Now street high. John correctly predicted the rally last year. Joining us at post nine. Great to have you with us. Great to be here, melissa. What was that moment when you said, i have to go to street high of 4900 it occurred a few weeks ago we held back, waited for Economic Data to cross the transom, whether it was last months jobs or the prior months jobs whether it was the continuing claims or whether it was initial claims, what have you. And then the gdp number, i think, really added to confirmation we saw last week that there is strength in this economy, that the fed has been remarkably sensitive even though on a nominal basis the hiking has been aggressive when you consider the inflation, dangers to free money of the system where bond issuers dont pay for the privilege of borrowing money. This is a normalization process. A big shock generationally to many people who were not in the markets in 2008 and may have been this high school are now in their 30s. But the reality is, for th
The 10year treasury is yielyieldin 4. 19 . I believe these are sitting at high levels for yields for the year i had a computer problem before we started. Of course. Thats why i was asking you i was deferring. Lets look. It is clear it is high yields for the year if you look at that year to date that yield up 8 all of this is happening as we got stronger than anticipated adp numbers this week and the downgrade from fitch can i point out, becky, look at when this is higher than the last time which is back in march when we had the problem with the regional banks oh, thats very interesting too many alarm bells. We are back to the pressure on the banks. Now, they had a lot of time to get their act together they had the fed program to take their tired, poor, hungry and underfunded bonds to the fed and get 100 financing off that. It is an area where there was pressure on the bacnks. We have to watch the regional banks. I havent looked in a day or so. They were doing quite well and i dont know
Downgrade. Apple and amazon set to report after the bell tonight. Speaking of earnings, were going to talk to shopifys president this hour on the companys latest quarter after topping some estimates but lets begin with tech as we look ahead to apple and amazon tonight the nasdaq, as we said, worst daily performance since february, jim. Are we going to use qualcomm as a read for tonight no, qualcomm is just pa theting i. I was disgusted with that quarter. Im so tired of their hype im sorry. I have a negative attitude about them im positive about other things. I mean, at the start, once again, they do this thing, its great, its great, its great. And then you get to actually, but you know what, its bad, and its weak. Its great, its great, well, its bad, its weak, and this is post auto and handset inventory buildup and, no, im making the samsung story, the solutions to apple. But no it is not a tell now, you could say, well, look, maybe apple is coming in too hot. I think theres a theres t
Right now, there is nothing that is earthmoving. That is a great way to lead off the show. I have unbelievable stuff. Okay. Lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with apples ev aboutface, reportedly abandoning its decadeslong efforts to develop an automobile, turning its focus to generative a. I. Shares have underperformed so far this year. Continued signs of a robust economy, healthy Consumer Spending certainly one reason why and goldmans ceo thinks a soft landing is uncertain. And the doj turning its focus to Health Insurance. It is launching an antitrust investigation of the giant. Unh. Unh is really under siege. Its a Great American company. Its under siege like almost no other between the hack and the Justice Department. Well talk about that. That said, its doing pretty well for a company under siege. Lets talk about another company thats done pretty darn well for a very long period of time. That is apple. Of course, youve seen these published reports. Any number of
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