed and all the officials have been very consistent about that and essentially saying we dont know how this plays. Our models are not helping us out really to handicap this environment. Were going to err on theside of doing more and not less now whether that means more versus what theyve already announced and having the pipeline and by the way, the economy is not really taking up the fed on a lot of the lending programs and the Balance Sheet is trimmed back a little bit who knows . The market is going to take that as incrementally reassuring. If there is any hint of the possibility of negative rates that, would be incremental in terms of stimulus. It would be incremental to the stock market in terms of how they interpret that . I dont think the fed is prepared at all to change the stance in trying to foreclose on that likelihood. I dont think the bond market, even though can you see that on the probability spectrum the futures market does have some percentage of possibility of negative rates its really a prediction its just a matter of, look, we dont know what is going to happen in the next one to two years. Rates are already so close to zero theyre going to stay at zero at a max fum for so long. How can you not build in the, you know, in ermz of it the futures pricing . I dont think its an affirm pif prediction by anybody right now. Lets get to earnings the global snack maker, 63 cents adjusted the estimate is for 56 cents so nice beat there revenues also coming in a little bit better organic revenue. Always the key for the Consumer Companies up. 7 really the story is helped by pricing which did offset some volume declines. As far as other highlights here, slightly lower margins theyre dealing with the strong dollar still probably celebrating the weak dollar lately which will help earnings not giving full year guidance. Does see a currency hit continuing this is a company that does most of the business abroad they sell oreos and nabisco crackers and have a ton of business in the emerging markets. The story, interestingly from an economic perspective, is that the developed markets, u. S. And europe primarily drove the gains this quarter had positive volume growth were going to talk to the ceo about this in a few minutes and ask him what he is seeing specifically in the developing and developed world as we slowly come out of this crisis and reopen the economy we look forward to that one, sar yachlt im going to get to the visa numbers which just crossed as well. Revenue, 4. 8 billion. Eps slightly better than expected 107 the forecast was for 103 individual lines all pretty much in line with expectations as the headline its down 17 year over year thats where the expectations had had got to payments overall is down 10 year over year so give me a snapshot of, of course, where we are in this time theyre coming in line on the top line and fractionally ahead on the bottom line we also have starbucks numbers out. Kate rogers . Starbucks reporting a better than expected quarter. Loss of 46 cents adjusted. On revenues, 4. 22 billion for q3. That is also a beat. Samestore sales here, global comps down 40 u. S. Down 41 . That includes comp store transaction decline of 52 offset by a 25 increase in average tickets. The so people spending more money. China comps down 19 in the quarter. Transactions down 27 . Offsbit a 10 increase in the average ticket here. Starbucks also giving some guidance saying that global comps will fall between 12 and 17 for q4 and full year. The same applies to u. S. Then in china, comps will be flat to down 5 in q4 and down 15 to 20 for the full year. Also giving an eps range of 18 to 33 Cents Per Share here for q4. Back to you. All right looks like the market likes it for now. Kate rogers, thank you a pop there. Up 2. 25 on earnings dont miss an interview with starbucks Ceo Kevin Johnson foam morning. Squawk on the street. Theyll talk about the numbers mike, the setup here, the expectations were low. It was underperforming the overall market this year we knew there is weakness. People are not commuting so theyre not eating breakfast out. Theyre not get thirg daily couple of coffee reflected already in the price what we heard from the company snp. Yeah. The i think to some degree and also the fact that the company had, you know, enough visibility to nair rrrow the guidance in a better direction thats what the market is seizing on as well in terms of comps and also the bottom line results. Very similar, i think, to the way the street is viewing a mcdonalds it will come back with the same kind of market share dominance and franchise value. Its just a complete slave to how quickly people are going to get out and about again and we simply dont know that its an expensive stock. Its always been an expensive stock. Holding the value because this market is willing to give the great brands the benefit of the doubt through this period. Eugene, where do you stand on the likes of visa . I mean, clearly its been a winner over the last three or four years it is highly linked to the economy. Even though they beat expectations, down 10 in terms of transaction volume year over year we like visa. Of its a little bit expensive because of the earnings coming down are you speeding up and that helps vees yavenlt bchlt i thin like the value we like the company but not in a hurry to add more to it. So we just ann i know you cant speak about specific stocks we got results from three Consumer Companies, visa, starbucks. Any threads youre picking up as it relates to the consumer and the recovery and where investors are relative to what these companies are saying in terms of their expectations for how this is all going to look and shake out . Yeah. I think its interesting tonight you do get three companies that all touch the consumer and certainly our impact about Consumer Behavior we know what our grocery bills look like over the last several months more and more of our Monthly Budget has gone toward groceries. Probably more snacks depending on what your family situation looks like but behavior has changed and you talked about that with the starbucks. Youll start to see more waviness with the Consumer Services names because those will be inflinsed by the halting and the slowdown of certain economies im sorry, certain reopenings, cities, states, et cetera. Along with the virus where consumer staple stocks have been much morsteady along the way. All three of the companies have strong brands and were seeing that as well and i agree with what eugene said there is good secular change happening in the Digital Payment space as well. And i think our managers in general think that that secular space still has a lot of room for growth in the u. S. Lets talk about visa the still under a little pressure here on the results kate rooney has a little more color for us kate hey sara. Dive into total payments that a key number to watch here. That is down 10 in the Third Quarter. Yoer over year, cross boarder volume, that is a higher margin business for visa. That was down 37 year over year total process transactions were down 13 ecommerce is seeing a slight jump and analysts will be looking to see if that can offset the overall slowdown. The ceo of visa saying that covid19 continues to meaningfully affect the business. Visa withdrew the full year guidance in may. So no comp there well be looking for more commentary and stimulus checks in the last quarter jees did say that is helping boofst Consumer Spending well look for color at 5 00 p. M. Eastern back to you. Got it. Kate rooney, thank you well leave the conversation for there now. Eugene and ann, thank you for joining us up next on the show, well ask the ceo of mondalez about the strength of the consumer around the world during the rngsrovirus crisis eain fm amd and ebay still coming at you. Experience the joy of a bigger world in a highlyconnected lexus vehicle at the golden opportunity sales event. Lease the 2020 es 350 for 359 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Snack making giant mondalez reporting the q2 earnings beating on top and bottom lines. Stock moving slightly lower in after hours trading. Joining us in an cnbc exclusive for more on the numbers, the ceo, dirk van de put nice have you. Yeah, thank you for having me tell us a little bit about what happened in the quarter looks like the strength is mostly in the developed world as you dealt with the pandemic. What did you see from the consumer well, obviously we watched the consumer largely as it relates to the snacking habits and overall we do see an increase in snacking consumers are spending more time at home. Theyre still quite anxious. There is a lot of home schooling going on and part of parenting these days we see an increase in snacking largely at home. The third thing we see from the consumer is that they are drifting back towards brands that they know and trust so weve had quarter with significant market share gains since in the chocolate plays the most of the known brands are ours and another thing we obviously see is this shifting where the consumer shops they are buying more in ecommerce and less on the go and impulse channels. One of the reasons why our top line was good but not quite great is world travel retail it is a duty free shops and so on clearly consumer wasnt traveling. And then maybe the last thing to say about the consumer is that they start to watch a little bit value. And that the Going Forward they will see the recession there is a lot of unemployment they will Pay Attention to pricing and we need to make sure that we offer the right product at the right price but thats a little bit what we see going on with the consumer at the moment. Got it. I notice that margins were a little bit lower what can you tell us about where the pressure is . Is it on the call side for materials . Its more in our operations as we work q3, we had had a significant covid19 related cost in our supply chain we have to implement a number of people with pppe, we gave them insentive pay. Sometimes if one person gets infected, we have to take several out because of contact tracing. We have to take in a temporary labor. So theyre all one off related to covid19. So as covid19 fades away, theyll get out of the pnl higher than expected costs i lalso notice that results were weaker in the developing markets. Which countries are you seeing the weakness in and what can you tell us as the quarter progressed and what youre seeing in recent weeks it started off with india. Being severely aekt iffed. Youve seen that they did a severe lockdown and a lot of the stores were closed and people couldnt get out of their homes. That had a big effect in april may, we were back flat and then in june we saw growth in june in india so i think india is coming out of it. Another country that is affected, for instance, was russia they didnt go into negative territory in april but they were lower than expected but also coming quite nicely back southeast asia, same effect. I would say in the emerging markets in asia and in europe, we saw the dip in april and we see them nicely coming out of it latin america. Theyre still in the middle of it brazil, second highest number of cases in the world and so the consumer is also in lockdown and they still are. Its a region of the world where most of the sales are in the traditional trade. So that is still an area of the world where it started later it was more in may and june. North america is up 17 not just quarter on quarter. That 17 year over year growth so its not just a case of having experience the peak of the virus earlier than some of the other regions that are facing declines. Why so strong in north america in north america, our business is 80 biscuits Consumer Spending more time at home consuming more products there. I heard you talk about starbucks. They have the opposite effect, of course. But were benefiting from that with our biscuit business. And in the biscuit market, we have brands like oreos, chips ahoy, ritz, some of the strongest biscuit brands and cracker brands we see that increasing consumption being accompanied by heavy market share gains for us. What were seeing is a lot new consumers entering into our brands and doing repeat buying so that bodes well for the future for us. Yes, youre right. A very Strong Performance in north america and in the u. S so what you are doing with advertising spend, dirk . I know you participated in that the pause on social media. The consumer Package Goods im covering pulled back spending on ads. Can you tell us how youre thinking about spend right now in this environment . We might be different on that in the sense that we decided in the Second Quarter since the crisis was sort of hitting everywhere around the world, we didnt have clarity on what was going to happen to the consumer, what was going to happen to our supply chain we decided to pull back our advertising in the Second Quarter. As we see consumption strong and we see our sales coming back and we see channels opening, the market share gains, we feel bullish. In fact, we are reshifting all what we did not do in q2 to invest in the second half of the year we feel pretty good about it the other thing were doing is within that advertising spending, we are shifting more into working what we call working medium that is things you see on tv and online so for the year, there is probably a slight decline. But overall, we increasing our investment in the second half. We appreciate you joining us ahead of the Conference Call dirk van de put, good to see you. Thank you amd earnings are out. Lets get to josh lipton with the numbers. Josh sara, amd reporting q2 eps of 18 cents. That is versus expectations of 16 cents revenue clocks in at 1. 93 billion. The street is at 1. 86 billion so beats there on the bottom and the top. Guidance, q3. They say look for revenue around 2. 55 billion. Analysts are looking for closer to 3. 3 billion. For 2020, they expect revenue to grow 32 they call out strength in pc gaming and data center products. Look at the segments in the quarter. Computing and graphic segments, 1. 37 billion. That is in line with expectations that will include chips for pcs and graphics chips for gaming as well Custom Division though that, is better than expected at 5 565 million. You see the game stock ripping higher heading into this print, it was already up about 30 just this month. Guys, back to you. Josh lipton, thank you so much for that extraordinary moves for a stock as you said thats been on a terror already. Dont miss an exclusive interview with the ceo tomorrow at 9 15 a. M. On squawk on the street. Well discuss that one in more detail in a moment first, the ebay numbers are out as well. Hey, this stock bouncing around in the after hours. First the results. Revenue coming in at 2. 87 billion. Versus 2. 8 billion. Earnings per share, 1. 08 versus 1. 06 expected slight beat. Remember this is a stock that has run up nearly 45 over the past three months. And is benefiting from the work from home, shop from home trend. Gross merchandise value, this is an important metric for ebay it has been a lagger over the last few years solt that came in above expectations 27. 1 billion. Versus 25. 9 billion expected. Guidance giving Third Quarter guidance and fiscal year guidance above estimates shares were up as much as about 1 right after the results came up but as can you see now thashgs down some 5 as i mentioned, the stock has really run up. It was sort of late to this trend raising its guidance in the middle of the quarter. So perhaps this isnt enough to satisfy investors. Remember that ebay is an ecommerce name this year. It is doing quite well and seeing demand amid the pandemic, it is far trailing the gains we have seen in other names like wayfair, etsy and amazon back to you. Thank you for that one. Ebay moving lower. Well discuss much more of todays after Hours Earnings movers amd shares rallying as we mentioned. 8 following a 30 jump in just the past month starbucks, slightly ghhier visa and ebay lower. More announcements on them welcome back news from amc we have it for you. Hi, julia. Hi, a Historic Deal rewriting the rules of the movie industry. Theater giant Amc Entertainment group and cmbc Sister Company have agreed to dramatically shorten the exclusive theatrical window under the new multiyear deal theyll have access to all the films for at least three weekends, 17 days. The down from the prior standard of about 88 days now after that shortened window, universal can then distribute the films via premium video on demand its been offering the movies for 20 for 48hour window amc will get a percentage cut of revenue from that premium video on demand revenue through the duration of the traditional theatrical window. Universal will choose on a case by case basis whether to offer movies on demand after three weekends the two companies saying this new flexibility ensures the future of the movie industry and this is definitely a dramatic move. It was prompted by universal offering the films on demand during covid19 while theaters are closed wilf, back to you. Is universal saying that only ever going to use amc theaters at all in the first place . No. So the issue before is that amc was so concerned about universal offering its films on demand perhaps even the same day that a film was in theaters the that they said they wouldnt show their films at all. Now amc will show those films and will get a percentage of the revenue once they start offering the films on demand. Universal will continue to distribute the films through theater chains as well we can expect other theater chains to followthrough with similar deals because amc is the largest of the theater chains. Really setting a standard for the rest of the industry and shows the signs of the time i guess, a number of times theyve been on the last couple years saying you never agree to Something Like this. But sort of being forced by the environment to go along it with. Julia, thank you very much for that amc moving higher in after hours trade off the back of that news, of course, down sharply still year to date also moving higher after hours with a similar name but a different company, a many. D amd. The stock is up 9 after surged already coming into this chr Chris Rolland joins us it was a tough setup and smashed it. Good afternoon. Amd had had a fabulous report here really hitting on all cylinders. Not only that, but the nearest competitor intel has pushed their seven nanometer process. So not only does the short term look extremely favorable for amd, but the longer term picture looks pretty bright as well. Why do you say that one of the questions is, you know, there were Great Expectations and they crushed it what happens, you know, when the work from home starts to fade . Is the second half going to look as good with people having already upgraded their home equipment and their technology which is helping the semis some of the analysts think that is going to fade well, if amd has anything to say about it, those trends dont appear to be slowing they raised the full year outlook for the growth and raised that to 32 growth for the full year here so theyre very confident that not only pc can likely sustain here, but actually game consoles, well have the launch of the ps 5. It was the new Microsoft Xbox platform here also ramping and were seeing 100 growth year over year in their server platform as well opposite move from intel thank you for joining us with quick reaction. Sure thing. Up next, well get more reaction to starbucks earnings. Also just out, find out whether the companys pivot toward drive thugand roh to go orders is starting to pay off. Closing bell will be right back welcome back shares of starbucks popping after reporting a top and bottom line beat. Comparable store sales also declining, they were down 40 . Down 41 in the u. S. Joining us is the managing director of Equity Research at webb bush securities clearly expectations were low, nick how is starbucks navigating this crisis and what are the trends doing in the coming quarters for expectations on earnings well, q4 guidance is largely in line. They narrowed, you know, americas guidance it was 10 to 20 down previously down 17 now. I international unsurprising china is down 5 to flat versus, you know, previous expectation of flat in q4 largely in line. I just think, you know, investors, youre seeing a little bit of a sigh of relief that it wasnt a little bit worse in q4 you know, otherwise, the improvement in terms of the trend line is very much in line with where it sure be. Are there any risks that there will be long term shifts in peoples behavior we talk about the work from home trend that people experience how much cheaper it is to make their coffee at home and that is something that sticks even when we fully reopen. Well, there absolutely is a risk i think starbucks understands that i mean, they are, you know, making the appropriate investments in the near term shutting down a number of urban locations. Remodelling, you know, full Service Stores into takeout only stores so they understand some of those changes and they also understand if they need to take the appropriate steps to position the brand accordingly. Im Going Forward, theyre almost exclusively going to be building drive throughs. It wont be 100 i have suspicion that a very, very large majority of any new openings will be drive throughs. So they have an eye on those trends they understand those trends better than anybody. Theyre doing the appropriate things for sort of the medium term to longer term positioning of the brand nick, thank you for joining us starbucks moving higher 3 the major averages fell for the third time in four days today. Well ask kkrs Henry Mcveigh if he sees red flags for the market and where his firm is putting money to work. Save hundreds on your wireless bill without even leaving your house. Just keep your phone and switch to xfinity mobile. You can get it by ordering a free sim card online. 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But youre not mad, because you have e trade, whos tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. Dont get mad. Get e trades simplified technical analysis. Welcome back wait until the final details for the act. Congress spent 2. 5 trillion to combat the covid19 health and economic crisis and put us on the road to recovery what shape will that recovery be kkr doesnt see a u or v but rather they see a square route shaped recovery. Kkr, the ceo of kkr Balance Sheet. Mike santoli part of the conversation as well thank you for joining us, henry mcvey. Lets start there. So route shaped recovery you think that things will play tow from here . We had had a massive amount of stimulus. Both monetary and fiscal i think well get some more from the u. S. Government. I that i is going to continue to fuel growth. Were actually forecasting disposable income to be up about 4 this year which is a massive number the offset of that is the rate of change will start to slow i think you reported on a bufrnl this weve been active as a firm on behalf of our lps since february we try to say tai vaveng the dislocation. But i think its important to keep in mind that a lot of the economy is recovering but some of this will the rate of growth will slow and as that does, that will probably disappoint some expecttations. So were sticonstructive on ovel assets as we detailed in our piece and outlook to our clinltclinlt clients. But what we think is more measured is rate of change mod rates. As you look at how the markets have metabolized this outlook. Emphasis on the big secular Growth Stocks. Thats been consistent also high yield. You know, credit has actually improved a lot and is not building in in, you know, massive upside in defaults or anything like that do you think the markets have roughly gotten it right here or do you see mispricings i think we have highlighted this we think the markets largely got it right on high yield we do an default monitor its about 7. 5 which is right around what we sthi going thinkt happen in that market. In equities, you have some demand destruction and about maybe 5 to 10 . Thats on a permanent basis. Thats what the market is discounting in remember, unlike i think most of the folks here that youre talking about most of our capital is eight plus years. So were trying to get it right for 2 3sh3 area and 24 and be. Our leadership has really driven us to do is not try to just, you know, think about whats here and now but really where are we going . And so weve been very aggressive in asia thats one of our flag ship regions. We have a lot of offices and a lot of local presence. We were able to discern trends in rasha that maybe others werent able to see and apply that to europe and the u. S. And then we also taken some of our interlekt you int intellectual around from the u. S. And nesting and people staying home and personal safety around transportation and its been a global effort i think the market has it right. One thing we are watching which you and your team have commented on is it is unusual to have gold going up dlart the dollar going down and rates going down that is not the holy trinity were focused on that. I think what it means to us is were more from the fed but, look, ultimately rates will stay low for some time. But there is just the stimulus comes in a cost and the market is starting to price that in one of the reasons we built a really big infrastructure business globally and real estate is to create investments that have collateral, that are cash flowing and do well if you have some appreciation in inflation. That is not our base view in the near term. But i think portfolios, now is the time to think about that and so that will be a bigger part of the business that kkr participates in a goforward basis. Weve had success around that i think youve that youvet to highlight that, and that part of what were seeing in the Capital Markets is abnormal and worth noting it speaks to more stimulus probably coming in the u. S. Given where rates are so low and financing costs are low but ultimately there is a cost bet its been sort of sluggish as far as m a in general but high valuations, plenty of uncertainty. Whats it like for private he can equity and scenes from consumers like staying at home how bullish are you on some of these permanent trends and where are you investing around it . Weve been very active as a firm both with our partners in terms of putting in our funds but also syndicating excess equity to those that want it and id say really globally thats taken place across all private equity key things for us have been digitalization i think ecommerce people talked about but really data usage. Thats important one other thing we really went back and looked at, unfortunately, after the tragic events of 9 11 when you get a shock people do more domestic travel, they focus on their homes. This concept of nesting where they fix things up thats obviously going to be a big part of the story Going Forward. And then just longer term themes where we want to work to invest alongside private sector and Public Sector and thats things such as infrastructure i also think theres a substantial upgrade of consumption in asia. It gets reported a lot about china, and thats obviously an exciting market. Southeast asia is booming. Thats a really important market for us were also seeing in terms of key trends did i divestures. You as a team have reported on that we agree with that and a lot of the companies have needed to either reduce their debt or maybe sell a subsidiary to create some liquidity. And thats not going to go away. Ultimately the economy feels good right now and it will continue to rebound, but this is a shock to the system. And i think that were trying to do three things right. One is get the theme right second is create operational improvement at the portfolio company. And, third, is create Capital Structures that are durable. The lesson from 2008 and 2009 coming out was to do that. Thats where were focused as a firm and have a united effort around that. Got it. Henry, always good to hear from you. Thanks for giving us an update henry mcvey from kkr its been a wild day with visa, starbucks and more pouring in. Your movers right after this quick break. 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Im going to continue to dig through this written testimony but wanted to get you the key headlines. Looks like he also says we have more than 35,000 people working on safety and security, three times what we had from three years ago. Julia, thank you that is going to be one blockbuster testimony, guys, tomorrow and its not the only event. We have a fed meeting and a press conference from jay powell a lot on the agenda tomorrow and for the rest of the week seeing amd jump after earnings, four big techs reports to come on thursday. It will continue to be a crazy week that does it for closing bell. Fast money now. Im melissa lee. Tonights trader lineup, tonight on fast stocks slide into the close. The nasdaq finishing session lows as big tech ceos gear up for a grilling what is at stake plus, capitol concerns, why one top wall street strategist is calling the trillion dollar stimulus plan the biggest risk to this rally. Later, we are taking your questions. Tweet us cnbcfastmoney. 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