you. thank you. well, we've got a big address from the president tonight and markets that have been trying to find direction. one wonders how much to take in from that into tomorrow's trade. >> president trump on truth social. tomorrow night will be big. i will tell it like it is. he said that yesterday all caps will be watching. that does it for us here at overtime. >> fast money starts now. >> live from. >> the nasdaq market site in the heart of new york city's times square. this is fast money. >> here's what's on tap tonight. stocks riding a roller. >> coaster today. >> as president trump's. >> first. round of. >> tariffs go into effect. what was behind the late day fade. and is there more. >> pain to come. and off. target shares of the retail. >> giant hitting their lowest levels in over a year. but the company had to say about tariffs and what its. results say about the strength of the consumer. plus. >> a couple. >> of recent tech laggards notch a win today. how to protect your portfolio amid all this volatility. and blackrock strikes a deal. >> to buy ports. >> on the panama canal. the implications of that move. >> and more.

>> i'm melissa lee coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. on the desk tonight. karen finerman, dan nathan, guy adami and danny mozes, founder of moses ventures and a host of the on the tape podcast. we start off with a wild day of action on wall street after the trump administration's tariffs on canada. mexico and china went into effect at midnight. a sell off in the last hour sent the s&p to its lowest close since election day. they finished off its worst levels of the day. the nasdaq closed just shy of correction territory, down 9.5% from its record highs. and the dow saw the biggest losses, shedding more than 600 points for the second day in a row. meantime, the yield on the ten year treasury briefly fell as low as 4.1% before climbing higher. but another twist after hours. stocks like palantir, tesla, broadcom all moving higher after hours as commerce secretary howard lutnick made new comments on tariff negotiations. for the latest state of play, let's get to our megan costello. megan. >> melissa, a truly remarkable day here for trade policy and for geopolitics writ large. it started with all of those tariffs kicking in just after

midnight on canada, mexico and china. canada and china both then immediately retaliating, both with tariffs mostly targeting agriculture and food products, but also some non-tariff measures. china blacklisted 25 u.s. companies. canada is also taxing its electricity exports to some u.s. states, banning u.s. firms from federal canadian government contracts. we also saw prime minister justin trudeau come out quite angry towards president trump, calling him by his first name, calling this a very dumb move, vowing not to let it go unanswered by canada. president trump was never likely to let that one slide. he replied quite quickly on social media, saying that any retaliation from canada would be met with equal escalation from the us. so tit for tat was starting to take shape here, and we seem to be at an impasse for a moment there, expecting further tit for tat, waiting for some calls to be scheduled. that was just until the last hour, when howard lutnick gave a potentially consequential but somewhat vague interview, saying that he thought president trump would be able to work out a deal with

canada and mexico that would involve meeting somewhere in the middle on tariffs. that's how he described it, lutnick said. that would probably be announced tomorrow. so a lot of kushi language there. lots of questions about what exactly that might look like and if it comes to fruition. but it is the first sign, melissa, of any movement here, any potential compromise coming in the coming days. >> melissa on the sunday shows made it seem like there was a room for a last minute sort of deal, and that didn't happen either. so i mean, we'll see where that goes. but in terms of the retaliatory tariffs from canada as well as mexico, we know that president sheinbaum of mexico said sunday at a rally. that's when she's going to unveil the retaliatory tariffs. do we know specifically beyond the ontario electrical tax, what the retaliation will be or when that will be announced. >> from canada? some of it took effect already about $30 billion canadian dollars 20 billion took effect at midnight, another 100 billion or so taking effect within three weeks. but they're talking about other things, tearing up some contracts, potentially with starlink, trying to get at elon musk,

talking about restricting their exports of nickel. that's a critical material used in a lot of manufacturing. the defense department here buys a lot of that. so canada really coming out swinging. mexico we have to wait. but it's likely to be a lot of agriculture potentially some cars and car parts that they hit if we get to that point. so as you know, the retaliation often hurts more than the initial impact. >> all right, megan, thank you. megan cassella. tariffs impact already being felt across industries. nearly half of the s&p 500 mentioning tariffs in q1 earnings calls so far even higher than the jump around the 2018 tariffs. materials. staples. health care. energy among the most heavily affected groups. the topic coming up more than 30% of materials companies calls already. so does all of this combined warrant the growth scare that we've seen roil the markets this week? guy what do you say? >> i believe it does. you know, i think. >> the growth. >> scare was in place. >> this is sort. >> of. the icing i think or the cherry on top. but i'll say this. >> as well. i mean this. >> is something we've talked about. as a matter of fact, it's. great having. >> danny here because.

>> over the summer, june and july, danny, vinny and. >> porter talked. >> about make. volatility great again. and they. >> basically asserted that. in florida. >> a couple of months ago. >> and i'm of the belief that vol. >> is going. >> to be a. >> story. >> not a one day story. >> but a prolonged story. >> and quickly. >> in terms. >> of the price action. >> today, karen probably. >> was. >> spot on. she thought, you know, open on. >> the. >> lows. >> close on the highs. >> and that would've been a very encouraging day. >> over the last half hour. the s&p gave back. >> 80 handles. >> now we've. >> seen rallies of that. magnitude over the last 45 minutes a day. >> we have not seen really a selloff like that. so something new is sort of in the cards right now. >> we're having fun. yet there's nothing that investors hate more than uncertainty in between the new world and economic order that we're seeing in real time happen. it just makes it very difficult. of course, tariffs are going to have an impact. it's going to take a while to play out. i'm sure some companies will use it as an excuse at various times whether tariffs and things like that, but it's going to be difficult. i would just say that at the height of the market this year, we were trading at 23.5 times forward earnings. so we've only adjusted one and a half times basically i think down to 22 times forward earnings.

historically, that's still a very expensive number. and with the uncertainty in the market it's probably validated. >> yeah. is already saying that it's all the tariffs that they remain in place to the beginning of august will add 0.4 percentage points to us headline cpi. so in terms of price, the price stability that peter navarro promised on squawk box yesterday morning, even through the tariffs, economists broadly are not buying that line. >> it was really interesting to see what happened to the. >> ten year you talked about at the top of the show. it opened. it would for 11 or so closed, i think at 424. that's a pretty big move for a day that maybe you would have thought it might do. the yields might go lower. yeah, right. so that's sort of interesting. but i think this you know we talked about a little. >> yesterday part of what what i think had. >> the economy. >> people excited. >> about the economy was. >> the animal. >> spirits being released. no regulation, fewer regulations and a very pro-business environment. so this is throwing a whole bunch of wrenches into the mechanics of that. and so i think it does. >> weigh on.

>> ceos, particularly ones who are involved in, you know, we talk about gm as an example of a complicated supply chain that's going to really that's going to be difficult to manage with tariffs from mexico. >> and canada and. >> back and forth. so i also. >> think that. any company. that reports now. >> it's free to say you have. >> you know. >> you don't. >> know what how what it's going to be for the. >> rest of the year. give somewhat moderated guidance. be conservative. why not. >> it's free. >> yeah. i would just say go back to 2018. >> we have the playbook here. >> you know, the. >> the trade. >> war that. >> started back then. it never ended. right. it was predominantly focused. >> on china. >> they put those. >> 10%, you know, tariffs in place. they've been ratcheted. >> up. >> throughout the biden administration. >> now we have an extra. >> 10% on that. >> and you just think about how weak china's economy is right now. and you'd say. >> well. >> that could push them into. some sort of trade deal. it's not particularly clear. >> what the. >> concessions we're. >> looking for, right. >> we want to actually. >> export less. >> import more. >> i mean, you know, we talk. >> about this. >> trade deficit goes back and

forth. >> or whatever. >> and i just. >> think about the. >> whole idea of reshoring. >> you know. >> we thought about this. >> throughout the pandemic and. >> the post pandemic. >> we haven't made a lot of progress. there's a lot of. >> announcements about folks who. >> are saying, we're going to spend $1 trillion or 500 billion there. you know what? >> let's see it all happen. >> like that's the other thing, you know? so if i think about 2018, there were two very big bouts of volatility. go back to q1. what were we afraid of? we were afraid of, you know, the uncertainty in and around trade. we had interest rates that were going higher. and then we had some growth, you know, fears. and then we got to q4 of 2018 and all that stuff was still in place. right. so i. >> think. >> about this like they. could kind of ratchet back canada and mexico. they're not likely to ratchet back china right now. and again, i think you're going to have a lot of uncertainty that just sticks with it. and we have an economy here and globally that really does seem to be hanging on right now. i'm not sure what the kind of upside is or where the inflection point would be for the economy. right now, i just don't see it. >> i'm glad you mentioned 2018, because by the end of 2018, according to an nber working group paper, us real income was

reduced by $1.4 billion a month. so consumers really felt it. >> companies just got their supply chains back in order post covid, literally, things were just happening. now, if you're a business, okay, what am i going to order? do i order it now? is it going to cost more in the future? and now you're disrupting that again. we just got that streamlined. so we talk about the markets and how it affects companies. it affects individuals consumers investors the whole gamut. so it's a readjustment period. it's just happening in real time. >> all right. our next guest thinks the tariff story is massively overplayed in importance. cnbc contributor david zervos is jefferies chief market strategist. david, great to have you. on a day like today, why are we all overstating the impact of tariffs here? what are we getting wrong? >> i just. >> think we're missing the bigger picture, melissa. >> the bigger. >> picture is the deregulation story. and the smaller federal government story and the movement of resources out of an inefficient federal government into a more efficient private sector. the re privatization of the u.s. economy. as secretary bessent. >> has. >> talked about last week, i

think that's the biggest story. i know that it can be disruptive. i know that it can take a little bit of a shine off the market as we move those resources out of the public sector into the private sector, both labor and capital resources. but the longer term picture is just so optimistic for me. and i think we're getting bogged down in a tariff discussion that's just, you know, minutia in the grand scheme of things. to be honest with you, i think it is negotiating tactics. it's moved up, it's moved down. it's getting more geopolitical traction than it is actual economic traction. and the real storyline. people are kind of forgetting about a little bit or maybe not. i mean, the s&p is only down a couple percent for the year, so maybe the s&p is seeing through it as well. we're just making a bigger deal out of it than it is. >> it's a very. >> sort of intangible or unquantifiable thing. deregulation and the privatization of the economy. david, what makes you so certain that those and it seems like those are longer term, you know, positive impacts on the economy,

that in the meantime, we don't fall into a recession or see economic damage before those good things may take over later on. >> well, i think, look, there is a risk that as we do that movement back to the private sector, it's disruptive. and i think the administration would probably like to have disruption early. then they can blame it on the past administration and kind of start fresh six months to nine months down the road at a at a slightly better place. so there is an argument that they kind of get aggressive early, make a few massive cuts, bring the chainsaws out. et cetera. et cetera. and, and we get a little bit of a wobble. and maybe that's what we're seeing. but i think the rate market cushions that we've already seen a significant fall in rates. i mean, people were talking about 5%, ten year notes. and north of that, as well as rate hikes just a few months ago. that doesn't seem to be working out too well. so i think you've got a cushion with the rates. i think you've got an administration that wants to go kind of quickly and early

with an aggressive, doge style program as well as a dereg program, and i think you could have some disruptions as you make that movement. but the longer term story, which is what equities should really be keying off of permanent capital, is just a really positive story. so we're sticking with that. and i like the idea of having rate hedges to your equity positions. i love my risk parity trades. and they've held up great through all of this because we've had the rate rally to go with a little bit of equity weakness. so again the bond market is cushioning the stock market. that's a healthy position to be in. we didn't have that in 22 and we just barely got back to it in the end of 23 and 24. so i, i think there's a lot more a lot more positiveness out there than people are giving, giving this credit for. and they're really focused overly on both, i think, immigration policies and tariff policies as something that's really going to drag this economy down when they're they're really sideshows to the big picture. >> yeah. >> but david. >> it really feels like. >> the administration is playing chicken with the potential for a recession. you know, recession

was not something we spent a lot of time. talking about. you know, really going back to 2022. we had this kind of, you know, i. >> guess it was a. >> consensus view that it was going to happen in 2023. so it never happened. it kind of just kind of left the lexicon. and when you think about what's going on right now, the amount of uncertainty in such a short period of time, you know, i think there's a lot of emphasis. i think there's too much enthusiasm about doge, for instance. this whole austerity plan is not likely to kind of, you know, do a whole heck of a lot. so i guess my question is, you know, playing chicken with the potential for a recession that could turn into a global recession, is that worth it to try to set up some long term things right now that we just know are not going to be accomplished anytime soon? >> well, i think one day we don't know, you know, how successful this is going to be. it's work in progress. it looks like the attempt is going to be to do something as radical as what we saw in the 80s with the reagan deregulation and the reagan reprivatization, if you will. so if that's what we're in for, and that's the decade we're talking about, that's pretty exciting. it all remains to be

seen. and things could obviously derail. the good news, really, is that we have so much cushion on the rate side. if things get messy, if we get 2 or 3 payroll reports that are negative, or the unemployment rate scoots up to 4.75%, we're going to have not just three rate cuts price, then we'll have 6 or 7 rate cuts priced in. and we'll have a significant cushion that comes into the private equity markets, the real estate markets, all from that long end of the bond market, really pricing in a significant change in monetary policy, which we've all been waiting for and hoping for as rates normalize because they've been restrictive for some time as we fought back on this inflation. and i do think the fed will look through some temporary inflation hiccups if they're high, if they're coming from tariffs, because they're going to be one offs. we've already seen a number of the presidents and a few of the governors say the same thing, that these are not changes in the outlook for anchored inflation expectations. they don't change the anchoring. they just sort of do one off price level hits. so again i don't want to it's not it's a day where you know, people have

definitely gotten spun around. and we've had a few days now of people getting spun around trying to spin a pretty positive long term story. but i do recognize that we could have a fair amount of volatility, making volatility great. again, as you said earlier, here is a theme i, i embrace and i think we're going to see it. i think this reprivatization story is actually quite volatile. and it could create a quarter of negative growth. it could create a pop in the unemployment rate. before we get to a much more productive and efficient economy. >> david, great to speak with you. thank you. >> always a pleasure, melissa. >> david zervos of jefferies. do you buy this narrative guy? >> it's in some. >> ways i do. you know, getting to the other side, i think, is what he's. >> saying is. >> going to be painful. >> might be volatile. and i agree with that. >> the question is. >> where is the other side? >> i mean, is it in. october of this. >> year or is it sooner. >> or. >> is it in 2026? >> i mean. >> that's what you got to struggle with. but i'll say. >> this in terms. >> of volatility. the market. >> hasn't seen. >> what i. >> think we're on about to be embark upon.

>> in quite. >> some time. >> and people are not used to. days like today. >> and i think you're. going to. >> get you're going to have to get used to it very quickly because. >> it's not just. >> sort of the buy. >> and hold environment we've gotten used to. >> so i. >> look at the vix always. i think, you know, clearly. >> it's elevated. >> over. >> the last few weeks. >> to me it's. >> not quite panicky yet. it's approaching. >> but it's. >> not there yet. however all. that having been said i think to me what happened in the banks today. >> was panicky. >> and i like to buy when it's panicky. so i did buy some citibank, and i think the banks are out there buying their own stock, and nobody has a bigger buyback relative to their overall market cap than citibank. >> so while yields are. >> coming in. >> credit spreads are widening. they're not pulling in as much as bond yields are. and that's why i think some of the reason the banks have been down. we've had this growth in private credit that's been fueling the economy. and if you get credit spreads moving. >> wider. >> that could certainly halt that. >> all right. well two recently struggling mega-cap tech stocks bucking the downside trend today. alphabet gaining more than 2% its best day in a month. and nvidia hit a more than five month low early in the session before reversing and ending the

day up 1.7% and on heavy volume. what do you make of this relative strength in these stocks? i mean, i really tried to save the market for some time. >> i think it's relative value. >> i think the way that both of those. stocks have sold off over the last couple. >> of weeks. >> remember. >> google was making. >> an all time high. into their print. it sold off after that. what happened there? well, they had a bump to their capex. they had decelerating revenue growth. i think a lot of investors are trying to look around and say. >> what is. >> the roi here? where's the uptake for some of these products and services? and i think we can all see that they're going to be coming. but i think this quarter or last few months in general, it just tells us that right now, you know, the way in which these companies are spending, it's really hard to figure out, like what the long term trajectory of this technology is going to be. and so you threw a $300 billion at this capex spend over the last year and a half or so. and they're kind of committed to another 300 billion right now. and if the companies are not growing and you don't hear more and more. so this is a great point actually. so you just gave a stat about how many companies on their calls are talking

about, you know, tariffs and all that sort of stuff. and what they're not talking about is use cases for generative ai and what that's doing to their businesses. so when we talk about some of the near-term effects versus the long term effects about what's going on with this trade policy, there are meaningful effects right now. and the capex that's been driving this generative ai trade over the last couple of years has been very important in this economy, an economy that's been basically running at about 2.5% over the last couple of years. so i think today, when you look at the rally that you had in nvidia, yeah, it was just pressed down. it was down nearly 30% from those recent highs. it was a crowded trade. people got out of it. and people are going to be looking for opportunities to get back into both of them. >> and i think we. were correctly cautious since that january engulfing pattern. across the desk. and that proved to be right. and today's the first day. >> in. >> terms of price action. you can actually make a case. you can play from the. >> long side. i'm not saying it's going straight up. >> from. >> here. >> but you know that. 110 low to. >> your earlier. >> point, that was the low that we saw basically back in september on heavy volume, which. >> is. >> a good sign. >> so for me. >> for the first time in a

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about. you know, karen. mentioned city. if we have a citibank chart and we've been collectively bullish on citibank i think and that's worked out nicely. but we just traded up to levels we saw a couple of years ago, which is problematic. we do a longer term chart. so you know i thought you'd see the rally. >> i didn't think. >> you'd see this ensuing sell off. but you know again just valuation if you want to play that game. to me citi is the. >> most compelling. >> one out there. >> if the. david zervos narrative is right, banks theoretically should be the biggest beneficiaries of a of deregulation. less regulation out there, right. so this is the area that you should want to be in. in theory. >> they run on hopes of m&a. on the regulatory changes they've run on the hoping that the ipo market and m&a is all coming back and they've run like i mentioned last segment credit spreads have been really tight. and you talk about consumer finance names. they are dependent on selling everything that they create into the market. that starts to back up a little bit. and if you think about recession and the impact to the consumer, there's nothing that the banks are more exposed to than the consumer for the most part. >> so i agree, the consumer, that's one of the risks that, you know, one of.

>> the. >> fears, flagstaff. >> financial, i think they were. >> actually able to sell some of their real estate rates going a little bit lower. it's been good for them. >> but i don't know, i think that. >> for the ones that aren't really exposed. >> like a capital. >> one or a discover is a different, different customer, right, than a jp morgan. so i agree on the m&a. it has been and seems like it will be slower. but i do think. >> there's a lot. >> of the deregulation, right. the allowing more, more, less capital. bigger balance sheet. that's been helpful. >> yeah. the last time they did that 2018, they deregulated the regional banks. and then 2023 we had like six of them go under. you know. so like i'm not convinced that deregulation if you think about what happened in the 2000 and remember what happened in the 2000, i mean, like you give these guys an inch and you know what they're going to do. so at the end of the day, like, you're right, they were panicky today. but maybe they're pricing in a recession. and you know, i would take it another step forward. and i know that visa mastercard, they don't take

credit risk. but if you're pricing in a recession right here, if you're financials then their transaction volume is going to, you know, decline. right. and those things trade look at look at pull up the visa chart i mean this thing looks like it was an ai story from, you know, two months ago or something like that. so that looks vulnerable to me. and then the flip side of that i looked at like robinhood is down 10% today and went back up on the day cme group is trading at, you know, all time highs right now. it's interesting to me to look at some of these areas where they do well when the volatility picks up. and i think that part of the financial ecosystem makes a lot of sense right here. >> but there would be a lot more to go if these banks were really pricing in recession. i mean, we are still solidly above pre-election levels except for bank of america, which is a dollar away from pre-election. >> that bank of america has its own issues with that question. but i think you're right. i mean, there's a lot more to be potentially priced in. if in fact, we're in a downturn. but then it gets back to the question. i think that i struggle with what causes the recession. does a stock market sell off cause a recession or is it vice versa? i'm of the belief

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down 22% over the past year, while its arch rival walmart is up 60% in that time. for more, dan joins us here on set. he's the ceo of j. rogers kniffen worldwide enterprises. dan, always great to see you. target had enough problems. and now with tariffs are they not as well equipped to weather them as others. >> well they're. >> not. >> right now. >> no. you know, back. >> in 06i. >> used to call target the best retailer in america. then it switched. >> to costco. >> now it's walmart, and target's way down. >> the list. >> they don't make the top ten. but, you know, they're. >> trying to put it. >> all back together. >> they're certainly. >> making some changes. they're trying to be more in stock. they've got a lot of. >> things going on. >> but you know i was there for. >> the three hours. this morning. i started at 8:00. >> even though. they really started. >> talking at nine. >> and having. >> talked to a lot of people there. >> they're. >> in the same boat as me, which is trying to. figure out what the. >> heck's. >> going on. i don't get the feeling that. >> i know i'm. >> not convinced. >> i don't think. >> the people i talk to are

convinced. >> that. >> it's getting fixed. >> i think that walmart. is a big problem if your target. when walmart says to you, my $100,000 a year customers. >> are. >> the fastest. >> growing. thing i've got. >> that's a problem if your target. >> and the other. >> problem is, of course, amazon. >> that's not. >> a new problem. but you know amazon was a flash in somebody's eye in 1999. you get to the day. and they're one of the largest growing sellers in the country. >> just like. >> walmart is of. >> course, just like costco is. target's not in that league. and that's the problem. that they're not getting back there yet. and maybe they can. but they haven't convinced me so far. >> i say this it's somewhat hyperbolic, but is there. room for a target in today's world because. they're in the middle of everything and you don't want to be in the middle? in today's retail environment? >> it's interesting you. >> put it that way. >> is there room? every time i look at a retailer, i say, there's really no room for this retailer because every one of them could. put it on. the chart is surrounded by other good people, right? it's just how well are you executing? if

target was target like it was 20 years ago, and it was convincing you every time it sent you an ad that this was the coolest thing ever. and they convinced you that shopping in the store was the coolest thing ever. like they. >> did back then. >> sure, there'd be room for them, but just take take market share from somebody else. but right now, no, i think the way they're currently operating, they're going to be giving share, not taking share. walmart, on the other hand, is operating the best they've ever operated since 1962 when they were invented. well, that's pretty tough if you're somebody that has to compete with them anywhere. it's not good to be a dollar store right now and have walmart stomping out the customer. so they're not coming. >> down to you. >> it's not good to be target when they're taking your $100,000 a year customer. they're just a machine right now. and i you know, i read them the best country, the best company in the country. and i don't see, you know, costco is a close second, but they used to be first. >> right? >> so target. >> has said that q1 is going to be meaningfully down. they've already said that february foot

traffic that there were problems. un placer said that the whole industry in february was soft but target was the worst. and target's not going to give guidance on the short term only annual forecasts at this point in your view, is target because of its valuation worth a flier or is it just completely a no touch? >> as i said in my note to you, the only thing i do like about target is the multiple. but when i look at it, i say, you know, we need some performance to change that multiple. and yes, they're half the multiple of walmart. but something has to happen for people to want to own them. >> so do you think the conservatism that they showed is more. specific to. >> them, or will it affect everybody broadly because everybody is saying, let's. >> be conservative. >> why go out. >> on a limb? >> but do you think they really mean it? >> well. >> think about it this way. january was terrible for almost everybody. thank god it was in a good fourth quarter and we

didn't have to worry about it. then february, which was, you know, the first month of the quarter now for most retailers has been really soft. but i absolutely think that's the weather. i think the weather in february is worth 600 basis points to people selling a lot of discretionary goods like apparel. so it was that bad. it was the coldest january in 30 years and or sixth coldest in 30 years in february, followed up with it, but last year was warmer. so the shift is huge, right. and i do think that is not just the retailers making it up. they have a good excuse, but if you're seeing that and you're target and you've been struggling anyway, why would you go out on a limb and say anything other than, yeah, it's going to be pretty tough in the first quarter? as a matter of fact, i don't know why anybody is saying it's going to be anything other than pretty tough in the first quarter. >> jan, thanks. always good to get your perspective. jan. >> i'm not a hater, although it sounds that way. but you know, if you're going to give guidance from 880 to 9, why even bother? karen talks about this all the time. she might disagree with me, but you drive a truck

through that guidance so it doesn't really help anybody. number one. number two, the good news maybe is that we traded down a levels we saw in september of 2023. so it gives you something to trade against. but they're just in. >> a. >> in. >> the wrong. >> their mix. >> is wrong. >> for what the world is today. >> i just find it. funny that we don't know. we can't give you guidance on this quarter, but we can. we feel good about what. >> we're going. >> to try for. >> the year. >> i know that doesn't make. >> any sense to me. my point is, is basically consensus. so that was also like you're going to be conservative on say meaningfully down first quarter, but yet your midpoint of the guidance lines up. i don't know. >> i don't. >> i. >> don't get i always think you shouldn't be in the guidance business. but that's. >> not where. the wall. street works. >> well, they're being honest, right. because they don't know they're creating. there's a lot of uncertainty out there. but walmart's very expensive. and you know i love this for a long time. but people are going to hide in it because it's more certain amazon and walmart are killing them killing target. and when you go to specialized good, it's a little bit different. >> so yeah amazon is interesting to me. it's down 16%. i obviously know that it doesn't get a lot of credit for its north american retail. it's been

doing pretty decently. it probably trades more like a staple and a more difficult environment. also, they just released this alexa plus and it's getting really good reviews and it's actually highlighting how badly it no i don't use them. but i mean like because. >> you're yeah. >> i know with your daughter it's all up here. you know what i mean. so it's like it's the original i know, but no, but it's getting very good reviews and it's highlighting, you know, how poorly apple is doing with their apple intelligence. so you have that. you have the cloud business which obviously is decelerating a little bit. but to me i think this is a stock that if you get it back towards i don't know, it's like 180 or something like that on the way down. that's about a 25% retracement. that looks interesting to me. >> all right. we've got a news alert on alphabet and the doj antitrust probe. kate rooney has got the details. kate kate. >> hey melissa. >> so bloomberg. is now. >> reporting that google is urging officials in the trump administration and the justice department to back away from a push to break up the search engine there, citing national security. concerns as part of

that. bloomberg here. >> citing people familiar. >> with those discussions. we have reached out to alphabet. no comment yet from the company. but representatives, according to this report, asked in a government meeting for the administration to take what they call a less aggressive stance in the us. and this is has to do with what a judge ruled to be an illegal search monopoly. there are some deadlines coming up for this case. so that is sort of the backdrop here. there's a deadline on friday. the case is sort of moving into its next step. this is similar from what we've heard from google from the get go. but as it moves into what's known as the remedy stage, we're getting a little bit more here and some more momentum. so it sounds like from this report, google making another push to really push back on this biden era plan to break up the company. but again, we have calls out. we will let you know if we hear anything but shares up slightly here after hours. >> back to the venmo kate. >> thanks, kate rooney coming up. it's not just retail auto stocks in reverse as tariff pains filter through that sector. how the carmakers plan to defray cost increases and how

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>> welcome back to fast money u.s. automakers underperforming the broader markets today. data and forecasting firm s&p global mobility predicting that tariffs will slash u.s. vehicle production by a third or about 20,000 cars per day. cnbc's phil lebeau joins us now for the very latest on this. hey, phil. >> and melissa, we'll talk about. >> that. in a little bit. >> let me give you some perspective, because everybody is saying, well, what are the automakers going to do? we haven't heard. >> from on. >> any auto executives. >> they're not stupid. >> they don't want to poke the bear. they want to see where this ultimately. >> plays out over the. >> next week before they make any comments that might perhaps aggravate the trump administration. >> so what you're. >> looking at right now for the auto industry is that if the costs were. >> were. >> were put into every vehicle. >> the estimate. >> is that it would cost. the tariffs would cost about $6,200. >> incentives are likely to drop. that's the first. >> thing that the automakers will do. >> and then they may have to. >> eat some of the. >> costs they are aware of that that will likely be reflected in. >> lower margins. >> if these tariffs stay in place. in terms.

>> of daily production. >> yes, this. >> is. >> a. >> projection by. >> s&p global. >> mobility that you could see it drop by 20%. or 20,000 vehicles. >> i should say, on a daily. basis by next week if these tariffs are still. >> in place and they have to make some. >> some adjustments. >> here. by the way, in the north america, about 70,000 vehicles are produced between us, canada and mexico. and in. >> terms of pricing. >> i get this question from people, well how much could prices go up and how quickly we could see what we saw during the. >> chip crisis. >> look at the change in pricing for average transaction prices between march. >> and. >> december went up about. >> 6 or. >> $7000. >> because of. >> the lack. >> of supply. for a point. of reference, the current average transaction price or what it was. >> in january. >> a little over $48,000. >> bottom line is this. yes. >> the big three have more exposure in terms of. total volume. but you're also noticing that toyota, honda, volkswagen, all of the foreign. >> automakers are laying out a game plan.

>> melissa, in terms of how much of. >> this will. >> they be able to pass. >> along, how. >> much of this will they have to eat and hit into their margins? >> and when do they have to make that decision? probably not. >> for a week. >> or two before we really start to see production being cut. and even then, most people believe. it's not going to drop by a third. that's one projection. >> that is out there. >> phil, why does auto production go down? i mean, parts are not in short supply. is it just they anticipate demand will go down. >> why would they adjust? >> well, no. >> why would. >> you build. >> let me give you an example. >> why would you. >> build the ford maverick in mexico and pay the tariff to go across the border to ship it up here? you've already got good inventory if you're ford. so you want to go through that inventory that's already in country that hasn't. >> been tariffed. >> and ultimately you may have to make a decision. >> and this is not just ford. >> it's all auto makers. you may have to. >> make a decision. >> is it worth keeping production at the current. levels and shipping it to the. >> united states. >> or is it better to pull down production? and when you do have

to ship up. >> to the united. >> states, do it at a much lower level. >> all right. phil, thanks. phil lebeau. you bet. what do you do with the automakers here? >> it's interesting because they just got all their union employee wages in order last year and they went up. so now they're sitting here. and their inability potentially to capture that back. and also when you think about the auto companies, you know in general who their what their costs are input, that's a direct they're probably the most impacted in terms of steel. and what if people stop buying american. and one other thing is that used car prices, which we're hoping is not going to add to inflation, you have to wonder if used car prices will start to go up if there's lack of new car production. >> you know, you got to look at these as trades though, right? so if you put a chart of gm in october of last year was a $45 stock traded in a straight line to 61, traded in a straight line back to 45. so if you're looking for a level i mean, all the things danny just talked about are correct. the question now is has it been priced in to a certain extent, and can you trade around the edges like nvidia? i think you can hear in

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>> defined 45 degree channel which we've. >> been ascending. that's about a. 17% drawdown. >> and that's fairly normative. what's the. >> big deal? it resets things. >> if you're. >> bullish and. >> in many ways. >> gives one an opportunity. >> the kind. >> of. >> opportunity warren. >> buffett speaks of. >> to. >> add to longs. >> and if you're. >> bearish, you think it's not going to stop at down 17. it's going to go down 27 again. >> but either way. >> my hunch. >> is lower from here. >> let's also look at the biggest. >> sector of course. >> and this matters. >> the tech. >> sector is 31% weight. >> of the entire s&p 500. and as is so often the case with. many instruments. >> it trends. >> there are. >> bullish phases. >> and there are. >> bearish phases. and we're trying to always all of us. >> identify transitions from. >> bull to bear when something. >> rolls over. >> or bear. >> two bull. >> when. >> something bottoms and turns. >> and so. >> the real. risk here for the. >> most important sector of the market is that is a full. fledged bullish to bearish reversal. >> sell carter for the s&p 500.

what is the level of the next level of support. >> it really isn't. >> any level to identify. >> in. >> terms of support. >> but when you go. down five. >> 6%. >> remember the average stock is still up. >> on the year in the s&p 500. seven of the sectors are up. >> once you get down 1516 you'll find buyers stepping in. but i don't. >> think that this intraday. >> recovery is anything. >> to be. >> particularly bullish about. >> all right carter thanks carter. worth of worth charting. so how can investors protect their portfolios amid the volatility. mike co has an options trade to do just that. it's like an old fashioned tag team options action segment. mike. mike. >> yeah sure thing. here we go. so look when you're trying to figure out how to hedge your portfolio, there's just a few things you have to think about first. the first is what's going to be the proxy for my portfolio. and i think most people have a good correlation to the s&p. and so we could use spy for that. the second thing you want to think about is the timing and the magnitude of the move. and carter has outlined that. i was actually looking at q4 2018 and saw that we fell

almost 20% at that time. and given how much we've already seen a decline, it's really that a move of that magnitude that you're really trying to protect against. and the last thing you want to think about is the price of options. and of course, because we've been seeing such an increase in volatility, the price of options has also similarly risen. and so they are more expensive. so one way you can put on a hedge right now in spy is looking out to may, which gives us enough time to sort of capture the amount of time it took previous drawdowns to take by the may 5th 50 puts, sell the 500 strike puts and then also sell an upside 610 strike call. when i was looking at that close to the close, you actually would collect a modest credit for that. and you will notice that the downside put that you're selling is right around that level. if you had a similar decline to what we saw in 2018, and the upside call takes us right back to the prior highs, essentially. and of course we're probably going to run into some resistance there. >> all right. thank you mike. mike co coming up why one major asset manager is buying a port in central america. more on the

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