Buyer beware, ipos that have doubled do not have a great track record after the debut. Plus the president and tiktok, he says hes not prepared to sign off on anything for an oracle tiktok deal. And wall street poised for a sharply lower open following the feds pledge to keep Interest Rates low for years and Technology Stocks do lead the declines speaking of which, jim, sounds like your conversation with joe a moment ago kind of rings with what Credit Suisse says today about tech valuations overall, that is that there is some excess and theyre lightning their weight at least on software. I count 30 companies that are selling at 30 times sales and then theres a number, even more, maybe another ten that are selling above that, 50 times sales for zoom along comes snowflake at 100 times sales. You just have to put the stop sign up because what it says is theres going to be so much supply that is coming. Look, if you own a company youve been waiting for it to come public you just got the gre
There are conversations floating about about whether brent and go negative. We are trading up 11 today. Up 1. 5 . The peripheral bond market, i massive story at the moment, as you can see. We saw a huge auction in spain earlier on, following on the heels of an auction yesterday in italy. We are continuing to watch what is happening as we build up towards an eu meeting tomorrow that could barely be make or break. The ecb talking about whether it could potentially accept grade that in collateral. Italy is facing a rating review come friday. This is a live debate in europe. Eurodollar trading at 1. 0852. Coming up, we are spending a lot of time talking about what is happening with the oil story. We going to fold that in to what is happening with other assets and how they are being affected. Also coming up shortly, we will hear from the nasdaq president , id enough freedom and nasdaq president , adena friedman. This is bloomberg. This is bloomberg markets. Good morning. Im Erik Schatzker i
Close down 257 points. S p fell, nasdaq lost 1. 87 . I think that rally that took peoples breath away was started with short sellers who were covering or closing out the positions. Theyre getting concerned that the Drug Companies working on the drugs that would lessen the lethality of corona may have had success. Fear is more powerful. But this is driven by a justifiable fear coupled with the fear of catching it yourself its threatening to bring commerce to a full stop. Aside from the pallets of purell passing through the portals of the shaky retail establishments. We got through a roller coaster of a week marked by the emergence of terrifying sector markets. Oil and gas, you know i hate the stocks wow. Justified, travel and leisure, retail, some better than others. Andthe hideous financials, all which are worrisome because the borrowers are numerous in the sectors and are so good they can hurt lenders this market is longp standing gains with breathtaking speed. But those moves pale in
10 in its debut, valued at 1. 9 trillion the largest listed company in the world. Plus, the fed and a trade waiting game stocks poised for a muted open as investors seek further tea leaves on trade and the fate of monopolies arent bad if they are not abused tim cook coming to the defense of business but said apple isnt one. Saudi aramco strong public debut. Shares jumpedon the open, the maximum 10 on the Stock Exchange in riyadh limit up. The state owned oil giant is the worlds most valuable company list at 1. 9 trillion, thats about 6 exxons and above apple which has a market cap of almost 1. 2 trillion. Well placed deal. A lot of people in saudi arabia decided to buy this stock. And that boosted it. I think sometimes you get deals and they pretty much determine where it is going to be. So now the question is, yield. And whether the yield exceeds what mike worth is offering on chevron. I think it will. I dont think it makes people suddenly all excited about the oil stocks, but it does
Stock. Its our call of the day the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee at the table. Josh brown, steve weiss and director of market strategy. Well begin with the selloff stocks rebounded and down again. Another volatile session all three major averages were down half a per at the lows. You have your special suit on today. You get the ball first s p coming off backtoback declines and today you got what you didnt want. A read on the Services Sector which suggests that were slowing there, too well, it was telegraph 48 hours ago when you saw the Employment Index and warranted at the time to give consideration of the strength to not only domestic economy but the Global Economy being the u. S. Consumer and were they in a position where they weto weaken. As it relates to the market, absolutely the selloff is warranted if youre going to see the consumer weaken i think it also gives yo