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Be tested here, right . Sure are, right . I mean, weve been overbought in this market really since early february. I think that really we needed the catalyst. I think between the manufacturing numbers we started with and then on top of that oil and then we have gold prices up and then, you know, we have an economy that is strong. And i think the narrative around how many times the fed is going to cut rates or lack of is really going to cause the market to rethink certain sectors and certain securities that were really banking on rates cutting to make them go higher for the rest of the year. I think were at a crossroads. You know, josh, chris ferrone, the title is raising our guard. He says the push in yields right back to the key 4. 5 level is important. The persistence from gold, were inclined to tactically raise our guard particularly given a play sent sentiment backdrop. Do you agree with that . I do. You know, last week last week there had been some really classic indicators that the market was in need of a little bit of a cooling off. When you saw that activity happening with the donald trump spac, you just knew there were games being played that we really havent seen since, like, late 2021. You also saw a whole bunch of meme coins, and i dont mean accidental meme coins like they just became meme oins, but things deliberately created to troll everyone. You saw some of those starts to add billions of dollars in, quote, unquote, market cap. These are the type of things that typically happen toward the end of a really big run. It doesnt mean the final run, but they are topeetoppy in the aggregate when you see them happen all at once. And theres no this is pretty informal, and theres no real data that we can attach to this, but i noticed some of the worst people on social media beating their chests again about bitcoin and this and that. So that was a moment we say, all right, let me look at rsis, look at how overbought the market really is. Let me add some data to this conversation. And, sure enough, across the board, you just found this incredible 90 of the s p 500, you know, in an uptrend and you say, all right, things need to cool off. Thats all this is, though, judge. I dont think its more than that. I could be wrong and things could change, but the way i see it, this is perfectly normal activity to expect in an otherwise raging bull market. I mean, sarat, bespoke says the s p perfectly to joshs point the s p 500 has closed an overought territory for 50 consecutive trading days. The last time its done that was more than 25 years ago in april of 98. We knew the market was overbought. You knew that there were a few Tipping Point possibilities, be it the backup in rates, and now you have oil up, gold up, dollar up. And the question is how much on guard do you think we need to be . Well, i think its natural, to joshs point, we need to digest this huge run that weve had really in the last six months. But the thing that i like about this rally is it has broadened, and if you had exposure to commodities, you had exposure to materials, you are doing well in this market. Youre not just in this narrow four stocks now that are only doing well. And weve had some of the other ones have come off. Its natural for the market to come back and if rates are doing this and the market is strong because of an economy, that means earnings should be good, which is good for the stock market. So these are things happening for the right reasons. Im not as worried as if they were happening for the other reasons, which is a slowing economy and now were going down the chute. You can say, well, the market has broadened, thats a good thing. You could probably make the case that cases have broadened because a lot of largecap tech has hit new record highs or new 52week highs, so theres a lot of boats that have risen with this tide, and you can maybe point to some and say maybe that was a little much. Well, i think the run in some of these sectors has been really quick, but those are the ones, at least for us, we want to be in. We can add more money there. Im not as worried for the pullback. To steve liesman. He has breaking news now, the cleveland fed president Loretta Mester is speaking now. Loretta mester, as you say, scott, says its appropriate to cut rates later if the economy evolves as she expects. She says there has been substantial progress on inflation, and she expects that progress to continue. In fact, adding, the inflation picture in her mind hasnt changed much despite the firmer readings in january and february. She does it or had expected inflation progress to slow. So what she saw the last two months was very much in line with what she expected. The most likely scenario inflation continues to decline towards the 2 target over time. Now shes not quite ready to cut just yet saying she needs to see more monthly readings on inflation, quote, to raise my confidence. Does not expect to have enough by the next meeting, enough confidence, that is, or enough data. She says they are coming back to better balance, but points out the bigger risk right now is cutting too early. If inflation, she says, expectations come down, not cutting would amount to a tightening. So thats a bit on the dovish side. She does see higher inflation this year than the median fed forecast out there which is 2. 6 . And she acknowledges that her neutral rate is at 3 compared to the median of 2. 5 . I would point out for your edification there that there are now Seven Members of the fomc who are at 3 or higher for the neutral rate and that compared to 4 back in december. She said it includes heightened political tensions, slowing growth in the economy, and stronger than expected productivity growth. A real quick look at the probabilities. They had been at 59 for june. Ill just doublecheck that that remains the case after mester talks. Thats just about where it is. You can see that june is a bit in play right now compared to how it was, and then you look, also, at the fed funds for the year end is 4. 66. Right in line even more hawkish than the fed is tomorrow. Talked to raphael bostic, the fed president. You feel the bar is increasingly growing higher for june . Yes. I think thats right. I think it is higher. My real concern right now is whether or not, given what yall have been talking about, the higher commodity prices, higher oil prices, whether or not that feeds into two things. One is Inflation Expectations and the other is the march inflation data that we get in april that will maybe set the count back again. Everybody says waller said a couple months, mester says she needs a few more months of data. If you get that constant data that doesnt show the improvement, we have to start counting again. So thats why june would be in play or not necessarily a slam dunk for that rate cut because i dont expect or im not confident were going to get more progress in march. Steve, i appreciate it, as always. Steve liesman, our senior economics reporter. Jim, i hear we dont need rate cuts. The economy is great. That trumps rate cuts. Jpmorgan says the bull market can continue without them. Wolfe research a good chance of zero rate cuts. What about that notion, whether we need them or we dont, the market talked itself into a dovish and happy place. The economy is great. So what if 7 has gone to 3 and 3 to 2 or 2 to zero. We dont need rate cuts. Thats my position. Im not counting on it, and im not being blase either this is about a strong economy, profits youre in the camp i was just talking about. Thats why i answered the way i did. I expected a little guffaw. Im hurt. People are employed. When theyre employed, they consume. Whether its buying houses, which is showing green chutes, the manufacturing ism thats indicating that inventories are being restocked, whether its people traveling, Airline Traffic is still very, very high. People are employed, and for all of the worry that the long and lagged effects of 550, whatever it is, basis points of rate hikes by the fed would knock that down, were now two years past the initial rate hike. If those long and lagged effects would happen, they would have started to happen by now. Theyre just not. What is happening, though, the markets overall are coming to grips with the fact a recession is not likely, could happen, not likely. And if it doesnt happen then all these cyclical and Value Companies are likely to continue the good profit streaks and continue to catch up to the tech darlings. Now, could we have a pullback . Of course we could have a pullback. Were due for one. It would be healthy to have one. Scott and dear viewers, i would be surprised if you get more than 7 . I think 5 down youre going to see the fear of missing out come in and people are going to start buying because a lot of people have sat on the sidelines as this market has taken off. How much of this rally from the october lows has to do with expectations of rate cuts . And now youre going to tell me that we dont need any and if we dont get any that everything is going to be just fine . Are you telling me that why do you think the small caps are down 2 today . Why . Because rates are up. Trades that were working or theoretically were going to work because of the prospect of rate cuts, you cant now tell me, well, theyre still going to work even if we dont get any rate cuts. Well, no thesis is perfect, right, so you point out the small caps, and thats very hard for me to answer, but theres a larger universe above small caps. If you look at the s p 500, just a general barometer of the stock market, whats it off, 1. 5 from its recent high. And, scott, youre pointing out, we started the year expecting not me, not sarat, not josh and bryn, expecting six rate cuts and now were down to two or three. June looks like its getting pushed out. This market is accepting it. This market understands. Its not about rate cuts, its about employment, profits, a strong economy, all of which you have. Bryn . Yeah, well, i mean, you touched on it, but the market is not this monolith, and you absolutely will have sector rotation. I know theres been this obsession with small caps for the last three or four months, go into small caps and, to me, thats such a narrow band that you have to have so many things work out. And so i think you will continue to see small caps, value and growth, lag the market as were going through this are we or are we not going to have the rate cuts because, dont forget, were going into an election. I dont think the fed wants to be present cutting rates in the few months coming up to the election in november. And so i think their sweet spot if they cut rates will do it this summer. After that, theyre going to be more neutral. I think as an investor, if you think were going to be higher for longer, you absolutely need to understand what your positioning is, because there will be the haves and havenots. I dont think certain cyclicals and also, scott, on top of this we have a really good economy, but why is that . I mean, this year in the federal budget were going to have a 1. 6 trillion hole, so its not like were just zooming along by ourselves. We are being juiced up from the fiscal side. Andi think thats also a reason why it still counts. I know but theres unintended consequences. And so why gold and why yields will continue to make investors nervous because when people start doing the math on interest expense and we can say with the reserve currency it doesnt matter, but at some point it will matter to markets if we keep juicing the economy from that side. Josh, jim says rates are up and he used the market is accepting it. I would suggest the jury is still out. I mean, were in the midst of a backup in rates. If you start getting above 4. 4, right, we hit that, and then you start moving closer to 4. 50 once again, that may be tested. You know whats so funny about that, judge, im old enough to remember when 3 was the level we couldnt get above in the ten year. That was like a nogo zone for stocks. And then we added 5,000 dow points immediately after crossing through it. Yeah, im sure theres a trigger somewhere out there where people say, oh, you know what, actually, im going to make a huge allocation shift. I dont know if its 4. 50. So i wouldnt get caught up in that conversation because if we go back and play the tapes, thats really not been incredibly helpful for people trying to make investments. Okay. Ill grant you that. I guess my point is its not necessarily a number, the dow down 501 points as i ask you this question. Its the idea that rates are not going to do what we once thought they were going to do. And part of this move in the market was predicated on the fact that rates were going to do what we thought they were going to do, and thats go lower. But why . Whats that . But why . So, like, rates are not going to do what people thought they were going to do, but why . If the reason why is because were seeing, like, reaccelerating inflation and some sort of an emergency where the fed has to pivot, thats really bad. I dont think thats currently whats being reprised right now. If the reason why were not getting six rate cuts or four or three this year or that its not june, its july, is because the data continues to be strong. I think, to jims point he used the word i wouldnt have chosen. He said the market has accepted it. I would say the market has tolerated it, and thats a really big difference. So i come back to what i said originally. I think we were way overbought, not like in my gut feeling, but the data. Rsis have been explosive and the percentage of stocks and up trends have been explosive like statistically. All this is is a cooling off and, again, the reason why is not runapriway inflation. Theres no reason to think the fed feels that theyre in a rush to do any cuts. And we can tolerate that. So jim said accept it. I say tolerate. A slightly nuanced take there. Thats really all i see thats happening. Lets see, sarat, earnings, which may be more important in the immediate term than whatever the fed is going to do. Here we are debating whether they move for the very first time in june or that gets pushed off. Well, youre going to get more Earnings Results in june starting in the next week or so. Preannouncement season is starting so that will be very interesting to see what the market does. If the market can bear that earnings are stronger and are actually meeting expectations without beating it, you could have a stronger market. To your point, if rates move too fast too quickly, the market will not like that. It doesnt matter youll get investors who dont like it. Youll get algorithms and funds. You will get more volatility and i think investors should be prepared. The question, jim, where you want to be invested in this new quarter. You have earnings to worry about. Now the possibility of rates start to go back up. You have certainly the possibility of at least commodity inflation becoming more prevalent and more talked about. Here were having a conversation about, you know, President Biden and president xi have a phone call. The treasury secretary is making a trip to beijing starting this week, and who knows what developments are going to come out of that at a time weve been nothing but worried about growth out of china. Well, maybe things are picking up there, too. Thats not inflationary potentially . I mean, yes. You see me smiling for the first time on this show. Cvs and United Health care have me in a bad mood. If you wonder why im in a bad mood, thats it. Thank you for putting me in a good mood. You brought up china. That survey that came in over the weekend and our wynn resorts is popping on it, and i know thats specific, but josh was just making this point, there are good things that come out of this as well. I understand that the world is looking for job creation not to be as great on friday so that maybe the fed will cut rates. Im saying its good if you get better than expected jobs numbers, and thats also inflationary. Im saying its good if commodity demand is going up because china is recovering if possibly there are green chutes in europe, possibly, very possibly. But this is good overall. Now of course nothing is perfect. I said that earlier. Yes, if inflation gets out of hand, then the fed is going to have to start raising again. I think a question you havent asked, which i ask myself in the morning, what am i scared of . Im scared this does get out of hand and the fed raises rates. Were not talking about that. Lets hope it stays off the radar screen, because then you have to worry about what happens with the regional banks, and does that become systemic . Right now, we dont have to worry about that. Forget about the fed raising rates. What if the fed does nothing for a while, longer than we thought, again, and rates stay elevated where they are . Forget about the idea of hiking rates. When josh said a minute ago he remembered and i was wondering what he was going to say i thought he was going to say i remember the late 90s when the ten year averaged 5. 5 and the fed funds rate was between 4 and 6 . Ill tell you, the late 90s i was in high school. Whats that . Well, you were an investor in high school. That im sure of. But there were five years in a row of gains in s p 500. The level doesnt the level were at doesnt freak me out. Changes in direction like if the fed changed direction, that would freak me out. Judge you talk as though we were at zero. Mmhmm. So weve gone from zero to 5 in a reasonably rapid period of time. You would agree, right . And i got beaten to smithereens on that yesterday. A lot of people did because the market went down a lot. Exactly. Now were sort of banking on the idea rates will start coming down from those peak levels. Theyve come down from the peak level, but the idea that theyre going to come down further has fueled this rally in certain stocks and sectors. I remember about four months ago saying to you a couple times on the show that i would be scared if the ten year went below 4 . It was on its way down from 5 . I said i would be scared because that would indicate slow growth or declining growth. I did get scared. We went down to 3. 9 . I read Chris Varrone every day. Its not freaking me out. Maybe im wrong. If rates do stay where they are and the economy slows, the stagflation is worse. So that is something that also keeps me up at night, that if we get that, that is bad for the markets and the economy. One of the issues, too, i have nothing on my list. I have, i dont know, 20 pages of notes to work into todays show, not one of which is about new buys from anybody on the committee. There are a lot of people who are all in in this market, right . Jimmy all in, i used to joke about that. There are a lot of people who have bought into the bullish story, right . There arent that many bears left. Maybe this, if it develops into some level of a shakeout, is not necessarily a bad thing either. There are a lot of people on one side of the boat suddenly in this market. Dont you get this feeling . I think people are either invested in equities, have exposure to the market and theyre sitting in 5 cash. There will be something on the side that you can put to work if you get a good pullback. Shares of General Motors, which look to me to be about 1 lower as i go to phil lebeau. He has a market flash regarding that companys auto sales. Phil . Scott, all of the automakers are down right now. When you take a look at General Motors, q1 sales fell 1. 5 . Keep in mind a big part of that decline is because of a big reduction in terms of fleet sales. Remember in terms of auto sales retail is better than fleet, so if youre going to see a reduction, you want to see it on the fleet side. Days of inventory supply, 63day supply. What about the ev market . So much is being made of gms pivot to electric vehicles as they ramp up battery cell production. In the first quarter, gms ev sales fell compared to last year. Last year they sold more than 20,000 evs. This year 16,425. Not a huge decline but, again, theyre doing a pivot now to ramping up production of the battery sales both in tennessee as well as in ohio and, quickly, take a look at shares of General Motors versus toyota. Why are we showing you this . Toyota was out with its q1 sales today. No surprise, hybrids are hot and toyota is cashing in. Overall sales up more than 20 in the first quarter. That says it all, scott, in terms of the consumer out there. If they have a chance to buy a hybrid right now, thats what theyre going for as opposed to an ev in this market if theyre looking to start moving to electric vehicles. Phil, i appreciate it. Thats our phil lebeau reporting those latest Sales Numbers from gm, a stock sarat and farmer jim both own. The stock is up 25 year to date. It got way too cheap after the uaw. That stock giving you the business. This could pull back. The whole market could pull back, right, sarat . Its trading at five times earnings. To get to six to seven times earnings is not incon skconceiat all. While theyre not selling evs, theyre selling internal combustion engines with high margins. It was one of the favorite stocks to sell fortax loss selling. The investors have come back and if you look at kind of, to jims point, where are the earnings going to come from, from regular cars that they make and the transition will take longer. Lets take a quick break. When we come back, more committee stocks on the move today. Tesla is one of them. Delivery is falling short. That stock is getting hammered and its already had a terrible start to this year. We have Health Insurers under pressure today. 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Welcome back. Lets hit some committee stocks on the move. Tesla down 5 today, a tough start to the year. This after deliveries fell short of expectations. All right, bryn, dan ives was explicit today. He called it a train wreck among other things. How would you assess this . Yeah, i mean, they sell expensive products. I think even the bears werent thinking they were going to come out at 387,000 vehicles. The way i look at it is this. In 2020 when they started the factory in shanghai that was a watershed moment. They were able to manufacture in the biggest ev market in the world and that has helped grow earnings. Whats happened though . The chinese competitors have caught up. Its not existential but how are they going to compete now in the very competitive market. Theres nothing to be excited about over the next two quarters because this company is way too big as a market cap and way too mature for new investors to add to the position when we know the earnings come out april 17th. I think theyre going to have a bad q2. Were going to have to settle in. I think this is a good reminder dont follow in love with stocks. They will break your heart. Its down more than 30 . I like calls, it went much higher than that. Thats my discipline. Im going to see if it settles in at 160. Let the analysts bring their numbers down. I use the full selfdriving. You can drive a truck through that. I think it will be a rough year for tesla. I would wait a couple quarters before i look to add to the position. You want to talk cvs, you are attached at the hip on these stocks. Now im in a bad move. You should be. It is the biggest drag for the dow. I think that alone has a couple hundred points peeled off of the average. What do you want to do with this . This is related to medicare and Medicaid Services and their rates. The companies havent come out to say how much its going to affect them. But the overall sentiment is so negative on the stocks. So as a longterm Value Investor its hard to sell at this point but its in the reassessment camp. For just United Health, what about cvs . Cvs is an operational in the sense it was a turnaround story they would get better margins. How much is this going to affect their earnings going forward. Are you telling me youre reassessing . Im not going to sell and its not me being stubborn. The Health Insurance business, i will focus on that. Onethird of operating income. Within that 30 is medicare. Were talking 12, 15 of operating income is medicare. Payments will be 1 . Let me say that again, that does not merit when you do the math that does not merit a 9 decline. That is not the sort of thing i will sell into. The company will report earnings. I will look to see what they say then. Theyre going to cut costs and deny a lot of claims. Youre not tired of cvs . My dentist is tired of it because im gritting my teeth so much. Im tired of asking you about it. Im sorry. 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This is not a surprise except in the timing because, frankly, many investors in endeavor had anticipated that the company would, in fact, be taking private by silver lake, the large private equity firm which said it was looking at doing a deal many months ago in the intervening time. The stock has traded in a range, lets call it in the 20s or so. An expectation had been and hope a go private price 30 or more. That is not the case. 27. 50 a share in cash. That still says, they say, represents a 55 premium to the unaffected price of 17. 72. That was back in late october when there was frustration on the part of endeavors management bed by emanuel and shapiro at the share price that then was soon followed by at least the talk of a potential take private buy. Weve been waiting for quite some time for the actual deal. There was a question about the financing taking longer. Its a large equity check given the 13 billion plus equity value were talking about here. Silver lake seemingly took its time to line up the appropriate investors to back the equity side of the transaction, including, of course, the debt side. You will be seeing the rolling in of ownership stakes of mr. Emanuel and mr. Shapiro as well. Im checking some of the language to maybe sure that is still the case, but im fairly certain it is. Well have to wait and see how happy or not shareholders are. Its halted right now. A quick look when it opens. In terms of performance of the special committee here which negotiated and their behalf, a tricky situation where when youre negotiating, when your ceo and president are rolling in to a deal and so potentially want a low price because thats where they get marked and at the same time obviously the only one that can make an offer for you. Its not like there could have been other offers made here if silver lake was unwilling to sell its own stake. Can i pivot you to disney since thats coming to a head . Sure. There are reports, including your own, that suggest theres a reasonably high level of disney confidence, should i say, in the outcome, though that could obviously change. What do we know now . Were still waiting for obviously the final tally. We should know something perhaps as soon as tomorrow morning even though the annual meeting wont start until 1 00 eastern time. Scott, from what im hearing right now and, again, i want to caveat that, it does appear disney is in a very good position to prevail here. Are they going to do so on some sort of crazy ratio . If nelson peltz is joining the board, that already made it much closer, perhaps, than might have been anticipated. Will they get something into the high 50s in terms of an overall percentage of votes in their favor . I think that is the possibility right now from what im hearing. Again, we are still waiting to hear officially from some of the larger firms, but, again, scott, from what im hearing right now it does appear disney is likely to prevail and mr. Peltz will not be joining the companys board. That said, votes can change right up until the last minute. We want to make sure that is part of anything were sharing. Does the closeness of the vote in the end matter at all to what transpires next in terms of the way that bob iger leads this Company Forward . If its much closer than we thought, if its just a hair when, does that matter . If its just a hair, it might matter in the sense they would have to think, well, we had an awful lot of shareholders who were unhappy in certain areas. That said, im not sure thats going to be the case. And given the emotion on both sides here, i dont really think that disney regardless, as long as it prevails, would do anything differently than it is. Theyve said they are focused on succession, which has been the key point mr. Peltz has been making, something the disney board, he says, and many agree with him, failed that the last time around. On execution, they say were doing it. On cost cuts, were doing it. Everything you say you want us to do, were doing. Why do we need you . And it would appear at least at this point that disney is in a position of prevailing in that point of view. I have a couple of shareholders here. Jim, youve said youre on team peltz, but even if he loses, youre not selling. Yeah, i think thats the clearest point i want to make. Im definitely not selling if peltz doesnt get on. My feeling is he cant hurt. To what you were saying, if it turns out disney prevails, i dont think there will be an olive branch extended by mr. Iger to mr. Peltz. Too much blood has been spilt. You go to the operations, and i keep saying this, if were six months away or less from profitability in disney , this is where the future of the business lies. This is what replaces Linear Television which is obviously going away. Once you reach profitability, then youre having discussions like youre having about netflix, how profitable. And thats a very positive place to be in with high gross margins. Thats where i want to get to and why i wouldnt sell if mr. Peltz doesnt prevail. To add to that, if you look at the economy is stronger than we expected, well, that means its good for disney, for theme parks, for businesses. Thats why you want to own the stock. Things are going in their favor. The economy is staying stronger. The parts are greater than the whole. The operating leverage from streaming, you get a real multiple. And, david, as you know, one of the greatest assets, so to speak, iger has in his pocket is a stock price thats gone steadily higher over the course of the last many months. The last quarter in particular and given the stocks reaction so positive to that last quarter when they had far less in terms of losses on streaming than was anticipated. Talked about it becoming profitable by perhaps the September Quarter or so of this year, scott, that helped them a lot. Mr. Peltz says, yeah, because weve been pressuring them. And of course disney says, no, thats not the case. Were following the plan we outlined a year ago. Dave thanks. David faber, i appreciate you reporting on the endeavor deal and insight and disney. When it comes to investing, we live in uncertain times. Some assets can evaporate at the click of a button. Others can deflate with a single policy change. Savvy investors know that gold has stood the test of time as a reliable real asset. So how do you invest in gold . Sandstorm gold royalties is a publicly traded Company Offering a diversified portfolio of mining royalties in one simple investment. 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I felt like a spoil sport saying, look, its kind of overbought. Just bought the market is broad and the rally more inclusive, its not some inoculation against a regular pullback. I cant remember the exact stat from the number of overbought closes youve had for the s p, but the most in Something Like 20someodd years. And the forward implications of that are not theyre just kind of like nothing special. Oh, wow, okay. I didnt realize and the market barrels higher or the market crashes. You have to sort it out. No, but you all it takes in these instances is a little thing sometimes of a rate backup to push you over the edge for that moment. Right. A lot of things have come into the sweet spot of what we wanted in terms of macro data and the rotation in the tape. So it could continue. Well see. Its a slight test. Ill see you on closing bell. Mike santoli. The top winners and losers so far this year. Wel rhtaclbeig bk. Emes™, its easy to invest in ideas you believe in. 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