First lets go right to bob pisani for more on the market selloff today. We are off the lows but just barely 3366 was the low today, 3381 right now. Lets not quibble about a few points the damage is pretty widespread, but the general theme is cyclical stocks and stocks most associated with reopening stories are having a tough time of it. Energy, oil down about 3 at 1 , banks, which had a good time last week not starting off the week well, industrials, another cyclical group and defenses will sectors like utilities and staples all down sap dropped as much as 21 over in europe here they cut their revenue forecast for the full year they expect a fresh wave of lockdowns to hurt demand through the first half of 2021 first off, first half is alarming but just the idea that general airically t general ai generically, people are betting its a broader more than stock specific so we have no stimulus right now of any term, near term, long term, any term we have a reopening story thats going rather
Out. The billionaire Tilman Fertitta will be here power lunch starts right now the dow making major moves to keep up with the changing times and the changing economy bob is looking at the moves and how they will affect the markets. Bob a bit of a shake up in the dow but the moves make some sense. Let me explain why lets take it piece by piece first we have salesforce. Com replacing exxon mobile the apple split has reduced the tech weighting in the dow and we need more Technology Sales force reflect the growing importance of Software Overall in the u. S. Economy. You dont need two Oil Companies in the dow you dont need exxon and chevron with energy only 3 of the s p one of them chevron will do. Lets look at the dow industrials. Pfizer is the lowest stock price in the dow the price would be even lower. Another reason to move it away amgen is reflecting the growing importance of the biotech space. This sounds like two industrial swaps and they are theytheon overlaps a bit with boeing now,
Blib rated and driving you bonkers. Ive been telling you to keep your money in a barbell. Tech plays soaring and some recovery stocks that rally when we feel more come nfident abouth future today the covid winners got hammered but the recovery stocks roared transports, travel, leisure, aerospace, retail dow surging 358 points and s p advancing what a streak. The tech heavy nasdaq losing. 39 . If you own none of these winners, you had a miserable day. If you follow my barbell advice you offset losses with good gains from the most beaten down parts of the market. Why is this so important why does it matter you protect your portfolio from a group that made you a ton of money . You need to understand something about portfolio management, a skill i spent 40 years learning i try to teach every day think of this show as a continuing Education Course for both of us for years some of the smartest people are preaching the same gospel its a fools game and impossible to consistently beat the marke
9 after reporting yesterday afternoon. Lets take a dive deeper into snaps quarter stifels john eggbert and Lloyd Wamsley of Deutsche Bank joins us now gentlemen, you both have buys on this stock, and there was interesting commentary from snap about how theyre expecting lower user growth in the Third Quarter, and theyre also anticipating there will be significant revenue headwinds, even though the first 19 days of the quarter they showed 32 Revenue Growth so jon, tell me, why are you so bullish . Well, im bullish because of the longterm story. And i think that the underlying trends are still intact. On the short term, it sounds like the Third Quarter will have some complications were not exactly sure how much sports well have. Back to school may be limited in parts of the country feature films wont be launching like they normally do, and those are big areas of brand advertising spend that snap and other Digital Media players benefit from in the short term but in the long term, the direc
Results. Julia ba Julia Boorstin is in los angeles and very volatile in the afterhours session. Melissa, great to have you back netflix adding 15. 7 million subscribers and thats about double what analysts expected. The company also forecasting the addition of 7. 5 million subscribers in the Second Quarter and thats more than 3 million more than analyst predictions for that Ceo Reed Hastings saying there are three main effects of coronavirus. In addition to subscriber growth temporarily accelerating due to home confinement and he says that International Revenue will be lower than previous forecast due to the dollars sharp rise and he also says due to production shutdowns and spending on contact will be delayed. Hastings also expects viewing to decline and subscriber growths it decelerate as home confinement ends and as for the impact of netflix does expect some delays and they do expect secondquarter content to be modestly impacted. Since we have a Large Library with thousands of title