I got some sleep you didnt miss much this last week. Kind of Nothing Happened not really actually. What week so much happened. What week are we in its going to be 52 for 52 at the end of 2020 in terms of crazy weeks. Thats true. S p was almost closing at a high im faking now like you. Im not in new york city do you like my backdrop . What do you think of it . Thats what im saying. You look great you look great you look fabulous. Okay. Is this are you old enough to remember huntly and brinkley what are we . What are we trying to pass our self off as here what do you think . Chancellor and tv people were probably trying all right who knows who knows. Let me tell everybody about the craziness of what happened in yesterdays market because the swings were wild stocks were up, as joe was mentioni mentioning, we flirted with the height of it most of the day but then turned late lower late we closed lower later in the day. At one point we should tell you the s p 500 was within 1 2 a percent fr
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Abramowicz some Jonathan Ferro your equity market on the s p 500 slightly negative this morning fantastic lineup looking ahead retail sales just around the corner. Earnings from home depot dropping across the bloomberg tomorrow. Numbers from target results from walmart on thursday. But once again this morning, we have to begin in china. Rate cuts bramo and the data not great at all. The biggest rate cuts going back to 2020. The data coming weaker across the board. Whether it has to do with retail sales, whether it has to do with industrial production. They scrapped their youth unemployment metric, which is not exactly encouraging. And now the question is, are they preparing a big enough stimulus to really stave off weakness that is much deeper than people expected . This is the right signal. The big question, youve alluded to it, whats next . Heres the commentary this morning from standard chartered. The cut has been aggressive from sogdian. This is unlikely to be the last measure. So,
President biden imposes limits on u. S. Investments in china. Alibaba returns to growth across all of the main divisions, defying chinas economic turbulence. We will take a deeper look at the Supreme Court ruling in the epic case siding with apple, at least for now. The other big story was inflation, gaining 0. 2 last month. The slowest pace of gains for two years. The market starts thinking about the fed and then says maybe the fed will skip a rate hike in the next meeting. Why do we care about the fed . Higher rates discount the valuations for future cash flows for names on the nasdaq 100. The main text the main tech index outperforming but we are basically treading water. The other big risk as it is bitcoin. We are the same level we have out for two weeks. The u. S. 10 year yield climbing back up. Remember the story we keep reiterating. Yields have been coming slightly lower from 4. 2 on the 10 year to now nero took now nearer to 4 . The earnings story is disney. So many stories in
Last week. Overnight, in asia, japans nikkei topped 40,000 for the first time. Stronger corporate earnings and surge of chip stocks with Artificial Intelligence playing things up. The nikkei above 40,000. If you look back here in the United States, the treasury markets show yields are higher. Tenyear yielding 4. 2 . The price of bitcoin has been impossible to stop lately. You will see it is up another 3. 7 . Above 65,000. It will be a new high. Theoretically. We are watching crude prices inching up toward 80. The high end of the range. 79. 68. Opec plus countries delaying production. That means 2. 2 Million Barrels per day of cuts planned for the First Quarter of the year will continue into the next quarter. We will talk more about this and the implications with helima croft in the 8 00 hour. Congressional leaders released the details of the first six budget bills to keep the government funded. Democrats secured full funding of the special Food Assistance program for women, infants and