Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Joining us here, jon fortt, myself, mike san tolo. Well get to kayla tausche. The trump rally rolling on, the dow about a third of a point off 20k friday afternoon but reversing gains this morning. Now about 65 points away. Joining us to talk about that, cnbc senior markets common tator mike santoli and guys, good morning. Michael, got a nice postup, arguing that if the rally were truly about trump policies being enacted, this would have stopped working a while ago. Yeah, and in fact, in some measures, it has stopped working. Looking at the past month, you had about a fourweek rush when it was the obvious trump trades working and driving the rally. Since about middecember, youve seen those things actually lag a bit, right . So, you had bank stocks, heavy industrials, all thats lagged. The tech stocks everybody thought would be disadvantaged have been leading the way here. So to me, if you thought policy was a reason to be bullish in 2017, i
There you have it again, green arrows pretty much everywhere. The whole world is happy. Except for short sellers. And were watching crude prices this morning. Yesterday iraqs oil minister said the country should be exempt from joining opecs Production Cut embroiled in a war with islamic militants. Opec is planning to reduce production targets at the november meeting. Wti is lower by 5 cents but still at 50. 80. And scottrade is being acquired for 4 billion from ameritrade. Some competitor of scottrade said, why deal with us . We have a helicopter. No one really understood what was the because its successful. It trades more quickly to where they need to go by helicopter. It happens over the internet. So its confidence . A little bit of confidence. Interest rates are zero. Im confident, ill borrow money, too. A little confidence. People think the economy is a little better than we think. I dont think thats it. Well talk to the ceos at 7 00. For the media mega merger monday. I would argue
Oil minister made strong comments about Production Cuts. Were going to look at the ripple effects across the energy market. Honeywell singing a different tune. The United Technology is about the prospects for the merger of the two. Target and lowes. Both retailers are in the red before the bell. Stocks falling all around the globe. The saudis ruling out this Production Cut and then data from the api showing a bigger than expected build in u. S. Crude. Of course, well get eia cue out with its own inventories in about 90 minutes. Its been a rough couple of days. Both the chatter and that, jim. Its a hoax, the deal. What they basically said is were going to produce a lot more if iran and iraq produce a lot more. Theyre good for about 3. 25, 3. 5 a day. Not only was there never any deal but they went up to 11. Theyre doing 10. 5. All these people who came on and said they dont care, are they out of their minds . Whats it been . A year and a half . Lets go over the numbers. U. S. Crude slip
3. 2 . Our road map begins with a 7,000 fine, every single day, thats what gm is paying because the Company Still has not provided enough answers about its ignition switch recall. Its not the only bad headline for gm this morning. More on that. Earnings season is officially under way after alcoa reported its results after the bell. What can the aluminum maker tell us about the rest of the quarter . We will have some answers. Instead of running from facebook, companies are willing to pay a lot more to advertise on the social network. But is that good news for the companys stock . First up, though, some tough news for the auto sector. Toyota recalling more than 6 million vehicles after uncovering five different faulting involving parts ranging from steering to seats and nhtsa fining gm 7,000 a day for missing last weeks deadline to provide information about its recall for defective ignition switches. Morgan stanley cutting gm to underweight today, 33 target, guys, and what is a tough not
Lets call it down ever so slightly and lets go to europe, of course, where the market has been open for quite some time today. You can see it has largely been a positive day for most of the markets overseas, at least in the european area. As for our road map right here, back in new york city it starts with the major indices looking to pull up and out of what has been the biggest weekly declines weve seen since august. You can scratch one name off of the candidates. Qualcomms promoting chief operating officer Steve Mollenkopf to ceo. And sams club will have a new Service Called pantry. And on mad money last night, retailers saying customers are feeling a little bit better. Lets try to avoid what would be a fourth consecutive day of losses. The dow and s p closed at onemonth lows yesterday, though still about 2 from record closing highs. We got to start with the market. People dont know all the faces you were just making. You know, friday the 13th, retail not doing that well. Okay, look,