March. Last trading day of the month, a lot o data, more fed comments ahead of the jobs report on friday. At viacom the drama continues. The current board, well, its not going to go quietly vowing to dig in. And this is whats amazing, fight its Controlling Shareholders hold over the company. And a new name at the top, debt on the highest paid ceos and why the pay isnt moving the direction you may think. First up we head into the final trading session of may. The nasdaq leading the month more than 3 . If the gains hold this will be the fourth year stocks have major averages have gone positive for may. No selling and going away necessarily. Mike, your point this morning is stocks have been able to rally in an environment where a rate hike looked more and more likely. Exactly. Although its hard to say if the market is fully kind of digested that idea that were going june, july. But todays personal spending number kicks you in that direction again. Been a strain in the market for well over
Strong week for the markets, and strong broadbased tech, and financials down the list, and it is big against a big backdrop of the oil hitting 50 this week, and the fed chair speaking in an hours time, and josh brown, i go to you first, new highs in the offing . We are not that far away . We are not that far away, and what is really, really great about the positioning that we are seeing here is that the advance of the climb line, and it is absolutely cooperating and breaking out in and of itself, and you have a lot of the small and the midcap issues getting the job done, and it is a marked contrast to last time we challenged the levels, and way different from what felt like the end off a bull market a year ago, so it is a Long Time Coming if we punch through, and one very clear positive is that it is a lot of stocks hanging out here, and not just, you know, the nifty nine or fang or Something Like that. And you know, serrat, you have apple back to 1,100, 100, that is a closely watched
Two great Leadership Groups taking over. I was looking at the stocks today beaten up, and the fundamentals are beaten up as well such as the rax space, and microsoft and intel and going down the list and the few that are not moving. And cisco, and the chips and this is what jim krcramer said this morning. There are two types of tech, tech that is cloudrelated and the digital seagate and microsoft, and we had a positive piece about microsoft, and positive talk from cowen saying to get ahead of Western Digital before the earnings, and this is a tech rally, and the cloud and the Old Fashioned tech and it can occur. Pete . Well, last week, we saw the cisco numbers that were outstanding, and looking in the transitionary level right now that we have been talking about with microsoft, and looking at the name, security, cloud, and this company with a great number and looking at the growth, incredible, and then moving to the salesforce which crushed it last week and then yesterday apple and the
Its obviously a report that was somewhat shocking for wall streets economists. But i would say if you look at the reaction in stocks today, its fairly muted. Dollar down about a percent and a half. Gold is up 2. 4 . But its kind of sloppy. That charts all over the place. But then you take a look at equities themselves. And pretty clearly you can see the nasdaq, after being up seven days in a row, is down 0. 7. Small caps down a little bit more than 1 . S p, large cap nams are really down barely. Yeah, because because the market believes that june is now off the table. Isnt that the because a weakening dollar is not a negative for whats been ailing the market in a positive. Q4 and q3 of this year were going to lap what went on last year with that dallas racing higher, wrecking the earnings of the commodities. A plunging dollar but a weakening dollar is being viewed as constructive. Liesman, what happened today . You know, im looking at you. You got your hair all together. Your suit is w
A little bit. You were negative on oil. Its gone up. Are you staying negative or has something so fund mentally changed youre saying i was wrong, its go up . I was obviously wrong. Im not sure if ill stay wrong, though and weve come such a long way its hard to advice folks to get in here especially with, you know, some of the signs that i continue to see that undermine this rally, brian. Particularly last night, the chinese trade data was bad and i keep saying that part of the oil rally here for it to sustain itself needs to be a strong asia and a strong china in particular and were just not getting that. You were spectacularly right before. You were one of the few people in the really negative camp and you were right. You were right before you were wrong, how about that . Im not running for office so i can be wrong thank you for that. I got some beach front property in arizona im going to sell you, as well. What would be the most if you had to pull out one bullish case and one bearish