Populating wall street are a bunch of weather man everyday you hear the forecast today the dow slipped some points nasdaq declined 1. 2 it is enough to make you take a meteorologist course to see which way the wind blows seems like both ways blowing at the same time. The tail wind dies and the market goes right back down again. You dont care about todays weather, what good is that for you on the forecast . It is easier said than done. How do you navigate your way through the confusing markets. Starting with the winds from the vaccine. We know it is a huge tail wind for the economy. Once people are vaccinated, we can open everything back to normal and more restaurants and retailers will make it and there will be more jubilation. The jubilation that kohls got underneath its stocks and malls can reopen and troubled retailers can be able to shooure and macys the younger robin hood traders are betting heavily on the cruise line, between the vaccine and soon enough well be able to take a cru
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Stocks did take a leg lower at the open the s p bounced right off of the 50 day well watch that closely but were off of the low levels of the early session. Here is the president yesterday on oracles deal with bite dance stands you said it was important that a u. S. Company buy tiktok. Were going to find out about that were looking at that from the standpoint of bitedance. We dont like that conceptually we dont like that. That has not been told to me yet. That has been reported but not told to me speaking of reporting, david faber has more of that for us. Not a lot of insight on that key question siting a source close to the deal, the conversations, that have been ongoing for awhile now. The president is most likely to make a decision in the next 24 to 36 hours. Not likely today, but prior to the weekend, im told, by someone familiar with the situation that he will make a decision as to the future ownership of tiktok here in the united st
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Say the least after a bit of a rebound the other day when i was on with you, yesterday i was not here for what was a decline overall in all the markets. I think we are in a new era of volatility. Every single time we get an up opening people say, okay, i guess that selloff is over and when we get the printed selloff people say this selloff is going to go on for ages. I urge people to step back and recognize we are in a period where theres a lot of vacuum, a lot of people trying to buy when its going up, a lot of people trying to sell when its going down and just interpret that as just being enthusiasm, greed and then fear and accept it that its here to stay because its really the undercurrent behind these moves. Okay. And what does that mean in terms of this socalled playbook that you often offer people who listen to what you have to say sure. It means that if you think that it is going to bounce today because it was down hard yesterday, dont make the first move wait to see whether the