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
Cramer, david faber coming to you live from separate locations this morning its risk off following those onemonth highs from yesterday empire and retail sales for march were abysmal the worst on record. Below Expectations Oil below 20 earnings from citi, goldman, bank of america showed the major banks are, as expected, bracing for a wave of defaults some more than others when you look at the percentage of the total loan book at jpm and city. Jpm is the one that people decided wasnt that great. When i look at it, i think it had to do with tone. Jpmorgan, the crucial lines were something that were uttered by jamie, which were, look, may is not realistic. It will be june, july. The problem with basing everything on that is that you dont realize these banks are much more much better prepared than we thought you have a citi thats down from its tangible book value, its actual youll have multiples that are incredibly low because people feel the dividends are in question yet you have a tremend
To the inability to get a nafta replacement deal done with mexico and canada, to the federal reserves lack of sensitivity to the strong dollar put it all together and the industrial economy just cant catch a break. And thats why the market exploded higher on that robust employment figure. Dow gaining 373 points, s p soaring 1. 2 nasdaq surging 1. 40 it didnt hurt that we were oversold look, i know the Unemployment Rate is down to 3. 5 lowest in nearly 50 years. But it has to do with the makeup of the economy the manufacturing side of the ledger is not just doing that well the weakness in manufacturing hiring gives fed chief jay powell all the ammo he needs to justify cutting the federal funds rate that may make it more in sync with the traditional curve of low short rates to higher long ones normally, you wouldnt expect the fed to hit the accelerator with the jobless rate this low, but wages are still stagnant and theres no inflation to speak of basically, if powell is asking himself,
Surprise profit and Record Services revenue, but says weakness in pc and ipad could continue to drag down sales. And amazon shares rallying after reporting blowout profits beating on sales and the company issuing optimistic guidance as well interesting internals in the jobs report this morning 187,000. Unemployment, 3. 5 average Hourly Earnings, a touch hot, but the workweek shrank, mike, so total weekly pay, below expectations i think it all nets out to consistent with a slowing but still tight labor market and a relatively soft landing for the economy. You did have those downward revisions, so decelerating but also lower Unemployment Rate implies just not a huge supply of idle workers to draw from here the main market kind of bank shot on this is what does it mean for treasury yields thats been the story all week you have had longer term yields really going higher, not much because of repricing what the fed is going to do, but just in general, a lot of dynamics pushing in that direct
News briefing any minute from now where we expect he is going to field questions on health care, tax reform and of course you can bet russia. All of this as the white house getting ready to make its made in America Campaign start to sing. So will this help the president s progrowth agenda . Will it get back on track . Were talking to the ceo of cke or former ceo of kke restaurants andy puzder. I want to go to our own adam shapiro for the latest on health care. We know senator mccain getting surgery in arizona, his absence is delaying this vote but is there any eta, adam, at this point when they might take it given it is looking dicey whether they got the amount they need . Reporter dicey but not out of the ballpark, trish. There is no eta on a potential vote. We do expect we could see the cbo score as early as tomorrow. The question do they have enough votes even if senator mccain is able to return in a week or two weeks is still up in the air. We know there is an intense lobbying effo