Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt a fortt. Weve seen risk off behavior in europe we watch both covid19 developments and system husband hopes. Dohm is going to break this down to start the hour. We were down in the early parts of the session so far. Just after the opening bell. 300 point decline. You can see here were still hovering near. 75 decline for the dow and s p 500 about 1 p as it has been for the past couple months now, the nasdaq has really been the outperformer or underperformer on down days as you can see here. Continuing in that trend today 11,616 there 1. 25 declines overall take a look at the nasdaq so far, were still continuing to kind of hover near the record high levels. Not so far away from them right now. Finding some support over the last couple of months here with the nasdaq now down 1. 3 there still is a renewed focus on many of the Technology Names that are driving some of the action for instance, the momentum tr
Nasdaq up 151 points and looking to open about 31 points higher it has been a wild ride for investors all week the dow and s p are down over 2 the last three trading sessions the s p on pace for its worst twoweek performance the nasdaq has been a big mover. A lot to chew on after a tough week true, andrew. Tough in that it had been up so much we sort of glossed over september 11 19 years when you say it, dont you say, oh, my god, september 11 for you, it is about half your life for me, about a third of my life it went really quickly 19 years i remember so well mark hanes and Everything Else that happened. Year after year, constantly on september 11, it is amazing how quickly time goes. Since last year, weve seen our share of tragedy as well up until this pandemic, well see how history looks at all of this i would argue that 9 11 was the most consequential thing that happened in the past 50 years, maybe 100 years with security and how we live. You can define the world in many ways by th
Nasdaq is negative by 30 points. Our focus today on apple you see it on the right. Was in the green now its in the red. Pete, is apple vulnerable. Down 6 this week. Down 12 month to date yes its had great year. Is it now vulnerable like anything, theres so many different variables that everybody is look at as they decide to exit so many of the high flyers and obviously apple is one of those names. Thst no doubt it could be pressure on it i still believe in the company in terms of all the things i bring up they are defieping why they are still bearish on it. Anybody who is looking at apple is only the phone company is looking at it wrong. I disagree with that call. That doesnt mean it cant do gown further img t i think the pressure is on people are getting out of certain positions because they had such a great run to the upside were seeing a lot of that a lot of that has been indications we have seen for the long time that were very bullish and now we hit a bit of pause. All right you m
Workers. He said the democrats are still blaming america first. And washington and beijing hold talks on phase one trade deal with u. S. Saying both sides saw progress. This comes as chinas foreign minister arrives in europe today. 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In paris, good morning to you. Have we reached the top . Have we hit the high . Were in a pecklative bubble. Morgan stanley said were hop hev top heavy, ann marie. And theyre worried about growth. Ann marie annmarie the sales force. Com entered that. His is a tech rally. John just hit the mat and said k is not ok. He said think of it like algator jaws, you could easily get bitten. Manus and the other side of the coin, do we get a woosh that turns into a v. Ill leave you with one of the quotes from the mar began stanley piece. I expect a growth. A growth scare. Followed by a rate scare in the next few weeks and month which is could give us the first tradeable correction in the major equity end cease. How are the end cease doin
Shortly. Onhave got hopes of progress a vaccine and signals that they are making progress in terms of the u. S. China trade tensions. Both of those really firmly supporting the risk rally that we are seeing. Let me show you the state of play with the stoxx story. The back ofming off record highs in u. S. Stocks. The good times might not last, according to morgan stanley. They are saying the market is vulnerable to shocks, especially rising rates. Treasuries are on the back foot as we speak. We are looking at a weaker greenback. 830. Dollar at 1. 1 yeah,ps a little bit of a strange one given the wider risk appetite. The folks at pimco saying the gold rally is it played out yet is not played out yet. They believe gold remains attractively valued, especially in the context of low Interest Rates. Here are some of the stories we are watching. Both of the u. S. And china are seeing progress under their phase one trade deal. They are committed to the success of that. Senior officials from the