Once again along the gulf coast. The story of this storm, this hurricane will be that of the flooding rainfall. Were talking about a catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding situation. As you mentioned from southern mississippi all the way over into southern alabama including the mobile area, also into the panhandle of florida where the conditions have been very serious out towards pensacola. Now the wind, intensity of the storm coming down, moves further inland this afternoon. It is slowly crawling inland, neil. Only five miles an hour. It means relentless rain will continue over the same hours for hours and hours, resulting in that flooding. If that flooding that were alerting people and businesses to across the southeastern United States as the storm continues to move off to the north and east, that risk for serious flooding is going expand into georgia and up towards the carolinas the next couple days. It is really important that people and businesses be prepared in those areas. T
Launched today around 77. Around, you know, in that roughly about 1. 8 billion offering here where the valuation of the total company, if you extrapolate that out, youre getting well into the 13 billion neck of the woods. So a very, very Big Development here. Jackie deangelis is following it. This is kind of the rule of thumb, the vast majority have been of that ilk. But again much will have to change, and well see in the next few hours. Not a bad launch. What are you hearing, jackie . Not a bad launch at all. It came public under the Ticker Symbol u, neil, and its trading higher by 35 . Opening trade was 75 a share when it priced at 52. This is remarkable because the whisper number last week on the low edge of the range was 34. So you stand back and ask yourself what are investors thinking, especially during this time period of so much uncertainty, you know, to be bidding up a stock like this, you know . This is a company, as you said, its part of this Video Software chain, so it make
Session. Now things, if you can believe it, they arent as a bad as they were earlier in the session. The dow was down 706 points at its low, now down 442. The s p 500, its falling by 31 at the moment. The nasdaq is recovering somewhat from its low of 368 points, now down close to 134. And the russell 2000 is down by 17 points. Of course, those are the small caps, really not great with the Interest Rate outlook from the fed with todays gdp report. And that e do klein set in motion decline showed that the economy grew much slower than expected and that inflation remains persistent adding to fierce over Interest Rates and stagflation. Plus, Jpmorgan Ceo Jamie Dimon pouring more fuel on the fire, this morning he expressed serious doubts about the likelihood of a soft landing. I look at the range of possible outcomes, you can have that soft landing, im a little more worried that it may not be so soft, and inflation may not quite go away. The odds of a soft landing, the market kind of prices
Cramer. Suddenly we have brown chutes everywhere and that is a good thing. Remember we are on the lookout for a slowdown that would justify the defensive position that we dont need any more rate hikes. When we get brown shoots, the opposite of green shoots, wall street laps it up. The fed might win the fight against inflation. Thats what the dow gave and that nasdaq pole voted 1. 9 . That was easy. Its been hard to parse this economy. The numbers on march 8th for so steaming hot that it felt like the fed was blindsided because they been talk about multiple rate cuts this year. And you dont do that when the job market is booming. Anything that makes the fed looks stupid hurts its ability to maintain price stability paired with the fed really wrong . When wall street came on the possibility of rate cuts and the fed joined them we start getting actual signs of a weaker economy. It makes sense. Theyre doing their job. It was followed by another hot set of numbers for march. The benchmark u
Behind us, we can go back to our regularly scheduled earnings. No, we cant. Ill give you explicit instructions about how to handle the stock, but overall the damage i expected from the too hot opening meaning an opening that was much hotter than i would have liked wasnt that threatening to the rest of the market. The average is worth much more in anticipation of alibabas open bug it wasnt that unhealthy. Not that much Collateral Damage given the deal speculation on the floor of the stock exchange. Which brings me to the game plan for next week because i think we can focus on events at hand and not just ipos. Although theres an intriguing now we take it for granted because credit is so hard to get and the average person cant take advantage of the low rates the trawl rich hedge funds managers cash in on. Id like to see the number that tells us the recent dip in ratespurred sales. We also hear from auto zone which has a history of selling off after it reports and almost instinctively rall