Hour futures are solid, earnings phase one signing, lots of eco data our road map begins with trade optimism reigniting the record rally. The chinese delegation heads to d. C. Today for an expected phase one signing on wednesday plus new ceo, same crisis. What to expect from boeings new chief executive, David Calhoun, who takes over today and the future of the 737 max. Then there were four, alphabet nearing the trilliondollar market cap club, behind apple, microsoft and amazon stocks are looking to recoup some losses from dow, the dow surpassed 29k for the first time before finishing in the red. All three major indices are in the green since the beginning of the year led by the nasdaqs 2 gain as we were saying on squawk a few moments ago, jim, if lulu yes, maam of lemon is a clue to the earnings season, maybe this rally has been justified we have two conference this is ek wweek, icr in orlando andi conference in san francisco, health care. Theyre used to be able to say better than expe
Facebook falls, users are spending 50 million hours a day lesson the social network and happy about it shares set to open at the record. Its a huge day for tech earnings, mike soeflft, alphabet and amazon, all on tap after the bell. Futures signal a sharply lower open obviously a whipsaw week so far. Facebook is the top story. Up in the premarket, the social network post better than expected forecasts and increase in ad sales despite the time spent by Users Falling by 50 million hours a day. Mark zuckerberg last night on the earnings call. The most important driver of our business has never been time spent by itself. Its the quality of the connection and thats why i believe this focus on meaningful social interaction is the right one. The first ever quarter on quarter dau decline in the u. S. And canada they say its not a trend. They say its not a trend i think youve got to believe. The market probably doesnt believe in them because this thing is selling at a multiple almost the market
Buying a ticket on american and hopping on united. The dow has come a little bit off the lows. Down 239 points right now, the nasdaq is down 1. 7 . So no problems at the nasdaq. And yet, the nasdaq is actually down about. 4 more than the dow. Now, of course the dow does trade nasdaq stocks as well. But the point is, it would seem that the data were seeing that the declines are not based on this trading issue, outage, whatever you want to call it, right . May be more global macro. The benchmark tenyear treasury note yielding 2. 2 . And thats actually a 2. 5 move, guys which is not quite double that of the dow. So bonds are moving more obviously overnight in china. This is turning out to be a seminal day for the stock market. We had 1,400 Major Chinese companies suspended in trading. Not for these reasons. Many of them suspending their own shares because the decline. And something i pointed out early this morning, guys, which is this chinas stock market value declined in 30 days has been
Earlier. There are two kinds of trading halt, the kind caused by some sort of computer malfunction and the kind where government stops trading because stocks are in free fall and its the only way to break the velocity of the decline. Trust me you want to be in the trading hall caused by the computer crash and the New York Stock Exchange and not the one with the stock market crash namely the indices that trade in china, but you wouldnt know it judging by todays horrendous action. The dow tumbling 261 points and the nasdaq tumbling 1. 75 . There were not one, but there were two marvels today. The first was that the New York Stock Exchange went down and, i dont know, nothing really happened. Trading got rerouted to other exchanges and as painful as it is to say it got to the market was as bad on the other exchanges as it would have been in the New York Stock Exchange. I can remember a time when the New York Stock Exchange was the only game in town and this outage would have caused widespr
Opened up 250 points. Its not that i want stocks to go lower. You know that. I just hate it when people buy stocks up huge and then get picked off by a gigantic move that should never have occurred. As the average gave up almost all of their gains, closing up 33 points. The s p climbing 3. 2 . Nasdaq advancing just 0. 62 . The severe retreat made much more sense to me than the up opening because it was based on nothing that has happened here. And therefore zero staying power during the day. I get upset when i see that were taking our cue from the chinese stock market. And when they rally, we open higher . Well, the sellers come in knowing they have been given a gift, the gift of higher prices for all stocks. A gift that is frankly undeserved. The only difference this time we had to be wear of chinese bearing gifts, not just the grifts. Its this infuriating setup with the dollar and Interest Rates were going higher. We know that those are both poison to stocks. Well stocks were still cl