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Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at the Stock Exchange it is a historic day of trading. We will begin with the selloff which did include a break with Circuit Breakers richard on the stress test for stocks, mike santoli on the crude awakening in oil prices as the saudis launch a price war. Rick santelli on a bad yield trip for treasuries and Steve Liesman on the fear and the feds response bob pisani, lets begin with you and think ...

And the fed will get to zero pretty quickly. They are in a nowin situation. Had they not done anything the market would have been disappointed i think stocks are higher a year from today, at the end of the year. I am looking to raise my target i am at 3440 my notice for earn something 172. I think they cut 50 at the next meeting in just two weeks i think thats going to happen and thats where we begin our debate today, what i think is the only one that matters. The coronavirus and whether it was ...

Jim, is it short answer is yes but lets qualify it just because today is a day to buy doesnt mean we cant go lower from here. Look, when you say is it a time to buy, it doesnt mean you pile into the market today. It means over the coming days. There are still Big Questions to be answered. We know theres an Economic Impact and we know theres going to be a profit impact. The question is how long does it last thats one question. Which we just simply dont know the answer to. The second question is w...

To address the economic fall out from this and what the fed is looking forward to more greatly address the mainstream issues here the fed is focused on trying to get trade going smoothly markets functioning smoothly especially in the treasury and fixed income markets but bringing rate dous down to try o help where it can. Theres very little Economic Activity lower rates will not be of tremendous help. The best the fed can do is try to make markets function more smoothly what the white house can ...

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Industrial average is up more than 760 points. Steve weiss, i go to you first is this how a bottom, at least a near term bottom, is made . Does it feel like we are trying to do that today right friday we started trying to do it, towards the last hour of trading powell came out and talked i dont think there is any surprise to what he said i put some exposure on then. Put more on this morning feeling good about the market. But i think it is going to be shortterm heres why the u. S. , as of friday,...

Correction i wanted to see the market get back to at least flat on year. Now worry below that i didnt want it for the reason that we are currently experiencing it but the world didnt give you that choice. But i did feel we are extended in a lot of areas. A lot of that has been corrected very quickly i want to give you examples that i think are illustrative of what is happening out there airlines are down 9 in two days getting worse by the minute. Somis are down 10. 5 in two days nvidia made a ne...

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This market . I mean, look, i will tell you in a month you know all we know is that the market was relatively high based on relative optimism and the optimism has been punctured. Is it terminal who knows. A mean a few weeks ago the market had a bad day on coronavirus. A monday ago it had a bad day on iran will it be long term or short . Nobody knows. People sort of throw around terms like black swan event and waiting for those types of thing to really cause a dramatic market selloff does it feel...

That steep selloff after the fed surprise move, reversing today, at least for the moment its holding the Dow Jones Industrial is good for a 2 gain at this moment s p is holding above 3,000 1. 75 . Nasdaq up by 1. 5 . The question today, i want to know the answer to, joe, is, where are we what does this action tell us about whether weve hit a bottom or not or is this a process thats going to take more time its absolutely a process thats going to take more time this process began january 17th. On ...