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Street. Bob pisani. A lot of fun today the company priced at 17 per share, it closed at 24. 48. I call that a successful opening. Now snap has a market cap, 34 billion. This is the same neighborhood as travellers, deere, General Mills and marriott. Why the healthy pop . The markets are trading near historic highs. Second investors have been starved for a high demand ipo for a long time. Third ipo returns have been strong. The average ipo is up 26 in the last year. And finally, the number of shares the company floated pretty small, just about 14 of the total shares outstanding. This was a great first day pop but a lot of Tech Companies have had great first days then they run into trouble within six months or so. Item number one. Facebook priced at 28. 12 but had a terrible time after that. Then we had twitter. They priced at 26 in 2013. Huge first day. They closed almost 45 but ....
Lets bring in bruins beleskey with bmo Capital Markets and dean maki and cnbcs steve liesman. What do you think . Need to take a really deep breath. My comment, not to be flippant, duh. Tell me something that i dont already know, issues that have confounded investmentors for the betterment of six months, number one. Number two, weve been pretty clear on the views in the market that are in a rinse and repeat. Cant get off the emerging markets commodity trade and cant seem to not wore egabout the fed, cant stop worrying about china. Well be worried about the election which should be thrown in there as well and think volatility is here to say so this term black swan for all intents and purposes is overused, its fearmongering and all about trying to grab the headline so i think what we already know is this. Black swans typically historically happen when you most expect them. Thats their definition. These are all known unknowns. Right ....
Are hitting the highs today. Im talking about the usual suspects. The consumer packaged goods. Only a handful of the good leaders that can truly turn a pre selling respite, a relief rally into something that lasts like the big Cab Companies internationally. Only a handful are making highs. Thats a sign of the staying power being a week. Unless it goes to the sameold sameold. I know all rallies look like theyre created equal. Dynamic moves all over the place. The kind of rally today is the mirror image of the typical selloff. On day one everything goes up. By day two, we know it will bounce. This is the wait works. The first day in the selloff. We stop and catch some buys. Its just the same thing. Nothing has changed. Before we entity into expects, why does this matter . Who cares, isnt a rally a rally . Just like i told you last week. There are varying degrees of bad, very bad, real bad. There are varying degrees of good rallies. A ....