Following yesterdays rout john ferroli and dan sculley join us. Happy friday to you both a lot of debate this morning about the jobs number, and the degree to which it tilts the macro debate whats your take its more of the same, which is strong job growth, low unemployment, but disappointing wage numbers which is the story weve seen a bunch of times over the last year or two i dont think this does much to resolve the debate growth looks good. The question is where inflation is going the wage numbers dont scream out that theres a whole lot of inflation worries for the nrt nearterm. Dan, do you agree how long can that dynamic last i would say we had solid news in particular in the manufacturing jobs sector this morning. We may continue to see that as we get infrastructure announcements into january potentially some changes in capex trends as we have fiscal tax reform and tax changes the broader takeaway for our team is that were seeing a rate of change inflection in job growth going back
You go out no, i dont. Various market milestones today. The nasdaq crossing 7,000 for the first time and the dow closing in on 25k for the first time although were well off the highs right now. Tax reform hopes, and a series of deals this morning seem to be helping sentiment today. This is the first time ever, by the way, that the dow has gained 5,000 points in a single year. We began the year in president 19,000 range and now were well into 24k. Its just crazy theres no other word for it nothing like bitcoin, though, by comparison, it seems tame. We have people who are going to tell you where to make more money in the sfarkt cotock markg up in a few minutes. Is utilities are the biggest loser today. We have a debate on whether the bitcoin boom could help drive utilities higher talk about some of the power usage. Thats a hot topic. Recode calls him one of tvs most important executives. What espn had john skippers resignation announced today means for that sports giant and for disney ov
To david tepper today to told me the following when i asked him what he thought about stocks it was clear he was very positive telling me, explain to me where this market is rich its not rich with the tax thing that just changed earnings projections. With earnings forecasts going up and Interest Rates where they are, how is this market expensive, he said i dont see the overvaluation. World growth is higher, theres no inflation, the market coming into this year doesnt look rich in fact it looks almost as cheap as coming into last year he said the market cant go down until the bond market gets hit its amazing where Interest Rates are. Josh brown, what do you make of what david tepper told me . Well, i guess it depends on your definition of expensive so by the most popular measures, the market absolutely is expensive which is not a judgment on where it goes from here, because expensive can get much more expensive. But when you look at Something Like an adjusted p. E. Ratio, youre talking
Recordbreaking day for the stock market we cross one more millennial, have more to go . The president is talking about 30,000 who knows where were going. The important thing is to note how broad the rally is, not just tech stocks, in fact, theyre not necessarily the most important part of the rally. Lets look at the sectors moving financials is been big Interest Rates have been moving up materials, thats a rally thats continuing to ratchet. Energy strong with oil over 60. Even Consumer Staples are leading. You know whats not doing anything anything thats Interest Rate intensetive. Real estate, investment trusts, utilities lagging for a long, long time. Of course, those are bond proxies. A lot of new highs in financials as the higher Interest Rate scenario is helping the banks out. This is a small spattering i could go through American Express, etrade, key corp, suntrust, all sorts of banks all the Major Money Center Banks as well as the super regionals at 52week highs a cyclical rally,
Party has to end but when . Okay, of course, its going to be a pullback but is that all youve got to say after the most explosive rally in modern history. Next story, the economy, in december 148,000 new jobs created, that is not strong, big job losses in retailing, big job gains in manufacturing and construction. Big show as usual. New probe of Clinton Foundation, were donors playing to play . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart here is another big story, look at that. Much of the east coast is still under a very deep freeze. Roughly 13,000 homes out of power. Thats serious. Here is a look at the latest weather map with windchill, by the way, frigid temperatures continue across the northeast for the entire weekend, will you look at the minus signs there . Chicago, minneapolis, my thatsg story. The other big story remain it is market. I have a tweet, the latest from the president. Here it is. Dow goes from 18,500 to 25,075 for new time record. Jumped a thousand points in the last