Welcome to squawk alley for your wednesday morning im Carl Quintanilla with julia bore steen, mike san tolely with us for the hour dow is lagging down 60 jackson hole tomorrow, of course, were watching hurricane laura, the retailers but mike, crm, continues to astound. We thought 20 gain was impressive its now at session highs of 27 today alone on what bloomberg called the best revenue surprise in a decade. Yeah. Its pretty remarkable obviously the results themselves are emboldening people to say that this was as expensive as the stock has always looked undervalued or misvalued or didnt appreciate the durability of what theyre doing on the market share side of things for the longterm. What is interesting, too, if you look at it compared to some of the other software bell weathers over the last couple years, as big as todays move is, its kind of a catchup if you look at how microsoft and adobe in particular their anointing crm into that class inpenetrable areas that seem like theyre goi
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state
Soaring rates. Where housing is headed in the second half. Power lunch starts now well stocks are in the red this hour, but they are well off session lows now down just 47 points on the dow. It was down more than 230 earlier. Still it is on track to break its fourday winning streak. The s p 500 on pace to break its fiveday streak. Treasury yields up strongly. And kelly thats right. Stocks are staging a comeback. Around the best lels of the day this afternoon seema is tracking the action hey, kelly. Stocks leading the dow include Goldman Sachs, boeing and nike a chipmakers are rebounding around 10 40 a. M thats when the s p 500 bottomed out. So tech is playing a role in this turn around as well big losers include rate sensitive group, utilities and real estate. Even a number of consumer staple names. Theyre down about 1 on the day. Trader caution though its important to smooth out the data and look at the broader trend. Taking into account the stronger jobs growth. The average growth is
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