President elect joe bidens transition will start with a plan to curb coronavirus as u. S. Cases top 100,000 again. President trump with legal challenges. Riskon kicks up again. Global equities head for records on optimism which abound on the Biden Administration. The dollar is weaker. Itsman sachs slashes target. Global response. She looks forward to remove partnership. Angela merkel says the transatlantic friendship is indispensable. Good morning from dubai. Great to be back together with you. I was watching you this friday from the gym as usual. This market has not got a concession speech. This market is euphoric. This market could be seriously misguided. They take us to a moment that the reflation trade, you might have to wait until the end of the Second Quarter so if you look at bernstein, goldmans, they are all saying the same thing. The reflation trade might be stymied on a gridlocked senate. Good morning. Annmarie certainly. Its clear the democrats are going to take the white ho
Flirting with 2 . Your two year treasury note now at about 1. 5 . Crude oil, we will get that data showing inventory levels expected to rise. Remember, all of the gains we had, nymex crude as well as brent, and saudi arabia come all of the gains are raised. Now we are looking at more of a demandside issue. Keep an eye on the transport side. Down transportation average down 1. 5 percent. We were down more than 2 yesterday. Last week Cantor Fitzgerald recommended folks going on the transportation average, shorting. A lot of people laughed it off. Right now that average down more than 4 . Worst twoday decline we have dowto have had on the transport since december. Guy there are weird things going on in this market, but we are certainly seeing equities spooked by this growth story. The ism and you factoring terday putting the cacs what the market feels is really on edge right now when it comes was a punchy month on the downside for european equities and Global Equities peered what is weird
Won, i want the gold i watched a couple hours of it unbelievable, right . Im still trying to understand you try to get it in the center thing or not you want to new york the other guy out. Whats the hammer if you have the hammer. I dont know the terminology come on i know we won by knocking them out those guys are intense. This guy has been there for several olympics when the guys get what is he called . Who does the pushing . Yeah. They score. Hes like 9 or something. When the guy on the other side is holding the brush i think theyre getting rid of the friction in between to make sure it goes the right direction. I know, but the guy at the other end, he is not moving, theyre aiming it . Theres a lot more skill involved than we have given them credit for yeah. And what if theyre running down and a foot hits is that a technical they have to be careful it is slippery theres a deal breaking not a curling deal. General mills buying blue buffalo for 8 billion in cash or 40 a share. Blue buf
Weve seen since the election. The nasdaq is indicated up by 8. 5 points. Well talk to the nasdaqs ceo later this morning. Look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up by 1. 1 . Markets in china also closed higher with the hang seng up by a half percentage point. In europe this morning, in the early trading thats taking place, you can see things are relatively flat. Across the board. The ftse, the cac, and the dax all sitting within points of where they closed yet. Its been a big couple of days for markets there. Pepsico just out with earnings. The number is a core earnings of 94 cents a share. That Beat Estimates by two cents. Revenue also coming in a little above expectations. Talking about what happened with this quarter, she said they achieved solid Revenue Growth in the First Quarter, underpinned by global volume growth. Despite what she calls a challenging food and Beverage Industry thats been trading conditions in north america and continued volatility in developing
Jim, what tung b about this. 12 month base case, s p 500 target. 2700. Its a bold call. The number that i quibble with is 12 months. I think thats more of a 24 month figure. For that to happen within 12 month, youve got to see a lot of clarity on trumps policies. Particularly tax reform. Unless the price of the index, but i think its a 24month target. Not a 12month. Steve, they say it has less to do with trump in term of the rally. Hes just turbo charged it. They say the cyclical upturn that began a year ago has less to do with trump and more to do with the Global Business cycle that bottomed in the First Quarter of 2016. Trumps simply the mechanism to take it to the next level, if you will. I agree. If trump didnt come out with the tax plan, keeps pushing it back, i think the market would still move. The economy was in great shape when he was elected. Hes benefitted from that tremendously in his presidency. The Global Economy is also in very good shape, so as we set off, youve got to