Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
Have congressman andy biggs. After the mess from the first president ial debate. I wanted to learn more about policy. Many feel america lost i would like to see another debate with a different formality. Our Political Panel will weigh in. All that and so much more on making money. Charles market rally today might not have been with some expected after last night but there are a number of moving parts that actually matter more to the stock market, right . The economy is probably more important than the debates. Heres the thing, folks with, very a string of positive Economic Data pouring over the last 24 hours. Yesterday Consumer Confidence saw the biggest drum in 17 years. Chicago pmi jumped to levels not seen since 2018. New home levels highest ever really. Adp jobs report, 749,000 private sector jobs added last month. Sectors closely associated with overall optimism and election out comes. 60,000 in mining, 60,000 in construction. 130,000 manufacturing jobs. Street holding out hope th
Stimulus bill. What happens if washington lets us down again and millions of people, especially in the hospitality industry, find themselves struggling to put food on the table . Does that mean we should use a day like today where the averages went up dow gained 122 points. S p climbed 0. 80 to sell everything into strength not so fast. Like i say every night at the end of the show, there is always a bull market somewhere, and even without a stimulus package, weve got a whole bunch of them that should do just fine as a matter of fact, theres a lost of breadth here first, the relentless bull market in housing. You can think tall brothers, dr horton, these companies are huge kinc covid winners. When youre stuck working from home, your housing priorities change who wants to live in a tiny apartment in the city to save time on your commute when you have no commute. This is the zoom economy, people you might as well move to the suburbs or the country where you can have more room thats why t
Because of it. And the retail divide continues. Walgreens and Bed Bath Beyond getting crushed today following weak sales updates and the staples names like walmart and costco are higher. The s p 500, were 59 minutes left of trade. Its not there the nasdaq is up 0. 6 . The s p 500 is a little bit lower. Just a few moments, well speak with alpha one capital dan niles about the market selloff why tech in particular has been outperforming and what to do now. Plus, former treasury secretary jack lew will be with us to weigh in on joe bidens economic plan and work from home winner service now, it is up 50 on the year Just Announced a new partnership with zoom. Bill mcdermott will be live to discuss. Another very strong day for the cloud names. Lets get straight toour big story of the day the market selloff mike santoli is tracking the action all day long which does appear a bit better in terms of the losses, mike yeah. This was a day when we sold the rip in the morning and then bought the di
Over to you. All right tyler, thanks very much. All three of the major averages are hanging onto their gains in the month of may tension escalating with china. My theme is still intact thats a broadening of the rally. This is in stutter steps you get a day like today where you pull back a little bit but not numuch obviously, some of the china etfs, thats first one down today on concerns about whats going on in hong kong. Look at the leadership this week russell. Its been bank stocks and Energy Stocks oil is on the downside thats what i mean those groups have been leadership stocks here look at these china stocks we did get alibaba thats down concerned to whats going on hong kong what was down, transports, russell down the nasdaq, the big tech names is under performing this week. This is rotation this is broadening out of the market that trend continues if you look at individual secto sectors, banks were behaving horribly they are outperforming this week so the Energy Stocks even though