A big move from stock, consumer launch from amazon big picture. This home in tech is about a new series of overlapping platform wars tiktok versus instagram. Sws versus aftezure julia, i would argue u. S. Versus china is shaping up to be a platform war platform war, jon, what youre saying is reciprocal trade. Were seeing this between china and the u. S. The question of whether it makes sense, safe for americans to have these chineseowned Companies Operating here in the u. S. Keeping in mind that u. S. Owned companies are not allowed to operate in china. Im talking about facebook i think its interesting to see how that dynamic plays out and this question of whether or not there should betiktok, mayb going to address that issue. Sand then apple, youre referring there, of course to this battle between epic and other companies that are participating in this new coalition. And apple in this battle over that platform. And those fees, right . Well, i am talking about that, and mike, im also t
Moving averages. This months worst performer on the dow. Plus activism in the restaurant sector. Outback steakhouses Parent Company down sharply. Lets begin with the markets extending this weeks losses, not a lot going right, and today, mike, a lot of it surrounds china and worries about not just growth but the debt burden as well. You wouldnt say its a new factor bits been on the list o worries. You have one of these situations where once you have this pretty sharp break in momentum to the upside, several weeks ago, some breakdowns in the longer term trend, some concerns about, you know, valuation that were always there that are being exacerbated and why has the yield become unanchored, treasury yields, and even global yields . All that stuff in the mix and then you have the related concern of, oh, what might what stress points might we see emerge out of that . All thats in the mix. I do think, also, yesterday, with the yields making those new kind of 15year highs, you started to see
Joseph. Were happy to have you here. Always. People have things. Its summer. If they asked me next week, i would say no, im on vacation. Even to spend time with you, i would turn that down. You know what, i take everything you say seriously, because it just makes me, right, i believe you. Yeah. Theres no reason to not believe me. Its not necessarily sarcasm. Not necessarily. Lets take a check on u. S. Equity futures. Joe mentioned towards the end of the session, we came off in the middle with the higher beyond yields, take a look at how were set to open. Look looking to lose 8 at the open, the dow looking to lose 49. After a day of declines. The dow fell 291 points on track for the worst week since march. The dow, s p and nasdaq are down more than 2 of the week. For the dow, its the first time it closed below its 50day moving average since june. Check out the pullback in technology. We have been talking about this for some time. The declines are stark. Apple, meta, microsoft, each more
Rear, and thats the way its been. Josh, you have some technical difficulties, as we would say, dow, s p, nasdaq below their 50 day moving averages yesterday, momentum has dried up, the third negative week in a row. The russell is not doing well. You can sort of pick the area of the market you want to pick on, because there are a lot of places to look at. Ive been in the camp this is seasonal and what you should expect in the month of august, and i have a million charts that back that up and im not ready to move away from that argument if things get materially worse, i may be forced to rethink that. I do not think this is about, all of a sudden, theres going to be this renewed push for a ton of new rate hikes. And, in fact, most people you ask them whats going on in the market this month, why did august suck so much . The rate increase, the odds are higher. Its a 90 chance of no hike and a 10 chance of a 25point basis hike and that would be okay. I dont think that is a huge difference.
Well reveal the company and speak with the ceo and an interesting three buys and a build gina sanchez is buying the u. S. Consumer and selling the chinese one. But first, to the inflation reading. Im still raising my eyebrows. And mike santoli is here to explain. A big part of the story is the bond yields. Yesterday, we had a failed rally on a benign cp ireport today, a telloff on a slightly hotter than expected ppi this really has been chopping around as the seasonals get a little more challenging coming into august. If you look at where it sits in a oneyear term, that pullback did get us right to the precipice of that 50day average. 4443 was the intraday low. This morning in the s p, why did that matter, if at all take it back, and ill tell you on july 11, the high for the day was 4443 what happened the next day really nice cp ireport, reported july 12. The market popped from there we filled it this morning. People think this matters, but it matters on a macro basis, because july 12,