Consumer confidence relatively judge the michigan consumers intimate data is a good guide. Lets break it down a different way. Current conditions, 85. 9. That is above expectations at 84. 9. This is what i was really looking for, expectations also ,oming in ahead of expectations but they are still below current conditions, 79. 2. They are not going down, which ethic is the really important thing, as we see the virus picking up. Alix and we didnt get stimulus, counterintuitive to what many thought would happen. Big tex stocks are lower on a stocks big tech are lower on a flurry of data. Now with us, mark st oeckle. Are you buying the dip . Tok i think people need keep it in perspective. The reports were good. I think what we are seeing today is skimming a little but of the froth out of the valuation adjustment. I think they are all very wellpositioned and very well performing companies, but lets also not forget weve had a big run up into these numbers. The interesting part is you look a
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
Its at the 27,000 level, up from 18,000 in march. Check your 401 k and smile. Whats going on here . Well, first theres a lot of talk about congress adding to the president s virus aid. The democrats made a big mistake walking away from mr. Trump from any deal, allowing the president to jump right in. Wall street would love another trillion or two of stimulus. Here we go. Can you believe this. Putin says russia has a vaccine. They have not finished Clinical Trials but his daughter has taken it. Im a skeptic. When the news broke, it did lift stock prices. We will tell you all we know. I do know this. Tim cook is a billionaire. He owns a chunk of the most valuable company in the world. Bernie sanders might not approve but i think its good to see a brilliant executive join the billionaires club. He and apple are wildly successful. All right. Look whats coming up. Maybe joe bidens choice for Vice President , maybe today. Hes boxed himself into an identity politics corner. A prediction that
What could detail the stocks the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed 1. 24 . What would make us want to dump the red hot stocks that have been leading us higher i dont see this rally collapsing under its own weight, which is what happened the last time we had an explosive tech rally in 2000. We got ahead of ourselves but the Actual Technology wasnt there yet. We laugh at the. Com casualtiecs the truth is they are ahead of the time it could have been chewy i want to take on the hateful 1999 analogy, remember when it was shot up in 2000. I want to take it on directly. You have to understand why its misleading and constantly brought up and why it makes sense to do so because there are surface level parallels but not that much otherwise. Back then we had two markets, the s p 500 and the go go nasdaq which is a little like today only one of those markets was real the s p. Thats a major difference this time around. Im more confident in todays Tech Companies even if the valuation seems stretc
Struggle just to keep up. Look. I think that all of these have one thing in common. They all believe that the future is a little bit better and a little bit faster to come than many of us believe it is rather remarkable to see a consensus overnight from companies that basically say, you know what . Darn covid full speed ahead that includes boeing boeing has what i regard as being a very bullish scenario involving good cash, involving the possibility of returning to much more flight in, lets say, the next year. And even after 1,600 flights of the 737 i dont think theyre going to call it maxx anymore i dont know i think were growing to have a hard time keeping us down today unless faang keep us us down because the hearings go badly. We have a couple of guidance. Ebay the other one that raised guidance. Starbucks had a lot of things to say analysts recommend stocks its an exciting time. In a lot of ways, youre with a tesla call it turns out tell la sla is goi be a big car company thats no