Steve smith. Good tuesday morning, everybody. It is 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good tuesday morning, everybody. Deirdre bosa with us we are kicking off one of the toughest months for stocks getting a nice start here as the s p hit an alltime high we continue to watch the large cap tech names that include stocks like zoom and percentage gains that make your jaw drop. Absolutely, carl. Speaking of zoom, i have been calling it the consult of zoom, we have been talking about those incredible numbers, climbing market cap, remember they went public at a 9. 2 valuation. Take a look at these results, this chart says it all the increase, the step up, year over year, the earnings was something to behold. And at the same time, guys, it is our job to throw a little cold water on a quality like following. If you think it can become the next blue chip tech stock we saw in the results last night that it is growing a base of small users and it is making up a larger portion of
Swapping out pfizer for amgen. Raytheon youll hear later today. The largest oil and gas company with one software play dropping a respected drug company for a descent biotech . Kicking a defense contractor to the curb for an industrial if it makes you scratch your head, youre not alone these changes had enormous impact the dow dipping 60 points and the s p dipped and nasdaq gained 6. 7 in all honesty, these moves made a lot of sense they bring the dow closer to the reality of the new cone economyt the memory of the old. Before i delve into each trade, there is an aspect of the dow like the king to the s p 500 Prime Minister same t simultaneously more prestigious. Only included the dow because i had old investors regarded as the most important benchmark we live in the efts of trillions of dollars and whatever name gets swapped in, there is a gigantic wave of buying and selling. The dow has little money invested in etfs its a big deal if you work for them because this is an exclusive clu
Any precipitous policy, at least not at the present time. How much more shock can this market take before theres longterm effects on the economy . What do you think . Look, the market the markets had a shortrun correction, and i guess its 10 or 11 or something. Weve been through this many, many times before. And i dont think even though its frontpage story and nobody likes to see their asset values go down, i just dont think at this point its going to have much of an impact. I will qualify that, depends how long this lasts, how deep it goes, but i could cite a number of historical experiences. The one i remember the most, i was a cub scout way back when, and i remember the 1987 market crash and i remember president reagan going out and saying the economic v economy is fundamentally sound, and it actually grew by 3 or 4 in the next couple years after this crash. President trump said it in this room two nights ago, we just think the economy is sound, and therefore i just dont think this
The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to be with you on this thursday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, steve weiss, jon najarian so the question here is what do you do with netflix. Is it a preview of what is to come in the coming year when netflix faces more competition doc . Well, it is interesting, mel, that their Pricing Power we all at least many of us, i was one of them, thought that he had that Pricing Power, that disney offering even though it is not, of course, fully rolled out at all, that disney offering is i think perhaps causing some folks that, and the lack of programming which they cited on the call last night. They didnt say lack of programming. They didnt say it that way. A weak slate of programming. A weak slate, thats very thats the best possible way to say it but, you know, now theyre getting back Stranger Things and a bump of the popular as well as, of course, the crown, the second versions of that are coming on to netflix those are all dr
No matter how much you might be tempted otherwise, netflix today after that disappointing quarter. Just became the hard money on a day where the averages seesawed in response to earnings, s p gaining 3. 6 , you need to understand how a stock can go from easy house of pain to hard the house of pain and pin action from that particular move. Can rightly or wrongly impact a host of other names as Portfolio Managers try to wrestle with the consistent company that is suddenly become erratic. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is netflix look, we all know the story. Most of us love easy netflix they like lots of older programming to bring you in and add in brilliance to keep you hooked they can make some truly great stuff like Stranger Things the latest season has president been out for a month and already its been watched by 40 million households however netflix had truly heinous numbers. This they didnt grow subscribers in the u. S. , they lost thats the first time they lost since 2011 earning