From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
Been a long time since i did good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla futures were up and we were up 950 points almost on the dow but were going to start with the market selloff from the highs at least dow is up 243, caterpillar and bogey. Bob pisani is here at post nine to talk about what these internals look like this morning. It all feels tentative, the whole thing. I said this morning, theyre putting an awful lot of faith on fiscal stimulus, not monetary stimulus the traders want to hear fiscal stimulus at this point so theres two camps one is the cam whop said we are so ridiculously oversold there has to be a bounce and they have a point on historical basis. We have extreme oversold conditions we have the largest single day drop on the index since october 2008 90 downside volume. At one point 99 of the s p was down the vix over 50. I dont think people understand what the vix over 50 means its a real number over 50 the market believes theres a 50 chance th
Achieve strong Sustainable Growth and safeguard against downside risks. The group offered no specific actions to combat the virus. How disappointing was that look, i think this is the same problem, central bankers are dealing with a biological problem that is then going to spill over to economics, probably means fiscal help what are we talking about here lets talk about restaurant closing, malls closing how about the people who work at the places, thinly capitalized companies that are supposed to pay these people Steve Liesman i worked with him this morning, excellent drop in there, par suited into their office one point the Federal Reserve was saying well stand back behind people whose insurance for instance isnt paid off for a hurricane. I think that its up to treasury and incumbent upon treasury to say were going to work with Small Business, if you have a problem, you can come to us, because thats where the real pain is going to be. We dont want the only retailer to be walmart when
Take a look at gasoline, another twoyear high at 5 and the spread getting wider. Wti versus brent off by six dollars, really speaking to the overproduction and oversupply of oil in the u. S. As the impact of Hurricane Harvey is truly felt. 2 10 of a up by percent. Steady for now. And the commodity we are really watching, copper. Seven 7ch million a ton . And emma chandra has first word news. Emma Hurricane Harvey hitting louisiana, making its second landfall today coming ashore in the western part of the state after dropping 50 inches of rain on southeast texas. It is blamed for at least 18 deaths in the houston area and Law Enforcement says 13,000 people have been rescued. 80 billion, hit making it the second costliest Natural Disaster in u. S. History. A warning from north korea, kim jongun saying the testfiring of a missile over japan was a meaningful gesture toward guam. He said he will watch the response of the u. S. Before deciding on further action. He is readying his military t
Jamie dimon calls it a bubble. Hell explain the one thing he things theyre missing about bitcoin currency in a rare, sure to be explosive interview. First, consumers are making a comeback as Retail Stocks are on track for their best month since last year. Best buy higher, home depot hitting a fresh high today is this the beginning of a retail resurgence . Guy . I think it is a value trap. Can you trust the resurgence the answer in the short term is yes. Ill give you a good example look at foot locker. We had a conversation, i think it was august 19th or 18th, the stock had horrendous guidance, traded down. This was a 75 stock, traded down to 31 within 2 1 2 months. For all the right reasons, by the way. We said look at this stock, traded north of 40 million shares i think you flushed a lot of people out theres a very good chance you get a tradeable bounce from here you just mentioned finish line that stock rallied today and foot locker rallied today. Youre not finding these on valuatio