Busiest week of earnings thus far. Trillionlmost 16 worth of corporates reporting. We need to figure out exactly what the set up looks like. Lets do that with scarlet fu. Scarlet what we have learned so far as we are deepening in an earnings recession with more than a quarter of the s p 500 having reported. Third quarter etf down 18 . Third quarter revenue down last, but still up 4 versus last year. We have definitely turned the corner because declines in the top line and bottom line are less bad than it was in the second quarter. It may even turn positive by the second half of 2021 when the conversations become easier. The market had priced in all of these Third Quarter declines. So far, so good. 500 are topping estimates overall. Sales are beating estimates by 3 . That is the most in two years. Eps is surprising to the upside by 18 , slipping from a 23 margin in the second quarter. Gina martin adams says Growth Companies are beating estimates more widely than value companies. When ea
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Effective, it brought down the market up the day about 39 points s p 500 had given a run for the money. We are below that 2,800 level. S p up about 4. 5 keeping in mind the treasury yields right now, the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 606 andrew, ill send it over to you. Well give you an update now on the pandemic numbers. Global cases have reached 2. 7 million with 869,000 in the United States. The death toll in the u. S. Is nearing 50,000 new york cases have hit 263,000 and new jersey over 100,000. Georgia plans to reopen. They have the most confirmed cases with over 21,000 well talk about that throughout the morning. Yesterday, new york Governor Cuomo shared early results from the study of 3,000 people that said one in five new york City Residents tested positive. That means as many as 2. 7 million in new york already encountered the virus and survived and never knew it questioning the available of the test but said new yorks test was reliable enough to determine immunity thats base
The 10year is yielding 0. 75 . Well continue to monitor that as well. We have a lot of guests today. Including dr. Scott gottlieb who will join us in a couple of minutes. J js cfo, the ceo of moderna, ceo of related companies and the ceo of zoom. All in the next three hours. Andrew an update now on the pandemic in the United States. Now more than 582,000 cases and 23,000 deaths. North has 96,000 cases and 10,000 deaths. New york governor governor cuome numbers appear to have knocked off in new york. It was an accomplishment. A heck of accomplishment those Health Care Workers for the rest of my life, i will say nothing but thank you to them. I was not sure if we could keep the tide from overwhelming our hospital capacity. They did there is going to be no ephany or morning headline that says hallelujah, it is over thats not going to happen. Well hear more from dr. Scott gottlieb about plans to reopen the country and more about Governor Cuomos gathering of states on the east coast to disc
Taylor really seeing some big gains on the s p 500. This is the second straight monday where we have seen big gains. All of the monday before that going to march 2 posting big losses, so a relief that you are seeing some gains come in. Small caps are doing the best. This is a barometer of the u. S. Economy. Some hope, given new york city fatalities have perhaps started to level out, that the economy can get running again. There is some hope in the russell 2000. The riskiest of all sectors, the stocks index, many of the chipmakers get the revenue from china, also the biggest performer of them all. Take a look at the vix. 44 handle. This is the lowest going back to march 6. Finally, i want to look at some of the individual stocks moving today. A lot going on underneath the mes. Carnival is up 26 after a Saudi Investment Fund revealed a stake in the company. Ulta beauty rising 26 , added to jpmorgans focus list. Ulta beauty is one that jpmorgan is liking today. Nvidia, chipmaking stocks r