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nasdaq though is the bigger decliner nvidia is weighing there with its nearly 4% drop. despite the initial pop last night on what many said were strong results. we'll also watch shares of tesla down for the sixth straight day and giving up nearly all of their post-election gains. they closed right around 2.50 on election day. we hit 480 in mid december. we're down 40% from that peak. >> all right. we'll begin today, though, with news out of washington dc. the president is meeting with uk prime minister keir starmer. they are expected to hold a joint news conference in just a little bit. let's get out to megan costello for a look at what we've learned so far from this nice meeting between two big allies. >> sure was. tom. so that news conference is set to get underway at the white house later this hour. though i will say things are running behind over there today, but we did just get a chance to hear from both leaders in the oval office. they spoke with reporters ahead of their bilateral meeting and ahead of a lunch. and a big focus of this q&a session with reporters was on tariffs. this,

of course, coming after trump posted on truth social earlier today that 25% tariffs on canada and mexico would be taking effect on tuesday. that's march 4th. and he also said that he'll be putting an additional 10% tariff on china, on top of the 10% that took effect on chinese goods earlier this month. >> ten plus ten. it's the second ten. and i think you'll i think you're going to see eventually you're going to see drug stopping because the country should not be allowing those drugs to come into the united states of america, and we're not going to allow it to happen. so that goes on on the 4th of march. and then on the 2nd of april, we have reciprocal tariffs. >> now, trump was also asked if he would put tariffs on the uk specifically. and he did say he would have to take a look. but he saved his complaints for the eu, vowed again to impose reciprocal tariffs against europe in response to the value added tax. and because of the way he says they've treated some

american companies. he specifically mentioned lawsuits against apple and google. we did not hear any mention in this meeting about potential trade negotiations for a deal between the us and the uk, but something to watch for once this press conference gets underway, guys. >> megan, thanks. appreciate it. megan cassella we'll watch the situation there and any impact on markets for now. now we have plenty to contend with. and for more on the impact of the tariff remarks, and let's bring in our panel. allie mccartney is here on set with us. she's managing director at ubs private wealth management. jimmy pethokoukis is an economic policy analyst at american enterprise institute and a cnbc contributor. and it's great to have you guys both here. so allie, just kick this off, put this in context for us. endless tariff announcements. you know how big a deal is it. >> so we've been calling it tariff policy ping pong. right. and it it just adds to all of the uncertainty in washington at a time where there seems to be some weak data in other places. so what we have is sort of right now this perfect storm of

seasonality, which is tends to be really tough right now. and so you saw the retail buyer step away. a lot of geopolitical and washington based uncertainty, both for individuals on tax policy and for corporations on tariff and tax policy. and then you have this overleveraged bid that was in the market stepping away. so this is just another thing that is going to continue to make, you know, to provide volatility in the market and to stop a lot of the big tech companies from continuing to be the sector leadership that we've come to rely on. >> i mean, this is one of those situations where we look at the impact that these three key so-called magnificent seven sectors have had. and when we look at just how much downside can be generated when they don't perform. it may be is at odds with this broadening out trade. right. because everyone wants to see the broadening out, but they don't like to see the still inordinate amount of influence certain key sectors have. it was a learning experience for the

last week, right? >> i agree, and i think and it really is causing a lot of concern with people. and you know, to the extent that whether it's, you know, apple pulling back in a couple of data sectors, whether it's what's coming out of washington, whether it's sort of the what's been flip flopping between the way one interprets what nvidia put out last night. and so, you know, the truth is that those mag seven the techs are down year to date. the market, by the way, is still materially up year to date. annualizing at a rate of, you know, high single digits. but i think we are going to see that breadth. and i think to a certain extent, it provides a buying opportunity back into big tech for people. we were big buyers yesterday. >> interesting. jimmy, just to pivot quickly to the broader question here, we've talked to adam posen about this last hour. he thinks we're headed towards universal tariffs. he thinks tariffs and maybe a vat are basically going to replace kind of the income tax system as we know it. would you underscore those comments or. no.

>> replace the us. >> income tax system. >> well you. >> know i. >> you know i. reconciliation all i. >> know is that so on and so forth. >> yeah. yeah. i do know that like every like, you know, tax activist. >> maybe not economist a tax activist is sort of always hated that taxes that there is especially on the right. there is a long history of that. listen i, i'm not sure all what we're going to do on our side as far as reacting to these tariffs. what i, what i do know is that if the president were trying to inject as much uncertainty in the economy as possible with his trade policy, this would be it. i mean, i still don't know what exactly we're trying to do here. is it is it about protecting certain industries like, you know, steel or aluminum? is it about, you know, trade flows? is it about creating surpluses, is about raising revenue, or is it about negotiating with the eu and canada and mexico? all the above. partially above. none of the above. i think that's the

position. if we're already uncertain about like inflation. this adds a whole lot more uncertainty. >> i thought it was interesting. the comments from alcoa, this i think it was this week in their earnings may be the key beneficiary. >> so one you would think they would be the beneficiary. then two you have people who use these as inputs that we're seeing spiking aluminum prices, spiking steel prices. whenever the administration talks about tariffs they seem to never talk about how it raises costs for producers as well as, you know, for consumers. it just somehow is not penetrating the president's sort of view of trade, that there are costs that are not necessarily borne by the other countries. they're borne internally. i assume economists have tried to get that message through, but it's just not making its way through and certainly not sticking if it does. >> ali, are we starting to see signs that tariff policy itself

or the threat of future tariff policy or trade uncertainty, is it starting to manifest itself in your mind in certain key economic points that you're looking at? and then by extension, in the market, we're still near record highs, there's no doubt about it. but but but we pulled back. but you're saying this was a buy the dip. does that mean that tariff policy does not worry you as much as others? >> it clearly worries me and it clearly worries, you know, every company out there and you've seen from every bank bank an estimate of what it could take off gdp. and you have the fed being very clear that they're concerned much more about inflation than the labor market as a result. so please, do not, you know in any way think that it's not a concern. however, i am not a politician. i am an investor and an economist. and what i believe and what ubs believes is that this administration, this president particularly uses tariff

conversations and this ping pong as a negotiating tactic for many other things. and what he ultimately wants and monitors is the value of the s&p 500, and the value and the level of the ten year. the ten year has now gone down 50 basis points since mid january, which is exactly what he and benson have said they are trying to do. and the market is something again, that he clearly and frequently references. so although to the point that was just made, the administration doesn't seem to be having very open conversations about the effect of inflation on the directionality of interest rates. et cetera. that is absolutely part of what's behind it. and so that when you have this sort of all three leg of the stool, ultimately the micro, the macro and the sort of

secular trend of ai all pushing tailwinds to a president administration who wants to see growth and dampen down inflation. i'm going to lean into that, especially when the market gives me the opportunity. >> jimmy, you want to give us a quick last word on that? >> yeah. listen, i think what ali gave was a was a sort of like the best take rationalist view of what's going on. and i think that's i think that should be like part of your forecast. but the other part of the forecast is the goalpost is constantly changing. maybe this is a ping pong game, but like we don't know how you win at the game. we don't know like you know what the rules are. can you just switch sides? can you bring in different paddles? we don't know what the rules are. and ultimately, while they may be looking at the market and the ten year, the president is also probably looking at a lot of other things, such as such as the trade deficit. and does he want this to be a revenue raiser? so i think that long list of things that the president may want from what he calls the most beautiful word in the world in the dictionary tariffs, i think that is just highly uncertain. and that's where the uncertainty comes

from. i mean, i mean, i hope ali is right. and this is just sort of a leveraging tactic. but i have my doubts. >> all right. what'd you say? >> i said, so buy gold. >> buy so buy gold. >> but gold was like down for a. >> couple of days. always, always. >> of course. >> it all comes back to buy gold. ali. thanks, jimmy. thanks. ali mccartney and jimmy pethokoukis. >> bounce here. ping pong balls is what you want. anyway, the trade story prominent on the company front as well. chip firms have a pitch for the white house. let them make sales. microsoft and nvidia are looking to work around some of these export restrictions. we've got that story and much more when that story and much more when power returns after this break. (♪♪) (♪♪) what took you so long? i'm sorry, there was a long line at the thai place. you get the sauce i like? of course! you're the man! i wish. the future isn't scary. not investing in it is. nasdaq-100 innovators. one etf.

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to. >> our allies. >> yeah. >> that's that's the whole thing that's going on here. so this was a blog post that microsoft put out this morning from president brad smith, asking president trump to basically open up chip and ai model exports to our allies. this includes countries like israel, greece, poland, saudi arabia, several more countries that we are allies with. and let me just talk a little bit about why microsoft is doing this. we know they're building out data centers all over the world. and they say this is really about providing the best ai technology for their customers. they're making this argument here saying it's good for american jobs as well, because even if these data centers are built overseas, some of the equipment will be made here and then exported overseas to build those data centers. and right now, many countries are blocked from importing the best chips from nvidia and others or top ai models. it's not just about the chips, guys. it's also some parts of these ai models. and all of this was part of the diffusion rule put in place by the biden administration in its final days back in january. it blocks export on those advanced

chips and ai models for national security grounds, and they basically break it up into three tiers and pushing some of our allies into the second tier, meaning that they can't access the best technology. and by the way, microsoft agrees with most of that diffusion order, but it says it's going too far, pushing those allies into that second tier system. and the big ask here is just allow those allies to have the same access to the best artificial intelligence tech that we have. and by the way, this would also keep our china from kind of swooping in and saying, we'll provide it for you instead. >> is that. >> yeah, that's part of it. this is the next this is the next kind of chapter in world hegemony, right? during the cold war, it was the soviets and the us, and then the satellite countries geographically around them. so why can't this be a situation where the us benefits by saying, hey, let's have all of these people in our ecosystem as opposed to china's, because we know china is definitely a rival and this is us companies building these data centers. we have microsoft in this in this

case. but of course, amazon is looking all over the world. meta's looking all over the world. i know christina's going to get into this in a second, but those are all huge nvidia customers too. so nvidia has a benefit here as well. >> i was thinking that, you know, microsoft's kind of going out there and taking, i don't want to say the fall, but willing to put their name on it. but it sounds like this is almost an effort that many companies could have under signed. >> and that's the thing. and they just think this biden regulation went just a little too far, saying, these are our friends. and by the way, the last thing we want is china coming in, going to poland or saudi arabia and saying, hey, your allies over in the us, they're not going to offer you this technology. let's offer it to you instead. and we're going to be the good guys here that will prevent that. all right. because you brought it up. we're going to step right through that open door window because now we're going to turn to nvidia, which would like to be more able to sell more of its chips to somebody, arguably an adversary, which is china. but it's also running into export controls as well. kristina partsinevelos, as alluded to, is looking at that angle of the nvidia ai export story.

>> well, nvidia is really walking this. tightrope with export controls. >> you've got. >> balancing compliance, profits and competition. and i'll get to that. you guys just talked about it. on last night's earnings call, ceo jensen huang noted china revenue has dropped to. half of pre export levels. sounds great, but that still. means $17 billion according to their annual report. that's 13% of total revenues. that's now at risk if new us restrictions take effect. export compliant chips that would. >> be. >> the h20's have been. nvidia's china lifeline, generating an estimated 12 to 15 billion in 2024. keep in mind nvidia doesn't break it out. so this is according to semi analysts analysis i should say chinese customers continue buying them up, especially since deep seat gained global attention. but if banned, nvidia could lose billions of dollars annually from china. its global dominance. yes, and new blackwell line will definitely soften the blow, no doubt. >> but the real question. >> is china's response will they keep buying these cut down or

watered down chips or shift to domestic alternatives? huang himself warned competition is growing in china, with wuwei now listed as a competitor in their 10-k for the second straight year in a row. it hasn't been listed in over five years. most analysts believe nvidia's stock already factors in future export controls, which is why you've seen it come down. been rangebound, but mizuho is. jordan klein, though says shares have been derisked, while city expects china restrictions and semiconductor tariffs will keep this stock rangebound for the next little while. the real long term threat, though, isn't just today's revenue hit, it's nvidia's potential or the fact that nvidia could potentially lose its foothold in the world's largest semiconductor market. just as local competitors gain momentum. so all of what you guys just you spoke about tom. >> to. >> so. so, christina, how big of a threat is the domestic chipmaking market within china compared to nvidia? how long do folks think it will take before

it really becomes a situation where there is a viable competitor, a real viable competitor to nvidia's. >> dominance factor in when biden put in place these rules, which was in 2022, when you really started to see the beginning of it, and then factoring, and that's when huawei was banned as well from just any type of relationship with the united states. you've already seen it grow. i saw one stat about 60% of the market is coming from huawei chips, so it's growing exponentially faster. and that's the argument against export controls. if you add these export controls, it's only going to help the homegrown markets grow stronger and larger and faster. and then it really isolates each country. nvidia's argument is that their chips are better quality. but then you bring up the whole deep seat argument, hey, deep tech was using h-800 chips, which are not as high end as the other chips that are available on the market now with blackwell and stuff, but they were still able to provide incredible compute. and so that's really going to come into play in the near term. and no doubt china is growing. and

that's the biggest argument against these export controls. you're helping the other guys get better. >> all right kristina partsinevelos with the latest there on nvidia and export controls. thank you very much for that. let's stay with that semiconductor trade. by the way. the biggest laggard out there among all s&p 500 industries in today's trading. every single name in the s&p semi industry group is down on the day except for intel, as the market grapples with potential trump tariffs and export controls on those semis. so joining us now is b of a securities senior semiconductor analyst vivek arya on this may be vivek i'll start with the same question that i just asked christina, which is how long will it be before a homegrown chinese chip company becomes a true, true competitor to nvidia? >> sure. >> so i think let's quickly review what we. heard last night. number one, demand for nvidia's products is exceptionally strong. so even though the sales to china as a proportion of their sales have

come down. but look at how much the us hyperscalers are spending. look at how much the european commission is planning to spend. look at how much france is planning to spend. number two, the technology transition that we are going through, which is a move to inferencing of these new reasoning models, the computing intensity required to process these models is going up by a factor of 100. right. so this whole deep sea moment has actually energized a lot more spending rather than less spending. so demand environment is very strong. the technology transition is working in their favor. and now they're starting to shift their. blackwell, a product where shipments in the last quarter were twice as what we had estimated. so i think that's the good news when it comes to competition in china. the thing to keep in mind is that as much as about 14% of their sales are exposed to china, it's a spread across gaming, across automotive and across data center. what they're shipping to china are very low end products that, in the majority of cases, are being used for a lot of consumer grade

applications. so i'm not surprised to see competition come up in china. but the one other point to keep in mind is that the advantage of using nvidia products is that they're already certified to work with a lot of the western large language models. so it's a really turnkey product that whether it's a customer in china and europe and the us, they feel very confident in buying because they know they have the full weight of the software and the developer ecosystem behind them. >> so, vivek, do you stay bullish on nvidia? you know, kind of the broader space? would you make any comment that would extend so far as those who are supplying power and, you know, data center support and all the rest of the daisy chain? >> yes, i think that, you know, from what we have heard from the company and more importantly, what we have heard from their customers, whether it is microsoft, whether it is meta, whether it is amazon, they were all aware of the innovations that deep sea spoke about. you know, so deep sea was actually more of a surprise to wall

street. it was not a surprise to the technology industry. this is all in the open source. and after hearing that the customers are still planning to spend a lot more, i think that's the most important aspect of this narrative, that the demand environment is exceptionally strong. and now you have a stock which is growing 50 to 60% a year, which is twice as fast as, by the way, how their customers are growing spending. and it's trading at less than one times their earnings growth. right. if you look at the s&p 500 or if you look at the other mac seven stocks, they are trading at two times their earnings growth. so from that perspective, we think nvidia is very compellingly valued. but at the same time what happens is that every time the company reports a few days in advance, expectations go up. so, you know, we go through this kind of same song and dance about expectations. and to be fair, the product transition that they are going through. for blackwell, they were able to deliver a lot of product, but the initial ramp up costs are high. we think these are short term issues. as we get through to their gtc conference and then into the back half, we will

start to see their margins expand. and i think that's going to help re-energize the stock. so we took up our estimates and we took our price target to $200 okay. >> so if you are that positive vivek on nvidia i know it's hard to model, but based upon how much attention nvidia gets and how much coverage nvidia gets and how much notoriety they have, how much of the entire semiconductor industry, all of the other companies that are out there making computer chips, how much is their fate tied to what happens with nvidia's stock specifically? is investor sentiment just tied to nvidia? and then by extension, every other stock is just different in their own way. but trades like nvidia does. >> for sure. and to be fair, this isn't just particular to the semiconductor industry, right? we see this in a lot of end markets that the way the leader behaves, whether it's in

terms of fundamentals, whether it's in terms of their stock performance, absolutely plays a role in guiding the sentiment. but where we are as a semiconductor industry is that if you look at the markets outside of ai, whether it is pcs, whether it's smartphones, whether it is automotive, whether it's industrial, they are still trying to find a bottom right. the spending environment is not that great. all this news of tariffs and restrictions i think is hurting consumer sentiment. it's reducing the demand. right. it's creating a lot of confusion among buyers. so in that situation a lot of the dependable customers are all in this ai market. and the advantage that stocks exposed to ai, whether it is nvidia, whether it is broadcom, whether it's marvell, what they are very assured of is exposure to this very dependable group of customers for whom spending on ai is not just a nice to have, it is mission critical to their future. and it you know, they have the means to spend on this technology, which is why we think that yes, there is volatility, but this is a place

where i think, you know, the profitability characteristics are the best and the most supportive. but you're right, sentiment of the leader does affect the rest of the space. >> all right. vivek arya of securities, thank you very much. we'll see you soon, sir. >> thank you. still to come, this commodity having its best month since september. we'll give you a gold medal if you guess right. but that's not the answer. that would be too strong. >> too easy? >> too easy. the reveal is next in market navigator. greg takes prevagen for his brain and this is his story. hi, i'm greg. i live in bloomington, illinois. i'm not an actor. i'm just a regular person. eight years ago, i just didn't feel like i was on my game. i started taking prevagen and i want people to know

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>> overtime is about understanding what just happened in the markets that day and preparing for tomorrow. i'm looking to talk to all investors, sophisticated investors, beginning investors. i'm always learning. >> closing bell overtime for eastern cnbc. >> welcome back to power lunch tom. this is a familiar pattern from the past couple of days. we build gains throughout the morning. we're giving them back here in the afternoon. the dow is only up 80 right now. the s&p is down two thirds of a percent. and the nasdaq is down 1.5%. >> back towards session lows at this point. so in our market navigator today we're going to look beyond the equity and tech markets here. copper prices. that was the mystery that kelly was alluding to. it's not gold it's copper. it's had a strong start to the year, up about 15% or so in 2025. but will that continue? our next guest says that with new tariffs on the table, we could see a copper rush similar to what we saw with gold, a rush to bring in

inventories into the us before those import tariffs potentially so could kick in. so joining us now is philipp strebel, the chief market strategist at blue line futures phil this copper trade is one that you've keyed on for quite some time now. this is one that's seen some good good upside momentum. is it able to continue. and for how long can it do so. yeah i think so. i mean it's one of our favorite commodities in the metals complex. it oftentimes acts as a leading indicator for inflation in the economy. and there's three. factors that are really driving up prices higher. one we've got the arbitrage. we've got the opportunity for traders who are shipping copper in from asia and south america. they're selling the futures contracts on the us exchanges and they're playing. >> the arbitrage. so it's a. >> window here. >> where, you know. >> during which the. >> traders can kind of move the. metal into. >> the us without paying the tariffs, and they're. locking in profits. that's similar to what we saw to gold coming into december, most of january. and then you have the end users are

trying to secure this inventory. so us copper consumers, they're locking in the inventories. they're bidding price prices up here. so the request to take copper out of the lme in the warehouse is in asia. they've surged since friday. so we got the biggest four day drawdown in inventory since 2013. you look at the demand side. global demand is expected to increase that usage by double over the next decade. everything in some of these have come off a bit like ev vehicles. they use four times more copper than traditional gas. i the grid renewable technologies. you got your constant demand construction, infrastructure spending and defense. and then finally, i think you look at the mining supply. expanding and developing these mines is a lengthy process and a complex process. so it's tough to bring on supply. we just saw chile. they just had their worst power outage ever. and also you know, it's going to take a while for that capacity to come back online. >> okay. so phil with that in mind take us through. it sounds like you're bullish. take us

through what the strategy is okay. >> so i got two things for you. the trade is really the main micro copper. we like it because of its size and scalability. every penny move is going to be $25. we like buying the copper down at 450. so we got close here today. we'd say a stop loss below the recent swing low at 4.35. so you're risking $375. our upside target is $5, which is $1,250. so it's got a good risk to reward ratio. and then finally for an equity we like freeport mcmoran. it's a us based copper miner that you know has that price advantage by being in the us has great margins. and it it mostly it mines gold and copper. so you get that benefit of both. >> all right. there's the copper trade and an equity trade on the top of that phil strebel thank you very much. we'll see you soon. >> thank you. >> folks in the back show the dow chart quickly if you could please. we've just gone from nearly a 300 point gain. there it is to. >> a negative. >> look at that. look at that

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this is the spider apollo public and private credit etf. i know it's a mouthful. but what they're doing is they're investing at least 80% of the assets in investment grade debt securities. that includes a combination of public debt and private credit as well. so because private credit is illiquid by definition, it's been a real problem trying to figure out how do you get this into an etf wrapper. because etfs need liquidity and they need to buy and sell the underlying products. so they are trying to solve this problem by having apollo provide private credit assets that state street is going to purchase. and apollo will buy those investments back if need be. so there is a bit of a liquid market. now, normally etfs are only allowed to own illiquid investments up to 15% of the fund. but in this case, private credit can range between 10 and 35%, the prospectus says, and can be above or below that. that's that's a lot. so this filing has been very controversial from the very beginning. it was filed back in september. one early concern was

that if apollo is the only firm providing the liquidity, it naturally raises questions about what type of pricing state treatment is going to get. however, the prospectus state street apparently can source from other firms if it can get better prices. we'll see. here's another issue. kelley apollo is required to buy back the loans, but it's not entirely clear how much they're required to buy back. so this could be an issue if there's some limit. it's not clear if market makers would accept, for example, these private credit instruments for redemption. so this is a potentially groundbreaking etf. if they crack this nut it could open the floodgates for a lot more investment for etfs in private equity and private credit. but we've got to see how it trades and how the liquidity is. the proof of course, is what happens when there's a downturn, when it gets a little tougher. >> but i find it quite interesting, bob, that you're saying almost because of the etf rules, you can never really have something like private credit being higher than about 15% of the etf. so i wonder, would they ever either relax the rules or,

you know, for people buying in, it's like, all right, well, a lot of this you can kind of get in other ways. >> well it's the rules were changed a bit. it's 10 to 35% that it can hold. that's a that's a pretty good number right now. so the i think there was some surprise at how quickly this was approved. we generally most of us who follow this i've been following etfs for 25 years, thought that this would be a process that would take several months, particularly with the new administration coming in. but this was sort of approved, sort of out of nowhere. we were quite surprised in the last couple of days just to find out all of a sudden it was going to be made effective and start trading today. so like i said, this is a kind of a big moment. what's going to happen here now is if this is successful, if this goes on without a lot of liquidity issues for a few months, you're going to see a lot of other people trying to get in. other people besides apollo have, of course, private equity and private credit investments, and they could potentially form something as well here. so interesting risks. i mean, there's ten pages. here's the

prospectus. i read every word of it. eight of the ten pages consists of an endless discussion about the risks that are involved in doing something like this. so there's a there's a lot of disclosure here right now. i would encourage anybody interested to read the prospectus. >> bob, just how just how big could this be in terms of a market? i mean, this is a etfs are obviously a big deal for retail investors, but if you really wanted access to private credit, you could just go as a bigger investor to apollo, ares or somebody else. right? >> yes. but yes. but you'd have to be qualified investors. look here. and anybody can sort of buy into this. this is this is the democratization of going getting access to private equity and private credit. it's just like, you know, essentially, if you wanted to have gold in 20 years ago, you'd have to go buy it or you'd have to be buying futures, you'd have to hold it. and etfs sort of made it easy for anybody to own it. that's they call it democratization of this particular asset class. the question that you should be asking we should all be asking is, is this a sign of a top in private credit, private equity?

we don't know. obviously, there's tremendous interest right now. does private equity and private credit really outperform given the high fees associated with them? we don't know. i mean, there's legitimate questions around the public's interest in getting into this asset class. but you know, the there's a lot of questions about the ownership and this particular about private equity and private credit in general, and about the this particular ownership class and what you're getting access to and the risks that are involved. >> all right. bob pisani with the latest controversy in etfs. thank you very much. we'll see you later on okay. treasury yields are swinging higher today as wall street digests this morning's jobs data. we'll head out to rick santelli in chicago for a bond report. coming up next. >> crypto watch is sponsored by crypto.com. crypto.com. ♪ empower ♪

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450 point gain at one point earlier in the session for the dow. the nasdaq is down more than 1.5%. nvidia is continuing to fall as well, now down 6% on the day and 12% in a week. we are at session lows for nvidia. that's, by the way roughly $350 billion in market value lost just because of that drop. and the market cap is now barely hanging on to that $3. barely is a relative term barely hanging on to $3 trillion. now let's get out to rick santelli in chicago for the picture on the bond side of things. rick. >> yes. >> you know dom it's a fascinating day in the interest rate complex because what you just were discussing in my opinion, is the reason we're seeing such wild activity in treasury yields. the green has no lasting ability in the equity markets to hang tough all session, to see 400 plus points disappear the way it has. really underscores the anxiety and the volatility and the price

uncertainty in the equity space. and why the road from getting out of equities and into the safe harbor of treasuries is so popular now. there has been some important data, but it really doesn't go a long way to explain much of the activity, in my opinion today. we did see the q4 revisions that were associated with the gdp report show us that the pricing indices were hotter than expected. so you saw the quarter over quarter pce core move from 2.5 to 2.7. you could see it on the chart once again. no matter what metric for inflation you look at, it's all higher than pre-covid. or you look at jobless claims at 242,000, basically a seven month high. people want to say it was dc, it was doji. but if you look at maryland, virginia, their claims were lower. we had president's day. their seasonal adjustments that seem to fail. so it could be weather related. we're not sure, but it's still a seven month high. and if you look at the notion that even with some subtle and i mean

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on the sidelines. >> here of tesla. >> and this is a company that, you know, investors are very optimistic on if you are pro tesla. and i understand the logic. i mean this is a company that has really great technology. they're the best ev seller here in the us. and there's a lot of positives. like they're expected to have a lower priced ev later this year. and the big thing for them is autonomous vehicles, which with elon musk being so close to the trump administration, the assumption is that that's more likely to go through. but the problem is, in the meantime, autos really are their core business. and it has been slowing. and not only that, but you're having to see price cuts, especially in places like china where there's a lot of competition. and my biggest problem with tesla is just the valuation. it trades over 105 times earnings, which is not only expensive to the overall market, but that's even more expensive than its own historical average. so i think for all those reasons, whether i find another place to add my money or i wait for a better entry point, i would not jump in with two feet at tesla right now. >> all right. so that sounds a little bit more bearish on

tesla. let's talk now about moderna. lower on reports that federal health officials are now reviewing the nearly $600 million bird flu vaccine contract it got from the biden administration. what's the trade for moderna? and by the way, this is a stock that was a $460 stock in 2021. >> yikes. >> yeah. and again, i would also stay on the sidelines here. the biggest reason is their main business is the covid vaccine, which we have seen a huge drop in demand for ever since covid ended. and they did recently introduce an rsv vaccine to hopefully, hopefully diversify their revenue streams. but you also saw some of their competitors like pfizer also get approved for those. and now you're seeing with some of the news today and things like the bird flu vaccine, they're getting some pushback on. so i think there could be some long term opportunity with other uses of mrna. but in the meantime, again, i'd stay on the sidelines here. it's way too concentrated covid vaccines, which i don't think there's a huge opportunity of in the short term. >> so your last name, which is actually a buy. and i was surprised by this was ebay just had a tough quarter. first first quarter revenue guidance i should say was light. they cited

uncertainty around the consumer and discretionary spending. and why are you picking it up here? >> yeah. and this is a company that has, i think, really been showing that they're willing to innovate. so they actually their their overall earnings was not negative. it's their overall guidance. and i think you're starting to see a lot of that just with people worried about uncertainty with the consumer overall. but this is a company who i think has a lot of opportunity with their recent partnership with facebook marketplace. they're also partnering with openai to try to get more ai directed toward ebay. and they're having a lot of positives in things like collectibles and luxury goods. so a lot of that guidance disappointment had to do with the consumer to consumer fees in the uk. so essentially they got less on transactions there. but i don't think that's really a reason to get out of this stock. i think some of those other bigger changes are going to be a longer term impact. so i think that's something that's probably worth picking up some on the shorter term. >> and up 44% over the past year, in fact. courtney, thanks for doing the honors today. we appreciate it. courtney garcia, thanks. >> for.

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for first responders. final check on the markets. right now for our hour, we are right near session lows for the s&p 500, down three quarters of 1%. it's 47 point downside. the dow industrials are down negative. there were 450 points higher at one point today. and the nasdaq composite is down 1.5%. that's 308 points for the composite index overall. >> and honestly dom, you tell me. i mean i can't really point to a catalyst for this move in the past half an hour or so where we've gone from positive to negative. >> it's interesting only because, as you point out, seems to have been the m.o. for this market that you kind of find a little bit of positivity. but again, we've been kind of rangebound, though, for, for the last three months. >> also keep a quick eye on oil where crude is up about 2%. now that was in maybe some extent on tariffs. opec plus is also reportedly debating whether to

raise output in april due to uncertainty over sanctions and tariffs. again, if they're going to raise output you think it'd be going the other way. >> it's also interesting to me this energy trade is one that a lot of folks out there are saying it could be a real upside catch up. so whether or not. >> i hope not as a driver anyway. >> all right guys, thanks very much for watching power lunch stocks at session lows right now. >> and dom, thanks for being here. that closing bell starts right now. >> all right guys thanks so much. welcome to closing bell scott wapner live from the post nine here at the new york stock exchange. this make or break out begins with the messy mag seven. those stocks in retreat lately. >> nvidia's earnings. >> not doing much at all to change that. in fact, most of the names are lower this hour. invidia almost at the lows of the day. it was down more than 6% a few moments ago. we're going to ask our experts over this final stretch when that tech trade, especially from the mega caps, might get some traction back. in the meantime, we'll show you the scorecard here with 60 to go in. regulation did have a spike in jobless claims today. that dismal read on housing more tariff talk in washington. all of that