Shares of pharmacy giants are under pressure after amazon said it was jumping into the Prescription Drug business bowe is off a little pour than 100 points nasdaq and s p clinging on the gains. Coming on todays show, retail earnings season full swing. Shares of coles are higher after topping eps estimates this morning. We will talk with the ceo. Plus, as the u. S. Is seth coronavirus records we will talk with dr. Eric gooseby. All of that still to come. First lets focus on the big stories today. Mike santoli is tracking the market phil lebeau has more on teslas spree into the s p 500 and we will talk about the pharmacy space and amendss move into it. Mike santoli lets start with you. It was the morning was off the lows a mild pullback. Market seemed like it needed to cool off and rest for a day. Right now riding the upper rail here we close at a record yesterday remember that. Above 3600 working below week ago mondays high hard to tell whether thats going the matter or not. Thats about
Risks to the Economic Outlook. The fundamentals of the u. S. Economy remain strong. The Unemployment Rate has been near halfcentury lows for more than a year. The anticipation of job gains have been solid and wages have been rising. These strong labor Market Conditions have underpinned solid household spending, which has been the key driver of Economic Growth over the past year at the time of our fomc meeting in january, prospects for continued Economic Growth remained favorable, and we judged that Monetary Policy was well positioned to support that outlook. Since then, the spread of the coronavirus has brought new challenges and risks the virus has afflicted many communities around the world and our thoughts and prayers kgo out tho those who have been harmed its also disrupted Economic Activity in many countries and has prompted significant movements in Financial Markets the virus and the measures that are being take on the contain it will surely weigh on Economic Activity both here a
For only 15 minutes. Since then stocks have moved sharply lower. The g7 proposed policies, but the tenyear breaking below 1 for the first time ever. Darius adamczyk will join us in a bit. We have Rick Santelli here, Steve Liesman is covering the emergency fed cut. And meg tirrell has the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. Ill be watching the fallout for the banks. Pete is joining us yesterday, today two very different days have you chanced what youve been doing have not. This is a classic buy the rumor sell the news type of trade. It was tell graphed friday and over the weekend were trading higher eventually. You still think we go long you do think the panic is overblown. I am in the life sciences. I know some of the things going on that are not well publicized, but theyre out there. Its moore pernicious, and now its on our shores, and thats the big concern. It is a virus that i do believe that at the end of this quarter, a few months, well be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
And volatile session the. 5 rate cut by the fed morning doing little to calm markets. Maybe exj rating the selling dow giving up half of mondays gapes at the end of the day down 785. Keep this in mind. The dow is now down 3,500 points from highs of less than a month ago. Stocks of course a story but the big story of the day was the bond market. Holy smokes. Bond yields continuing to fall on the 10year, in fact the freefall at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time at 0. 99 . The drawing is not good but you get the point. Under 1 on the benchmark 10year note we have never seen that before buyers not just coming into bonds, also flocked into gold and the gold mining stocks the precious metal up 3 the miners even more the gdx, a gold mining dpks index up 5 today. If you tuned in last night we hope you did everybody around the desk said they were not buying into the gains. In fact, guy adami i believe you said well rally to the 3,500 on the s p 500 on fail you nailed it what do you think of the markets n
Well and apple. That event is just wrapping up now. Announcements shaking out in the stocks of different competitors. Were going to fill you in on all of that action but joining us for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Steve, great to see you. Good to see you its amazing. Not necessarily a major move for the averages today or right now. Everything is slightly lower and actually, if you look at the week, the dow is actually flat so far to start off the week and yet theres been this great rotation talk to us about that. The rotation is coming out of growth into value. How long does that last is how long the market will be under pressure and for now, it probably will last a little bit longer, but get a trade deal, throw everything i just said out the window and you see everything rally back people are making the analogy back to 09 and 2016, with this rotation that lasted for a couple of weeks. I dont think it will be that long do you really think were going to get a trade deal