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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 about whats important this morning. Whats important is how did the system respond to the immense str...

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 a blip or a black swan and what that means for where stocks may go from here we will attempt to answ...

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 what policy response . Now on that second question lets say this theres a heck of a lot of room for i...

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 do, what the fiscal side can do is address more in a detailed way, in a more pinpointed way the econ...

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