Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr
Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
Under valued it sounds crazy. We had a remarkable blitz up we just came after that brutal sell off all the buyers vanished. Now suddenly were back dow surging 328 points and s p jumping and nasdaq pulled 1. 87 . Why . Why did it happen . Why was so great today because today is merger monday monday used to be the day we always came in and merged and stopped. Guess what its back and bigger than ever so i bought out the merger both. Merger. Merger merger. Yes i havent used the merger both, i dont know, four or five years and its back. All right, all right, all right. Back and bigger than ever. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what stocks are worth, right the price to earnings. Price to sales and book value. All that stuff we try to do. There is another way to value this business. You look at what another business might be willing to pay for that business and today we got a wave of huge mind numbing deals that suggest there are many real bargains in mna. Merger. Merger merger. L
Down nine basis points. Europe is jumpy holding onto positive territory. Who knows . Brexit conversations throughout this week. Coming up later in the hour, we are going to speak to gregory poland of the mayo clinic to get his perspective on the latest vaccine trial results from astrazeneca and pfizer. What does it actually mean for the market . Eu leaders are reconvening about premuch now for stimulus negotiations in brussels. The goal to seal the deal signaled that they are ready to agree on 390 billion euros of funding be made available. German chancellor Angela Merkel sounded optimistic earlier. Night, wealks last worked out a framework for possible agreement. Perhaps today an agreement will be made. Is underground for us. You have been covering this from the beginning. We understand there is a lower provision for grant and loan guarantees. Are they going to have people checking . Is there going to be an Advisory Board . What i would say is the mood has changed over the past hour.
What could detail the stocks the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed 1. 24 . What would make us want to dump the red hot stocks that have been leading us higher i dont see this rally collapsing under its own weight, which is what happened the last time we had an explosive tech rally in 2000. We got ahead of ourselves but the Actual Technology wasnt there yet. We laugh at the. Com casualtiecs the truth is they are ahead of the time it could have been chewy i want to take on the hateful 1999 analogy, remember when it was shot up in 2000. I want to take it on directly. You have to understand why its misleading and constantly brought up and why it makes sense to do so because there are surface level parallels but not that much otherwise. Back then we had two markets, the s p 500 and the go go nasdaq which is a little like today only one of those markets was real the s p. Thats a major difference this time around. Im more confident in todays Tech Companies even if the valuation seems stretc