Its definite. But, and this is a big but, you know what . I think its time that we just shade things i think we should take a little off the table. Why do i say that . Its not just because when i walk around downtown manhattan, im hearing more hey, make me some money cramer catcalls than i am booyah or i love the show sho sho shout outs its all the issues that have dogged the market suddenly seem to have gone away. So im feel like we got to kind of pan gloss moment here pangloss frankly, it means that were in a position let me just say the pangloss sellers, thats not what im talking about, the great vineyard in sonoma i like that. Were not talking about delicious cabernet here. Were talking about voltaires pangloss all is for the best isnt the best of all possible worlds pangloss whenever we start getting that vibe, it makes me want to sell something, because the best of all possible worlds nevertheless first of all, lets talk about whats going on right now, right now because there are
Dp lets say it gave a nice boost to the averages. Dow up, s p 500 up. 33 . Nasdaq up. 33 interesting synergy there, huh but as important as the Federal Reserve might be, can we just say that its not the only thing that matters there are a lost constraints on companies these days that have nothing to do with the fed and after hearing from apple and facebook after the bell, can you imagine these two Huge Companies tonight, you know what its head scratching i mean, theyre up weve got to devote more attention to a couple of things in particular i never really talked about on this show. We need to spend more time talking about the lack of time to consume all there is out there and we need to spend more time talking about the government, meaning the newfound menace of government when it comes to classic digitized now big business while facebook and apple both reported strong numbers i think the stocks should have been up much more than they are in after hours. Theyre good but i expected grea
Earnings season when theres too much to keep track of and the action seems to stop making sense. The dow gained 46, the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed up, you have every right to be extremely frustrated stocks that should be going up are going down stocks that should be down are going up human sacrifice, dogs and cats are living together, mass hysteria theres a method to that markets madness you need to understand it. Otherwise, youll have no idea whatsing if on whats going on a close investor is a bad investor so let me walk through some of the craziest examples. Im going to start with caterpillar. Caterpillar, the stock huge shortfall in response of course the stock correctly plunged 6 in Early Morning trading. Well, i thought it was a bit of an overreaction, nothing unusual about a stock going down in disappointing numbers is there its what happens next thats should we take our cue from this hard to explain. Cat down 6 and slowly rebounded. If you saw it near the low, this is a
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl canton . Eua. News is solid and question is can johnson sell that to parliament as early as this weekend. Sterling has had a big mix Housing Starts disappoint. Our road map begins with netflix soaring despite the miss, the streaming giant warning that increasing competitive head winds could weigh on growth. It shows Morgan Stanley to be rallying, this on what looks like a strong quarterly result the banks cfo will join us this morning. As we said, futures rallying on new brexit hopes, uks parliament, approval, though, remains uncertain. Lets start with netflix subgrowth did mix. Rebounded to almost 6. 8 million thanks to International Strength on the earnings call, Reed Hastings did talk about the competition with disney and apple, set to launch their own services next month. Fundamentally there is not a big change here. It is interesting we see both apple and disney launching basically in the same week after 12 years of n
Up acronym for not as bad as fear while it seems to gain on the surface, the nasdaq rising 0. 40 , underneath there were some bewildering moves that remind us the market doesnt always behave the way we expect it to. In particular, a bunch of stocks rallied today, even though they reported what looked like simply awful numbers. If youre befuddled, you have come to the right place. How does the stock end up going higher in the wake of a seemingly ugly quarter, its all about my buddy, pal, friend nabaf. Let me show you how it works we start with the railroads. The railroads are the best example. All aboard this Morning Union pacific reported by what even by its own admission was a disappointing quarter. [ crying ] their sales were weaker across every single cargo line. Unreasonable downtown 20 . Premium, that includes the position down 9 , ag off 1 . Industrial down 1 the cause of this weakness some cargos have been troubled for a long time, like coal but most of them are just plain econo