here, as well, ahead of the fomc meeting. and we'll continue to monitor nvidia as we head into day two for that. >> more chips news we expect this week. intel may be getting chips act money. >> could be a big ticket number, too, i would imagine. that's going to do it for us here at "overtime." >> "fast money" starts now. live from the nasdaq market site in the heart of new york city's times square, this is "fast money." here's what's on tap tonight. nvidia in focus. we're watching shares of the a.i. darling as ceo jensen huang takes center stage at the company's developer's conference. we're bringing you the headlines from the event and the trades in the a.i. stocks. plus, bubbling higher. shares of pepsi seeing their best day since october 2022, after a big upgrade on wall street. what analysts think is giving this soda stock a little extra fizz. and later, tesla shares revving up. will now price hikes be enough to get the stock out of its rut? we'll debate what is next for this ev maker. i'm melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. on the desk tonight --

bonawyn eye sonson, karen finerman, dan nathan, and guy adami. ceo jensen huang of nvidia speaking right now. he's announced new partnerships and unveiled a new gpu. shares up 5% earlier in the day, but closed up less than a percent, currently trading down by a quarter of a percent. kristina partsinevelos joins us now with the very latest. kristie anyway? >> nvidia's ceo reiterating we are just at the tipping point for a.i., and all that means is that you're going to need bigger gpus. nvidia revealing its new generation artificial intelligence platform. key word platform there, to run a.i. models. they are calling it blackwell, and it comes with the blackwell bh-200 gpu, the graphics processing unit, the latest one we've been waiting to hear about. it's going to be four times the training performance of the h-100. 25 times lower in energy use and

30 times the inferencing power, compared to the previous hopper architecture, or the h-100 chip that we've all talked about constantly. inferencing is a big driver. the fact they're mentioning that, we know just in the last earnings call, inferencing contributed data center revenue. the fact this chip is going to be even stronger with inferencing allows nvidia to maintain that lead. the blackwell will also be manufactured by tsmc and set to be launched later this year. you have amazon, google, microsoft and oracle, all selling access to this play chip through their cloud services, as well. we haven't received costs on this chip. usually nvidia doesn't reveal pricing. but the previous older chip was between $2,500 to $40,000 per chip, and you need a lot of them to build your entire a.i. system. so, it could cost up to $200,000. that was the older generation, so, you can only imagine that this one will probably be a little bit more than that for a

lot of companies, if they can get their hands on it. >> on the partnership front, we know they've talked about partnerships so far with ansys, synopsis, we've seen those stocks -- >> and cadence. >> right. have there been the star appearances yet from any ceos or luminaries in the tech world? >> well, i was just told there's some celebs right next to me right now, but i'm not dur. >> swing that camera around, ch kristina! >> there's security everywhere, and that's why my eyes darted when i was going live. but it's just a rumor so far, but they happen to be right behind the camera, i haven't seen any ceos just yet, but you ment mentioned ansys, tsmc. look out for oracle, amd, a few others that may move soon. >> all right, kristina, thank you. kristina parse lef nous on the ground in san jose.

it's funny, we were listening to jon fortt talk in "overtime" about the similarities between this event and apple's event, and how when apple launched a new product, it was sort of like this, and typically it was a sell the news kind of event. what did you make of the stock action in today's session going into this event? >> i'm glad you said that. so, blackwell is replacing hopper, right? >> uh-huh. >> as you know, mel, because we watch it, hopper is the sheriff in "stranger things" and the price action has been really strange over the past couple weeks. from fridays ago, that reversal in nvidia, where from peak to trough gave up a quarter of a trillion dollars. and today from peak to trough was probably close to $100 billion. i mean, to me, that's not an encouraging sign now. it's a great company, this new chip, four times more efficient, i get it. price action is everything. and over the last week and a half, when you see moves like that you absolutely have to take note. >> it's really interesting, when you think about that comparison to the apple events, and they were fabulous, right? there was a whiz bang new thing

that a consumer could go out there and buy and they could have it in their pocket. and it happened in and around, i think it was 2012 or so, the events were just kicking off. tim cook had taken over, the company started buying back their stock. consumers were buying the products and buying the stock. one of the biggest differences here, most consumers don't have a clue what a gpu is. they don't understand what -- i don't mean that in a con desensing way, a data center, all this stuff. this is a product that is powering something they haven't used that well yet, because they're still hallucinating, a lot of these things. i bring it back to the company, their earnings, their sales. in my career, on any sort of scale, i have never seen a company go from 3$3 in earnings to $12, to $24 in expected earnings. from $25 billion to $50 billion to an expected $100 billion. it's never happened. >> are you saying you don't think it's true? >> it did happen. so, what i'm saying is, what comes this year, this is the one

where it's up again, up 80% year over year after we've already seen -- so, what i'm safing is that in the last 2 1/2 months, we've seen this company, this stock, double, okay, on expectations of all this stuff that we're just hearing about right now. all the names that don't mean anything to most consumers. we don't know what the demand is going to be like when they finally come to market. we tonight know what the margins are going to be, we don't know what the competition is going to be. i think we're at a weird spot. a lot of folks said -- >> you could have said that a year ago. >> and i've said, what's happened here, we've never seen happen before. if you are going to make that same bet right now, right here, at $900, then it's going to continue to go that way, that's a bad bet. >> let's play the game that amd is making a product, that intel is making a product, they are offering soft ware solutions. nvidia has the lead at this point. you two are nvidia holders, so, what is your take? at what point do you start getting concerned that that competition is actually real,

and that share will actually -- i mean, shares already going away from nvidia. it's still dominant share at this point. >> true. i think this is a situation where the pie is growing tremendously, right? there's room. i remember early on in amazon's cloud business, thinking, well, eventually there will be competition. okay, so, that was years ago now, and the cloud business has just continued to grow and accelerated at various points. so, i don't think there will be no competition. i think there will. i'm sort of more curious about, all right, they have all these imbedded h-100 gpus, which were from $40,000, some of them. what are those worth now? i'm wondering, if you are meta, and you own $8 billion of these, if you mark those down, what happens to that? i don't know. do they -- i'm curious what happens to that, before they get to -- now, these may be wildly more efficient, i'm confused

also by that 25 times more efficient, does that mean they're 4% the power usage? is that what that means? or are they 25% less powered? i don't exactly understand. so, there's -- i mean, the other thing that i'm sort of intrigued by here is, aside from being a genius at this business, jensen huang is also a genius at being a ceo of a company that is in the middle of a huge wave and how to manage expectations and sort of how to manage the stock price, which is a very difficult thing to do. and the higher it goes, dan, the harder that gets, of course, right? >> right. >> so, he's done a masterful job so far. i am long, i'm staying long, i do think that we are still in the early innings of this story. there's a lot left to play out. i think that absolutely amd, i'm long amd, as well, which is actually more expensive. i do think they will have some share, but i think the pie is just growing tremendously. >> yeah, i would agree, the pie's growing, and dan mentioned

the fact that most consumers don't know what it is, but a lot of the knock on the stock, they had that consumer concentration, and what you're seeing with the partnerships, they are bolstering and addressing that issue. i think a lot of the knock on the company going in was that, listen, when it comes to training the large language models, this is really the only show in town. once we get an opportunity to pivot away from them with inference, we're really going to see cutting into margins and diver if i case away from them. you've seen 40% of their revenue last was inference. so, the fact they are starting to broaden out their revenue streams and become a bit more of a household name, not to mention the software, and to me, that's where the moat is. so, i'm with everyone in terms of, yes, expecting them to continue to grow at this rate, no. at some point -- at some point, that's not going to happen. the question is, at what price? okay. as i said before, i do expect there to be some consolidation

in the name, but there are a lot of unknowns. we may not know what a gpu is, we don't know what the overall target adjustable market is, or what this whole a.i. thick really is. and until we get her of a grasp on that, saying that we don't understand the opportunity, but that we do understand the risk, to me, is really kind of like speaking out of one side of our mouth. so, i'm willing to grasp the unknowns. right now, as things stand, they are if ecthe picks and shovels this gold rush. >> this is a developer's conference, right? they want people to develop their models -- >> on the back of -- >> on their hardware, on their software, they want to make it harder to switch. and that's sort of, you know, the comparison to apple. i don't -- >> you didn't like it. >> it was fine. >> it was fine. >> but that's the whole point. >> so, that's their advantage, right? that's probably three to four,

five-year head start with everybody else. but again, price action is important, and we outlined the price action over the last week and a half, and at some point, you're going to look at peak margins and maybe this last quarter wasn't it, but 70% margin, and again, we tried to do the math, karen does it very well, but price to earnings, cheaper than amd, without question. price to revenue, a lot more expensive than amd, without question. so, at some point, thery are outkicking their coverage in terms of their revenue and in terms of their earnings, which means, in my opinion, that 77% is going to start to come down. the question is, is that just a natural progression? will the market give them sort of a pass on that, or is that sort of the inflection point for the stock? it clearly, it's been heading the right direction. at some point, that 77% stops, starts going down, that's when people get concerned. and that's been the -- i mean, that's been true with technology and chips all -- since chips were started to be made and traded. >> for more on what this could mean for a.i., let's bring in

brett winton. good to have you with us. have you heard anything out of jensen huang so far that, you know, changes your mind about the story? >> no, but i mean, i think a lot of the panel covered the key issues here. it's clearly an amazing company you i , i think $14 trillion will be spent on a.i. software by 2030 and you're going to need trillions of dollars of a.i. chips per year to power that. and we underwrite that into the stock, and still, it's a difficult valuation case to make over the course of the business cycle, relative to other opportunities that are out there in the market. >> how do you think about the sort of halo effect that spending on a.i. chips will have in terms of broader tech spending? web bush said that for every dollar, they estimate is spend on h-100 chips, there's $10 to $12 being spent on software and other parts of the tech

ecosystem that you need to make the a.i. chip work. so, what is that sort of trajectory, in your view? >> yeah, both on the kind of powering ecosystem of tooling to have a.i. chips work, and on the soft ware that needs to be generating revenue on the back end, to justify the capital investment in the a.i. chips. you know, we think the foundation model layer companies are really profoundly interesting. i think that that's probably a new emerging operating system for come pewation, and it puts a lot of the tech heavyweights at risk. there was news today that reportedly google and apple might team up for apple to license google's gemini model. i think that's a sign that these companies don't get that this is a new operating system that's emerging, it's not a feature to layer on top of existing tech platforms. >> brets, it's karen, thanks for being on today. it sounds like there are other names that you might like more than nvidia.

can you tell us what those are? >> sure, on the private side, we think anthropic is extremely interest, and enterprises are scrambling to figure out how to deploy these things. and tesla is the most compelling a.i. story in the market. you're not being honest if you don't think that autonomous driving is not more likely to happen today than it was two years ago, because of the advances in a.i., and they have an amazing distribution network and their business model transforms if they can turn kind of their autonomous robo-taxi software into a working commercializable product. >> along those lines, brett, since you have a futurist, when you think about future ways to play a.i., there was an analyst on this morning and he had an interesting take on it. when refrigeration was invented, it wasn't the refrigerator parts makers that became the winners in that all, it was coca-cola. so, when you sort of apply that

metaphor to this situation, what do you think will benefit the most? >> well, there's a clear opportunity on the consumer side, and it's -- entertainment is going to be transformed by having hyper compelling a.i. models that captivate our attention, so, think of tiktok as the feed, which facebook or meta has coopted, well, imagine generated media content and how compelling that will be for end users. and we think that meta's open sourcing of its a.i. operating systems is actually an interesting angle that they'll be able to play, to generate that really compelling consumer experience across their entire portfolio of apps. >> brett, thank you. good to speak with ou. brett winton, the chief futurist at arc. >> interesting job. >> when do we move from picks

and shovels to the bigger picture? because that's really the question, if enterprise is going to continue to spend on it, you want to see that there are gains, productivity gains, product -- >> yeah. >> well, i mean, listen, i think most folks that we've had over the last few months, meta has been a universally liked name, how they are using generative a.i. to aid their own business, how they're basically monetizing the ads, that is their business. i don't know if you noticed in your instagram search feed over the last week or two, you are seeing meta a.i. as part of the thing there, it's working throughout the consumer products there, and you are getting served better ads. i know that most people think that instagram is pretty good on the ad front. they're going to have better monetization. that's why that stock keeps working. i know it was one of your early picks, how to play gen-a.i. and the one that continues to be disappointing was google. you know, and so, ultimately, hopefully some day they're going to get it together, but right now, even with today's gains, it doesn't seem like that's a great validation, because apple has no

strategy, is looking to them, rather than an aboutnthropic or doing a deal with openai. >> i think when we kind of dig into this apple/google possible partnership, the headline and the initial gut reaction is for us to say, this is probably not good for apple, and i had the same type of reaction. but when i think about the distribution, the apple watch, the -- kind of the glp-1s and all the focus on fitness, i actually think in the long-term, maybe a few generations down, they actually end up winning, again, because of distribution network and how ubiquitous that name is. and from an application standpoint, to me, i can see how having a real-time suggestion on what one should do to solve a certain problem that comes up in real-time, that seems to come to mind for me. >> quickly, in the here and now, though, so much of the broader market is predicated clearly on the nasdaq, on semiconductors, more specifically, on nvidia, which is 27% of the smh, and you

can pull up an afterhours chart here and injade is trading 865 or so. if we came in today waiting for something, and this is at least -- 5:17 at night, a sell the news event, what does this mean for the broader market? so, just keep your eye on the price action here. >> do not miss a cnbc exclusive interview with jensen huang tomorrow, 10:15 a.m. eastern time on "squawk on the street" and then with jim cramer on "mad money" at 6:00 p.m. eastern. coming up, how apple and alphabet could be coming together. and what it will mean for the iphone in your hand. more on that next. plus, crude, copper, and rates, oh my. all three ticking higher as investors await the fed's next move. how to prepare yourself ahead of this week's policy meeting. don't go anywhere. "fast money" is back in two. this is "fast money" with melissa lee. right here on cnbc.

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to apple. sources saying that apple had recently held talks with openai and has considered using its model. google parent alphabet up more than 4% for its best day since december, while apple closed half a percent higher. so, it did give up the gains, about 1.5% during the session. i had your same take in terms of, wow, apple can't get it together to have its own a.i. offering by if dthe developers conference, which was expected. >> yeah, that was my initial reaction, like, okay, if all the major players have been investing here and allocating resources here, what has apple been doing? and i think in the shorter, intermediate term, that probably is what this stacks up to be, but again, i do think they have the stack, distribution necessary, to be able to take advantage in terms of the presence with consumers in the long run anyway, so -- i think perhaps it is a short-term headwind, but ultimately, i think they're able to play

through. >> i'm sort of wondering, why build it if we can buy it. >> they're not buying it. >> we don't know what they're doing, actually. >> right. we don't know. >> we don't know. so, it is quite possible that this is a more efficient way to do it. >> right. >> and maybe that's the simplest expla explanation, i don't know. that's what popped into my head. we talk about apple just making whatever it is better, not first, right? they do it better. >> think about this. it's probably an extension of this existing deal they have for safari on ios devices. so, google pays apple $20 billion a year, 36% of the search traffic that goes on safari devices. if you go to google right now and do a search and, you know, subscribe to gemini, gemini is powering that search, the way openai is powering the search on bing. it has the potential to be a stop gap, you know what i mean?

an extext of the existing search deal and the sort of thing where their may are not spending a whole heck of a lot of money. i don't know if they can pull up a day chart of apple right now. this stock gapped up at 175 and went a bit higher to 177 1/2. it flatlined at 175 all s afternoon. whoever is buying that stock all day, it's kind of interesting action. so, the fact that it closed on the low, opened on the high, not -- like, that encouraging for the way, at least investors are thinking about this teal. >> if the model is the current relationship, this product, whatever it may be, i would think, would be an apple product to any consumer using this, and that is a stamp of approval for the gemini product, you know, vote of confidence that google can actually get its act together, fix whatever needs fixing -- >> approval, yeah, exactly. and talking about trading stocks again, google traded up to 152. 153 and change, if line in the sand, that was a prior high a couple years ago, a high we made

a month, month and a half ago. you can do this one or two ways. this is a value stock, i'm staying this through hell or high water, that's been right. or, you can say, you know what? price action wasn't great. doing one or two things. i'm going to buy it on a breakout above 154, which sounds somewhat counterintuitive or wait for the pull-back. because right here, to a certain extent, you're flipping a coin. >> we want to get back to kristina with more from nvidia's gtc conference. kristina? >> one of the things we wanted to hear about, how they're going to monetize software. nvidia is launching a new service, an enterprise software subscription called nim. you can take nvidia gpus that you already own and they will provide the extra software and allow companies to build large language models on said gpus. instead of using openai for example, you would turn to nim. so, you would buy the gpus for a

cost of $30,000, $50,000, and per gpu, the new cost will be $4,500 per gpu per year for a license. so, again, this is a way to monetize software, a reoccurring source of revenue for nvidia on top of the hardware they're already selling. >> all right, kristina, thank you. kristina partsinevelos. repou rebound oaf f a percent. we were worried about the pull forward, overordering, but this addresses this problem. >> recurring revenue is why ibm got that premium valuation, because they had visibility with the recurring revenue stream. so, clearly, that's a good thing, and that's another plus in terms of why you can wrap your head around this on valuation and the stock is actually bouncing in kind on the back of that. there's a lot more "fast money" to come. here's what's coming up next. >> prepping for powell. oil, metals, and rates all on the move. as investors await the fed's next decision. what to expect out of the central bank'spolicy meeting.

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welcome back to "fast money." stocks kicking off the week in the green, with the dow up 75 points. the nasdaq up 0.8%. some stocks hitting all-time highs, chipotle, o'reilly automotive, progressive, cat pillar, and waste management all trading near records. and shares of boeing lower again today. a united airlines flight landing in oregon over the weekend without one of its fuselage panels, it went unnoticed until after the plane landed. this just the latest in boeing's high profile safety incidents. not sure where you want to go here, i'll go to guy -- >> let's go to boeing real quick. i think they report middle of april-ish. i mean, again, 179, we talk about this. the selloffs are there, clearly. decent day again, market trades

lower. they're pushing against something now, i think they're pushing too much to the downside. you get any incremental good news, i think for boeing. you want to trade from the long side. i said that at 185, i said it at 190, i'm saying it here at 179. this is one that i think the push to the downside, now you're tempting fate, i think, if you are playing boeing on the short side of things. >> there's a desire of investors to sell regardless of how old that plane is, that has the issues, so, it could be just a maintenance issue on the part of whatever airline is operating that plane and not a boeing, per se, problem, but the reaction is still to sell. that's -- >> it is. did it take off with the panel? or -- >> where is the panel? >> where is the panel? i don't know. >> i kind of agree with you. if it stops going down -- i mean, today it was down a little bit. you know, keeps testing bad news and how much will it go on down on it? i don't know when that will be. >> can we divorce the stock and the company and what's going on here? because there's hundreds, if not thousands of stocks that trade and buy and this and that and

whatever, and the news flow here just doesn't get any better, and you have to start thinking about, like, what has gone on with? company? and is it broken? and is the culture broken that, you know what i mean? that got people to buy dips for 50 years? you see what i'm saying? it's interesting to me. we talk about this name, i think we should just take it off our pages and maybe stop talking about it and maybe that's the reason you should buy it. i don't know. there's a lot of stocks to buy, trade. and this company seems like they are just not firing on all cylinders. >> i take it off the page. >> one last comment? >> one last go. listen, it's essentially a duopoly. there is value, it's just at what point? i'm with you. once the news flow stops, that's when the negative news will stop, because there is very little to like about the performance of the planes or the stock, and i don't think you can decouple the two. coming up, to cut or not to cut? investors awaiting powell and the central bank's next move.

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welcome back to "fast money." commodities climbing higher this year. crude oil prices surging today, climbing back above 82 bucks a barrel. their highest level since last november. iraq and saudi arabia both planning to cut exports, even as demand from the u.s. and china grows. copper also continuing its climb higher. the industrial metal up more than 6% this year, bringing copper miners along with it. meantime, rates also on the rise. this week marks two years since the current fed tightening cycle began. and the ten-year today is trading near the highest levels of the year. i feel like we should have had a cake or something to mark that anniversary. >> cakes are fun. i'm not a cake -- do you like cake? >> you're a pie person. >> pie. warm apple pie.

>> can we get back to -- >> we can. we talked about the refiners last week, those stocks seemingly off to the races. that's one side of the equation. copper is the other side of the equation. second or third most important commodity out there. absolutely breaking out to the upside. fcx, you can see, if we close above 45, we're through resistance we've had a kple years now, so, energy is in play, resources clearly in play. fed job gets more and more difficult with each passing day. >> yeah, so, according to this picture, inflation is not abating, at least in this space. >> right. so many spaces. i don't see i think we are down from three cuts to two. i don't even though that two -- why necessarily two? for a long time, we've been saying, why do they sort of need to give it away? as we get closer to the election, then they're sort of hamstrung. if they do nothing, is that political, if they do something, is that political? i don't really know.

but i think the expectations of a june cut just because it will be the last chance to do something that isn't political, i don't really buy that actually. >> a lot of hope in your view, bonawyn? >> yes, but i think the markets have been trading with a lot of hope for the better part of a year. i mean, even when the fed was telling them, we are not going to cut, they were expecting cuts or pauses or, i mean -- i can't even keep up with all the acronyms for what's been out there in terms of flying in the face of what the fed has been delivering. and the last ppi andcp numbers don't really tell you a story of us getting inflation at least to a target level where the fed would be comfortable. dare i say responsible cutting. growth is still there, employment is still there. i don't see the reason why you need to, aside from the fact that they did signal to an extent in the last conference, but outside of that, i don't see the logic. >> for more on rates and the fed, let's bring in jim bianco. you don't believe we're going to see cuts this year, why?

>> the economy is too strong right now. it's in a no landing phase, as we like to call it. it's not a boeing plane, there's no parts falling off of it. and it's just continuing to move along at a 2.5% or 3% phase, along with that consumers are spending more money, and it looks like we're probably bottoming on inflation at around 3%. now, i don't think we go much beyond 4 at the most, but that's not two, and the fed has made it very clear they need confidence we're going to two and we're not getting that, and that's why i think they're going to hold. and finally, i'm in the camp that the fed doesn't change policy in the summer of an election year. change policy. if they were in cutting mode, they can continue to cut, but they're in hold mode. and if they don't pull the trigger by june, then it's -- then it's november, december, at the earliest, only if the data warrants it, and right now the data is not. >> jim, we both agree that rates are going higher, we were proven

correct. we'll see how it plays out, but what's the catalyst, in your opinion, for rates to continue to go higher in ten-year from 4.30 to 4.7 5, which is the nex level, in my opinion. >> i think they might go higher. i think it's going to be the reality of inflation if we're in a 3% to 4% inflation world, which is what i think we are, then a 4.30 ten-year note is not enough if you will, compensation for that. it's got to go higher. i think the yield curve steepens. i think that we eventually start to maybe draw a beat on where the funds rate is at 5.25 to 5.5, and maybe see the curve start heading towards a zero curve. yeah, so the ten-year going over five as the funds rate stays at 5.25 to 5.5. i don't think that is a consensus view right now in the marketplace. we were almost there in october, so, it's not much more than where we were in october, and when we were at 5% in october, we were throwing up 3% growth

rates in the economy, and it was able to handle that level of interest rates just fine. >> jim, so, you mentioned the domestic issues that might lead to higher rates. can you speak to the japan carry trade and perhaps them pivoting on monetary policy and what affects that might have on rates, as well? >> yeah, so, it's a long time coming. they are probably going to raise rates for the first time in 17 years. and they're going to probably finally get off of negative rates goorate rates. it's well-earned, because they got inflation above 2% in japan, and you're right, if you look at a chart of the yen/dollar exchange rate, overlaid with the ten-year yield, it's effectively the same thing, because so much of the financing of ten-year notes comes from japan. if interest rates are heading up in japan, then a lot of japanese players that are playing that trade will say, i'll just leave my bonds or my investments in

japan, get the higher yield in japan and not take the carry risk. and japan is the largest owner of treasuries in the world, and if they're not going to start waning, it's just another problem for the treasury market that could push yields higher. >> jim, great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> jim bianco. what happens if there are no cuts this year to equities, dan? >> well, i mean, listen, i would have thought by now, like, when the market took off in mid-december, it was because basically they were pricing in, or, the fed indicated that they were going to be cutting in 2024 and market participants started pricing in five, six cuts and it just seemed warranted in a way. now, here we are in a scenarios maybe they get into a weird situation this summer or into the fall where they can't cut, and i guess if the economy keeps humming along, if we don't have unemployment above 4%, if inflation has stopped going down, but it is not going up, if things slow down gio

politically, crude oil, fine, it's 82, it doesn't be go to 90 i see a scenario where the economy's doing okay, real rates are okay, and maybe -- your question was about stocks, sooner or later, they're going to start looking ahead, say, what will be the reason? we will have a slowdown, recession, remember, that we were pricing in for last year, ultimately, we'll be that much closer and stocks will have to price it, but i don't know when. >> what will do well in a higher for longer environment, and i think if you look at sort of a jpmorgan versus a regional bank, i would think jpmorgan would do a lot better. i think, you know, for commercial real estate, this is a really tough situation, extended long rates is hard. >> yeah. >> interesting now, we talk about it, the fed not being subject to political pressure -- elizabeth warren and bernie sanders sending a note to jerome powell, i think, or some open letter, saying, we need a rate cut, and we need it soon -- >> right. >> which shows a complete lack

of understanding of what's going on, becut the rhetoric is just going to get louder and louder. i think the best case scenario this year, one, maybe two, and if you get that, it means things are actually going pretty well. coming up, cola and ket that mean. shares of pep sip getting a pop after a bullish call out of morgan stanley. why analysts are feeling the fizz ahead. and tesla topping the tape today. the price hikes helping boost that stock, and how elon musk is defending his prescription ketamine use as being good for investors. the details on that when "fast money" returns.

welcome back to "fast money." a call of the day on pepsico. morgan stanley upgrading it from overweight. they see a clear inflection. that call sending shares up 4%, for pepsi's best day since october 2022. >> throw a chart up on this one if you can. look at the september low and the low we just traded down to. technically, we held a really important level. now, we're moving 20 times next year's numbers, maybe you got 11% eps growth.

maybe high single digits earningearning s growth. this stock might get back on its horse, especially if some of these high flyers are going to give a little bit back. the market will find its way into names like pepsi. >> bonawyn? >> i think a 4% move on a relatively low beta name lets you know where we are in terms of themarket being a bit overextended, seeing a rotation back in there. and i really think ultimately it speaks to the real power of the glp-1s. we were talking about in terms of the bottoming out of this business. in terms of, like, unless you're going to hold this name for long-term, and i'm talking about five-plus years, i think you can find other pockets of the market that get more volatility and juice. >> do you think the price of doritos goes down if the input costs come down? >> no. >> transportation costs come down? yeah, exactly. >> yes, a little, but not as much. and raw materials aren't their

only cost. >> labor. >> on the upside, when those raw material costs go up, we'll do 100% raise consistent with that inflation. not on the downside. >> there's no limit to what people will pay for doritos. >> once you are at a certain price point -- >> $7.99 a bag is no big deal. it's highway robbery. >> that's how much it is? >> i don't know. >> you said that like you know. >> i think it's $6.29 on amazon fresh. not the giant size. anyway. coming up, tesla shares jumping over 6% after the ev company announced price hikes for its model y. what ceo elon musk had to say about the state of the company and some of his extracurricular activities, next. and here's a sneak peek at the cramer cam. jim is talking with the ceo of crowd strike. catch that at the top of the hour on "mad money." more "fast money" in two. of aruba? huh. this listing is misleading.

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welcome back to "fast money." tesla shares topping the tape after the company announced more price hikes on its model y e leg vick vehicle. prices in some european countries will go up to 2,000 euros. former cnn anchor don lemon releasing his wide-ranging interview with musk on social media platform x today, where he discussed his prescription

ketamine use. >> tesla is worth about as much as the rest of the car industry combined. >> right. >> from nothing. so, you know, that's pretty good. we have the best-selling car on earth last year. so, for investors, if there is something i'm taking, i should keep taking it. >> tesla shares down about 30% year to date. so, are these price hikes what turns the stock around, is the position of strength, position of weakness? these price hikes are being implemented and -- should we care? i mean, if the company is doing okay, do we care what the -- >> i mean, you know, i'm not -- i don't care what he does, but . last week, we talked about, you're looking for a place to buy the stock, not sell. and we thought in the form of last april's low, like 161 or so, it made sense. think the friday low is 162 and change. the stock gave you something to trade it from. dan says all the time, at

certain points, you know longer pressing shorts, you are looking for opportunity. you probably got it last week in tesla. >> you said that last week and i think it was really smart. at the point that the street had come around to, like, a low level of q-1 deliveries, right, so, they finally got down from a 485,000 consensus to something that's now under 430. the one thing i'll say, what the company really got wrong is the notion of price elasticity. it didn't come. so, i'm not sure raising the prices is going to do the thing they hope to do. at least change the narrative for a day, which is today. >> right, or, it could send the signal, you know, buy now, and so, you can see that little bump that they might need to meet that delivery number? >> right. that's saying they need that, right? you're saying it comes from a place of weakness. it's kind of surprising, but -- i don't know. not -- >> you see the data, you know -- you see vin registrations, you

see the demand, you see the wait times. if it doesn't happen, then they're going have to change course. that might be a lot more negative than this was positive. >> they don't mind changing course. >> well, they haven't done a price hike in a very long time. >> better than slashing prices. >> which they have been doing. >> continuously, to dan's point, and not led to demand. they're putting a line in the sand, saying, we're going to cut into our margins. but i think it's at least a pivot from what they've been doing, which has been a negative signaling effect and the stock has traded down as a result. >> from a corporate governance experience, should we care what he does on the -- you know, there's key man risk, i would think -- >> right. i don't know. is there key man insurance? i can't imagine there would be enough for what would happen to the stock if something were to happen to elon? should we care? i don't, really. i think some of the other -- to me, the huge, huge divergence of his attention to x.

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