Well talk to one player in residential any commercial res and ask if hes feeling the same sense of optimism, but we begin with todays market and dom chu with those numbers. Its a bounceback from the down day that we saw on friday to kind of close out the week and we are green across the board for the major indices. The dow industrials is up 128 points and onethird of 1 and its the underperformer for the value blue chip index and 28,243 and up 38 points and three quartes of 1 gain and to put that in context at the highs of the session we were down 58 points up 37 at the lows. So again, a very positive session, but tilting toward the lower end of the trading range so far today and the nasdaq composite currently at 16,113. Thats up about 140 points or maybe just about threequarters of 1 upside there. Again, greenin technology is leading the way. Jon mentioned some of that apple and alphabet dynamic because of the bloomberg report because of a possible licensing or Partnership Deal and alp
Our road map does begin with, well, what else . Big tech, chips, and a. I. , Semiconductor Stocks are coming off what was the second worst week of the year, and of course, mr. Jensen huang is set to deliver what is a very hotly anticipated keynote speech that is later today. Were also keeping an eye on shares of apple and alphabet. Theyre both up ahead of the open, particularly alphabet. The tech giants reported by bloomberg to be in talks to license googles a. I. Engine, gemini. That would be for the iphone. And oracle shares are surging more than 10 in just the last week. Again, why . Well, a. I. Progress. Ceo chuck cisco shares. Cisco shares. S cisco. You know, i dont sometimes, jim, you read it if you put it there, he will read it. And youre right. And oracle had a great week, and shes on the board of disney. Lets go there. Yeah. Thanks, guys. I was, like, what . Hm. Yeah, we got Chuck Robbins coming up. Jim, youll partake in that. Theyre closing the splunk deal so thats coming up
Day. It is definitely a top heavy move. You see it up 0. 8 . The equal weighted up too. Nasdaq up by a full percent. Alphabet as mentioned popping this morning. It is now up about 4. 3 and the biggest upside contributor. Apple is ahead as well, 1. 4 on reports that apple might use googles zoo a. I. Capabilities in the iphone. Crude up another the high since halloween. It leads to the talk of the tape. Based on a goldilocks economy, a. I. Excitement and prospect of an easier fed, is the playbook changing . Lets ask adam parker, Research Founder and ceo at a cnbc contributor so. Adam, yeah, those have been the narrative threads that worked pretty well. Almost no pullbacks. Some pockets in the market in the last couple of weeks and things have cooled off but not fallen apart. Where does that leave us . I think the bull case is still intact, right . If the average company can have gross Margin Expansion and if i start thinking earnings will be up for the next few years well be ahead 25 ver
S p 500 as we ask whos next . And demand surging ahead of the reddit Public Market debut. And the ceo shakeup after the botched bet on electric vehicles. Its monday, march 18th, 2024. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Thank you so much for joining us early on this monday. Lets check this hour off with the stock futures with the s p 500 and nasdaq coming off the first backtoback weekly losses since october. You see the s p 500 is firmly in the green. Implied opening up 21 points. Die Dow Jones Industrial average is in the green. Investors are gearing up for a big week for the markets and a bigger one for Central Banks with more than 20 Interest Rate decisions on tap. Bank of england and bank of japanese and Federal Reserve. Lets get a check of the bond market with yields near threeweek lows. Twoyear yield is lower and the tenyear treasury yield is 4. 3 . Oil is holding above the 80 a barrel mark. Wti this morning is up.
Plus, march madness officially kicking off this week and the games have changed dramatically. Now players are allowed to make money which cleared the way for ea sports to bring back an old favorite and play pay players for their names and likenesses. We will get that back to back. Two straight losing week spirit had not happened since october. You can see the nasdaq is leading the way higher by about 1 . The s p 500 not too far behind and the Dow Jones National average of 3 10 of a percent. Ai optimism boosting tech stocks and not just in video which we have already seen. Google and apple may be working together. Those reports both helping those two stocks as well. Now to the two big events that markets will watch this week. First up jensen wong, nvidia ceo delivering the keynote. That is today at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Everyone wants to know what he will say about demand for aig chips and what they have in the pipeline. Coming up n wednesday, jay powell, we will hear from them to 00 at 3