Investors are back on and betting that stimulus is off and their favorite trade is back in. They, amazon, facebook, are all helping the s p 500 higher today, having held it back earlier this month. Stimulus is not just key to the Value Investor right now. Fed chair jay powell and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin making the case today for more stimulus. It looks as though the base case is no additional fiscal support. That is why we are suddenly seeing the rotation back into big tech and byebye any value investing. Joe yes. The prospect was already looking dicey for fiscal stimulus. With the new fight in d. C. Over the vacancy on the supreme court, that reduces the odds. But even setting aside the market question, we hear from fed chair powell that to get a robust recovery, we need more stimulus. It was expected by the fed we would have it. Bloomberg economics is projecting that gdp growth will be 5 slower than it would have been in q4 in the absence of stimulus. Again, rotation, value
Good friday morning. Were going to kick things off this hour, of course, with tiktok as the president orders downloads of the platform and we chat to be blocked beginning on sunday does this put the oracle deal into jeopardy . We have every angle good morning. What we know right now is the e commerce officials is that as of midnight on sun theyre going t stop people from using the apps. The quality will be degraded pretty quickly it is after the president ial election, carl of course we chat is used for Many Americans to communicate with family back home, also for payments, logistics, and i know you were talking about this perhaps being a bit of a climb down, but we dont really know the implications yet yes there are 19 million we chat users here in america versus 1. 2 billion in china, but we dont know how many of the 19 million users are businesses meanwhile the app will continue to operate as it is. Does it not protect some of the bigger american businesses like starbucks and disney
Still lots of questions swirling an tech. Does the turbulent in tech continue, do you think by the way, value has been leading lately and thats a story in and of itself yeah. You know, a whole host of folks said that would happen, eventually, scott. From tom lee to Larry Mcdonald and so forth i dont think the story is over for tech you and i talked about that monday i said i think that we are unlikely to test significantly lower in tech. Yet, here apple is back down on the lows of the last several months, scott. Ive noticed a lot of those value plays that you discussed, for instance, infrastructure plays in particular. Steel, mining, things like that. Getting lot of money flow, a mean a lot thats worth noting. To your point, thats partially why perhaps people are using tech as a source of funds. I dont know how long that lasts. I certainly am not betting that it lasts very long as far as tech being a wreck and value being where you want to be thats the way it is for the last several se
Well i dont know maybe they dont mean. I will go down a great. Part. Around one. Route. This is the one business show you cant afford to miss from bridgeboro in washington coming up the Federal Reserve has spoken and now its a plan to hold rates steady as the u. S. Economy is slowly bell. Think back straight ahead we think an indepth look at the moves of the nations central bank has the future of volatility in the wake of copan 1000 remains uncertain gold has seen a spike in value as investors flee to safe haven assets but what does the future hold but well get into that with a packed show today so lets dive right in. The Federal Reserve held another policy meeting wednesday as part of an effort to determine where to go with u. S. Interest rates and what it will take to get the economy moving again overall there was some positive news as members of the Federal Reserve board upgraded their forecast for the economy to show a smaller contraction in Gross Domestic Product and a lower Unemp
You know, of three straight weeks in the red this time its not tech thats leading the sell off you have materials, industrials and Energy Taking the market lower at this hour plus, still front and center for both washington and wall street is that tiktok melo drama. Will the chinese give it its stamp of approval. Power lunch starts right now lets go to bob for a look at whats happening and why. Bob. This did not start today. It started earlier in the month. It Gains Momentum in the last four days. Theres some very good reasons why. This didnt come out of nowhere. Lets review why the markets are down concerns in the uk about potential new lockdowns. There are increased trade tensions with china. Concerns have increased. Concerns about over value tech stocks that hasnt gone away. I think were seeing a bit of rising anxiety around the election this is not a mystery about whats going on. What you want to look at as tyler mentioned is whats selling off today. If youll notice cyclical stocks