Earnings walmart going on a hiring spree. Home buyers are rushing for mortgages. Is the consumer stronger than you think . Power lunch starts now and welcome to power lunch, im Frank Holland in for Tyler Mathisen nike hitting an alltime high soaring 9 on a blowout Earnings Report Johnson Johnson also higher on its vaccine progress for more on whats driving the action, lets get over to bob pisani hey, bob frank, we are sitting at the lows for the day, 3,280 on the s p, about where we ended on friday and the problem is this seesaw in the megacaps and workfromhome names take a look at megacap, this is a down day yesterday was an up day. Monday was generally a down day. You get the idea hard time figuring out what the right values or prices this high same with the workfromhome stocks theres a theory out there that these will be beneficiaries of worsening coronavirus cases in the United States, maybe, but theyre starting to split. Theyre not always up on the stays when some start moving on
To try to get there first and that sort of thing so im hopeful we will very much try to learn as much as possible from that facility and from all the other ones too we have a lot to learn here. So well certainly be trying to do that. In terms of fiscal concern, so, you know, for many years ive been before the fed i have longtime been an advocate for the need for the United States to return a sustainable path from a fiscal perspective at the federal level. We have not been on such a path for some time, which just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy this is not the time to act on those concerns this is the time to use the great fiscal power of the United States to do what we can to support the economy and try to get through this with as little damage to the longerrun productive capacity the economy has possible the time will come, again, and reasonably soon, i think, where we can think about a longterm way to get our fiscal house in order, and we absolutely need to do
I think everyone would agree, tgif, not from the dows perspective. All in all, we were up 13 on the dow, and the best week since 1938 and that is cold comfort given what weve seen and we are down thousands of points from our high just one month ago and the dow losing 115 points today. The benchmark tenyear treasury note ended kind of where it began at 0. 7 . When you throw a couple trillion dollars like the fed is at the bond market maybe you will see a move, maybe not, and continues to fall, and it is moving around after hours. Oil stocks falling across the board as well today. The average oil stock in the United States is now down 50 this year and theres a lot more that are down each more than that welcome. Options action will be on at 5 30 as well and our group has been resilient, and that is guy adami, tim seymour, and we are proud to welcome victoria fernandez who is in houston. We will get to all of the traders in just a moment, but we have breaking news on General Motors really
Painting a rosier picture of economic fundamentals. Joining us is david zervos, looking sharp with the new haircut. David, what do you make of the fact that we have bounced back pretty nicely . Yesterdays reversal and some followthrough today what does that tell you . I think the trade tensions are definitely a story summer liquidity is the story. It was a pretty aggressive 200point plus move in the s p and the interesting thing from the price action for me is the rate market. The rate market had an incredibly large move. One of the largest weve seen in a while and it really hasnt come back off that much. So while stocks have rallied back, you would have expected maybe rates would have sold off a little more, risen a little more and they havent. So this is maybe telling you more that people are getting comfortable with a fed view that is cuts are coming and probably more cuts are coming than people had been nervous about with the meeting. You know the important thing in that answer, da
Continue to drive Growth Stocks are poised to rally ahead of what could be the feds first rate cut since the crisis. And gaming headwinds, amd delivering a revenue warning first up, apple rising on the better than expected results iphone down from a year ago and now represent less than half of quarterly revenue for the first time in about seven years. Yeah, headlines today in the papers are staggering. New york times, apple reports declining profits and stagnant growth again wall street journal quotes richard cramer, no relation. Were these people on the same call maybe they were on the rotten apple call, i was on the straight apple call. I heard a situation where you are going to if you actually think out in the out years, it is a Service Company with the best Customer Satisfaction there is and when you get an appliance of which there are about 1. 5 billion, you are beginning to take either apple cloud or the app store, the ads, i think that you will be looking at the credit card star