Chart for the markets. Obviously we would start there, thats what dan nathan is calling this stock so dan, why dont you walk us through what this is and why its so important to investors lets talk about jm porgen. This is a best of breed bankheading into the crisis. The stock was trading at an all time high. There were a lot of investors out there in january signaling this is a chart representative of the economy that were in, prepandemic, i just have to tell you, this thing has acted pretty horrible on the way down, its down 35 on the year, and that is relative to the s p 500, down less than 10 on the year. The balance off the lows in march was fairly anemic relative to the s p 500 whats important is that investors seem to be focused on the stocks that got us here prepandemic. We know that it was the maga, the microsoft, apple, google and amazon its the bank stocks that are important to look at here. They touch parts of the economy that are going to struggle over the next few quarters
When the stock moves on it and it did so tim, whats your take on the action of wells fargo and whats your take on a possible m and a deal. Well, this kind of news, first of all, this rumor was out a couple of days ago in the market and the Market Participants didnt do anything with the move because we talked about the down move. This deal makes a lot of sense when we talk about the environment over the last couple of years for both of these players. I think this deal would be a ridiculously difficult deal even if were going hypotheticals to get through on the regulatory side i dont think either one of these have a lot of friends in washington i do think and again, this is not me saying that this is just my sense of where this would be, but look, i dont think this deal is going to happen i do think goldman has continued to build out their retail platform in markets. I think wells fargo has a lot of issues that im not sure goldman would want and the move weve seen and this snapback today
We start with the 1. 1 trillion countdown, amazon, microsoft, apple, all reporting next week and the stakes couldnt be higher guy, we kick it off with you, which of these tech titans will you be most focused on hello, mel. And when carter worth is back you know fast money, its almost back 100 . Its great that cbw is back. For me its amazon next thursday this is something weve been talking about for a while and while you were away and one of the things we talked about collectively is how well amazon was trading and amazons rallied 50 from the load we made seemingly a month ago. Well see if it bores out and i think you own it into earnings on thursday. You pull the rip cord ahead and you look to reenter the position at 2170 which if you recall was the high we topped out in february. Thats how im looking at it, and thats how i think you trade amazon next week. Amazon is a microcosm, tim, if you will, of the trends going on right now in this pandemic when we have the work from home trend w
Gene munster is gearing up for both of the calls. We kick things off with apple which is now negative after a brief pop after the release and josh lipton spoke with tim cook. Josh, whats the latest . Melissa, one question i had for tim cook is what hes seeing in china obviously, so important for apple as a key link in that cups supply chain and also as an important end market. I asked him what his iphone demand looked like in china and whether you can extrapolate for that and china is the leading indicator for possibly europe and the u. S. And cook telling cnbc there is a significant, steep falloff, and that began to recover some in march and weve seen further recovery in april and it leaves room for optimism. Its hard to tell thats a leading indicator and there are differences and the u. S. Has had a bold Stimulus Program and i think that will clearly help and im optimistic of the pace of the recovery in the United States i asked him about the work from home trend and so many millions
Reporter this White House Press conference will now be at 5 30 p. M. Where we expect the discussion to revolve around Testing Capacity so more americans can get tested and go back to work the white house is expects to release two documents this evening. One is a chronicle of actions taken to date so far to ramp up the capacity of testing in this country. The second is essentially a blueprint for states for how they can get access to more tests, and what resources the federal government has that are available to them. The president hosted many leaders from retail and Farming Companies to talk about how to leverage the Retail Industry heres what some of these Companies Said they were willing to do. Cbs and lab corp. Are expected to provide 1,000 locations with the capacity to run 1. 5 million tests a month according to some of the promises that were released today walmart is expected to open a total of 100 sites, they say they will be able to test 20,000 a week target has provided some p