to figure out what the macro picture for chips is >> and lulu, the stock has hung in there all year, it's outperformed most of the peers >> i have to give them credit. >> the street has been skeptical, half and half recommending it or not >> maybe that changes after today. thanks for joining us, everybody. "fast money" starts right now. live from the nasdaq market site overlooking new york city's times square i'm melissa lee. tonight on "fast," the hunt is on, comcast and economy going head to head for fox our own david faber will be here plus we're two days away from a potential government shutdown as the house and senate are battling over the tax bill on capitol hill. we'll tell what you it could mean for the markets the banks have been the teflon trade of the year despite a tough environment. but something just happened that could spell trouble for the

whole group. we'll tell what you. first, the global selloff. markets everywhere from europe to asia to south america all getting hit over the past month except for here in the u.s., which despite the recent volatility is still up 1% in that time. we know it's a small world after all. is the u.s. the next market that's about to crack? guy? >> the vix closed lower today, we mentioned that last night the warning signs are not there in the vix pete can speak to that the selloff in the hang seng index to me has been very interesting and something you have to continue to watch. i mentioned it because look at where we topped at the hang seng at the beginning of 2008, 30,000 look where we've traded up to and failed over the last couple of weeks the selloff has been pretty quick. ten-year yields in china have gone up to 4%. it's clear the chinese government is tamping on the brakes you have to wonder is that

causing some sort of cascade effect right now it's manifesting itself in the hsi. you have to wonder if it makes its way to our shores. >> are you worried >> you have to a little bit. tencent in china is down 12% from recent highs. that said, it was up massively in the last couple of times. samsung in seoul, you know, this thing is down about 15% over the last few weeks, also from an all-time high. i think that's pretty interesting. you almost want to take it back to europe a little bit we're going to be focused a little bit on yields in the u.s. west a fed meeting next week you look at the german tenure, this is the largest economy in europe, they've under their gdp forecast breaking news on taxes let's get straight to ylan mui in d.c >> reporter: melissa, republicans are signaling openness to a 22% corporate tax rate i talked to two key republicans who said this is on the table. they described it as a dial that

they can turn to pay for other priorities such as an expanded deduction for state and local taxes, for example this is something that president trump had floated over the weekend. republicans had initially expressed hesitation in going to 22%. but now it appears that they are more open to that number members of the house conference committee on tax reform will be meeting tonight at 7:00 p.m. this is expected to come up during that meeting. so we'll get more information after that back over to you >> staying in local tax deductions could survive if the rate goes to 22% does the amt on the corporate side and the modified individual in the senate plan, does it make it more likely that goes away? >> reporter: they would no longer need the money they would raise from the aft b -- amt. but all indications are that amt will not make it to the final

versions of the legislation. >> thank you, ylan mui in d.c. this could make it more easy for the conferees to come to an agreement on a plan. and for the high earning income tax states like california and new york, that could also be a good thing >> a little bit of a good thing. i think to the extent that 22 makes a deal more likely, that's good to the extent they had to go to 22 right now, already, it's a little more contentious. i don't know i kind of think that the taxes are priced in more than the probability. i feel like they're priced in a lot, and there's a little more room for trouble, meaning priced too close to being a done deal >> in terms of the couple-day pullback we've seen in the markets in terms of this sort of turn in the international markets we've seen as well, is it a sell on the news sort of thing? >> this just shows us once again whether we like it, don't like it, whether you're political side is, negotiation is going to

be the whole thing trump talked, well, 20, but maybe we could move to 22. it looks like it's going to 22 it seems to me there's still plenty of room for negotiations to get this deal done. do they? i'm not 100% confident that they do but itfeels to me like everything is up for negotiation, this fifo thing eventually probably gets out the right hand will work with the left to get everything to work the way they want to. >> there's no left and right here it's just right. there's no left, they're not involved, pete it's really their own party. >> the guys in their own party, the 41 against right now, you're going to get these guys to be on the same page. >> can i tell you the real problem with this whole scenario is what you started out the conversation with, this budget talk on friday if they shut down the government, make no mistake, it's the republicans, again, who will be shutting down the

government, inability to negotiate with the other side to get the votes to extend the budget if they shut down the government, all this tax stuff gets pushed down, and the longer people get to see what's in it, the worse for them they wanted to jam this thing down that's why friday is an important day. >> this friday >> yes >> i don't actually think this friday this friday is like the phony end. i don't think we see a deal on friday, and that's okay for another several days at least. >> what we've been saying, the cracks in the global markets that we have been seeing, you highlighted hsi, we also saw, you know, msci, asia, japan at a two-month low, copper not doing well what does this all mean in the prism of, hey, look, the tax deal might go through? >> i could makie an argument tht it's bullish

maybe they're leading us i think the german dax led us for three to six months at the beginning of this year we followed. if europe and china have been leading, it stands to reason they could lead us down. but the vix closed down today, despite the fact that the market is lower the vix is telling a different story. i can't get that overly concerned. i know tony dwyer has been on here at least a half dozen times saying i shouldn't be worried about it but the speed at which the yield curve continues to flatten is somewhat alarming. 52, 53 basis points at levels we haven't seen in a decade and a half i'm not an economist, i'm not funny enough and not humorless enough and smart to be an economist. that being said, it means something. >> that goes back to what you're saying about the bunds, essentially a weight on the ten-year yield >> i don't think that global

equity markets down a couple of percent from all-time high suspect a troubling thing. what i would find troubling is if you had leadership like samsung, like tencent, alibaba, move its way to our shores, facebook down 8% from its highs, if that starts to steam roll, we don't know what that's like. >> that's the beauty of what the united states offers that's why when people say what's the best place to be, i always say the united states when you really think about this, why are we a healthier market than everybody you just mentioned? tencent, samsung, you go through the list, you talk about technology, in some cases you're talking about other areas in the marketplace that are not something that -- we really have been rotating. we've rotated from financials to technology to industrials back to the financials back to technology back to financials. the healthy rotation we see in the u.s., we don't have the same flexibility in the markets everywhere else in the world

they're usually dependent on the technology world in some form, maybe it's financial, but it's always the support of one. and they don't have what we have right now. >> mike wilson is chief u.s. equity strategist at morgan stanley, mike, good to have you with us. >> good to be here >> you have a bullish case for the s&p 500 in terms of your target what does the 22% tax rate versus a 20% tax rate do to that target of 3,000? >> the 22 number is not coincidental there's discussion of delaying the tax rate until 2019. the reason they put it to 2019 is to pay for the $1.5 trillion deficit. the 2% is to make sure it gets done in '18. that signal is very positive, quite frankly. it means it probably will get done in '18. as far as our numbers, at 20%, there was a 7% benefit to s&p. at 22, it's a 6% benefit to s&p

earnings it's bigger for small caps, more like 10 or 11. >> you're thinking the lower corporate tax rate wouldn't go into effect until '19 >> i'm saying that was a risk. that risk is now off the table if they're willing to go to 22, that means it could go forward in 18, that's a big deal we've had 2700 target for this year, we've almost reached that, it doesn't seem that exciting. first of all, we think earnings are going to top in terms of rate of change sometime next year in order to get to 3,000, you need to remain -- financial conditions need to remain stable we can't have rates spiking or credit spreads widening out. we have to finally see the individual investor come in. we haven't seen the individual investor come in yet if you get that euphoria, i could see a 3,000 target as opposed to 2750.

>> let's say we do get the fed coming in maybe a little bit more aggressive, if inflation ticks up how sensitive is your model to a move higher? >> if the fed raises rates faster, the back rate goes down, not up it tightens financial conditions there you get credit spreads widening our model is sensitive to financial conditions tightening. that's our call for 2018 we think 2750 is the right number because we think financial conditions are going to tighten and at some point later next year we'll see a contraction in multiples, which is a reversal of what we've been seeing >> i hate to tell you, 2750 off your base case seems bearish to me you think the risks are actually -- they're not particularly priced in at this point, especially with guys 11 vix, that sort of thing. you say about retail, we haven't seen them yet. where do you think most of the

investable assets are, do you think they're in red states or blue states? i mean that seriously. because the s.a.l.t. thing is a huge people. if people in the blue states aren't going to get that tax income, where is it going to come from? >> there's a lot of retirement money in the south i don't think that's as big a deal the retail investor has been putting money into bond funds for eight years, this year alone, $41 billion in outflows from equities. you're seeing little change there, a little change you can gin up a little bit of animal spirits and drive multiples higher from here >> you like financials, industrials, energy, and technology >> yes this is important, to pete's point, cyclicals are still working. until cyclicals stop working, i'm not worried about a market top. the rotations matter if we rotate out of tech, the whole index doesn't have to go down >> mike wilson, morgan stanley what did you do today, guy

>> we did that power pitch a couple of weeks ago. >> fast pitch, yes >> and in addition to the power pitch, we talked about dollar tree dollar gen reports on the 7th, that stock is in a whisper of an all-time high. there is a trade on the retail side that's still working. >> i'm concerned about the concentration among the biggest stocks in the world in this market, five in the nasdaq that makes up 45% of the weight i put on the first trade in a long time, a bearish qqq trade over the next couple of weeks. i think this thing will start to steam roll, especially when you look out, the fed meeting next week, maybe a tax showdown, it would be sloppy over the past couple of weeks. >> you were hedged in the past, are you hedged now >> yes yesterday i sold some jpmorgan calls. it was nirvana i'm still very long banks.

i would think about taking a little bit more money off the table there. and i should have put on more protection with the vix even lower than here, i didn't do that i'll look at that again. >> bought a little at&t, some walgreen's today, lululemon as well, just for earnings, not because i have a long term conviction, but just because i think the men's wear would be something big along with commerce >> you've been wearing a lot of it you fit into that stuff? >> it's very comfortable >> that's the part of the story. >> that's part of the story. to karen's point, we've seen a huge spike to the upside, a little pullback. wells fargo and these names look strong >> i wear the boxer briefs, lululemons they're fantastic. >> you would or you do >> absolutely. they're great. >> you're making a face. >> i'm wearing the men's wear. >> pete had talked about exactly that, before >> thank you, mel. >> he goes commando. >> moving on that's way over the line

the fox hunt is on with disney and comcast, our parent company, in hot pursuit david faber will be here to discuss. plus we touched on it earlier. president trump threatening a government shutdown this week and pointing his finger at the democrats. how likely is it and what should you buy if it happens? we're all over the after hours action lieu lieu let nfen clsn and broadcomm have coerceal we'll bring you the latest

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assumption of some fox debt associated with various assets taken on and you can imagine, given that, why fox shareholders, who would conceivably own as much as 30% of a combined company here, would be concerned, whether there would be continuity of management at disney as it currently stands, if the deal was announced next week, it would take a year or so to close it given the regulatory review, then mr. iger would have only six months to oversee the integration of what by far is the largest deal that disney has ever done. yes, he has done significant deals to acquire pixar and marvel and lucas, but all of those were relatively contained, nothing like this deal which would span the globe, involving of course fox's assets in india, in latin america, in europe, as well as those assets right here in the united states, including the studio and the nat geo and fx networks and the regional sports networks. our parent company, comcast,

continues to pursue those assets as well. that same group of assets. and frankly, the offers from both sides according to people familiar with the situation are very similar there does however seem to be a desire on the part of fox to prefer disney's ownership of them, perhaps because they prefer the currency that goes with them, perhaps now because they'll have more comfort about management staying in that job if in fact the deal does go through, and again, because of continued concern about an antitrust and regulatory review that some believe comcast would have a tough time passing. so we'll see where it all ends up, melissa. of course we reported much of what i just said yesterday in terms of this deal get close for disney comcast continues to be in the hunt but less likely. and mr. iger perhaps not going to run for president, something that he has been giving serious thought to, people who are

familiar with his efforts tell me, but he would have to step aside if he were to stay on as chairman of disney >> at least not in the next round of elections >> reporter: at least not for 2020, that's right >> in terms of comcast, our parent company very interested in broadening its international distribution it's the sky assets, it's the star assets in india, it's latin america, that they want. if i'm a shareholder, and we are shareholders of comcast, let's be clear about this, should we be concerned about our parent company perhaps overpaying, getting into a situation where it wants these assets so badly that it could come at a price? >> reporter: you know, i think that will be an issue on either side, should this deal get done, if it were a comcast deal or a disney deal, when you're talking about the sums we are and the exchange in the number of shares we are, i think it's fair to say some people will question the valuation. as i pointed out many times, this will be a taxable transaction.

they need a very high price, the murdochs, in order to say we're willing to take an 8 or $10 billion tax hit for the overall company. but yeah, it's a fair point. that said, the synergies on either side are fairly significant. you combine two studios, you're going to save a lot of money regional sports networks, there could be savings there the international exposure is perhaps the most important of it it does represent as much as 70% of the overall ebitda of this company, or i should say not of the company, of the assets being purchased, potentially purchased. and it would, as you say, take what is almost an entirely domestic company into a different realm, in india, in europe and as you pointed out, in latin america, very importantly. >> is there somewhat of a waiting game going on, david, at all, in terms of waiting to see what happens with at&t/time warner in order to decide who actually -- whichbid to actually consider? i understand that disney, as you

report, is the frontrunner, but if at&t/time warner goes through, could comcast catch up there? >> reporter: they're not going to wait that long. my understanding is that fox would like to make a decision on this sooner rather than later. and again, as i reported yesterday, perhaps as soon as later next week. so you may see some board meetings in the not too distant future that would not give comcast enough time to prove that case, so to speak, if time warner and at&t were to succeed in going ahead with its deal and defeating the government you could make some arguments on antitrust on the disney side disney and fox together in future years could represent 50% of the film production output. the regional sports networks added to espn, could you make a case that maybe that's got some competitive issues there's no shortage of them to be had but it does appear at least the comfort level is higher on the disney side. and that at&t deal or court case would still be some time away

before they make their decision at fox >> david, thank you. david faber joining us from the new york stock exchange tonight. are you in disney still? >> i am. they almost shook me out, though because i was disappointed in what bob iger had been doing over time. and now the fact that he's been kicking tires and been negotiating with fox actually kept me in the stock it saved me a couple of dollars anyway, i think it was $98, now it's $105. i want to continue to hold even more now with the idea that if the fox assets come through, the international, the sports, the nat geo -- >> you like it even better if a deal happens >> i sure would. and even better if bob iger says i can extend this out a few more years. because i do think he's the right man. >> i'm lukewarm on disney. to the extent iger stays, that's good, his stewardship has been outstanding. we don't know what they'll pay, some price might be too expensive. i don't know how critical they see it, how much leverage they

have to negotiate a good deal. on the other side, fox may not have so much leverage either i don't know, it doesn't make me want to jump out and buy disney. >> it sounds like comcast wants to do a deal of some sort. comcast wants to expand itself probably internationally if this deal doesn't happen for them, where do they go >> i think this deal -- it doesn't have to happen for them. i'm not trying to shirk your question, but let me say this. i can't believe i'm about to say this a lot of this has to do with trying to get ownership or majority share ownership of hulu, believe it or not. you would have 60% if they were comcast, to then compete, ground war, against netflix i understand the different properties i really think what this is all about is trying to beat netflix at their own game which frankly is a difficult task. >> if they lose -- >> i don't know what happens then they have to hold on to their hulu stake i don't know what happens from

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to prevent a government shutdown it's get to eamon javers >> reporter: democrats will be coming to the white house tomorrow after missing that meeting last week in a brouhaha that erupted over the president's tweet. they'll be back at the deal table tomorrow here. but the president today saying that he thinks the democrats might want to shut down the government over immigration. here is what he said earlier today. >> the democrats are really looking at something that is very dangerous for our country they are looking at shutting down, they want to have illegal immigrants, in many cases people that we don't want in our country, they want to have illegal immigrants pouring into our country, bringing with them crime, tremendous amounts of crime. we don't want to have that >> reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi responded in a tweet saying, president trump is the only person talking about a government shutdown. democrats are hopeful the president license open to an agreement to address the urgent

needs of the american people and keep government open at this point, melissa, the expectation is they will be able to get a deal for a short term continuing resolution, keeping the government funded at current rates. that will put the deadline back until around christmas and then at that point, they will have to come up with a deal the trick here is that the white house needs some democrats to vote with them in the united states senate in order to get a deal so they'll have to make some concession to democrats. the question is what concession do democrats want, and is the white house prepared to give that concession. we'll wait and see how this meeting goes tomorrow. there should be some interesting body language around the table as they sit down to talk about all this, guys >> they need to do this in order for the senate and the house conferees to actually continue their work on tax? >> reporter: yeah. the tax thing operates on a separate track, right? the government shutdown is a spending issue, the tax bill is a separate issue the conferees are working. the politics of it, though, get complicated, you've got these two massive deals happening right at the same time there's lot of horse trading behind the scenes as you can

imagine on both of those the spending bill is a different thing, that's government spending to keep the government open the tax bill, the tax cuts and tax structure going into next year >> thank you, eamon javers in washington for us. dan, does that change your thoughts in terms of the influence of the shutdown measures >> i think what aim eamon said very important democrats will have to stand strong on the daca thing this was part of that original deal making with chuck and nancy a couple of months ago but again, this goes back to, that whole clip they just showed of trump, again, the world heavyweight champion of liars. he's the only one talking about shutdown, talking crime and this and that and whatever. he's talking about daca, it's really horrible. >> is there any kind of concessions they can do within the framework of what they got now so they can get any kind of a deal or no, in your mind >> of course there is. i think if they actually do a deal on daca and they go to actually, you know, kind of legalize these 800,000 people

who were brought here against their own will, that's something, they'll get their budget >> i think the vix is telling, in my opinion, telling you that this is not a concern of the market whether it gets done this week or whether it gets done by christmas, i think something gets done. will everybody like it, no but that's horse trading, that's what it's all about. the bigger thing is will they ram this tax thing through before the end of the year i still think the answer is yes. the president has said a number of times, i want to give the american citizens a great big fat christmas present in the form of this beautiful tax bill. and i think that's really what they have their eye on i think it's going to get done >> i agree, it's the most likely scenario, no matter how watered down, no matter how phased out it has to be, they'll get something done still ahead, another day, another my for bitcoin, the crypto currency topping 13,000 for the first time ever. could a crackdown in washington derail the rally we'll explain. broadcomm and lululemon out with earnings after the bill,

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more resources towards its cyber unit that looks at misconduct involving distributed ledger technical and initial coin offerings. just this week the sec froze assets of flex i coin which raised $50 million for promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month to investors catherine huang told cnbc she's anticipating large enforcement actions in the coming year former sec commissioner paul atkins says investors need to do their homework before putting their money into bitcoin offerings. he says the sheer size of the crypto currency market makes it difficult to monitor and track down bad characters. meantime startups in 2017 have so far raised over $3 billion in bitcoin offerings. the u.s. treasury department is reviewing how the financial

crimes enforcement network is addressing the use of crypto currencies to fund illegal activities meantime president trump has not publicly addressed bitcoin and the recent surge but keep an eye on two individuals in his inner circle. one is mick mulvaney who co-founded the congressional blockchain caucus in 2017. melissa? >> seema, thank you, seema mody. and mick mulvaney now also the head of the interim head of the cfpb which intersects with this whole space here is regulation the biggest wild card >> bk has talked about this a bunch. he welcomes it a lot of people you talk about want to see some of these bad actors taken out in enforcement actions, they want to see regulation regulation means you have the authorities buying into the whole process. they're not going to be overseeing the process

i think a very measured approach toward regulation and taking out bad actors would be a bullish thing for crypto currency. >> if i wanted to do an ico, i would do it now, i would do it fast >> speed, to get it out there. the most important thing is knowledge. that was one of the things you brought up as well, get up to speed, do the crash course you have to figure this whole thing out as fast as humanly possible sure, it looks great right now, and we all love what we're seeing in terms of returns, today was unbelievable but the regulatory side of it will absolutely enforce some of that, that will be helpful as bitcoin continues to surge, it does seem like anything it touches turns to gold check out the bitcoin stocks, square, overstock, cboe, cme, all soaring this year. but the cme and cboe have surged to record highs recently as wall street awaits bitcoin futures in the next two weeks meantime overstock and square

have entered bear markets. square did get a boost earlier today after ceo jack dorsey tweeted he was rolling out bitcoin to more users but the stock gave back all its gains, all begging the question, what is a bitcoin stock and what is not? >> it's a fun game >> yeah, it is >> is it a game? >> it can be as long as we answer the question, what is -- let's look at the exchanges, for instance, cme and cboe >> listen, i understand that the last little run-up in the cme has been based in large part due to this bitcoin bonanza. look at cme, when bitcoin wasn't even a word, and this company was doing extraordinarily well terry duffy is a great ceo with or without bitcoin the stock goes higher. >> so it's not a stock i want to make sure people walk away with an answer so we can put the buzzer up there. would you agree with him

>> as a cboe guy, i look at the volumes this year, i look at november's volumes, 22 million options trading per day, i mean, i think whether bitcoin's there or not, the one thing is people are always looking for leverage in the markets and the one place that they can get that still is the derivatives markets. can bitcoin help them? sure but they don't need bitcoin. >> so you say not? thank you. let's move on. square >> not a bitcoin stock >> she played the game perfectly. >> she could have read the phone book and you would have said she's played the game perfectly. >> the fundamental parts of their business are doing well. this bitcoin thing came about very recently. that's the tail wagging the dog, to own square because of bitcoin. >> all great points, i agree with you, it's not a bitcoin stock. the rule that i would use is if 98% of their sales next year are going to be ex-bitcoin, then it's not a bitcoin stock >> apply your rule to overstock.

>> can i make one point? i downloaded the cash app from square, you know why, because i want to see about trading bitcoin on the cash app. >> it's in beta testing, can you do it yet? >> yes, that's what the tweet was about from dorsey. why can't this thing emerge as a competitors to coin base >> coin base charges anarm and a leg. >> i don't think it's a bitcoin stock. but i would consider buying it for the potential in the future. >> so it is, or it's not it's not according to your current rule >> it could be >> nobody wants to play this game with me >> we're having a nice discussion, though >> not so there is -- >> can you please answer my question about overstock, then >> overstock i think is the one, they're creating a platform for people to trade icos this is a company -- it is right now. i don't know i never thought about overstock until bitcoin was attached to it >> listen, i'll say quickly, because dan doesn't want to answer the question. >> he did, he did. it just took him a long,

roundabout way >> it was a bitcoin stock to 60. so that's the answer to that question if you give me a half of an "x." all i no he is brian kelly is just -- you want to see -- watch brian kelly, watch how excited he is, watch this footage coming up i know they're going to run it because they just told me in my ear they're going to run it. >> audio only? >> what is this? >> what in the world >> nicely done >> cnbc just left me out to dry. here he comes! >> guy broke the show. >> this is for bitcoin week, all week next week top players in bitcoin, going to be on "fast. maybe they will play the game with me. anyway still ahead, broadcomm higher in the afterhours session the company conference call is under way. we'll hear from the ceo about its potential deal with qualcomm plus retail stocks surging 10%

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welcome back to "fast money. chip giant broadcomm moving higher in the after hours session. let's get to josh lipton for the latest on the conference call. hi, josh >> reporter: that's right, melissa, so of course a key question for broadcomm investors, that bid for

qualcomm, qualcomm saying that bid undervalues the company in their opinion. we know broadcomm has gotten more aggressive, ready to nominate that slate of doctors for call come's board. qualcomm's annual shareholder meeting next march the cfo addressed that, tom krause take a listen. >> we've taken this step but it remains our strong preference to engage in a construction dialogue with qualcomm we firmly believe this combined company, the global communications leader, enabling us to deliver more advanced solutions for our global customers and drive enhanced shareholder value. >> reporter: if this merger took place, it would create a tech giant. would that attract the attention of regulators? thomas krause saying broadcomm is confident in its been that

regulatory requirements would be met, in his words, in a timely manner the big segments, this quarter wired infrastructure revenues. chips for networking infrastructure, 2.2 billion, wireless communications revenues so chips enabling wi-fi, bluetooth, gps, 1.8 billion. of course big customers there include apple. melissa, back to you >> i thought mel said we had josh lipton breaking news on -- whatever they call it. that's magnum p.i. we got going on there somebody out there should make josh's beard a twitter account >> he's all layered up >> that's a good looking man >> magnum p.i. didn't have a beard, he had a mustache, dude >> lipton's a great looking guy. he looks a little to mean sellecky, why not? >> listen, i just want to thank

you guys, i've been compared to a lot worse than tom selleck >> we all have >> usually, guy, i get more of a ben stiller thing. i appreciate that. >> all right josh, thank you. josh lipton, bearded josh lipton one trader is betting that stocks are getting ready for more pain ahead. >> put activity was seven times daily volume today the smh was down 8% from its recent all-time highs, still up 35% on the year. this bearish roll short dated today, when the etf was trading at 97 bucks. there was a seller to close of 6,000, 98 1/2 puts they put 7,000 of the 96 strike puts for a buck 20 or so, those break even down at 94.80, kind of an important near terk technical level in the smh

this tells me probably some protection over the near term bearish view >> quickly, pete, let's say smh goes down. can broadcomm go higher on the back of a deal >> i think that they can just based upon their earnings. all of these stocks popped on their earnings and now they've been selling it off. you talked about the smh being up 35% still that's an incredible run so far this year. >> for more "options action," check out the full show, friday 5:30 p.m. eastern time ahead, lulu has been on a hot streak we'll tell you what's behind the move much more "fast money" after this well, it's earnings season once again. >>yeah. lot of tech companies are reporting today. and, how's it looking? >>i don't know. there's so many opinions out there, it's hard to make sense of it all. well, victor, do you have something for him? >>check this out. td ameritrade aggregates thousands of earnings estimates into a single data point. that way you can keep your eyes on the big picture. >>huh. feel better?

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check out lululemon, the stock has been on a tear-up, 60% in the past month. pete, you got in to buy options yesterday? >> today there was late option activity in there, but the idea, where is the growth going to come from? e-commerce was up 26%. men's wear, they beat on the earnings, they beat on the revenue. they have a $200 million buyback. they are really clicking on all cylinders. when you look at the limited number of stores, e-commerce is where they'll have to grow even faster we all know the margins are unbelievable >> for more on retail, let's bring in former saks chairman and sea, steve sadove, good to see you, welcome back to the show >> good to see you >> we've seen a resurgence in

retail of late in the past two weeks or so. is this for real >> i think it is for real. if you look at the holiday sales, thanksgiving, we were up well more than 4%. the holiday season forecast is 4% or more you're hitting it out of the park online. while they have some fundamental secular issues, they're hitting it out of the park relative to expectations >> is it going to be the case that the winners keep winning and the losers will go away? >> no question, the winners will keep winning and the losers will lose how fast they go away is the interesting question the winners will be the ones to provide value, experience, and convenience. if you hit objectively three elemen elements, you'll be a winner >> when the losers lose, a sears or a jcpenney, maybe they get to zero, how pervasive will be that be on pressure for pricing and how long will it take to work

through that >> this is an industry that's been consolidating for years you have far too many stores in the united states, three or four times per capita square feet than anywhere else in the world. you'll continue to see that going down it's not just about the price question you already have the price transparency because of the internet you'll have margin squeezes. you'll have continued capital investments that are required. but these companies are going to continue toconsolidate and you're going to see less stores, more online. it doesn't mean brick and mortar is going away, you still have 80 to 90% brick and mortar. >> steve, you were on the morning show last month you. made a nice call, you thought the stocks were too overdone, the sentiment was a little too bad. was this more a matter of investor sentiment and not a great improvement because we have easy compares was this a rally and it should be out in january? >> clearly with some of the losers i do think it was an oversold situation where people had

written the sector off and then they were surprised when they saw the very strong performance during the thanksgiving period that's continuing on into the december it's not doing badly and i think what's surprising is that the apparel manufacturers, i'm not talking about just the retailers, the g3s, pvhs, today you saw some good numbers coming out of lululemon that we just talked about the apparel makers are learning how to work with amazon, how to work with the internet players and play both the brick and mortar traditional stores and adapt to the new world >> it seems that would be an advantage to the so-called distributors of those brands, like macy's. we've seen a 43% snapback higher in shares of macy's. is that a head fake? >> i don't know -- i don't think it's a head fake macy's has a lot of strengths but they have strategic issues they have to deal with too the consumer is changing extremely fast they're changing quickly but they have to move in even more

quickly. i love that they brought in the president of ebay, that's shows they're bringing culture change into the organization. they've got to have more exclusivity. they've got a big challenge. they have to look at their real estate again in terms of monetizing it. i think they're making real progress >> steve, good to see you, former chairman and ceo of saks. >> one of the early "fast money" guests, here from the beginning, i wanted to point that out some of these have been trades, dollar gen, nordstrom's, for example. others are investments that continue to work despite the selloff, i think home depot still goes higher, i think pete would agree. >> i like brands, you talk about department stores being under pressure, theye d 'vhaa bounceback up next, final trades.

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the latest on bitcoin, crossing 14,000 to a fresh record high. wow. 14,250 time for the final trade pete >> it is not the end of tech, i agree with mike wilson microsoft, big call buying in there. i think it goes higher >> it's coming a little bit as markets come in, but i still like gm. >> pete said he didn't get shaken out in disney i did a couple of months ago, i'm looking for a reentry. >> great to have you back, mel don't think we haven't noticed, we had sullivan, scott

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