Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and we had losses at the open but were close to session lows. Dow is down. 3 . S p 500 below 3400 the name of the game, jon, q3 earnings really no stimulus headlines to speak of were watching covid19 levels mega cap, m a in the chip space. You know what im talking about. Absolutely. We telegraphed it here it s were going to begin with amd and that 35 billion planned acquisition of xilinx. Its the boldest bet in a remarkable run by amds chief executive officer dr. Lisa su taking over almost exactly six years ago in october 2014. Sue has taken shares of amd from 3 to, what, 79 as of this morning. More than 2,000 rise. Todays deal is another challenge to intel its a push for market share in data centers and just the latest move by sue to turn amd from an also ran into a leader. Hopefully you have got to know me a little bit im all about focus and execution. You know, what we set out the plans for amd over the
And then the counter intuitive ones that took us all by surprise the dow did 205 and nasdaq lost 1. 27 . Its important to go over the companies that shocked this year with the outperformance and those that continue to shock want obvious winners are, well, obvious. People are hanging out at facebook as theyre ordering from amazon, search on google. And it didnt take a chance to figure out that the shut down would force people to use the internet if i werent jimmy chill in real life, i would be jealous of the titans even though the ceos are about to be drawn in court on the house judiciary subcommittee im torn because the Big Tech Companies their platforms arguably have too much market power. No kidding they got it by being good at what they do thats captaitalism. Theyve done better job responding to the pandemic than the government but forget the obvious covid winners. I want to talk about the big surprise the things people are doing when you cant go to the movies or ball game or ship y
You cant when the nasdaq is running like this. A 7 gain in index, you almost have to realize everybodys price target has to come up. Its baffling and confusing people who are not in the stock market but making a lot of sense to professionals who realize oh, my, god to chase. Yeah. Banks will get jp morgan tomorrow theres a lot of discussion about the commentary will matter more but also the idea that because of where estimates are, you could see some upsize to prizes another upside out of bsf. Jp morgan, the whole group is insane Goldman Sachs goes from 190 to almost 210 its almost as if people said, find me something that is not crazed my issue will be loan losses and possibly dividends and i think a lot of the chatter i listened to wilf this morning but a lot of the chatter is if people are getting more stimulus and money is being pumped in, why should these Companies Pay their dividends . I personally think theres no problem but that wells fargo dividend news shook people up. Hey, c
If you say things are okay, not as great, and youre an industrial, because there will be an opening of america, people will buy you if you say things are in line and you pull your forecast and youre not industrial, its a recipe to be sold. This is about hope its about the idea that it cant be as bad as it is right now. Youll see that even with marginal retailers, people think a marginal retail hear to come back because america is open listen, you have to go with the flow for a couple days if youre a trader if youre an investor you have to take the other side of this trade as we get closer to the opening. I think people will be surprised how little these businesses will do and how worse theyll do once we go open its not it is an opening other than auto builds wont occur. We have to be ready for that your general thinking is well get a ford plant reopening, vw doing it, boeing in South Carolina next week, but its going to be a manufacturing bounce yes more than a service bounce . Yes man
To higher paying jobs. In fact, on this trip alone, these companies are announcing over 1 billion of us investments, including creating Educational Opportunities to over 30 million filipinos. A former boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firms Production Standards has been found dead in the us. John barnett had worked for boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017. In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a Whistle Blower Lawsuit against the company. Boeing said it was saddened to hear of mr barnett s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the bbc on monday. It said the 62 year old had died from a self inflicted wound on March The 9th and police were investigating. The New York Times has also sued openai and microsoft for using its articles to train their language models. Nikita roy is the Programme Lead for the Ai Journalism Lab at the City University of new york. She gave us a sense of how these lawsuits could impact t