For a closer look at the economic fallout from the coronavirus situation. Steve is dig through that right now and wee chell check in wit. Kelly. As mentioned the nasdaq was heading back to its record high, but now its under pressure. Down about. 5 at last check. Bob. Its under pressure because the mega caps are finally underperforming, its about time in the is all part of that broad evening o broadenning out of the market. You can see it again today. Whats outperform something whats doing better . Stuff that wasnt doing well a month ago. Weve had double digit gains in some of these banks. Fifth third up 15 so far this week. All of them are up double digits. Look at the retailers, nobody cares about macys or nordstrom. A few people are trying to do something. Some of these stores are up double digits. Gap, kohls, all up in the is for the week overall. Same thing with industrials. These stocks were not market leaders a little while ago. American, theyve had a great week. Theyre all up do
Headlines in the quarter some past underperformers are catching a big bid check out these moves and the financials etf up 9 and xlb materials up 3 and on the flipside, outperformers like tech and health care are underperforming the Broader Markets with the xlk etf up 1 and xlc communications up 1 so is this rotation temporary or will this be the new leadership Going Forward . Guy adami, lets start with you. Hi, mel hi, guy well, just about everything is temporary if you think about it except luggage in the great words of eddie murphy, but i digress. I think it can continue and i absolutely think the banks can continue and kudos to karen who has been talking about the banks and saying the pain trade will continue to be higher in the Broader Market what we have said is banks should be trading higher and for example, j. P. Morgan which weve outlined the metrics that i used that was a 62 tangible book and put a 1. 85 multiple and youre talking about a 118 stock and i absolutely think there
Edition of squawk box, which is starting right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watching with the u. S. Equity market and things are under pressure dow was down by 600 points on friday and adding to those losses today dow futures right now down by 273 points earlier this morning we were down by 350, so this is some improvement from a half an hour ago. The s p is down by 28 points the nasdaq off by 61 lets get rightto our big stor of the morning that is, of course, the Berkshire Hathaway meeting that was health over the weekend. Warren buffett speaking out about the Global Pandemic and his recent investment moves. This was a little different this year no crowds. Usually theres 40,000 people there. This time it was just buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Vice President on stable but his message was still received loud and clear. Buffett made the case that you should never bet against america, b
Lets go to bob. Hello there are a number of reasons we keep rallying. The bottom line is for the moment generally the market is choosing to see the Glass Half Full whats the Glass Half Full a number of data points. We did have better than expected china export data. Thats pretty good news overall. Were in range bound territory but the trend is slowly on the upside moving to the upside. Lets review the data. Thats a data point we had generally were seeing reopening hopes. Were also seeing a mass i fiscal monetary stimulus most people believe the fed is real the fed put is real and hopes for improved treatments and vaccines Glass Half Full for today. Theres days when the market is glass half empty and they recognize the risks. You can see that in down days. Further downward earnings revisions. A third of the s p is given no guidance at all. Its hard to figure out where the multiples are. Flst concern it will get bogged down in partisan debate in congress we all need more fiscal stimulus
Half an hour ago pretty good turn around yesterday. Interesting, cramer, the night before said it would start at 230. But he said it would get sold out the day before i watched as the dow improved. The s p was stopped. I was like, figures. At the end of the day, thats called in the money. In the money in the tacos now, you change the story. I said it from the get go joe, it will cost me a lot less to buy the tacos. But you have to listen to me. You are used to that. Becky, what do i get . I get to not buy you a dog somehow. You won you were complaining about this you are such a welsher you set up the terms of the deal and came up with the whole idea. Suddenly, you got your whole dog expense. Oh, well. Did you talk about yields did you see oil . I didnt. I saw now that it is above 27 a barrel still the june contract. Yield on the 10year around 0. 6 the oil prices watching this, the wti Contract Trading now that is something we have been watching closely because of the overall demand pic