Abramowitz, Jonathan Ferro off. Anna edwards joining us with the london perspective. The vix, 21. 59. The marketrn to overall. Yields coming in two basis points on the 30 year bond. Bond with a0 year negative yield had record interest. That is how odd that is not in the textbooks. , with a lot of things that are not in the textbooks now. The extent to which Central Banks are manipulating markets, keeping yields low, keep borrowing costs for everyone low. There is nothing normal about what we are seeing here. Incredible movement on the equity market yesterday in the United States, getting back to valentines day levels. This is the strangest recession, heard in that clip at the top of the session. The fundamentals of the economy look so daunting, but is the equity market just doing its job discounting way into the future . Tom we will have to see. It is very important to understand yields have come back. Over to a lower yield regime. Anna edwards, you have the morning brief. Anna yes i d
Component earnings joining us for the hour is stephanie link great to have you here i think thats exactly where we should start we had earnings from walmart and cisco. Cisco is the drag on the dow how would you characterize how it reflects back to the Broader Market last quarter the same thing happened where cisco disappointed and walmart posted a better than expected number. This is what this economy swhat this market is enterprise spend is weak on trade concerns and uncertainty and thats not Getting Better any time soon versus the consumer being very strong those numbers are very impressive 6. 6 stack comp for walmart. It actually kratd. Ecommerce sales 41 . Estimates are going up for walmart and going down for cisco and i dont think theres a lot of visibility at cisco even if you listen to that Conference Call they were disappointing across the board. You got to pick your spots of where you want to be well dive deeper into each of those Companies Reports ahead. Stephanie will be wit
Schumer calling it, quote, an agreement that is very good for the american people, and a, quote, genuine breakthrough. Mcconnell and schumer coming together, putting together this deal, which by the way, pours money into the military and into domestic programs like opioid addiction and support, but wait till you hear whats not even mentioned. It is possible the markets are back to business as usual after three sessions of intense gyrations, stomach churning falls and dramatic climbs . The s p is calm as a cucumber, nasdaq down 41. We here at the claman countdown, its not over. Today has endured a 500 point pluspoint swing. You cant say all quiet on the western front. There is zero guarantee at the moment. As we thought things are settling down, we start swinging like a pendulum. Whats going on . We point to this. With the dow up 94. Volatility woke up from month long hibernation last friday when Rising Interest Rates sounded the alarm and the dow plummeted 665 friday. Down 1175 monday,
Is this about the treasury market . Its a little bit about everything. I mean volatility is bark. Weve seen that since late last week into this beak. It has been a most wild ride yesterday and the day before. The biggest number one and two point swings ever in history. So the volatility in equities is back. Some has a correlation to what weve seen in treasury yields. Weve saw them pull back a couple days today, moving higher. We had the budget approval. That brought uncertainty, billions of dollars to be spent over the years ahead. Took us off the earlier highs. In the morning just like yesterday we started off to the downside. Less dramatic. Same pattern. Were down 12points 127 points at open. In the end we flatlined. Were down 19 points. We nearly lost 400 points of gains. Thats too bad because we obviously seen a runup. The big picture volume is here, volatility is here. We have to digest some moving parts. Treasury yields dont always have inverse relationship to stocks. And in this
We will have more details. Everybody seems to be cutting prices. Wireless carriers, online brokerages, but costco is going the other direction and raising its membership fee. Investors not exactly happy about that. Stock is down 4 right now. We have both signs of whether todays drop is a buying opportunity for investors. Thats all coming up here. And making work cool again. Mike row, the former host of dirty jobs testified to congress about the importance of blue collar ones. He will join us live to discuss closing that gap. I always liked mike. Very nice man. Start with our interview with wilbur ross on squawk. Hope you saw it. Kayla tausche has highlights for us. It was a wideranging conversation, but much of it focused on trade because secretary ross said that the president has trade top of mind for what ross will be doing over the next four years. Getting rid of both tariff and what he calls nontariff barriers to trade. They sort of took a trip around the globe and explored the cas