The dow plunging 280 points and s p 500 down 6 and nasdaq down. 55 but that is not true if the trade war were really all important, the averages would never have been able to surge to record levels over and over and over again as tense as negotiations may be it is more of an issue than most people seem to realize if that is the case, what just happened over the last four days why is the action suddenly become to frightening . What does it mean for your future and your portfolio . You have to think about larry kudlow, the chief economic adviser and Steve Mnuchin and thought china would be willing to open up the economy to American Financial companies if the president would give them a stay of execution on the scheduled december 15th trade hikes. But the hardliners in the white house, no, they warned us. They warned that if the free traders kept talking up the prospects of a deal the Chinese Government with push for better terms. That is thur style weve seen this before every time trump
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
Negatively. The dow opened lower, the nasdaq lower by 6. We had a multibillion dollar deal. Teva acquiring allergan. We should tell you that teva is officially withdrawing its off for mylan. You may have remembered they made that offer as a hostile offer. It was not morninging. Mylan which located outside of the u. S. Became a bizarre beneficiary of moving outside because of the way the governments rules work abroad were they relocated it made it much more difficult for teva to pursue a deal. How do you think the mylan shareholders feel about the big fight . How do they feel this morning . In the immediate case i think that they cant be thrilled. Longterm, mylans ceo has made the argument and i actually buy it that theres more value to them reinvesting by reinvesting and being independent. So well see what happens there. Can i ask a really important question . Yes. Friends of mine would like to know. Does this get us any closer to a botox thats what friends would like to know . I have
In beijing europe is weak and claims a little higher than expected. The twoyear is at a nineyear high our road map begins with retail movers macys and kohls moving in different direction. Plus, more media m a intrigue the future of at t and time warners deal is in question as the department of justice asks for changes and the two sides may end up in court. And futures are slipping. Markets are awaiting more on tax reform today, as we digest a number of earnings movers. So lets kick it off with jim, who is at west point today, ahead of a big show tonight, jim. And were looking at some early weakness this morning, some attributing it to the increasing difficulty between reconciling what weve gotten from the house, what is being marked up, and what the senate is eventually going to tell us on taxes. Well, im continuing to be very skeptical im looking for a repeal and replace here in other words, i just dont think that theyre going to be able to get it together anytime soon but you know wh
Donald trump calling for an investigation into chinas import taxes just moments ago on cnbc. Also, Bernie Sanders saying hes proud Goldman Sachs thinks hes dangerous for wall street. And what jack dorsey says about investors lack of confidence in squares stock right now and why hes not worried about the short sellers. But well start with the markets. We mentioned draghi expanding their qe program to 80 billion euros a month, consulting the refi rate, cutting the marginal lending rate, the deposit rate, adding, jim that risks to growth remain on the down side and trimming their gdp forecast. What can i say, hes got the Bank Stocks Going i mean, if they wanted to, they could issue equity. We all know that worked here. The liquidity hes throwing at this is amazing. This guy, sum total, dollar going higher. So, i know everyones very excited. I know our futures are up big. When will people realize that these are not necessarily positive for us . Now, i had a ceo on last night, europe was ve