Let the sun shine in the sun shine in let the sun shine let the sun shine in the sun shine in good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john brennan and post morgan. At this hour the cairline ceos are meeting with the president this hour. We will give you updates as we get them and the rally, pretty impressive here stocks back in the green after the surprise fed cut rate tuesday. Steve milanovich joins us, tech strategist at World Research and the director of global mack affordability. I have been watching your tactical calls over the last week or so theyve been pretty sharp. You said you expected a rally this week. The question is now, what do we do with it yes, the markets remain in sort of a price discovery mode its unknown whether the low that was last friday, interday low at 29. 50 or so or whether its lower these are unknowable things because its a fastmoving development. But i do think friday we got to an oversold point and rally too, 3,100 was fai
Been seeing a lot of industrials, energy companies, airlines, travel Companies Taking the brunt of the selling. Now it has spread to the leaders. 4 , then a little under worst day since october 28. I think that is one powell said neutral. All down more than 4 , basically the big laggards today. That is what you get. Scarlet the dow and s p negative on the year. Nasdaq Still Holding onto a gain of 2. 8 . Lets check in with our market reporters to say what they were monitoring. Abigail, get us started. Abigail i am thinking about the selloff we had on this day and putting it into the context of a chart we have looked at frequently, because it feels like it is from out of nowhere, but many the surface there have been indications we could see this action. This chart goes back to the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak as we were reporting on it. A little more than a month ago. In yellow is crude oil and copper is in pink. Both of those commodities down about 10 . At the lowest crude oil
Did we get hammered today . Because investors are finally starting to realize that the coronavirus is a very Destructive Force for economies. Dow plunges 228 points s p plummeted. Nasdaq, 1. 79 . As profit takers came out in forces, especially in big tech, recognizing the chinese economys going to go maybe offline. And going offline cant be good news for the United States the 30year treasury, well, it fell to record lows. That worries me. Yes, thats got to be a dangerous signal and not just a windfall for home buyers, right . All the action seems to el us the bad news out of china is finally translating into bad news almost a total delayed reaction. Should have been a week ago. Because our economy remains deeply intertwined with theirs so many of our companies rely on chinese suppliers for everything from trim, like in clothing, to buttons, essential medications, components, all sorts of technologies were really much more intertwined than people realize. I think were right to be worrie
Uncertainty. Coming in below estimates. Oil making a move higher for a change today, snapping a fiveweek losing streak, turning in one of the best weeks of the year nanny taylor is here welcome to ladies hour here. Girl power. You say tech is the key do you mean fang or something broader . I mean something broader than that we started to see the Economic Data ticking up, yet local p miismt its mi is moving up, small by, Chinese Consumer precoronavirus. So we have to see what is going to be the impact, farreaching impact i think thats good for stocks so i think stocks are less risky. So were looking at tech as if it doesnt work, nothing works right now the total confirmed cases are topping 64,000, the total death toll is nearly 1400. In the u. S. There are 15 confirmed cases with eight of them in california Many Companies are continuing to speak out about the impact the virus is having on their bottom lines. Today british drug Maker Astrazeneca reported quarterly results, warnings a hit
Wall street welcome better than expected reports on the economy and more progress o trade. And once again, the gains may have bee slight, but it was stillood enough for more records. The dow a tayrages just a feign of 31 points to 28267. Nasdaq rose about 9 and the s p added just one point but closed higher a fifth straight session, the longest win streak in a month. Bob pisani starts us off tonight from the new yorkck s exchange. Stocks back in record ralmo s p 500 and ow nasdaq closing at new highs the bare 30th record close of the year for the s p. Whats fueling theal rly no major headlines today but the bulls sck with the story o more clarity heading into the end of the year and particularly into 2020. Interest doesnt appear to be a recession in sight in the u. S. E omy. Thats the most important. Look at the data toda instrial production rebounded innovember. Auto production picd u after a nationwide strike ended at jern motors. Housing startslso jumped last month with Single Famil