The dow as the president says the u. S. Government should take a cut of its deal. Apple inches toward a 2 trillion market cap. The price were looking for to hit that level is 4. 6777 about 27 above where we are now. Apple is up 1 today gold topping 2,000 an ounce for the first time ever. The precious metal is up as the market attempts to price in a postpandemic recovery, there are new signs the road back could be longer and bumpier than experts think steve is digging into the data good afternoon. Even if the forecast of economists for the strong second half ebound pans out, the u. S. Economy is still going to be in the e kwif lenquivalent of a reb year end the Unemployment Rate forecast decline from 11. 1 now to 9. 8 by december. Look at those numbers and the 9. 8 Unemployment Rate would make it the third highest among recessions we have done a good job of taking it down from 15 . It would be e clipted by the surgeon jobless followed by the 81 and 08 recessions. Charlie evans talking t
Tweet me jimkraim he were worst day since the crash of 87, the dow at the lowest close in two years no s p plummeting 9. 8 , nasdaq 12. 32 , a truly sickening day with a horrendous last hour. Its finally dawning on people were in a real crisis here. Ive been telling you this pandemic could be real bad news for stocks, since i came back from the super bowl we were underestimating the coming outbreak send us into i want to say a recession, because i think that its pretty obvious that thats kind of where were going. People did underestimate the coming outbreak and as far as im concerned it really isnt one of the situations where we can just ride it out we have to think about it. We have to figure out what to do we have to work together, and ive got some ideas, theyre not simple ideas theyre ideas involving opportunity, theyre ideas involving what i regard as being lets just say some things that happen that are good when the market goes down, but were not ready yet. First, lets talk about
Here today. That tai chi manufacturing that we got a couple of minutes ago was the weakest print we saw this year. It was still0, but showing the gradual slowdown we are seeing in global pmi. The official move that we saw in europe, in the u. S. As well, which is really supporting the Global Growth concern yard of that we are seeing. That is why we are seeing the yen up, 10 7. 60. Asia fx weakening with the dollar a little stronger. We see commodities. We are continuing to see some red when it comes to steal futures in shanghai copper. Lower by 9 10 of 1 . Be with thisng to rally. Looking at the u. S. Side of things with the 10 year yield below 2 . We are seeing for asia bonds as well. I will show you what else is going on, we mention about the u. S. Tenyear. Anese through three yield three year yields. We just got the news about the boj cutting purchases of bonds and a 35year range. Its the First Time Since 2018 that they have done so. They were trying to address the flattening yield
Im melissa lee. On the desk tonight, tim seymour, steve grasso, guy adami, and lori calvasina. Shares of dollar tree plunging more than 14 after posting misses on the top and bottom lines this morning. Shares, which had been on a steady climb since october, seeing their biggest drop in nearly two years, erasing all the gains for 2023. Meantime, Williams Sonoma stock cooking up an alltime high today. The highend home goods retailer beating earnings estimates, upping its stock buyback plans by a billion dollars and hiking under the circumstances dividend by 26 . In the last six months, Williams Sonoma posted virtually the same gains as redhot nvidia. So, does todays action emphasize just howdivergent the high end and low end consumers are . This is a theme certainly that weve been hitting on for months and months, but this really seems to underscore that, guy. One thing for us to say, its another thing to see two stocks on the same day perform the way they did. Tim has discussed wsm for
Carpet with the stock winners and losers ahead of hollywoods big weekend. Im melissa lee coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq, tim seymour, and rebecca patterson, former chief strategist at bridgewater. We start off with the markets gold rush, the precious metal soaring to a record high today, topping the 2,200 mark for the first time ever. It just notched its best week since october and is up 20 over the past year. The latest rally coming alongside bitcoin which topped 70,000 during todays session. Ethereum also hitting a record. Stock market ending on a down note. The nasdaq shedding a percent while the dow shed. What does this tell you about the strength of this market rally . Rebecca, happy International Womens day. You too. What do you make of this gold move . I think what were seeing with bitcoin, gold and stocks today, theyre skpleetly separate. There isnt one big macro factor driving this. In the case of gold, id highlight two main things. China and china. Chinas Cent