Warren buffett and Berkshire Hathaway in a big way. And later in the show, a live stream update on the musk and zuckerberg cage match. It is monday, august 7th you are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im frank holland. Lets get you ready for the day. We kick it off with the u. S. Stock futures. Green across the board nasdaq doing the best up. 30 . At this hour, the dow would open up 70 points higher. This is after the poor showing last week with the s p and nasdaq coming off four Straight Days of losses and the worst week since march 10th. You see the nasdaq down 3 s p almost by 2. 5 it was rough for the tech sector the sector coming off three Straight Days of losses. The sharp decline down 1. 5 . Excuse me. 4. 25 . The fitch downgrade is playing a factor it was dragged down by apple which had its worst week since 2023 we had a very busy week for fixed income and new longterm issuance yields here with the 10year treasury at 4. 09 yiel
Link, hightower chief investment strategy, cnbc contributor and pretty good golf im told. Hmm not so much. Good to have you on how do you review inflation data and did it change any of your expectations about race, the fed, the markets and it didnt change my thoughts. We are making progress, though, brian, on the numbers. Right . Look at, say, cpi, 4. 7 year over year, 6. 6 at peak. Making progress. The problem, rents are still sticky, 99 of cpi shelter. And increased. 5 from. 4 number is getting to 2 where the fed wants get to to for cpi. A long ways off. Then look at, by the way, you follow energy really close right . Look at ppi numbers today. Acceleration month over month in headline number. Nots even including the 24 gain in Energy Prices from the june lows i think next month, next couple of months, youll see elevated ppi numbers. Then add in the economy, which is a real bright spot. Nobody thought we would see gdp accelerate each quarter this year everyone said beginning of the y
Commentary plus back off the worst day and week of the week, the Company Reportedly looking to boost its efforts in a. I and elon musk and Mark Zuckerberg seemingly agreeing to that cage match, but some hurdles still ahead. Lets begin with the markets. The s p, nasdaq, as we said, coming off their worst week since march, jim that reversal friday didnt feel great. Oh, my. It took your breath away and i was watching them just saying, what happened . Is there some event . Did something happen that was exogenous . But then again, look, lets remember, bonds having a nice move today they were down 36. Now theyre only down 11 i thought that friday was one of those days where people just said, okay, weve had a great year now, lets just sit here and sit on our hands and that was what i was thinking to start my show tonight is to just sit on my hands, and i may do it. I just felt that weve made a lot of money, and maybe thats what were going to make for a month. Youve been pretty leery of this p
Carnival no shes actually flying long distance, choosing delta, united oh, hold it, shes spending like crazy on luxury goods overseas at least according to the mastercard data. Shes going out to dinner after work from home says american express. Oh, wait a second the consumers shopping at lowes for black and decker because she cant sell her home because rates are too high so she might as well refurbish the darn thing with a new deck, maybe throw some Sherwin Williams paint on it but shes not working out as much as before drinking less. According to Planet Fitness and diageo at which point i say wait a second, hold it. These data points, which is what i live with every single day, every minute of my life, these data points, theyre driving me crazy. And thats actually somewhat easy to do but they are the markets reacting to every twist and turn of the consumer right now and it seems to have the memory of a mayfly the market started weak, turned positive, sold off again, dow dipping 67 po
We start with the first major wall street bank to remove recession from their outlook the chief economist is standing by to make his case. And if the economy isnt deteriorating, why the downgrade, is it a warning shot to washington . Well ask the man in charge, dan clifton is here. He warns we shouldnt see more signs of stress building and the fed may need to cut rates. And well bring in the ceo of Summit Global investments. How should investors be positioning in response . Lets start with the big call from bank of america mike, thanks for your time and for rejoining us the last time we talked you had just kicked your recession call into 2024. And now it goes away entirely . Yes so thank you for having me on, kelly. Yes, i think we have seen enough, at least in the resiliency of the data, the upgrade to prior growth numbers, the solid gdp numbers. But theyre also happening in an environment where wage growth is moderating and inflation is moderating thats only happening gradually. Ther