Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
S p 500 up about one half of 1 . It is reaching new records this week. You also have the nasdaq 100 up about. 4 . Similar gains in the Philadelphia Semiconductor index. I have been watching the performance and the semiconductors versus the nasdaq 100. You have seen the nasdaq lose some steam to give shares to its other rival in technology. Twoyear yield down five basis points. 444 level. We started above 460. We started last week above 471. We will talk more about where yields are headed. Lets talk about the jobs report. That blowup report this morning the economy adding 275,000 jobs last month. Bloomberg spoke with acting labor secretary julie su about the data in the last hour. Sec. Su jobs numbers are very strong. The threemonth average is actually 265,000. We look at trends as much as monthly numbers. Our overtime figures demonstrates strong steady continued growth. Exactly what we want to see. It feels like the definition of a soft landing. Sonali Michael Mckee is joining us with
Cut. Also ahead, a rough morning for Health Insurers. Medicare investment rates come in short of expectations. Ge shares have been up sharply. The company now completing its final split by spinning off its Power Generation business. Ge aerospace ceo and larry culp and ge fernova scott stray sikh joining us a little later. We mentioned the tenyear going back close to 4. 4. This started with the ism data yesterday. Its constant. You look at it, just drips and drabs. The market is reacting in a curious way. Yesterday the nasdaq finished up. I thought that was incorrect. These are the stocks that should be getting hit, david. I do think this is a very important moment in the market because we had for dot ten about ra rates. Well, we did yesterday. A mistake for the nasdaq to be up . What does that even mean . I mean if rates go up, you want to sell the high multiples you also want to keep an eye on the companies that have a debt stack that needs to be refinanced. There were hopes at the ea
We will have a look at where european equities are trading, right now. Gmm is your function. Equities are rising and the stoxx 600 gaining for a third day. All these currencies are falling against the dollar. The euro continuing its slide after mccrone macron won the election. Eon droppingility 20 on rebounding power and gas costs in germany. A Nuclear Reactor that is offline after halting in early february. Shares are up 4 and you might ask why. Underlying fullyear earnings target. It has adjusted its adjusted net income is on track after oneoff factors dented earnings in the first. Shares up by 4 . They worlds biggest reinsurer, unit three shares down by 1. 7 . Firstquarter net income rose by 29 , missing estimates, surging stock markets, driving a 37 jump in the investment results. The companys troubled primary Insurance Unit after a loss in an earlier period. Rates eroding income from investors, catastrophes weighing on prices. Finishing with germany, german exports are rising for
That is probably a sideshow to what were really looking at, yields on fixed income. Tom jim polson will join us. O one ever says melt up it is always melt down. What a melt up we are seeing across asset classes. Francine or a belt sideways a melt sideways. Before we go to the u. K. , president obama wraps up his visit to saudi arabia. He is meeting with leaders from arab countries on the persian gulf. He reassured the saudi king that the u. S. Is his countries allied. A u. S. Official said that obama did not unleash back off of unleashing criticism. European Central Bank President may use a press conference of my designs that the ecb stimulus is working. Inflation is weak, but the euroarea jobless rates fell to its lowest level in four years. Coming down faster than. Conomists but exit a warning from billionaire investor George Thoreau who says that chinas debtfueled growth reminds him of what happened to the u. S. Nine years ago before credit markets seized in the global recession beg