Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an
Weve been lagging in financials. They have been not really participating in this. We get any participation from that, scott, think about the momentum that could push into the marketplace. Obviously weve gotten through these earnings. Tech has a leader. They have been an absolute work horse in the market. And each and every day we seem to see it. Its not just the big fang names, its across the board all way into the Semi Conductor world, but technology itself is leading. We mentioned, joe, 2400 on the s p was a significant hurdle to get over. We closed above that and now were at 2412. The significance of that . How much momentum do you put behind that . Technical breakout, same thing that happened at 2300. Got above 2300, really never fell back again. I think youre witnessing that right here. I think whats adding fuel to it is the amount of pessimism and negativity that we had especially last week when the markets were down 300 plus that one day. There were many who went defensively. I
Highest level since december but with the fed meeting in the days ahead can stocks continue to win . That debate begins now. Josh what happened between yesterday and today . Today the s p at the highest closing level of the year. What happened is nothing happened. In the absence of a calamity people come back to stocks and what theyre coming back to scott makes this bounce back the most interesting. Its the polar opposite of 2015. The most heavily shorted stocks and the stocks to decline by the most or underperformed by the most last year and the sectors that are negative year to date. Health care, technology, consumer discretionary. People say its a dash for trash. Is it more believable today given the last 24 hours. How do you assess where we are . It always takes a couple of days to assess what they do. What they did was a little bit better and more than what most people expected. Commentary confused some people but more importantly oil has stabilize. Interest rates have stabilize.
The last few years, as you know. Is value back . Its hard to say whether its back yet. I mean, its been probably three weeks where the value has started to reassert itself. But after five years of underperformance of value versus growth, the spreads in valuation are at provocative levels. Cheap stocks are as cheap as they get. Expensive stocks are reasonably expensive. And that spread has widened to the point where in the past, if you tried to capitalize on it, you would have been really wellregarded. Josh, yeartodate, value outperforming growth from the february 11th bottom, which, by the way, we mark the onemonth anniversary of today. Energy is up 12 , industrials up 10 . Financials are up up 13 . Is this the start of a broader trend . Well, i think if it if the trend of growth substantially outperforming value continues for much longer than it already has, it would be an almost unprecedented length of time through history. So to some extent, just on a mean reversion basis, you think
Closely. Crude is back below 37. There hasnt been a rate hike since 06. That decision will come out at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Chair yellen scheduled to hold a News Conference a half hour later. Cnbc will bring you complete coverage of the big fed event. Reminders of where we were on pop culture on june 29, 2006. Its been a long journey. Its been a long journey this year as we agonized about whether or not they would raise rates. During the course of that year, the stock market is basically more or less where we started. The tenyear treasury is basically, after this back and forth during the course of the year, basically back where we started. The big mover is the dollar index. The euro down 9 . Thats partly you what see in the corporate earnings. You do have oil down sharply. You have the junk bond market reeling despite the fact that Interest Rates have been so low, we have seen record high yield issuance this year again, emerging markets are weak again. Weve been asking the questio