Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued stock to play with there is pressure to answer and three u. S. Restrictions are hurt something chip makers like xilinks and theres no end to that in site good morning, guys pat, are you surprised not a the hoff overlap here. So in that sense, maybe this deal isnt at risk but, hey, not a lot of overlap here. So maybe this is risky the. Yeah. The so as you said before, amd needs to grow. When i look at valuation, im sure stacy will will weigh in on this, it had to do something organic growth isnt
Deadlocked on stimulus we know the economy needs more stimulus, certainly pockets of it do. Does the stock market, though . What is if it doesnt happen im not sure if the stock market is pricing it in, happening right now. I mean, theres no scoreboard that i can tell you definitively its being priced in, but i dont think its in there. So if you do get something, i think it will be good for sentiment and it will probably lead to new highs, but if you dont, independent nm not sure as wbig of a disappointment as i would have thought six months ago. A lot of works continues to work, ive been talking about the housing stocks all year. Lows in particular in that index, low looks prime for a mega breakout, about to take out previous resistance, put that one on your radar. And then theres leadership from energy today, which is kind of weird. We were looking at some of these names and exxon could double from where its trading right now and still be negative on the year thats how beaten up this
7. 44 . As you noted before the yield curve. Steepening and a rally in the financials you mentioned that june 10 was the high that was the day where the markets had their maximum enthusiasm about the strength of the recovery and how fast it would be that was the peak where the come back of value and cyclical sectors. That seems to be the dynamic and the push for which stocks were preferred and the market seven days in a row of records is not to be dismissed guys the intraday record high in this session and well have to see if this continues . Yesterdays high is around 3,500. Coming up, well talk about the abrupt halt to the sports world. We ha we have fed president s and the interim ceo of tiktok. What a story it has been and a soap opera all week long we are learning more in the details in the sale of tiktok after walmart confirmed it has teamed up with microsoft sources tell us that walmart ineshlly wanted to be the lead buyer together with what was alphabet and soft bank coo and ran
The best day in two months. This may suggest that despite the fact we have a huge gains to the mega cap stocks, there is uncertainty from whether there will be fiscal stimulus from d. C. , other earnings report, big oil doing poorly. Not a lot of cyclical bullishness at this moment. There are concerns showing through that haven yen getting such a big bid on the day against big tex strength. Taylor when you talk about that big tex strength it is the big tech strength is exacerbating the trend hows that faring as the winners continue it to extend the gains . Abigail it shows on a yeartodate basis. Apple is up yeartodate as a sign of the winners. Chevron, which also reported today, down more than 30 . If we were to take a look at this relative to the s p 500, we will see on the year apple and amazon up in a huge way. On the other hand, the s p 500 flat. The s p 500 equal weighted index is down almost 9 . This is the tale of two stories relative to stocks around 2020. The pandemic haves, t
Sanctions and claims to the South China Sea take center stage today. Stocks are shrugging it off. The dow up more than 400 points but the big tech is struggling faang, internet names that have been on fire are seeing weakness today. Were following it all 59 minutes left of trade. Certainly weve been all over the place in markets but were up as we stand with the major indexes we have a big line up of guests. In a few moments well speak with shrewsberry, cfo of wells fargo. And Robert Kaplan will join us and well speak with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer an earlier biden endorser as biden lays out more details of his economic plan. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching at this hour wilfred has the highlights ph wilfred, start off with the banks here. The key focus, sara, as we expected it to be on provisions for potential bad loans. They rose from all the banks from q 1 to q 2 and rose more than expected. Wells fargos more than doubling quarter over quarter the big question