Teams and teams and delivery of cars for 2020 and so forth. Were starting to get a clearer picture on whats happening in technology as well. This is a big earnings week in general but we got the alphabet earnings last night. And one of the stark things was the difference between direct response advertising and general brand advertising. We heard direct response is doing better we heard it from snap. Heres the general idea from alphabet, gives you a read through whats going to happen with facebook. There were other numbers that alphabet talked about that could have implications for apple, certainly for amazon and microsoft in their cloud numbers. So that data, that intelligence were getting not only for what happened in q 1 but the trends in beginning of q 2, morgan, are so important. Yeah, potentially read through for apple when we get those results after the bell tomorrow, too. We started the week talking about the outsized leadership of these names, microsoft, facebook, amazon, alpha
Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla.
Session lows, dow down 250, obviously yields a big part of the story. Were on pace for our first weekly drop in three weeks for all the major averages as a selloff steepens today thanks to weak pmi data nasdaq down another percent today. Where do you look for value now . Jake paulson and mark mahaney. Good to see you both good morning. Thanks, carl. Jim, what separates today from another gardenvariety growth scare and are bonds suggesting that were looking at a global recession . Yeah, i think this is less about the coronavirus today, carl thats the catalyst, but i think this is all about the bond market and are yields going to break to record lows in the united states. They already with the 30year. Well see if the 10year holds i think its creating fear what does the bond market know that the stock market doesnt . I would suggest that the bond markets message is not as bad as people think, because when you look at it, bond yield are back to where they were back in september, but credit
S p indicated down about 4. 5 looks like the 10year is yielding below 1. 6 . 1. 549 well talk about what china did. Loan rates there dropping as the company tries to take on the impact of the coronavirus. Lets get an update now on the coronavirus. The people on the ship, a couple of people did die from the coronavirus. China as we heard cutting its benchmark lending rate that was expected. Authorities looking to boost the market unfortunately, two passengers from the diamond princess cruise have died. The first reported deaths in connection with the ship which was quarantined off the coast of japan nearly two weeks china is again, changing the criteria of confirmed cases adding confusion to tracking going up or down and whether weve seen a peak or close to a peak l brands reportedly selling shares of victorias sek receipt valuing that brand just over 1 billion. This had been expected that theyd pay for it. L brands chairman and ceo will step down as part of the deal but remain on the b
Charles schwab is expected to buy ameritrade jim as you noted on twitter, the unprecedented influence of robinhood. Yeah, look, when youre out here, you realize there are players. David talks about them a lot, including softbank, theyre fun organizations with no real growth path for earnings a fabulous growth path for revenues this robinhood has been an incredibly well funded sensation particularly among the younger demographic. Its very hard to fight a company that will you play for free and thats exactly what disrupted this industry was Venture Capital money. Think about it, its been a stable oligothic for a while. Why not surrender to schwab . This makes so much sense now schwab will be the largest asset gatherer, incredible machine. I this i schwabs store, we dont know the ratio, this deal done makes schwab go up a lot more than its up right now. David, lets talk about this deem we got some paypal news as well. Mna is getting a bit spicier as we get to year end yes this would be a