And the nasdaq tumbled 1. 05 , you need to understand this is a redistribution its not a bet on the future, its a wager that some earnings estimates are going higher while others just stay the same and judging by the intraday reversal, investors are starting to realize that we may be a little too enthusiastic about stocks in general. Even if some do deserve to be higher because of changes that are going to be made to taxes in this country today truly brought a bifurcation in stocks. The action was 100 about tax reform Domestic Companies get a big cut while more internationallyoriented Companies Like most of tech see much less of a benefit sure they can repatriate capital from overseas at a better rate, but the real benefits here are for the purely domestic players. Its Like Congress has waved the magic and with and every cable company, railroad, retailer, restaurant as well as a smattering of industrials that have great u. S. Exposure and that has radically raised earnings for 2018. No
Assets mario has a different idea hell tell you what it is coming up. Excitement over tax reform is helping to fuel todays market gains, Murray Energy ceo whos been a supporter of the president s says the senate bill is, quote, a mockery of tax reform, and his companys taxes will go up under this plan hell explain and make his case. Then pancreatic cancer one of the most deadly forms of cancer out there former Nbc Universal chair bob wright will join us at post the, talk about his new rush to take on a new push. Hes rushing on this, too. Oh, yeah. Hoping they can get an Early Detection test out there on pancreatic cancer. Lets start with todays rally, though. Dow was up 300 early on, were about half that level right now. Bob pisani has more here bob . Good news, folks, we are acting rationally in the last five or six days so the sectors in the stocks that might see the biggest earnings boost from the tax cut are the ones that have been moving the most in the last five, six day. Its hap
Up, big tech. Theyre made the running theyve made the running all year, they are still leading the charge even higher. Abc news in deep trouble. Friday they put out a false report that sent the dow plunging 350 points. The reporter, brian ross, has been suspended, but many investors lost money. The president thinks abc should be sued. The Mueller Investigation, thats in trouble. Now we find a trumphating fbi agent on the mueller teamc plad a key role in hillarys email probe. Peter strock played a key role in the russia investigation. Can you say politicized . Can you spell bogus . It is monday morning, and trump is winning. Varney and company is about to begin. The stock market, i think, is going to have a very big day based on the massive tax cuts that were very much in the process of getting approved. But based on the vote we had last week, the stock market has been reacting unbelievably well. The only to thing that hurts it is the fake news. [laughter] stuart bomb righthand corner
Sara eisen great to have you with us lets get straight to the markets. Extraordinary seesaw session yesterday. The dow up 300 points at one stage in the morning, around about midday lunch time, started selling off, such that the dow ended off 58 points or 0. 25 those intraday swings were similar across each of the indices. The s p ending lower the nasdaq ending down 1 . Definitely the same theme throughout the day whether we were at the peaks or troughs thats the selling of things like tech and buying of things that could benefit from a lower Corporate Tax rate like financials this morning you can see a similar theme once again the dow is higher. The s p is fractionally higher but the nasdaq is lower. The dow up 8 4 points. Tenyear treasury note did rise over the weekend to cross above 2. 4 , but slipped a bit yesterday. It is below that level still today, 2. 38 on the tenyear. Look at whats going on arou around the globe ahsia is mixed but mostly lower. The south korean kospi is highe
Continue in the markets, but a big story involves disney and 21st century fox, a story faber broke at the top of the nine and joins us once again. About one month after we reported on the talks between disney and fox, designed for disney to buy largely all the entertainment assets of 21st century fox, we can tell you now they are closing in on a deal that could be announced as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the situation. That is not to say it is done, but it is to say they have made a great deal of progress talking about a deal for which the consideration will be all disney stock and when you take in the assumption of debt and the equity that will be exchanged for the assets in question, it will amount to more than 60 billion, again according to people familiar with those negotiations. An exact price could not be determined at this point the assets in question include foxs studio, its fx and nat geo cable networks, Regional Sports networks, my first reporting on