Our road map does begin with, well, what else . Big tech, chips, and a. I. , Semiconductor Stocks are coming off what was the second worst week of the year, and of course, mr. Jensen huang is set to deliver what is a very hotly anticipated keynote speech that is later today. Were also keeping an eye on shares of apple and alphabet. Theyre both up ahead of the open, particularly alphabet. The tech giants reported by bloomberg to be in talks to license googles a. I. Engine, gemini. That would be for the iphone. And oracle shares are surging more than 10 in just the last week. Again, why . Well, a. I. Progress. Ceo chuck cisco shares. Cisco shares. S cisco. You know, i dont sometimes, jim, you read it if you put it there, he will read it. And youre right. And oracle had a great week, and shes on the board of disney. Lets go there. Yeah. Thanks, guys. I was, like, what . Hm. Yeah, we got Chuck Robbins coming up. Jim, youll partake in that. Theyre closing the splunk deal so thats coming up
Magnificent seven are in correction territory but nvidias getting a boost ahead of its earnings. And were going to keep focused on those economic challenges in china. The countrys central bank cutting a key Interest Rate by less, though, than many had been anticipating. Oh, yeah, who is many anymore . Slew of press over the weekend as well. The journal writing kind of a devastating headline. Is it over after 40 years . Yes, definitely over. Who can say this stuff . We were here. We were lucky enough to witness the fundamental change in the chinese economy. It happened over the weekend. Happened over the weekend. Theyre trying to be a service economy. That was it. Done. Maybe president xi has just said, you know what . Every bankrupt artist, every ridiculous guy who built too much and every ridiculous person who tried to get extra yield, sorry. Why not . Why not clean up the excess . Well, but the question, of course, is, contagion. Oh, contagion. Yeah, some of the huge promote companie
But why stop there . The answer is its not enough. Jensen huang unveiling the new generation of nvidias ai chips yesterday at the companys developers conference. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im david faber. Live from the new york stock exchange. Jim cramer is in san jose, california. He is at nvidias gtc. Hes going to have a live and exclusive its both live and exclusive interview with jensen huang. That will be in the next hour. Of course, we or very much looking forward to it. A half hour from now we get started with trading. Lets give you a quick look at futures. We are in the red. So perhaps a lower open when we begin trading. It starts with nvidias potential ai gamechanger. The Company Unveiling its latest, more powerful Artificial Intelligence chips which Ceo Jensen Huang says are twice as powerful for training ai models that the current gpus. The feds march meeting kicking off today. The bank of japan raising Interest Rates. No longer are they negative in that country. And w
Our road map does begin with tech stock volatility. Adobe shares are tumbling. Microsoft, though, record highs. Tesla and nvidia, those stocks, at least recently for nvidia, saying its a struggle may be an overstatement, but they certainly have not been going up. The nasdaq 100 pointed to its first backtoback weekly loss since last october. Plus tiktoks owner, bytedance, on track to surpass Metas Facebook as the Worlds Largest social Media Company by sales. And the chamber of commerce suing the s. E. C. Over new Climate Disclosure rules, a lot to unpack there. And were going to begin with the road ahead. In particular, for what has been driving this market for quite some time, and that is namely what we call the Mega Cap Technology companies, a. I. , particularly generative a. I. , and mike, ill turn to you. We just mentioned, of course, nvidia shares, which, yesterday, we discussed. I mean, jim and i, years ago, developed this thing called the key to this market, and it does feel like
Yesterday. 4. 23 . If you check out the price of copper, copper ended at the highest settlement since october of last year. This morning, it is off 1 . Watching that copper closely because it is a signal of expectations for global manufacturing. Japan central bank raising rates for the First Time Since 2007 and ending the other easing measures. This is the longest easing from any central bank. They were the lfirst to go in ad the last to come out of the easing. It raised the rate to 0. 1 . That was up from negative to 0. 1 . The yen trading at the lowest level of the year compared to the dollar. The central bank abolishing the yield curve control policy for japanese sovereign bonds. The central bank said it planned to purchase government bonds worth broadly the same amount as before. It will scale back asset purchases and qt. It is not really aggressive if you are talking about zero to 0. 1 . Backing away from the eightyear experiment. Experiments are not eight years. The new normal. I