the list of deaths. we could see more when everything is said and done. there is still a big concern for people stranded in their cars, when there was whiteout conditions. people would get lost in the storm. people were making contact with people stranded in cars. the mayor saying 200 individuals, they could still be out there, that they are trying to make sure they get safe. there s also some frustration in the voice of officials here, as they say that people do not are not really getting it right now. and braving the streets. that should be off in the distance here. we don t know where they could be going. only essential travel is allowed right now. they are clearing the streets to be drivable, just like the one you see here in downtown buffalo, and allow first responders to basically make it out to calls if necessary. but as far as the storm, this has been just it has not sto stopped. erie county officials say the storm is going to hover over buffalo, and perhaps we ll
Vengery link that does it for squawk on the street. Lets send it to squawk alley. Over to you. Thanks. 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla good to have you deidra, sarah is off joining suss partner gnb capital and the founder of earn. Com. Good morning to you both over the last five trading days, tech stocks, which were leading the markets higher for the entire year have turned lower. Today the nasdaq is slightly positive this rotation isnt just on wall street a number of articles in the past few days talking about Venture Capital funding drying up, or at least having peaked in the seed round. Called the hot money party tends to move around facebook ipo run up subsequently in 2013, 2014, big in seed a, thats where the capital went. The hot party moved in 2015, 2016 it went unicorn hunting, saw a lot in ipo, labor deals that hot party money shifted in 2017 very clearly to initial coin offerings. Thats where the action is today
Whole group. Well tell what you. First, the global selloff. Markets everywhere from europe to asia to south america all getting hit over the past month except for here in the u. S. , which despite the recent volatility is still up 1 in that time. We know its a small world after all. Is the u. S. The next market thats about to crack . Guy . The vix closed lower today, we mentioned that last night the warning signs are not there in the vix pete can speak to that the selloff in the hang seng index to me has been very interesting and something you have to continue to watch. I mentioned it because look at where we topped at the hang seng at the beginning of 2008, 30,000 look where weve traded up to and failed over the last couple of weeks the selloff has been pretty quick. Tenyear yields in china have gone up to 4 . Its clear the Chinese Government is tamping on the brakes you have to wonder is that causing some sort of cascade effect right now its manifesting itself in the hsi. You have to
Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and john fortt on the New York Stock Exchange the social network looking to emphasize posts from friends and family Mark Zuckerberg writes, i expect some time on facebook and measures will go down. As facebook deprioritizes news, the former president obama was on the First Episode of lettermans new show on netflix, where he addressed the issue of news on social media listen to that whatever your biases were, thats where you were being sent, and that gets more and more reenforced over time thats whats happening with facebook pages where more and more people are getting their news from. At a certain point, you live in a bubble and thats part of why our politics is so polarized i think it was a solvable problem, but i think its one that we have to spend a lot of time thinking about. Two conversations here this morning, one is about the ad revenue impact and the share price, obviously, were going to coff cover that but longer term its a question whether or n
Rally pause. Futures are flat as investors await further futures from the feds on its interest plans call it the amazon effect. Shares of bed, bath beyond slashes fullyear outlook. The most destructive storm in modern history puerto rico suffering that direct hit from maria. After another day of record highs for stocks, wall street focusing on the fed which wraps up its twoday policy meeting this afternoon the policy Statement Due at 2 00 followed by the News Conference a half hour later. The watch is on to see what the fed will say about reducing its Balance Sheet. This is the head of the journals finance section today and that is markets uneasy over fed action as this treasury slump, jim, is now the longest since march. Yeah, i mean, i think that were all kind of dealing with the idea that the markets, i looked at that headline and i say, if the markets arent easy, why did we hit a high. Dow jones, s p, nasdaq if for once were not beholden to what the fed says i want to know about th