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the fed, the -- >> i mean the volatility over the last week? as the fed pulls away, no? >> they haven't started pulling away yet. might be what you're talking about hong kong. >> great seats up front. sometimes kids up there, watch. >> i'm going. make sure you join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" is next. ♪ good monday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." carl quintanilla, david faber. we keek an eye not just on the student protests in hong kong but income in spending not bad. jobs number returns this friday. take a look at futures. road map starts with protests in hong kong weighing on the markets. volatility returning to stocks as we closed out the worst week in nearly two months. futures down triple digits on a
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busy week for data. >> dreamworks up in premarket. considering a buyout of the movie studio. insight on what's going on. reports apple could be facing fines of more than 1 billion euros over deal to allegedly minimize its tax bill in europe. facebook's new ad system. gopro's new cameras as well. futures lower, negative tone set overnight as the unrest in hong kong sent the hang seng down 1.9%. stocks off a volatile week, the dow posted triple digit moves every day. the worst week for the market since the week ending august 1st. andrew and jim talking whether we're at a stage where we know if the dip gets bought or not. >> right, we've got this weird binary approach to the market. for instance, say you're in a vacuum, you've got consumer spending this morning, plus .5, i thought terrific number.
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consumer income, plus three, terrific number. in a vacuum, we should be going higher. what are we doing going higher friday? other than nike, what went right? we're in the grips of we're going to be making very big moves on nothing. i mean i can argue with aclon, an important oil deal, with tipco saying tech is undervalued, we'll talk about dreamworks, but the machines are in control here. don't think for a minute that people aren't thinking, fed funds rate about to spike, regardless of what they said, dollar -- dollar did on a trajectory, worldwide, it would make it you're exporter you've got to be shaking. >> 11 straight weeks. >> 11 straight weeks. what a trade that is. >> it is. and perhaps has a lot further to go depending whom you speak to. >> i think so. >> some believe the yen is going to continue to lose a great deal of value from here. >> yeah. there's always -- we hear money managers who hate the united states because fed fund rate's
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going to 4, this mythical 4, love that from delivering alpha, and they want to buy japan. they want to buy japan, though the companies that deal with japan are doing terribly. they want to buy europe off weak europe. i was working on one european company this weekend, one that i wanted to be involved with, just one. >> come on. got to be an exporter in germany that benefit from a week euro. >> did russia get solved over the weekend? >> a deal to supply ukraine with gas through the winter. >> i thought very positive. at the same time, there's weakness in germany, makes it so i question the numbers. look, i don't question numbers of u.s. domestic companies and russell 2000 companies. but is there a worst index right now than the russell 2000? the machines have run wild there, too. they're knocking out bids in the russell 2000 every day. the actual companies may be doing well but the indices are in charge. these are machine gun selling and buying. >> right.
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>> you've also -- the rally we had, certainly over the last few months, not broad. >> no. >> we pointed that out. >> we lost that. >> whether the russell or s&p as well. we lost the big industrials a long time ago. we lost the consumer products companies with exception of a mcdonald, which poorly performed. what does it all point to, then? rough road from here for the rest of the year? >> we need leadership. we don't need any more equities, we don't want any more supply. we had 128 billion in supply, it was thrown into the market, into the mutual funds. we have to cool it here. that's my approach, just cool. don't commit new money. >> despite, you mentioned fears about the fed funds rate, evans with liesman saying he'd rather overshoot on inflation to get jobs. people are wondering why printing 200,000 jobs a month anding steady and slow as it is? savings rate's back up to 5.5. >> we can't seem to get interest rates higher. someone wants them higher. we're the safest halven in the
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world. look around, it's interesting, so right to focus on the hong kong demonstrations because, i haven't had a piece of good news out of china in ages. give me good news out of china. >> hong kong demonstrations. >> oh, you mean -- oh, oh, are you in civics class? >> long-term positive story. >> a problem with the party? >> thinking hundreds of years over there. >> well, that's true. >> we don't. >> it actually is a serious story. thousands of protesters flooding the streets in hong kong central. >> peaceful. >> business district. the worst unrest since china regained control of the former british colony in '97. susan li live in hong kong. good morning. >> yeah, good morning to you. that's right. we took a crude head count, looks like more people on the streets tonight than there were yesterday. so looks like the movement has been gal ven nized by the violent early into the wee monday morning hours, we saw
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something we haven't seen in hong kong since the handover in 1987, back to china. so we saw the protesters with baton charges, bloody faces, tear gas fired, pepper spray being sprayed. one point with police holding up signs saying disburse or we'll fire. concern of rubber bullets shot into the crowd. telling them to back down, retreat and go home. not something they did. hong kong was shut down today. the fifth largest international market, and a dozen banks were closing branches and telling employees to say home. the monetary authority had to step in saying we'll add liquidity if and when necessary. people taking risk off of the table. steep sell-off of 2%. no one wants to hold risk going into the long weekend because it is a holiday on october 1st and october 2nd. now the concern is about whether or not this -- the protests spreads to other cities and
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other special administrative regions. first, national day, october 1st, mccau is now expected to hold demonstrations for their own democracy. and how does that impact casino shares and tourism given we have travel alerts issued by australia, sing boo georgia p s. a mass influx of mainland tourists but retail stocks a big hit in theton markets because maybe the cash tills won't be ringing as they have been in the past pause of images people have been singing on television sets. >> susan li in hong kong. dates back to ruling out of beijing that would essentially let them weed out candidates in hong kong. that's what students are upset about in the first place. >> i think the rules coming out of china amazing. we have crackdown on gambling. crackdown on junkets. crackdown on expensive liquor,
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showy signs of wealth. next the crackdown on watches that are hundreds of thousands that people buy. the party's returning to its roots we don't seem to realize that. >> right. and so the impact will be what? you're not going to sell as much stuff at high end? they're minting millionaires every day over there very quickly. alibaba, of course, creating billionaires. >> turning internal again. i think that alibaba's looking, very good report out this morning gave you numbers for alibaba, from susquehanna, quite incredible. but largely chinese spending. and i think that the focus is internal, not external. one good thing coming out of china is they did solve some of the hatred with japan. there's cooling in those tensions. but the strong dollar is a margin worldwide. there's lack of liquidity worldwide. emerging markets are going down. i've seen brazil, you know, brazil falling off a cliff this morning. mexico, peso's in trouble.
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a lot of emerging markets fund managers have not come on lately and told us how great they are. it's great you soccer retail people give us your money, yeah, we'll be down 40%, up 60%. >> noncorrelated but always correlated. >> always correlated. in the end, alibaba, right now people are correct in saying that that was the short-term peak. such an easy call. it seems so trite. >> it does seem trite. >> it can't be that simple. >> it's like, that was the top. of course, people say, no bells rung at the top. they say, no. they rang the bell at the top. i don't know, maybe they had a hearing problem. they rang the bell. >> shares of dreamworks surging. published report say softbank, the company run by japan's richest man, is in talks to acquire the studio known for of course movies such as "shrek" and "madagascar," softbank
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offered 32 a share for dreamworks, almost ten bucks above the closing price. i want to put cold water on this one. having done reporting this morning. people, let's call it, close to the situation indicated to me there's not that much going on here. yeah, i mean, dreamworks has been for sale what feels like forever. >> stock's up huge. >> the new guy at softbank, remember came over from google, who has been tasked with looking for content. >> smart as all get out. >> and he just began, although starting his job before he really started his job, he's now in there. so while may be a lot of chatter, people i've spoken with indicate very early, may very well go nowhere and also point out, listen, may be an interest in working together, don't forget softbank owns two gaming companies. they need content. there's also opportunities to
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co-brand with movies, create games off of movies. so, just, at least based on conversations i had with people who would know, i'd be careful that there's a lot, that this thing's going to get announced tomorrow. doesn't feel like that's happening at all. >> is there a sense after t-mobile, that he's flailing for something, anything american right now? >> i'm sure he would dispute the idea of flailing. what i think they would say, they are interested in content, somehow marrying that content's perhaps the way they've done to a certain extent with wireless offerings in japan, what they took with lagging properties from vodafone, and they have a war chest that is unrivaled given the performance of that stock right behind us, alibaba. >> but -- >> 32%. >> we haven't gotten to talk about starboard, about yahoo! >> yeah. >> i mean, any hope there that -- >> i don't know. what did you think of that? i found that -- >> in a letter --
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>> i think a lot of him in terms of hi thinking, jeff smith at starboard, disciplined in that way, i found that letter, public letter, he owned less of what he owned. >> like tax considerations. >> coming up with a name so trafficked in and also yahoo! i don't know. to me it feels like a marketing pitch, frankly, for starboard. >> yelp, i'm closer to -- >> you're not writing public letters. >> listen, you shouldn't be running this company. but he didn't want to say that. >> yahoo! had a response out this morning, i think you probably saw it. >> i think we should send letters -- >> listen to all of the shareholders. >> send letters, exxon, get out of russia, verizon, close the long-term, pfizer, spin off everything else. >> write letters. >> fire off letters. >> why not? i own six shares of this, ten shares of that. >> mick done mcdonald's get out
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the breakfast business. buy one share, evelyn davis, let's just get it -- nike, i want to see -- no, nike was good. don't have do anything. >> allergan shareholders sending letters and allergan responded this morning. another story. >> letters per share in the allergan deal. letters per share in darden. >> he owns a lot of the company, going for a proxy fight. here, yahoo! really? >> before break, pimco. >> okay. >> glad we got that in the a-block. >> have we mentioned pimco? >> when we come back, headache for apple from overseas. we'll tell you all about that. take another look at premarket. looks bumpy here at the open with futures down 145 on the dow. more "squawk on the street" from post nine in a minute.
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take a look at futures. moderate weakness at the open income and spending data. big jobs number on the way friday. in the meantime, eu publish decisions tomorrow on tax probes into anal and fiat. ft reports european commission set to accuse the iphone maker of benefiting from illicit state aid in ireland. the paper suggests the probe could leave apple facing billions of euros in fines doing business there challenging for uber and apple and other
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companies. >> vie trouble with it. look, apple, read the story of china, too many iphones. europe, again, seeing the same thing out of china and europe. finding ways really to knock us. the google investigation that's endless. in china, waiting for the amat deal to close. they examined a lot of different companies. nationalism's on the rise against the united states. >> yeah, though in this case, let's not for get, we have been focused on inversions and potential tax revenues that will not become to the u.s. companies such as apple, which are not a focus of any changes in treasuries, treatment or anything else, move intellectual property overseas and generate enormous profits. around the rest of the world. >> why can't you shop venues. >> intellectual property developed in the united states as a result of tax dollars that we all spend to make great
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universities and other things that contribute to the ability to develop that kind of creative thinking. >> tax code says specifically, everybody has a right to try to figure out how to have tax avoidance. >> they do. >> just not tax evasion. >> right. but that is how you end up with these kinds of issues. >> law's very clear here. supposed to be -- avoid them all you want. >> the law is clear, which is why we need comprehensive tax reform on a corporate level, bring rates down, close loopholes. >> if the government could bring a case, they would. guilty until proven innocent u.s. tax court. only court in the country where you're guilty a4 head of time but got to have a law to prosecute we don't. update version of the atlas advertising platform, allow advertisers to track and measure impact of campaigns on facebook and devices as they try to convince users their privacy is not at risk. but this will be a big step in
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mobile advertising. >> yeah. i mean, going over the compares facebook versus alibaba. facebook surfaces cheaper on 2016 basis. look, they both have fabulous margins. gross margins for facebook amazing. stuff like this, nothing costs them any money. everything they do, you're provided. can you imagine if abc, cbs, nbc, you sent them programs, like, i'm going -- right -- i'm sending them black lisp how much are they going to pay me? i'm sending it to them. my personal program. i want you to run it. that's why i like youtube. hey, fantastic thing. let me just give youtube everything i have for nothing. >> a great business. though i would love to understand the numbers a bit. 2016, facebook's multiple below that of alibaba right now based on estimates? >> a lot of different estimates all over the place from alibaba. it's really difficult to try -- guys who do -- the 2016 numbers disparity in wall street, i mean
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typically people understand they're clustered for most companies. guys wild high,explosive. i don't know, i look, if you think china's on fire domestically, then they're taking such huge share, it's incredible. you get gigantic numbers. but facebook, it's margins, margins fantastic. >> you said alibaba too rich at 90. i assume that remains true? >> yeah. i still would like it lower the market doesn't look great. they may give you a chance. all you need is one data point that says baba's not as perfect as you think. some guy who decides not to buy apple 6 plus on a right on alibaba, you won't get that guy because, because, his phone bent and communist party wishes he doesn't have a full-sized phone, that's. there's the market. we get cut in half. october surprise. someone is like you're making jokes about the decline.
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thursday. was convincing the downside but it was rosh hashanah. the international marks are all bad. only place to sell liquidity is us. >> what are we talking about. >> aflon, the thing we used to talk about before overrun by futures and fed funds going to 4. a bid from encannon, natural gas, shifting quickly to oil. this is a perm onplay, 30,000 barrels per day. why do we car so much? there's existing pipe out of permian. they have to put more in because we found so much. things happening, oil to market, how does it get there? if it's by train, truck, we don't want that. if it's by pipe, it's good. this is a great acquisition. >> you believe it's a great effort? >> i think it's great because perm onis incredible. producing 3 million more per day than four years ago. you don't hear about it, fossil
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fuel, washington doesn't like fossil fuel. this is we don't know what to do with it. >> from oil to technology. the other deal is lbo, technology lbo, biggest of the year. maybe the biggest lb of of the year. got to check that. biggest technology. lbo's have not been around, leveraged buyouts, m&a activity led by strategics. in this case, it does appear vista, the buyer, which is a private equity firm that focuses only on software outbid a number of strategics. interest in an auction for this company, jim. they came up with the highest price, 4.3 plus billion lbo. >> herb greenberg for reality check saying this is one that's going to go. people interested in spotifier, does business intelligence that people feel is worth much more. they did buy. if they spun it off. maybe what vista sees they can buy ittipco and get rid of the
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division which is core. feels like emc, okay, and vmware. can you get a tax, i mean vmware -- >> you can run the sacramento kings, right? >> people feel like he was running the sacramento kings. used to come on the show a lot. missed, missed, missed multiple quarters. a company that feel was outrun by other companies in the cloud in terms of speed, s.a.p., sales force.com. he's going to get a decent price. >> 26%, what they call, unaffected stock price. the opening bell for what looks like certainly a busy and down morning right after this.
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our market is broader than emerging markets. and, look, we don't know the effect of the pimco selling. i mean, 10 billion on friday. so minimal. >> that's just friday. it's early. >> but a lot of -- a lot of people want out. where were they friday? there were ample opportunity to sell friday. where were they? what happened this weekend that was so bad other than russia maybe reaching a conclusion with ukraine? i don't trust the down. i don't trust the up on friday. i don't -- none of this stuff seems to have conviction. >> as we break friday's low, do we accelerate? >> probably, yeah, i think so. >> there's the opening bell, by the way. poor breadth in the s&p at the top of your screen. here at big board, headstrong project, helping iraq and afghanistan veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. anthony edwards among those ringing the bell here. nasdaq, dunkin' brands
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celebrating national coffee day. nigel travis on "squawk box" this morning. >> i'm looking for an uptick. coffee prices have started to roll over, one of the last commodities that hadn't rolled over. that's good news coming in the coffee world. really, arabica -- >> no, i'm glad to hear that. >> beans up 65%, come down 10% in the last five months. >> still 1.50 at the stand. >> you want a windfall? >> no, no. >> coffee windfall? >> i would pay them more, those guys work so hard. >> good point. you can count the number of stocks in the green on two hands. and after triple digit moves every day last week, jim, this volatility -- >> i don't like this. i don't like this. it's not conducive to the market going higher at all. i think we're already struggling with the idea that october's a bad month. i mean, there are certain, of course, we know october's -- >> the end of the quarter is tomorrow. >> right.
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i thought friday might have been markup and today's -- you can take your positions up as long as you don't do it the last day of the month. and i think that you should never be doing that, obviously, not something people like, regulators like. but there seems to be -- nike happens and micron happens. nike bullish for the complex of apparel. micron, bullish for pcs. nobody cares. new day. forget that. long weekend. what happened other than eagles losing to the niners? i mean, jeter. market's not a -- there's no referendum in jeter here or we'd be much higher. >> missing jeter -- >> the jeter done rally. >> jeter done unrally? but we do have, yeah, more or less everything. >> everything. >> why should stocks be going up? >> why should stocks being going up? personal income and personal spending. >> spending number is the best number in real terms in five months. >> great number. i mean, it should matter a lot.
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it doesn't seem to matter. >> of course, keep our eye on. a lot of data this week, jobs number the headliner on friday. i haven't seen recent consensus estimates. >> no, but we need a better number. last one weak, two in a row, going to signify a slowdown. love the dichotomy of slowdown in hiring and fed fund clamor for hedge fund funds rate. why clamor if you're so short bonds you need that? the country's not -- look, i don't think the fed should be buying bonds, that's a mistake. but it sounds like our country's got a great economy building ahead of steam. where's the steam? friends have been getting letters, with beautiful hopes, i like the lot drawn. tear down your home. that's the scarcity of land in suburbs. >> making my head spin here. give me reasons the market should go up, you're telling me -- making fun of the me. >> no, i'm saying an economy of
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equilibrium, where it's not too strong, not too weak, you have an athlon deal, tipco deal, a deal in women's health people we haven't talked about, personal income good, personal spending good. this is a market if we were an island unto ourselves you'd be buying stocks but we're not an island unto ourselves. it's massive funds going around the world trying to get out of everything and coming here because you can hit a bid. >> a lot of hedge fund selling now. >> right. >> a big asset class. >> maybe people feel, look the fed is done, it's a big joke anyway. >> one stock able to trade up even on bad days last week was gopro. it's down today. a lot of discussion of three cams ra roca cacam cameras roll out for the holidays, 500 bucks. >> orders twice as much as last time. you can't borrow the stock. the best performing of the new ipos. and i would question, i have
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been behind it. i don't feel at 81 -- someone saying, jim, you think it represents value? it's not a value play. >> right. >> it's a great momentum stock of the year. you know, i just know the numbers from different sources that i have that it's selling very well. at a certain point you're going to say, wow, that's in the stock. >> you know how many nasdaq 100 names i see green? one. actually two. >> where's the story about dollar general might be dollar tree? did you see that one? >> i missed that one. >> i was going to put it to you but it was so embarrassing. >> my other contested situation that i have spoken about, as we look at dollar tree, of course is allergan and its continued attempts to avoid and tell shareholders that it has no interest in taking a deal from valiant. a lot of letters written in the last few days by large shareholders, not just hedge
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funds, not just risk arb funds but likes of jackson squair, t. rowe at 5%, purchasing 9.7%, and allergan's board this morning did respond in a letter, although frankly, it was the same letter they responded with more or less when we heard from valeant when we first told you third quarter numbers going to be pretty strong. a lot of this, jim, designed it would seem, from the shareholder perspective to say, don't do the salex deal, a deal i've reported, serious discussions about, but last week did seem to slow or at least hit something of a -- i don't want to call it a snag but certainly slowed. i don't have an update on that. there does seem to have been a belief amongst the shareholder base at allergan and perhaps on valeant's side, encouraging that letter writing, as you might imagine, you might see a deal announced this morning with salex, instead a letter from allergan's board, many people saying you're not going to see a deal, it's off the table, i cannot tell you that's the case. what i can tell you, this
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company does continue to think about acquisitions, they continue to say they have a high bar for doing whatever it is they would do if they were to do something, allergan, to use up balance sheet capacity to effectively put arrow through the heart of valeant. we shall see. but interesting to note, no salix deal, another letter saying saying, we hear you, we're doing the right things and increasing earnings per share enormously, 475 million in cost cutting and all of the things we've done for you. >> when you have managers up 100% year-over-year, why don't they do something that is not all that crazy? why don't they sell? lock in that gain? >> a lot -- a lot of allergan's old shareholders have gone. they are gone. >> that makes sense because, boy, i'll tell you, don't let a win turn into a loss, people. my god, gopro's up. gopro. you know, the sales are very good. i will be getting a new gopro. >> really. >> what are you going to do with it? >> attach to kites, dogs.
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>> i have an african tortoise. >> yes. >> very large. >> attach it to him. >> i'm going to do slow motion from slow motion. >> very exciting. >> when cactus eats that watermelon, that could blow that out on youtube. remember, they look at youtube, gopro, where you do something that's kind of cool, they promote. i think an african tortoise with a gopro on her head, i think that's worth watching. it would be like that andy warhol movie, empire state building, right? >> that's art. that's art. see that in the whipping soon. cramer's tortoise with his gopro. >> dow's down almost 160. bob pisani on the floor. >> good morning. very broad weakness in the market across the board. allot of problems stem from three countries overseas. talking about hong kong but point out what's going on in brazil. there is an election coming up next weekend, first round of
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elections october 5th, the incumbent there and polls over the weekend indicates a lead over her challenger, silva. put up the ewz, that's the brazil exchange-traded fund. look at that, down almost 6%. and it's been weak for the last couple of weeks because this election's very much uncertain. i can tell you this, obviously, the stock market is favoring silva, who is -- was looking very good up until the weekend. so there's a lot of issues here associated with this. one of the causes of weakness. take a look at brazilian stocks, including the biggest stock there, petrob ras. brazil's the big teleconcome. bali, big iron orr cop. ripple effects in the international market. emerging market etfs, looking at eem, largest one. brazil's 10% of the eem.
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so you can see, emerging market exchange trade fund's week here. eem down 2%. move on to hong kong. you can see what's going on there. you've talked about that a little bit as well. pro democracy unrest there. hong kong's been on a roller coaster ride. it was 23,000 two or three months ago, went up to almost 26,000. as you can see in the last few weeks come completely back around, back down close to 23,000. the low for the month in hong kong. the third country i want to talk about, or problem area, is over in spain. there's a little bit of dispute between the spanish prime minister and the cat loanian president, mas. they are planning an independence referendum there and they're in a dispute over whether they can plan it or not. you can see the effect of the spanish market. europe generally weak as well. you can see spanish bond yields moving up a bit today.
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prices moving to the downside. it's unchanged now but up earlier in the day. i think those three areas are causing turmoil in the international market, spilling into our area. an interesting week for ipos, not huge ipos but some tech ones that are coming, that are very interesting this week. later in the week, a financial services platform, yodlee. hub spot, they do software as a service. inbound marketing, basically promote companies through blogs and podcasts and social media marketing. very interesting area to work in. about 100 million deal. keep an eye on that. that's called inbound marking the phrase that people use there. finally, they have dave and buster's, restaurant business, announced terms for ipo. offering 5 million shares, 5.8 million shares, 16 to 18, that will price thursday october 9th. when we get closer, we'll give you more information. right now the dow off the lows for the day, 152 points to the
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downside. >> carl? >> thanks a lot. to the bond pits and check in with rick santelli at the cme in chicago. rick? >> good morning, carl. everything that bob pointed out around the globe, ask the question, from the market's perspective, is that aiding or taking away from global growth? add into his litany of things that are going on in the globe, something like the french political scene which socialists lost the upper house. there's a lot of dissatisfaction. it's hard to say what caused what. many believe it's rooted in weak economic growth. if you look at the yield curve, let's look at tens minus twos, around 191 basis points. the chart starts, it's about a five-week chart. you can see it had a good degree of steepening, 20 basis points but reversed. to get a true picture, take a step back, show the start in june of 2013. if we look at tens, whether it's intraday or two-day, losing momentum to the sell side. many thought a knee inform jer speculative reaction of bill
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gross at pimco leaving. down five basis points today. open the chart up to july, you get a good glimpse of where resistance is and how the market has turned. comes to foreign exchange, look at a lot of areas, let's start at euro versus the dollar. the chart goes back to september of 2012. call it a two-year chart. that's basically when the euro was last here. we can see it's been a long, very methodic slide. similar to the dollar/yen. that's a chart of the dollar, screaming against the yen. that's a main driver, of course, of the recent strength in the dollar index. even countries that aren't really present in the dollar index like mexico, peso losing ground to the dollar. back to you. >> thanks so much. when we come back, we'll bring you the latest on the protests in hong kong that are contributing to the morning's sell-off on wall street. s&p, if it closes below 1960
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rough morning for the dow 30. one component in the green, intel it looks like, but everything else is down. we'll keep our eye on that and the number of s&p components in again, not too many. >> no. the opposite of friday. you can panic on this and say, which was real, wednesday and friday or thursday and today? and i think that what's real is that people are just trading like mad, there's not a lot of liquidity. people want out, it's very hard to sell these other markets. bob went over this report, you own brazil, are you going sell it down 5%? you own spain, down 2%? >> that is a really bad move. >> remember emerging markets, i tell people, please, you think it's diversified, they trade in lock step, there's people who
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always proselytize you should be in these because they have certain good performance at certain times not for retail investors. >> what's wrong with taking a pass, waiting for a post-qe environment, tapering anyway. back off. >> exactly. >> going into earnings season, maybe i'm better off being short than long. >> i don't want to be short. i think, look, you want to put new money in, no, wait. better opportunities. that's all. >> you think a chance to buy in q4? >> yeah. i mean, look, in the end, when the united states trades on its own, which does periodically happen, we'll recognize we're the safe haven for money than opposed to hedge fund. hedge funds do that. a lot of group think, the mutual funds pick among the rubble and say that's a great opportunity. >> active managers underperforming the market. >> well, they like the market down. hence you get 4%, i'm harping on that because it's the dumbest
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thing that could ever happen for the country. boy, wouldn't it be great short bonds you want the fed to panic right now. >> they're not going to. what would make them panic? >> nothing. they're trying to worry about people getting jobs and putting food on the plate. that is like, you know, makes me sound like a liberal softy i want dinner -- that a lot of people in america play for dinner. but they do play for dinner. >> some argue the pattern of high on expiration friday followed by three to five down has happened again and again and again this year. >> let it happen. a lot of good situations i'm looking at. a lot of drug stocks coming down, the rails coming down, some oil coming down. a new valuation on athlon. there's plenty of companies in the permeon, if you want to be there. the permeon is producing oil like mad. >> one thing we haven't mentioned, a walmart adding kevin systrom, 30 and a director of wmt, pretty good. >> yeah. they need to get more hip,
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walmart. you know, some -- i went to a walmart that had a nail savuka lon over the weekend. >> so, i tend -- walmart, nail salon. i don't think, maybe kevness got ideas. i may put a gopro and walk cactus i tweeted a picture, walk cactus down the aisles, get a low-level look at what walmart looks like from the floor. >> i'd like to put a gopro on you on your shopping days, which is virtually every day, see what stores you vis it. >> look like fast motion but real-time. >> i did very little shopping this weekend. granton road, order stuff. >> i don't know what that is. >> it's a website. >> oh, okay. >> it was a beautiful day. i didn't want to shop but had to get a little shopping in. >> gorgeous weekend. >> gorgeous weekend. >> got hangover from the gorgeous weekend and sproles
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the dow's had plus or minus hundred-point days 8 of the last 10 sessions. we haven't do that in a couple of years. >> i find that unof theable. it says nobody has any conviction. just sort of wait for your pitch. you know, jeter, you don't have so swing at everything. swing when you can get a hit. >> especially last at bat. >> kram somewhe >> cramer and stop trading. >> merrill lynch raised from 36 to 43, that's the one that can sustain us because intel's pcs, we know from micron, is good. a stock that gets pushed and works, that's a signal that we'll get a turn. finish line, the ceo was on "mad money" friday. jeffrey's and janney say buy. they had the wrong jordans, believe it or not, by their own admission. they had the jordans that didn't sell well, talking about nike, and think they've gotten merchandise and inventory in line. stock's down very big. i would urge people who feel that the whole shoe business has
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been pretty good. this is down and out. i think it's one down, four up. >> people took nike's numbers and used as argument we're not just buying cars and stuff for our house. >> people forgot nike already. no memory of what happened the day before. i don't like that kind of market because it says, listen, you know, bad data point, we go down even harder. >> what's on "mad money" tonight? >> a whole group of companies that came public in the last year. this is marketo, cloud-based marketing software. one of the things people have to worry about, cloud stocks are not holding up here. they're just not holding up. so let's find out whether that's, again, hangover. alibaba drew a lot of money, a lot of money went away from a lot of cloud stocks into alibaba. i don't want to say they're in free-fall, but got to see if something to buy. chevron, these oil stocks are incredible. horrendous. >> yeah. not in a good way. >> no, no, not in a good way.
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>> despite the deal today. >> i'm putting a gopro on chevron, see what it looks like to go to 110. >> that being said, is it an opportunity here? >> eventually for retail, that's the problem, david, today's not -- you should be buying retail today for the up 100 tomorrow but people don't think like that. they think we've got to sell everything. no, oil coming down is good. but that's too -- don't go fluffal. go to walmart. >> the nail salon. take a break. >> walmart's trying anything. >> yes. >> accounts for consumers, nail salons. >> name jeter ceo of walmart, i'm a buyer. >> you're a buyer in. >> whatever jeter does, i'm a buyer of. >> interesting to see. >> i never met him. he must be like the greatest guy in the world. i never met him. he must be amazing. >> he's just retiring. he's not going anywhere. >> he's got that thing from gatorade walking around, saying
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hi to people. >> only 40. >> jim, see you tonight. "mad money" 6:00 p.m. when we come back, so much more for us to get to, including update on protests in hong kong. here's some pictures you might have seen. one more time, dow down 142. back in a minute.
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it's a rough open, as you can see, down 126 points. all of last week we had triple-digit moves on the dow. we've not had that for a long time. some of the stocks that have done the best, early sellers. data from diana. pending home sales down, 1%, month to month. seasonally adjusted. spending home sales, signed contracts of existing homes which were an indicator of closings in the next two months. they are down 2.2% year-over-year. this, the street expecting either unchanged. august pending sales down 1%, regionally speaking in the northeast, down 3% month to month, down 2.1% in the midwest. down 1.4% in the south. in the west, they did gain 2.6%, again month to month nationally spending home sales index is
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still at its second highest level in the past year. the realtors are blaming an echo does of investors from the market for this drop in home sales. now we are relying on the mortgage, first-time home buyers and they're not returning to the market the way we expected them. report from black knight financial services shows home prices nationally in july up 5.1% year over year. gains are moddering. much higher in the months before, 5.1% begin in july. pending home sales disappoint, month to month. >> not doing anything to let the already-sour sentiment. u.s. stocks remain sharply lower, off the lows this morning. still the dow down 130 points let's bring in the president and cio with castle market management. also with us, cnbc contributor, don luskin. you have been wildly bullish on this program, and in your recent notes. are you nervous now, given what
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you've seen last week and the follow through today? >> wild bulls have to say there are corrections from time to time, please. what was last thing i said on cnbc? i said, we are going to have a sharp correction right after that crazy circus-like alibaba ipo. these things come, these things go. it's happening. it doesn't scare me from the long-term program. we are in a long-term secular bull market. mama said there would be days like this. my mama told me there would be buying opportunities. exactly what this is. >> what does this correction look like to you? how sharp, how deep does it go? >> we've gone three years now, without so much as a 10% correction. i don't see any reason out there in the world why we should have one now. i think it's another one of those 3% to 6% corrections. it will turn around, have a slow motion melt-ups for new highs. it will be this constant slug up the wall of worry like we've had the last 6 1/2 years.
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that's going to happen this time, too. >> unwavered. jerry, what do you make of the recent volatility, the newfound volatility in equity markets cop coming off i strong year? >> quite healthy. investors have to be reminded stocks are risky assets. at the same time you have to break the market down into its component parts. there's a lot of stocks that should correct not only 5%, but maybe 10%, 15%. others stepping into right here because they're at the beginning of a multiple expansion. >> like what? >> well, for sure the energy space is trading today so the price of oil is going to break 80 and go to 60, all on the basis that the dollar has somehow meant something to commodity markets that royal represents. that's not the case. energy stocks in attractive long-term valuation models, sometimes 10, 12-times earnings. those are names you can hold
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during and coming out of a correction. look at financials, in a wonderful place in the event that overall yield curve's going to start moving up again. these are companies, again, inexpensively priced and ones that should do quite well in an up cycle. you have this wonderful opportunity here. >> all right. financials and energy, what about you, don? where are you finding pockets of strength? what we've seen at least during the sell-off big names, multinationals, are doing better than small caps which are getting beat up. russell sharply underperforming for the year. >> what i like do in corrections like this, i look at sectors that have provided the strongest leadership in terms of price action and in terms of a durable sustainable rational bullish narrative. and wait for those to have the sharp corrections that that kind of stock always has and buy into them. for me, that would be the biotech sector. this is where american innovation and capitalism is showing its finest flower, yes, they've appreciated over the
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last bull market. but when you get corrections like this, that's exactly when to get on those leaders who go through the deepest corrections. >> don, what about the underlying state of the economy? we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that we're now in the strongest stretch of growth that we've had in this country for about a decade with growth exceeding 3.5% of 3 of the past 4 quarters and presumably that's what we'll achieve tomorrow as well. where does that take you? that's biotech arguing. something more profound about business spending, construction spending and not a consumer that's looking very strong. >> right. i like to look at forward-looking indicators of economic health, things like capital goods orders, survey-based things like forward earnings for the s&p, pmis. those are absolutely surging. i think after this crummy recovery that we had out of the depths of the great recession,
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we finally beginning to pick up our stride and having something that feels like a recovery that our daddies would have recognized. we've waited five years. now the business cycle supposedly mature, it's entering into its youth. it's a a wonderful thing. >> bullish don. jerry, emerging markets into the discussion especially what's going on in hong kong. protest there's, concerns about financial stability. it is a hub of financial services. it's not just hong kong. you have to worry right now about some of the emerging markets with the federal reserve transitioning into a tightening mode. >> yeah, you do but remember taking the fed's place here is going to be the bank of ajapan, most likely euro, and clearly china's in -- inflating their balance sheet as well i don't think it's going to be the problem that people associated a couple years ago. and i really think, as you watch emerging markets, while there's always one or two that have more risks than the other, the broad
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group, should never look back on an exposure to too powerful of economic engine to-ing priced at 10, 12 times earnings where they are right now and those are the exact kind of names you think you can get back to and you'll see a breakout and wish you bought those names where they are today. >> just might have to be patient. thank you both on this monday morning, jerry and don. one of the individual names to watch this morning is clearly alibaba. for the first date-to-day, more people get in with the company or against it, as options begin trading for the first time. you'll be aware that the shorts moved in with some effect last week after the 38% bump that we had on day one. joining us now is brian nowalk, one of the first analysts to come out with research and put a price where you think alibaba's going to be. the price is 110. you believe 20% upside from here, why? >> it's not stretch if you go to
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$110. the company over the next three years is growing top line almost 40% and its earnings 30%. so, if you're willing to pay 28 times earnings for a 30% grower in a company that's driving the secular china e-commerce story you have $110 stock. >> okay. in the meantime, of course, so many risks, as we've spoken about, over the weekend. they spent half a billion buying a share in an online travel operation in china. does that worry you? does that distract you from the price target? >> no, it doesn't because this is -- this is something that investors have to understand with alibaba, that this is jack ma's company. part of what you're buying at 28 times earnings, you are buying the fact that jack is going to invest in multiple sectors and make this a global story across a lot of different categories. it's not just an e-commerce company. it's a platform to enable all online trans aac acactions incl travel. >> what does the fact that
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options start trading today mean? last week, despite the fact that it's difficult in initial days to borrow stock to short sell, people did that and managed to ramp it up to 3.3% of the equity available and the stock fell almost 4% as a result. once options come in what ratio do you think they're likely to be? the facebook, of course, it was negative. >> right. you know, it's unclear. the nice thing about the options now is it will give investors are another way to invest in the stock on the positive or negative side throughout options as opposed to straight equity. not sure where short interest will shake out on earnings. >> are you surprised we haven't seen volatility in the name? it's option of facebook. last week less than 3% move on alibaba. it's treated as a mature company. >> a lot of credit go to the nyse and the way in which the ipo was handled, smoothly, good setting the initial price for when it floated. it is a great story. it's harder to punch holes in
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this story at this point than it was facebook when it first came out because mobile was the debate with facebook. with alibaba it's clearer kind of the secular growth story where we're going relative to facebook going public. >> some might argue if the facebook ipo was about mobile, this ipo's about transparency and regulation in china. hong kong protests don't help. >> correct, correct, it's fair. >> what does that tell you today? what's happening in hong kong? >> yeah, it's all part of the china risk with alibaba. you know, it's like any of the chinese internet names. s always uncertainty among transparency. part of the reason why, it's not trade at a peg or priced to earnings faster growth, not going to trade 35, 40 times probably trade at 28%. >> 25% to its peers. >> yeah. >> what about the slowing chinese economy? a lot of people talking about, i'm surprised, in connection with alibaba last week. >> yeah. it's something to watch.
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but the one thing to keep in mind is the chinese economy may be slowing but the chinese e-commerce online story has growth ahead. the number of people online every year in china is growing over 10%. essentially they have 10% customer growth every year. of the people online in china now, end a quarter are on alibaba. so you have 1.4 total billion people in china, half online, and only half of those are in alibaba now. even if the economy does slow, there's still a lot of natural growth, more people to come on the platform and spend. >> good to see you, brian. one of the first analysts out with the rating on alibaba. up next, protests in hong kong, of course, taking over major highways, blocking traffic, forcing schools to close. riot police have drawn. "squawk on the street" comes right back. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars.
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and hong kong bureau chief, ken brown. good to talk to you again. >> hi. >> seeing pictures and seeing video, but can you -- being there -- characterize how serious this is and long lasting it might be. >> well, tonight is a contrast to sunday night. it's now monday night here. and it's really peaceful. the protesters are out there. police are nowhere to be seen. and the protests have spread across three of the city's biggest districts. last night was pretty outrageous. they haven't seen anything like this in hong kong, yeah, going back to the handover, tear gas, pepper spray. it was a really dramatic scene. >> how much anger is there, ken? and is there a sense that the chinese might have to deploy troops, that they might bring in the military? is that a fear? >> well, i think it's very
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premature to say that. there's no evidence that that is going to happen. these protests have been going on on and off all summer. hong kong has protestifies all the time. it's common here. he's are the most serious. the issue is the protests are likely to continue this week, it's a holiday week. people expecting them this week. the question is, do they grow and does there seem to be no enin sight? what happens last night with -- when the tear gas came in it created a huge ground swell of support for protesters and so today, as the day went on, more and more people joined protesters and the crowds got bigger and bigger. >> ken, can you explain exactly what the protesters are after and whether they feel completely denied or whether they feel that ultimately they might be pushing at an open door? >> well, that's a good question. hong kong protesters have beaten back beijing on a bunch of stuff over the years, including
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education curriculum beijing wanted to impose two years ago. there's always a possibility. this is much more serious. this is a democratic election of the chief executive, which is the top official in hong kong. you know, the constitution of hong kong essentially came with the handover says there will be universal sufferage for this election and beijing has no problem as long as they get to choose the candidate, and that's the issue that upsets people however. they want to have a real election. this place is a colony until 1997, they never have been able to vote on their leader. it's an important issue here. >> ken, we mentioned withdrawals of some of the forces, some of our ruers who have longer memories remind us in tea enma minute, a similar dynamic, forces withdraw, came back in following days with more brutal force, and we know where that led. is the expectation in hong kong this is going to get worse?
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>> well, again, you know, i think that's very speculative. there's no evidence that it's going to happen. i mean, if the hong kong police department is a well-run, professional police force and they have not handled this well so far. but you know, they have capacity if they need to to handle something. you're talking about is the people's liberation army, chinese arm coming in and taking control. i mean, that would be a huge event. you know the issue is the protesters have scattered all over hong kong. it's not like they're in one square. and i think the police realized that using force only, you know, drew in more people and now there's a government came out today in hong kong and had some concessi concessions, minor, the plirs force came on tv to discuss what they did and defend themselves. so this is not like a stand-off where both sides are, you know, glaring at each other. this is, you know, a give and take. you know, this is a pretty open
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city. i think it would have to get much, much worse before anyone thought there was going to be some military intervention. >> ken, quickly, we saw sharp reaction in hong kong stocks overnight. the hong kong dollar, which barely moves, sitting at a march low. we know it's an economy that is dependent on financial services, investment. is what the feeling whether this will make a big impact? >> yeah, that's a real question. i think a bunch of bank branches closed today, blackrock and cpng told people to stay home. a lot of protests going on in front of a lot of the financial district. you know, the market's been down a bunch for the last few months. i think the biggest immediate concern is this is a huge shopping week in hong kong, because it's a holiday in china and mainland tourists come down to shop. october, which starts this week, is the second biggest shopping month of the year in hong kong.
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and already the china's economic slowdown and crackdown in corruption there have hurt retail sales in hong kong. so that's an immediate blow that the city's feeling. financial services, you know, if it gets really bad, but so far there's been no real evidence besides the stock market move today. >> yeah. golden week underreported. just the heat, apparently incredibly hot in hong kong this weekend. hope you'll come back on the phone as the situation develops. ken brown in hong kong. up next, on "squawk on the street," was the government bailout of aig unconstitutional? former ceo hank greenberg thinks so. his lawsuit against the government begins today. likes of tim geithner, benner n bernanke called to the stand.
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u.s. stocks are falling monday morning but they have been cutting earlier losses. the dow is now down less than 100 points, 97 points. earlier it was down 178 just around the opening bell. s&p 500 down now less than half a percent. did get a disappointment on pending home sales. as you can see, stocks starting the week in the red, extending last week's gains. six years after the u.s. government bailed out agio, the long time ceo is suing for damages. the trial begins today. our mary thompson is in washington where the trial is taking place. she's got more for us, including who's going to be there. mary? >> reporter: good morning, sara. opening arguments under way as we speak in what is -- what will be a six-week trial. boyce, representing greenberg's firm is saying, there is nothing more of critical to our rule in law than power and discretion of government officials, that power and discretion must be used
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within the established rule of law. if not, it has no beginning and no end. arguing that the government violated aig and its shareholders' fifth amendment rights during $182 billion takeover, claiming it unlawfully demanded equity in aig in return for loans and demand punitive interest rates on loans, interest rates that it didn't charge other firms that provided aid to during the crisis. starr international is greenberg's investment firm, the largest shareholder in aig. the lead plaintiff in this class-action lawsuit. this, opening arguments but during the second week of the trial, key argue techs of the government's response to the financial crisis expected to take the stand, including federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and former treasury secretaries hank paulson and tim geithner, running the new york federal reserve at the time. greenberg, ran aig 40 years and resigned amid accounting investigation in 2005, has long
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maintained the government treated aig unfairly, declining to offer terms and options granted to other companies during the financial crisis. suit seeks damages between 17 and $55 billion. the government denies those claims. the lead lawyer presenting his argume argument shortly. saying starr never established what kind of damage was done to aig shares given aig had few options at the time of the crisis. >> an interesting six weeks. thank you very much. straight ahead on the program -- the largest advertising conglomerate in the world as ad week kicks off in new york. sir martin sorrell will be with us. goodnight. goodnight. for those kept awake by pain the night is anything but good. introducing new aleve pm. the first one with a sleep aid. plus the 12 hour strength of aleve
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markets had a case of the mondays at the open down as much as 170 point on the dow. s&p down to 1963 or so, which is seen seen he essentially flirting with flat for the quarter. haven't had a negative quarter in about seven quarters for the s&p. talking 1967, 1969 critical. >> importantly about to get data from the dallas fed. an interview over the weekend, worried the fed might be getting behind the curve on raising interest rates. not a new position but what he did say either today or tomorrow the dallas fed would release data which he said, quote, would knock your socks off.
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that may move the treasury market after an interesting day. >> unusual for a fed president front running regional data like that. but dallas has been strong. texas and other oil-rich states have been outperforming. >> we know where that feeds in terms of fisher's world view. >> yes. >> rick santelli in chicago and see if it does knock our socks off. rick? >> you know, socks are ready. trying to see what this number is. it should be out any moment. last look was 7.1. the high water mark for the series was 25. and that was back in april of 2010. i still don't see it being released. expectations somewhere 10 to 12, 10.8. i know that's strong but the socks don't seem to be knocked very far in this one. 10. 8. it was 12.7 in july. i don't want to dismiss the notion, it's better than expectations and better than last month's 7.17 but knock your socks off, not sure, richard fisher is a hawk. voting days are numbered.
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but it is a solid number out of the dallas fed region regarding manufacturing activity. back to you, carl. >> sometimes it's better to underpromise and overdeliver. >> maybe more data to come. >> maybe the jobs report on friday. doubtful. >> dallas data. >> markets in sell-off mode. triple digit decline on the dow. keep our eye on than recovering some losses from earlier. more on what's moving throughout the hour. tomorrow on "squawk alley," first on cnbc interview with oracle's new ceo, mark hurd. what does he have planned for the tech giant?
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♪ biggest names in advertising are gathering in new york this week to talk about the industry's future and what new technology's being presented by the likes of facebook will mean to buyers. leading off, sir martin sorrell, ceo of the largest advertising conglomerate, wpp.
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joining us now with our own julia boorstin. over to you. >> thanks so much, simon. sir martin sorrell, thanks for talking to us today. >> focus in advertising and marketing services group. >> i have 0-to-ask about the news, protests in hong kong. you made a until of investments in china, the recent one last week. >> china our third largest market. hong kong is a major, major area for us as well. >> what kind of implications do you see from the protests? >> obviously, it's not good news. and the demonstration, i think it's a little bit quieter this morning, but obviously the demonstrations are troubling. i mean, cause -- is a cause for concern. we haven't seen demonstrations of that nature for a significant period of time. but the hong kong electorate are calling for greater freedom for the selection of candidates, not having a slate of candidates determined by beijing, but having a broader -- i think it
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is worrying. from the point of view of china as a whole, our third largest market, we have 16,000 people there in 80 cities. 1.5 billion revenue versus 6 billion in the u.s. and 3 billion in the uk. germany being fourth with 1.4 billion. it's very important market for us. it's been quite bouncy or variable, volatile. >> volatile. >> q1 flat, q2 was strong. volatile in july and august. haven't seen september numbers. i would say it's troubling, it is concerning, but we'll will to see how things develop. >> what happens your outlook for the next couple of quarters? >> china, my view is i remain a very strong and passionate bull for china, but i'm biased because we made significant inhave thements. we have talking about poll start, join company with the
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government and several leading executives who left alibaba and are working with alibaba on building e-commerce platforms for our chinese brands we went with and multinationals penetrating the chinese target. alibaba statistics, as you well know, $220 billion. amazon, 180. amazon is something like 79 billion. amazon, i think, is zero profit. alibaba makes about $3. 5 billion after taxes. evaluation numbers extraordinary and gives them a considerable amount of stock market power to do more things. i think we have to -- if i was competing with alibaba or in the west, i would be worried actually. >> the other big news of the day is facebook. sheryl sandberg stopped by. >> i think the bigger news,
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jeffrey katzenberg. the ceo of dreamworks china. >> that is deal going to happen? >> jeffrey? >> yeah. >> ask jeffrey. jeffrey's iconoclasiconoclast, talented guy. content is son's belief. he'll need content for mobile platforms. the latest sprint here and marsalis in kansas. interesting to see what happens. >> so i have to ask about facebook. they relaunched atlas, neutrals buying ads across platforms and websites. chatting with sheryl sandberg. >> i said to cheryl, competitive to us, she didn't think it is. but google, facebook, they like to say they're technology companies but masquerading as technology. they're just like you. >> the tools are not good for advertisers. >> not necessarily not good but
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j obviously they have a platform that drives volume and traffic to media properties whether google and facebook driven by doubleclick or atlas. the launch of at loolas a week two weeks ago, the old platform of avenue a which microsoft owned it wasn't used by microsoft as extensively as it could be and sheryl in her talented way is driving a competitor to the google doubleclick platform. we have our own platform, the most successful data technology audience online audience buying companies as access, the largest in the globe, on the globe, and is working close with eighth at nexus. one of the things we announced the relationship, which is the technological backbone to our platform which competes with
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doubleclick and atlas as well. >> simon hobbs. nice to see you. >> hello, simon. >> you're always presenting yourself at cutting edge of what's going on, that's very clear. for a lot of the industry, it's in the analytics coming from facebook and google too come flex? like at priceline, hundreds of people sitting in amsterdam trying to sort out how to advertise in real-time and do what digital demands. but for most people, a lot of them, aren't they going to default to buying prime time tv on a thursday night because everything else is just too time consuming? >> no, i don't think so at all, simon. actually, i think, you know, changes in the patent of tv ownership. we had a panel here, we had cbs interactive representative, disney, espn. what you will see is increasing fragmentation. our clients want to buy the
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right audiences and we are developing through our relationship with at nexus as google is with doubleclick and facebook is with atlas at right platform to buy the right premium inventory online and off-line. now, does that mean that the demise of live television? no. as was said on the panel by the executives from espn and cbs, it's -- they're buying audiences in different way, audiences using consuming in different medias, tablets, smartphones and increasing penetration of tablets and smartphones it fragments media landscape and makes it important for us to adjudicate and adjust and value different media in very -- in different ways and effective ways. i think it makes it more important our role more important, the role of the platforms more important, and our judgment more important. gives us a bigger role, actual.
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>> i sir martin, i have a question. it's sara, on the global economic nature of ad spending, what your outlook is now. where are we? since you are the biggest in the industry versus, say, before the financial crisis, where are we? what's the outlook? what does it tell us about the global economy? >> well, since 2009, which was a dreadful year for the industry and ourselves, we have seen steady. we saw a v-shaped recovery in 2010. and steady growth in '11, '12, '13, when we had increasingly record result in each of the years. but for the strength of sterling and sterling has weakened because of the run on the pound when scottish independence was a possibility, but sterling strength obviously made life more difficult because we report in sterling. but we're seeing improvements in the general industry and gnp growth. gnp growth in 14 broadly better than '13 and we've had a lot of
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quadrennial factors like olympic games, world cup, et cetera, which helped midterm congressionals. '15 has none of the quadrennial factors but the buildup to the presidential election in 2016. there's the buildup to the olympics in brazil, the european football championships all of these things i think helpful as a platform in 2015. but if you look at worldwide gdp forecasts, they're forecasting 50-basis point improvement in '15 over '14. i expect the trend of advertising to remain the same in relation to gdp and improve slightly next year. if it's 4.5% nominal this year for advertising spending, maybe 5% next year. the growth will come more in asia, more in latin america, more in africa and the middle east despite russia and the ukrainian crisis, despite what's happening in the middle east. that's where the greater growth will be. u.s. is steady and growing and improving.
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uk is strong, in front of the general election in 2015. the problem in western europe remains france to a lesser extent italy, but still a problem, and of course spain is recovering but with high levels of unemployment. >> a final question about the trends you see here impacting the u.s. media giants. a lot of talk how upfront ad sales were down and questions about whether tv ad sales would rebound this fall or whether money's moving elsewhere. where are advertisers are putting their money now? >> well, i think, as i said in response to simon, when he was saying is it all going to go to prime time television, the answer is no. and the statistics that we use, a lot in presentations which shows for the first time a difference between time spent and investment by ourselves and our clients. the difference is papers and magazines and internet and mobile. internet and mobile had to be increased, newspapers and magazines had to be reduced.
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there's a discontinuity for the first time on television. i think that does reflect the change in media consumption habits. you and i consume live television but on an app, smartphone, tablet, you know you look at the new iphone, i mean, iphone is halfway between mobile phone and tablet or look at the blackberry passport, all examples of new screens and new ways that people are consuming. the answer is, i think clients will increasingly review where they're investing their money and it's good news for us in terms of trying to help clients find the best deployment of their significant budgets. >> advertisers following users as they move to different devices. sir martin sorrell, thank you for joining us. back over to you. >> sir martin sorrell, knight of the realm on cnbc. check out on the stock market, no doubt volatility is back. we've plunged 178 points on the
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>> you know, rick, it's more of the malaise. the return to normal that sophomorically being celebrated out there as a positive when in fact return to normal, i believe, going to be what leads housing down 10 to 20% in prices and demand over the next one to two years. remember, back in 2011, not coincidentally around the time twist was first announced housing bottomed on everything but end user fund mentals, the unorthodox demand by institutionals, hedge funds and private investors buying foreclosures to flip and remod and turn into rentals, the incremental pulled forward demands that fell down to 3.25. end users pulled that demand forward and took house prices in some region like phoenix, inland empire, sacramento, up 50, 60, 07% in two and a half years.
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>> if i'm reading you right what you're telling me is that we didn't learn from the mistakes, the exotic financing that was around prior to the credit crisis, created a bubble in housing. after the bubble burst, we are now, we being the government, the fed, t.a.r.p. type a laws, dodd/frank, trying to recreate housing in a way that isn't it organic user driving it once again, is that about right? is that about what you're saying? >> we did recreate 2003 to 2007. the last time everybody was turned into a speculator through artificial credit if you will, 1%, 2% only loans, stated income, we had a wide base of everybody in america speculating on houses. this time around, it will be all cash buyer took their place. both parties from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2013, lacked what i call a mortgage loan
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house price governor. >> official demand in that regard, mark, artificial construction going on? are there extra houses built? did the builders read this correctly? what do you see out there? >> there is no shortage of houses in which to live. right now you can tell that by what the builders are doing. housing starts for single family won't see a million you know in my kids' who are 6 years old, in their school future. you know, it's a thing that can't happen. right now the multifamily and the single family for rent business is exploding. it's about ready to drop hundreds of to you sands if not millions of units the key piece of demand that end user, that repeat buyer, 8 or 10 million are stuck in their properties in mortgage modifications. >> i'm going to have to leave it there. if i'm hearing you correct, never enough time. the return to normal in the federal reserve's mind with
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regard to rates may be a bumpy ride for housing. thanks for taking the time. simon hobbs, back to you. >> thank you very much. let's see where we are on the markets. every day last week we got a triple digit move on the dow and sure enough at the open today, we were down 178 points although we've clawed our way back. art cashin, director of floor operations with ubs and cnbc contributor. good morning. >> good morning. >> what i thought was interesting at the open, immediately the selling was focused on the stocks that have done well recently, apple, delta airlin airlines, hp, green mountain. as we saw at points last week as well. >> yes. i think people are trying to nail down profits. the markets are a little vulnerable here. we have both the geopolitical things going on, isis making some new moves and inroad, the taliban beginning to imitate some of the isis tactics and you had brazil and you had hong kong so general areas of concern and people worried about going
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into, if you would, september and october syndrome. >> look at the intraday, art, we have clawed back 100 points we lost at the open. you sort of predicted this as we would reach a key technical level we would come back. is that what happened? >> in my morning comments i said in the weakness traders would look to the 1963/1965 support area. and the low today was 1964. so blind squirrels do find acorns. >> nice call. what about volatility? the fact it's back. the vix is a broken indicator but all of a sudden we're watching that closely after the spike last week. i'm still not a believer in the vix, but i do think the volatility is back and i think it's pretty much along the equity lines as of now. we had some similar volatility for a brief while in the treasury market and that's being exacerbated slightly by the guessing around what the bill gross move means. will there be redemptions.
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if there are, will that force them to sell treasuries whether they want to or not to get the money back. a lot of question marks in the bond area. >> jack this morning wrote in saying another expiration friday with an all-time high followed by a potential 3 to 5% dip. do you see any reason to think this one's different? >> no not at all. but it still has a mild vulnerability to it. jack is right, i've said often enough the week after the september expiration has a history for possibly being the weakest particular weak week of the year can make you vulnerable. see how we do as we get into october, the end of this week we're going to have yom kippur and the beginning of the haj to mecca. that might be very -- >> and the jobs report. >> and an ecb meeting. yes but in the prior two, isis might be targeting something. >> i hope you a good week, art. >> thank you. >> art cashin from ubs.
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a new way to bet on alibaba begins today as its stock options gop. we're not going to talk about that. dow down about 81 points. been a rough morning as you know. but we were down about 170 plus on the dow at the open which was not a good beginning. s&p 500 got to 1964 or so. we managed to get some of that back about 10 points as we've reached somewhat of a short squeeze here. where are we going here? i think we're going to go to "squawk alley" is live. ♪
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>> we do have to start with the markets, stocks in the red off the lows. dow down 84 as we said, s&p 1974 coming after the stock market was either up or down 100 points every single day of last week. haven't done that. dow has triple digit moves the lasts eight out of ten sessions. joining us at post nine, john fortt, kayla tausche, john stein and we'll keep an eye. art cashin telling us coming off an expiration friday you tend to get a dip, about 3 to 5%. we'll see whether all that supply from alibaba, for instance, that cramer was mentioning means the market in cramer's word has to cool it off a little bit. >> but that's a specific type of money manager a large cap tech stock holder. what

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