Higher than expected. Plus tesla shares, well, they continue to have a very rocky ride this year. In fact, they are the worstperforming stocks so far on the s p for 2024. Another firm cuts their price target on that stock. And former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin telling cnbc just last hour that he is putting together an Investor Group to try to buy tiktok or the u. S. Business of tiktok. Lets begin with the Market Reaction to ppi and retail sales as well. Last months decline, a little bit tight. As you mentioned, the market trying to look past it, struggling to do so, maybe. Cpi this week, you had these big treasury auctions that maybe we thought it would knock the market potentially off course. Now, there was a hiccup lower in the indexes, and bonds definitely are registering this hotterthanexpected inflation number. Tenyear up to 4. 22 . If this were an acutely feddependent stock market, it might matter more on a daytoday basis to equities. Its not been the case. If you dial bac
Proposal days after signing the bill to keep the government funded for a few more weeks. A big win for streamers as peek peacock and universal grabs the spotlight for the Academy Awards. Its monday, march 11th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Thank you so much more being here. Lets kickoff the check of the stock futures. The nasdaq and s p hit record highs before they ended the day in the red. Look right here. You see futures a bit mixed. Nasdaq peeking into positive territory. The dow would open up 70 points lower. Investors are dpegearing up fore consumer and kohls and ulta beauty reporting this week. Ahead of the release, we are checking the yields at the lowest level in one month. The benchmark at 4. 07 . We are seeing the 30year long bond read on Inflation Expectations coming in at 4. 25 . We are talking gold which continues to trade at a record high. It is down fractionally. Trading at 2,180 an ounce. We
Another record. Bitcoin reaching a new high above 71,000 this morning. Look at the move. It has been a staggering move. 71,758 as we speak and climbing. Crypto adjacent names, coinbase, et cetera, seeing gains. There is three days after ethereum breached the 4,000 mark. Look at the crypto stocks. Trading higher this morning. Early this morning, i should say. Coinbase and robinhood. We will talk to Michael Saylor at 8 30 a. M. Today. We will ask why invest in the proxy when you can invest easily in the etf now . Thats one of the big shifts. Hes a brave man. He is a brave man. Buying more bitcoin. That would be his argument. He is a levered bet on crypto. The stock is a leveraged bet on crypto and bitcoin in a way that you could go leverage. Aside from the Software Business. That is not part of the deal. Have you heard about coinbase and what goes on there . The zero balances on the high volume base . I have been looking at it. Whats going on . I have seen it. That number is nice. It goe
Britains watchdog gives the green light. Boeing is the biggest drag on the dow, expanding this probe of the production defect on the max. Lets begin with the banks, jim. Overall, not just the beats, some of the commentary about Investment Banking, efficiency ratios look good. Its funny because obviously this group came in as cold as ive ever seen it. What a change from even earlier this week when pepsi came in hot and then rolls over. I mention that because that was the first big quarter. These quarters, when you listen to them, you forget how much money they can make in this environment. And then you start thinking, you know what . These things are seven, eight, nine, ten times earnings. Theyre trading like steel mills, and theyre really filled with a lot of smart people who are doing a lot of good things who show you they can make a lot of money without underwriting, without m a. Theres going to be a revaluation here, recognizing this group had become really went to the bottom of the
Inflation numbers are up. Sharper than expected. You are looking at yields at tenyear at 2. 6 . We have news breaking overnight. Uk watchdog giving the green light to the microsoft 69 billion takeover bid of activisionblizzard. It removes the hurdle for the deal to close. The regulators said this deal would stop microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming and preserve customers. In a post on x, brad smith said we are grateful for the review and decision today. We crossed the final regulatory hurdle to close the deal to benefit players in the gaming industry worldwide. This has been one for the books. Saga that i dont think anyone was anticipating would go on this long. Given all of the regulatory hurdles. Maybe the ftc. And cma. There was a question of if they would ultimately approve it. 22 months. A long time coming. A lot of questions of what this means. Just about every deal will be questioned by the doj or cma. Microsoft took the extreme steps and saying we will do whate