Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im carl kint nia and jim cramer still over 1 million for the 20th straight week ahead of the jobs number. Leader mcconnell will join us on the stimulus talks that continue on the hill followed by Speaker Pelosi later this hour, jim, as we continue to get reports that the two sides are trillions of dollars apart. Yeah. This is a day where we have to find out in our interviews whether theres any hope for compromise because if there isnt, youre going to see a full open business that will make the unemployment numbers very rearview mirror. A lot of people recognize that theyre trying to figure out, is washington playing partisan politics do they genuinely want to deal maybe they dont we will find out during this show. You think well find out . Well talk to mcconnell first, jim. Yeah, i do. A billing part of that is sort of the fragility of the republican caucus. As mcconnell has said this week, jim, he has 20 senators who feels we hav
Sure hope it z whidoes while we wait for that, the numbers hospitalized in china and the number that are released and die. Its going up to 20 of the nasdaq is up 2 that is where we should rollout our game plan for next week. First off, as you know, were closed for monday for president s day. China is very much open. I fear another awful set of statistics i dont know why more people arent investing in this they want people to go back to work they dont want to let people down so it cant be too discouraging. The whole world is hanging on the numbers. If this outbreak gode badly, it could turn into a crisis for the globe. Youll have executives fearing for their lives. Thats right, their very lives the infections will keep climbing and again, remember what i said from the very beginning. No one listened to me. Trust no numbers out of china. Dont trust them walmart reports. This comes with an Analyst Meeting this time. I heard a bunch of people predict this week that the quarter might be wea
Yesterday. Big seller, big buyer, big seller, big buyer. Really kind of crazy but there we are more or less back to where we were a couple days ago before some of the recent volatility, of course well get to why things have calmed down a bit. Lets get to our road map. It starts with that pause in volatility stocks pointing to a higher open youve seen of course the bond yields are stabilizing a key downgrade this morning shares of kcaterpillar lower wih concerns about the trade war with china and some earnings bright spots lyft and roku both surging ahead of the bell. Well also get to other names as well lets begin with the markets futures, as you saw, pointing to a higher opening on wall street, this following the s ps biggest intraday come back of the year global bond yields are stabilizing. Investors digesting better than expected trade data that came out of china in terms of exports there. An escalation in trade tensions between the u. S. And china has accentuated fears in recent da
Not the way most people talk about it instead, youve got a market of stocks thats an important distinction, particularly in carmerica. Stocks are like snowflakes, no two are the same sure Everybody Loves index funds as a lowcost way to get ebbs posure to the whole asset class. Im one of them. I please guilty. Including today where the dow and s p both notched new alltime highs former fall of 119 points. S p gained 1. 5 . Nasdaq dipped 0. 19 as the rotation continues but i think the totality is a lot less illuminating than looking at individual companies and what actually drives them. For example, just last week, we did a twopart interview from the New York Stock Exchange with boeings Ceo Dennis Muilenberg where he told us that his company is having an extraordinary year maybe told us in seven or eight different ways its spewing cash and he made it pretty clear that this is the healthiest boeings ever been. So he wants to reward you, the shareholder. Sure enough today, boeing boosted it
Power lunch tarts right now. Intellectual leadership has been in the has here. Hes looking for ideas that good day, welcome everybody your money just keeps on growing, the dow, the s p, the Nasdaq Record highs yet again. Day after day, the s p and nasdaq have not ended on a down day. Work. So far this year bob pisani is at the nyse smallcap stocks also joining with the staggering stats and look at what is at stake for what will be a very big earning the party today at least same goes on for transports, up about a third of a percent season you would think it was time for a pause, and six straight up the tenyear spiking well above days we have some amazing statistics. At the close yesterday but wait a minute, its going to be even better well get you the numbers in a 2. 5 that is the highest left for few moments. With the winning. Crude since early may of three ec, thanks, robert, my old years ago, 2015. Producer for those stats im concerned about really high expect ache. The numbers are