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
Market site. We start off with the straw that might have finally broken the rallys back fitchs downgrade of the United States longterm Credit Rating sent the yield on the tenyear treasury to its highest level since last november and that took the wind out of the sails in the equity rally. The dow going negative for the week the s p down 1. 4 for its lowest close in more than two weeks the nasdaq shedding more than 2 take a look at the stocks that were particularly hardhit data dog, crowd strike, all dropping more than 6 . Semiconductors taking a leg lower. Amd, which was up about 6 after its Earnings Report last night ends the day down more than 7 investors turning instead to the safety of more defensive sectors, Consumer Staples, health care, the only groups in the green today. So, did fitch show how tenuous this rally has been . And weve seen this before, karen. 4 seems like the magic number whatever the reason for getting above 4 is, this time, its fitch. Stocks fell off. Right well
Nasdaq edged down. 26 , the star of the show was the Dow Jones Industrial average, which briefly crossed above 40,000. Hallelujah before pulling back a bit and closing down 39 points. Still, thats a huge leap from where we arrived at dow 30,000 back in november of 2020. So you know what . I think its worth exploring what stocks got us here and why. During this period weve constantly been told that tech is the market leader. But when i look at the top ten stocks up the most during dows trip from 30,000 to 40,000 very surprising group. Only two of them from tech. We also were told Interest Rates is all that matters but thats played a smaller role than expected too. Only the tenth stock really impacted. Instead its an odd grouping where the main thing these companies have in common is very strong exceptional management. Lets run them down so we can learn what the market really wants here. I need you to think about this even though we didnt close above 40,000, this is what matters. First i
S p 500 up 3. 5. All of this coming after the major indices closed at record highs. Dow up 55. The nasdaq and s p gaining 1 . Treasury yields with the tenyear yield at 4. 33 . That was fast. Lets look at the meme stocks. Well see. It could come roaring back. Gamestop now down six. It was more than double that. Amc is above the recent lows. Gamestop and amc fell during yesterdays session. Amc, as it has in the past, took advantage of the rally. Announcing a debt for equity stock. It completed a stock sale on monday. Theres the weekly chart. There is contraction and time you think that is a meme stock craze lasts four days . The last one lasted and went much higher. Much higher levels. People said gamestop was much harder to short. Right. It could be a weak phenomenon . Four or five weeks . Yeah. It went into the hundreds, didnt it . People really wanted it to happen. They wanted it to happen. It would be hard to keep any of these things going. Do you think were going to see a meme from
Ahead of the open. Cloud sales growth accelerates the company also aims for spending more on a. I shares of starbucks under pressure theyre down after a decline in samestore sales it also slashed its forecast were going to be joined exclusive by starbucks ceo just a few minutes from now lets begin this new month for markets after ending a rough april with that selloff. Worst day since january 31st worst month since september 23. Some of it was because theres a belief that really, this happened in the last few hours yesterday that if the fed chief is asked the question, do you think that the next move should be increasing rates or decreasing rates, it puts him in a horrible bind . H what is he going to say . This was literally the narrative i heard yesterday as Interest Rates ticked up. You know that people are going to try to trap the chairman, but hes not easily trapped. No, hes not. Although youre not necessarily in favor of the press conferences, as i recall no, because these people