We could sink our pals for giving clear signed today when they spoke at the federal Market Committee leaving these things unchanged. He mightve well done so, its really this simple you could timestamp the worse of the fed chief at his press conference with a charged s p rebound he made some comments right then to new heights it was perfectly tied that you had no wonder about how he got into the. To he became the bulls friend for a while. Going into he close gavel, things are very skittish but you know what, lately weve been worried about persistent inflation and shelter, cars, and foodstuffs which could have forced the fed to raise rates again. There are signs of softness, its all over the place but fortunately jay powell is worried more about the brown trees than the green trees. Hes not talking about tightening he thinks that inflation will go away on its own making it more of a dove than a hawk. The worstcase scenario for stocks he actually made a joke. He said he didnt see this or
Elon musk is reportedly going, quote, absolutely hard core around head count and Cost Reduction as tesla plans for more layoffs. Lets begin with futures moving lower with the fed kicking off the twoday meeting. 4. 2 yearonyear, jim, maybe a little too low. The wall street journal this morning talking about how powell feels good about higher for longer. I still think march was weak and youre not going to get a really strong number from april. Housing, shelter, thats bad. Theres also an mcdonalds did a great graphic on squawk. Theres just this belief among people theres no controlling this thing. I think you do get control. One of the stunning things is walmart cant make any money because people are too expensive. Were in a period that people think its inflationary. That has to break. What breaks it . A recognition that we that companies cant offer what theyre offering. Lets take mcdonalds. Lengths say mcdamageds misses. Misses on earnings. Yeah. They have to say we raised the price too
Reclassify marijuana. What the move means for trading in these names. Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. On the desk tonight tim seymour, karen finerman, and steve grasso. Stocks closing on a down note, with the nasdaq sinking 2 and the dow shedding 570 points, accelerating the last ten minutes of trading. All three closing near their lows of the session and well in the red for the month. Each ending fivemonth winning streaks. The dow posting its biggest mostly loss since september of 2022. Well dive more into what is behind these moves later this hour, but we have to start off with amazon. Shares are higher, though off their best afterhours highs. The company reporting a beat on the top and the bottom lines and higher ad revenues and sales in aws guidance in q2 though. Kate rooney has the details. Cloud growth was the key story here. Aws sales, thats what folks were watching. 17 growth, better than the 14. 7 wall street was expecting. A. I. Appears to be d
Meeting this week along with the jay powell press conference. That will be the focuses for the markets. Right now, the tenyear yield is just about where it has been the last tcouple weeks propalestinian protests continuing on College Campuses over the weekend some schools requesting Police Intervention to stop encampments. Jill stein was arrested at a protest. She said it was about freedom of speech which needs debate and dialogue at ucla, protests by propalestinian and proraisrael supporters and at state university, they paused connections to boeing after they demanded to cut ties with the weaponing Manufacturing Division the school has no investment in boeing it accepted 150,000 in donations. Boeing providing 28,000 a year for scholarships the University Paper aresident d in response to the issues. Officials in china removed restrictions on tesla cars after the vehicles passed the Data Security requirements. Just this morning, the wall street journal is reports that chinese officials
Companys products spans various sectors. Thats what makes it so interesting. The ceo will join us exclusively ahead, but we begin with todays market and bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. Bob . Hello, jon. Good to see you. We have been chopping around in a fairly narrow range and the trend is up and certainly since the pc report and the s p 500 and the trends been up here were trying to get to the 200day moving average and were at 5114 now, slowly, but surely. A lot of strength in boeing, thats great news. Apple. Caterpillars been strong. Goldman sachs has been strong and thats at a 52week high and a number of big movers nasdaq, the bigcap tech is mixed and lets take a look at the midcap tech stock and meta and alphabet is down 2 and amazon will close tomorrow and it is up fractionally here global industrials have been having a great little run in the last couple of days and thats good to see. Boeing, lets get out of this month and one of the worst month ever and boeing was nea