so that really goes to the core of sports betting. no sports betting without integrity.in integrity 15 years ago and that's of course something which is not profitable for us from a unit and we're employing hundreds of people in this service but it's so important to have sport and so important to educate young players and that is what we have in connection with a person like michael jordan for example. for michael it goes to his core and heart of the ethics of saying we're going to need to protect the young players and teach them what can happen, how this can happen, but we're going to need to install systems to make sure that we monitor activities and with the slightest we're beginning to investigate on this so that is a mission which we have constantly , for every sport where we partner and team up, without integrity, no sports betting, very clear. liz: boy isn't that the truth. carsten, we're watching and we're watching this mlb situation and sport radar is having a great day, we'll continue to keep our eye on the progression of your company, thank you. >> thank you,

are you surprised at the things that people want to bet on or are you not surprised there is a bettinge it oftentimes it's not necessarily surprising things are in the news on a weekly or daily basis. these things, like recessions, these are things that have real and tangible economic impacts. what we see is allowing people to trade on things that direct their bottom lines >> one of the most active contracts on your site is will 2021 be the hottest year on record what are people saying about that and what it the payout right now? >> absolutely. the market pricing, they are saying it won't be the hottest year on record yesterday we were talking about 20x payouts. >> there are a lot of things about the economy people can bet on just to give the viewer some context, cpi, the last reading was actually on target in terms of what people were betting on in the outcome of cpi. the most active contract right now in terms of economic betting is what about gpe be >> our markets are between 5 and 5.75%. that's sort of where we are landing right now. >> quickly, do you think this changes after tomo

best bets in fin tech. welcome to "fast money," i'm melissa lee. tonight's lineup guy adami will join us in moments. we start out with another record day on wall street closing at fresh all-time highs for those of you keeping track at home, that is a 70th record close for the s&p just this year with stocks hitting all-time highs we want to know what is a setup going into next year we tasked each of our traders could come up with their most important charts into the market heading into 2020. so let's get right to it pete, what is your chart >> well i'm going to go with wti, crude oil in other words. and the reason i say that, mel, it was left for dead at one point in time. it really was. it traded in negative. but when you look at this and all of the different implications that it actually has on the marks themselves and across the globe, i think it really is that important when you consider the fact that this is something that a piece of obviously russia and china and then you go to south america and africa, it doesn't matter. it is all across the

i think for the average investor, there are ways to bet on web 3 and the meta verse without betting the farm on some sort of obscure token. so think about a name like e.a i mentioned it friday. content creation and i think it is set up pretty good. >> how should you play these names? details straight ahead plus, a black and blue for black rock betting on a big move lower here 'ldig into it straight ahead. much more "fast money" for you gold. your strategic advantage. firefighter maggie gronewald knows how to handle dry weather... ...and dry, cracked skin. new gold bond advanced healing ointment. restore healthy skin, with no sticky feeling. gold bond. champion your skin. with n(soft music)ling. hey dad, i'm about to leave. don't forget your hat . good morning. how can i help? i need help connecting with my students. behind every last minute save, ok, that works. and holiday surprise, thank you! a customer service rep is working unseen, making it happen. and at genesys, we're proud to help them help you everyday. earn about covid-19, and at genesys, the more questions we have. the bigges

guy, tim, kyaren and dan cathie wood is making a bet on this name. should you what it is and how to play it. bitcoin breakdown. the crypto on pace for four straight weekly losses a sign of more trouble or buy in new kid on the block one of the traders is bullish. we'll find out why we'll start with the countdown of the most important inflation report tomorrow. cpi and what it could signal to the fed. economists expect a higher number could this spook the market? guy, what do you think >> look. before we get into it, you can't start that way making it to january it's 15 year just we have done 3,300 shows and the third time you've hosted you are carl quintanilla you are on the par the nonof cnbc i know i can speak for the others and flabbergasted what was the company absolutely if this thing is a 7 handle and not out of the realm of possibility the market is spooked. the fed's in front and not behind it and taken the word transitory from the lexicon and i think in terms of that they're prepared i don't know what to expect and karen can speak to this. i

this is a fairly bullish bet, perhaps betting that we're going to need a lot more boosters here next> all right, tony zhang with the big deal and big trade in moderna openings thank you very much. let's trade around steve grasso, what do you think of this moderna big call, buying call options outright? >> i actually don't like it. the option guys are always smart intelligent traders. when you look at the chart, the chart tells me that the stock wants to go lower. it is the inverse to what you see with pfizer, plus, dom, the stock is up 1 40% year to date it seems like it has run out of gas. when people are playing the vaccines, they definitely put their chips into the pfizer basket and get a bit of value with that. and a bit of risk and a bit of the variant head winds that we look like we're going to be dealing with for the foreseeable future but, moderna seems to me as if it was just that growth play and people are getting tired of it and bailing. >> interesting two sides of that story for sure for more options action, tune into the full show next friday at 5:30 p.m. eastern time ri

oh, and that's the thing you should be betting against. i mean, gold and silver, and possibly this time around, bitcoin are honest forms of money. so to the extent that you move your finances over to those platforms you, you are acting honestly in opposition to the dishonesty that now rules be economy. so i absolutely don't think shorting this market is in any way kind of and i think i'll say, but you know, we have time there, there is something that we could explore on this on, on the snow because when you bet against something you do have kind of a, an ambivalence about that right? because you're better a on, on bad things happening to somebody. so via the way you rationalize that to be a short seller is if you cause a bad thing to happen and you profit from it, then you're unethical. but if something is going to happen, no matter what you can't stop it, there's nothing you can do about it, but you didn't cause it. you're in a way, morally obligated to bet against it, to protect yourself in your family. and that's what's happening now. w

all bets are off for next year. it -- it feels very reminiscent. all bets are off for next year.t feels like groundhog day but we i bets are off for next year. it feels like groundhog day but we knowl bets are off for next year. it feels i like groundhog day but we know more than we did this time last year and we have all been through an intensive course of how to deal with a pandemic. the good news is, the economy is still growing, employees are back at work, largely, and we did not see the massive spike in unemployment we thought we might at the end of the furlough scheme so those are reasons to be positive but what is difficult for the economy and for the chancellor and businesses, it feels a bit reluctant to invest, am i going to build another factory to invest, am i going to build anotherfactory and hire to invest, am i going to build another factory and hire another 5000 people, am i going to send them on training? that is important because the higher wage high skills economy that the government wants and that we all want, relies on business doing a lot of the heavy lifting

there have been saying, they do not want one way bets, they want to a fluctuation.ey policy emphasis will ensure that markets have more of a say in the yuan and ensure there is no one-way bet in the currency. dani: how do you look at geopolitical risks? we have a diplomatic boycott of the winter olympics, that listing last week going through, how do you factor that in? jinny: i would say to any investor looking in china, you always have to factor in geopolitical risk. particularly as dual circulation, common prosperity remain the same when coming to look at china domestic. geopolitical will continue, it is about how china will deal with it and how much of the fundamental growth is priced in by investors. i think next year will be important. it is all about stability. despite all of the geopolitical noise, one needs to ensure your trading on fundamentals rather than noise. my bet is to say that the fundamentals will remain supportive by geopolitical factors will remain volatility and noise around when markets will be trading. dani: great to have you on the program. n

so at what point does that become just a bad bet?ted in those gamblers who are deal shopping because they're not that profitable. >> yeah. i think what i said a little bit taken out of context, although that point is true you know, we want people to win. we don't want professionals, which i think is what any sports book would say but we definitely want people to win. that's part of what makes it fun, being able to win so as far as the question on promotions, i think this is really a great time for customers because it's the customer acquisition phase new states are opening up, it's still super early in the industry and i think that's why you're seeing so many promotipromotions out there. >> caesars says we get the most profitable sports gamblers from our database those are the ones that cost us the least because they're already our customers and they spending the most. where are your most profitable customers coming from? >> we also have a pretty substantial database of daily fantasy sports players we've been operating daily fantasy

the bet's been made and i think the bet should continue.in the context of what can be more upside >> okay. up next, we got urwes yo tetand the final call stay tuned it's a thirteen-hour flight, that's not a weekend trip. fifteen minutes until we board. oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app so you can quickly check the markets? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board. excellent. and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing the risk on this position. you two are all set. have a great flight. thanks. we'll see ya. ah, they're getting so smart. choose the app that fits your investing style. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> welcomes back to options action, dropping 10% on the back of earnings that leads tonight's viewer questions here's our first tweet how to best play buy call spread for january 2022 leaps? tony, what are your thoughts here >> yeah, this is a really volatile one trading back with ipo opening price. from my perspective, given the volatility, the best way to use a ca

work from everywhere, like dan was talking about, whether it's airbnb or vrbo, i think that's a good bet. i'm a little concerned about amazon i know it's been the worst performer of the faangs as of slate and it may continue to drag in the near term but for a long term play it makes sense. >> guy, you abandoned palantir for this year. were you just, eh, good riddance >> i didn't abandon in this case >> dan picked it up, but i wonder if you would have stuck it in your acronym too >> there ain't no "p" in dawn, sister so i was going to have trouble jamming that in. >> you could have gone pawn. >> you know what, i could have gone pawn, without question. do i have time, can i change -- no >> no. >> i like dawn, i like the connotation. hope last year, dawn this year i'm sticking with my guns here >> so you like palantir. >> i love it >> still >> listen, at one point last year palantir was a ha$45 stock. i think it got caught up in the whole reddit thing and obviously crashed after that i think people are misunderstanding some of the benefits and some of the upsides, specifically around crypto

what is the long and betting on -- long end betting on?n a deep economic slowdown, possibly? taimur: the long end keeps betting on secular stagnation. if you hike rates too much you are going to create a recession, and all this take -- talk of inflation will be out the door. the long end is not convince we have years of high inflation ahead of us. it is also saying there is a massive demand for long-duration safe assets in the world, and that u.s. government is the only source of very large amounts of liquid safe asset that provides positive yields. and therefore, it is hard to see a curve steepening anytime soon. the act of forwarding, or bringing forward the rate hike, the policy tightening, will only create more and more flattening dynamic in the market, and that will be one of our favorite trades. it has been our favorite this year and it will remain so going into 2022. rishaad: again, that ppi number yesterday is only going to feed into the inflationary hawks out there. nearly 10% up. we have not seen these levels for at least a decad

all those games the ear mentioned where you bet any loss, were you in attendance? >> no, they were all away games. >> away games okay. >> they were all away games. the nfc championship game that euros in denver, montreal game i think it was game six, we lost in montreal. in the pen state was a ball game that was new year's eve, i forget where the game was, but we lost that game as well. >> so i ask that question because if the red sox do indeed make it to the world series, are you going -- you're going to sneak off to go to one of the games? >> listen, we're gonna focus on tonight and then will see later. i'm not breaking any news here, we'll take it one inning, one game one pitch at a time. this team does seem to have something special going on, this red sox team. it does remind me of the oh seven team it reminds me of the 13 team, all seven handsome superstars, but they are playing as a team. alex correa is an amazing manager, i'm grateful he's back with the red sox, it's just a good human being, and he has them believing. in sports like anything if you believe t

i made a bet with their mayor and i had to wear a jersey. the following winter, boston college was in a bowl game and i took bc and we lost. i stopped betting. the next sport up was he patriots versus seattle. we won the super bowl. i refuse to bet. i fisa but in the atlanta game and we won the super bowl. we won a couple world series. i am not going there. >> we are over time but all those games you mentioned where you bet and loss, were you in attendance? >> no. montreal -- they were all away games. the afc championship that year was in denver. the montreal game was game six and we lost. the penn state game was a bowl game. it was new year's eve. i forget where the game was but we lost that as well. >> i asked that question because if the red sox do indeed make it to the world series, are you going to sneak off to go to one of the games? >> listen, we will focus on tonight and we will fill in later. i'm not breaking any news here. one inning, one pitch, one game at a time. >> what i hear is -- >> they do have some big special going on, thi

states are looking at it when you think about it, we say sports betting and mean more than that.an sports poker. it could mean e-sports that's the biggest opportunity if they bet on whether the next play is running a pass that's infinite scale and so much easier than to organize a professional football game to bet on and we'll start to see people on the tech side building platforms to do that or regulators understanding this is coming how should we get ahead of it. >> question for bradley tusk the venture capitalist and not the regulatory expert, what is the flood of money into startups and private companies. the spacs, the vc deals and whether it continues to hold up in an environment where despite the fact of 2021 good for stocks not so good for owneipos and sps that went public do you think that dries up some of the capital on the private side >> it should but i don't think it will. so reason being venture funds used to be relatively small dollar amounts and now funds are worth tens of billions of dollars and in order to deploy that much capital you have to write big checks th

it's inevitably coming, but what we can do is bet against it and profit from that. well, what i'd like to push back a little bit on that because one thing that everyone can do to a race, these arbitrage opportunities, where are the top 110th of one percent seem to get richer by the minute? is to insist on higher interest rates. right? because the cost of borrowing money to commit fraud and injustice is very, very low, almost 0 as we are saying. and part one of our discussion, you know, everybody progresses a, right wingers, whatever your political affiliation could come out and say we need to raise the cost of financial terrorism by raising interest rates to a normalized level of around 4 and a half to 5 percent. so that's everyone can lobby for that so that we don't have looting becoming the de facto business model of america. john. yeah, they're not going to give us that. i mean, we can, we can ask for baths, but we can't get it. but what we can do is by bunch of silver coins, or by some bitcoin or, you know, look at some d 5 companies that are profiting from the

i'm betting on newcore i'm not betting.is way, there will not be a decline in 2022 earnings. so newcore is our way to play it you can also win if it doesn't do well. ae com is a classic example of people who bought it ahead of the infrastructure and were smarter than us. they made good money a lot of the people who just wrote in that i listened to them are smarter than me. we learn from everybody. we learn from the club please join the club my daughter listened to it my daughter. yes, she listened to it. i'm very proud of that i'm proud of all the people who listened to us and proud that we have so many members of the club, and i'm proud of cramerica. thank you for sending in your thoughtful questions remember, in case you missed, in case you missed the inaugural club event, head to cnbc.com/investingclub/live to see the whole event. much more "mad money" ahead. i'm taking a closer look at the last tightening cycle so you can be prepare for whatever the fed or the media may throw at you about it then despite a rise in cpi n

they already have a tool within the shin bet. the 2 was a secret years long program to monitor telecommunications across israel and palestine. i felt really angry because i had the feeling that because we were there, like many people from the process, it happened just about this event. it's an open question whether she was forced into quarantine because the state was targeting protesters or maley, protecting citizens from a deadly disease. but civil rights campaign and say that with shin bet, doing both. nobody would know in a democracy, it can't be that there's a surveillance fate in the sense that a government contracts, certain people. this can lead to a situation where the government knows about your sexual orientation about your political orientation. and what it can do is lead to a freezing effect, the phenomenon where people don't want to go outside and do certain things, but they protest because they have a fear of being trapped after several legal challenges. the government says the shouldn't bet. surveillance has now be

that's my bet. >> ben: go ahead, ashley.e put things out online saying hey, if you have not gotten your gift or purchase by x date send us email we will send you essentially an ioo. we have to go. thanks for being here with me this morning "fox & friends" right now. >> ben: my pleasure, ashley. merry christmas to everyone at home. here is "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ ♪ rocking around the christmas tree ♪ at the christmas party hop ♪ mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop ♪ rocking around the christmas tree ♪ steve: well, if that doesn't put you in the spirit, i don't know what is going to. miley cyrus singing about the christmas tree as we look at the all-american christmas tree on fox square on this eve

one of the big bets i'm making with nike, this is a company -- i think it will be a nice segue to what that will emerge from the pandemic stronger, better positioned >> let's pivot and talk about the diy versus decorating trend. home depot has been doing well, but we are seeing things like restoration hardware starting to lag. >> it is a very fluid situation, but as i talk to our clients, you know, and, again, this might sound a little funny given today's market action, the sentiment around the market today, but clients are really looking past the pandemic. the question they're asking is, you know, how much of what we saw over the last, say, several quarters now was real, how much was purely pandemic, but mo will be the winners as the pandemic eventually fades i think from that standpoint, you know, i recently upgraded home depot i have been pausing on lowe's for a while. we took targets up on both names. i think the home improvement space, the structural underpinnings of that sector are very good here and will continue to shine even as the pandemic in this case and tailwinds fade i th

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i bet some smart people are following jim's lead and doing just that.global payments gpm this one also, a lot more volume than usual they bought about 8500 of the again, february 150 calls and in this case, the stock around the 136 level, same as abbvie, but they're buying $10 higher out of the money, and not the 140s and the 150s and that's a much more bullish outlook that they have for a pop between now and february for global payments i think that could be one of the hot sectors and we both like, jim and i the financial sector, this is one of the thintech plays gpms and i'm in this one owning at the money and i hope to sell upside calls against it. >> okay. sounds good. the committee is ready to answer your questions next. you e-mail us at ask halftime@ halftime@cnbc.com, we're back after this every day in business brings something new. so get the flexibility of the new mobile service designed for your small business. introducing comcast business mobile. you get the most reliable network with nationwide 5g included. and you can get unlimited data for

. >> i did >> i couldn't bet on it since it's a new jersey team so i didn't lose money. >> that's why we won. >> it's friday, december 10th, 2021 and "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc we're in the red we're in the red go rutgers we'll talk about that in this case but i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin u.s. equity futures this morning in the green but barely.

on some of these stocks into earnings and they were richly rewarded for that on that bet anyway. >> john, oracle has been one of those -- it's not that we don't talk about it, it's almost a $250 billion company now, a software giant but it's been the steady performer that's gone up and up it's up like 37%, i'm looking, year to date for shares of oracle there have been trades like that throughout the course of the market that have arguably rewarded and compensated investors in a way that could have at least stemmed some of the effects of the inflation we're seeing on the consumer front. you look at the inflation number we're expecting today, you look at the stock market overall, do investors have to be in the stock market just to counter the effects of inflation >> certainly if they have the money to be in the stock market and it doesn't take millions, obviously, but that's why etfs are so popular, quite frankly because a lot of folks with $1,000 to invest up to 5 or $10,000, it's difficult to trade a single share of apple and a couple of shares of microsoft and amazon and things lik

point spread in performance between the software etf and semi etf look at the five year and implicit bet on software has been built up in the market here for a while. that's the igv up 282%. obviously, the stock has outperformed mostly recently the other thing that is fascinating if you look at the individual charts of microsoft, adobe, it's the same chart it's almost been all of the mega platforms just gone up in unison and it does show you that basically that's been where the source of the impetus for the overall market look how modest the s&p 500 and this is the s&p 500 excluding the tech sector. it's a very thinly traded etf and thin benchmark of what the market would look like keep in mind this does have amazon, tesla, alphabet and doesn't have apple semis and software in it arguably a little more to be given back in terms of overall strength in mega cap software and semis. we'll see. we could have said that at any point in the last five years, carl >> mike, meantime earlier today we got word out of schwab that nu month of november the option contract and the busiest month of tradin

if you bet on energy, con graj lakzs.p performing sector, the xle up 48% in 2021, so here's the question with that momentum continue into 2022. i'll toss it over to you first do you see a setup for oil prices to continue rising higher and do you see a setup for energy to be in the strongest sector >> yeah. going back to guy's point earlier, if that two-year continues that climb, i think it's telling you about inflationary pressures and typically commodities do well in that environment specifically. again, the caveat is that i would keep an eye on that ten-year and that doesn't bode as well and we're talking ten years out at that point. so, yes, i think in the short term we had the strategic reserve release that led to the downtick and there's been supply disruptions and some of the opec nations and libya and nigeria and that has led to bullishness and when you look at uso, uso specifically, i really don't think that gives you the core that you really want so you will have to find a tertiary way or ancillary way to get exp

only 30 percent turned out for poll, open only to candidates betted for their loyalty to beijing. and in buddhist league of football, fryeburg leapfrog libra cruz and to jump in to 3rd place in the last match before the winter break. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. european states are scrambling to slow a highly contagious variant of the corona virus. the german government's new expert council has coal for tougher contact restrictions as the only cranberry it spreads . the demand comes a day after germany puts strict limits on travel from the u. k. where the variance is increasing exponentially, that says other european governments clamped down on public life to battle, or may kron, the netherlands became the 1st to impose a strict lockdown over christmas. so many across the netherlands. it's the very end that killed christmas. thanks to the highly contagious micron, the government has ordered all non essential businesses to shut till mid january christmas gatherings have also been curtailed. people will only be allowed for guests around the tree on the holid

>> so i think you've got to bet on the ecosystem, the crypto ecosystem.n something comes along to knock us into a different atmosphere, it's disruptive the internet in the late '90s. right now we think that's blockchain, that's crypto. and most people are betting on the blue chips we are too anybody can tolerate a 5% volatility in their portfolio. so if you put 5% in and it ends up not working out, you're going to be fine but it is attracting some of the brightest minds in finance when you look at the ex-president and morgan stanley, there was a platform launched called minei this is game-changing and i think it's going to disrupt the financial system naturally there's going to be naysayers. so we are investing in crypto. we're doing it thoughtfully. we want to make the right decisions an think other investors oushld too. >> thank you very much final trades next on "halftime." i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. t

essentially, they were betting that the share price would fall. if it did, they would make money.treetbets. gamestop happened to be one of the names that was most frequently shorted. they'd worked out that if gamestop�*s share price went up, hedge funds would lose money. and many users on the platform came up with a theory that went like this. if enough of us were to buy together, in conjunction, coule we create a short squeeze which would force some of these hedge funds who are betting against gamestop to close out their position by buying gamestop back, and therefore pushing the price of gamestop even higher? wallstreetbets is a forum on san francisco—based reddit, one of the biggest social media companies in the world. and watching on was its chief executive and founder, steve huffman. i've known about wallstreetbets for years. wallstreetbets is in fact one of my guilty pleasures on reddit. was there a point where you were like, "huh, this is a bigger story than i thought" ? 0n wallstreetbets, there's often a couple of stocks or companies that have their attention. and so over

but civil rights campaign and say that with shin bet, doing both. nobody would know in a democracy, can't be that there's a surveillance state in the sense that a government contracts, certain people. this can lead to a situation where the government knows about your sexual orientation about your political orientation. and what it can do is lead to a freezing effect, the phenomenon where people don't want to go outside and do certain things. let's say protests, because they have a fear of being trapped after several legal challenges. the government says the shin bet surveillance has now been scaled back, but the scandal opened at least some israeli eyes to the way palestinians are routinely monitored. i think that we finally has to fight against faith in all areas. a doesn't matter if it happened to him, and he's rarely, citizen or to someone in occupied territories. his really, really bad. this is a slippery slope act. words violating human rights in the early stages of the pandemic. other governments also experimented with electronic mass tracking

plus, a bet on the banks one options trader see the regis moving hire. details when "fast money" returns. >>> welcome back to "fast money. check out this green spot. carnival shares climbing higher. they say advanced booking and ticket prices for the second half of 2022 are levels compared to 2019. so pre-pandemic. so as covid cases explode once again is it really smooth sailing for this travel stock? guy, what i thought was remarkable was that investors -- why are you laughing investors want to believe and do believe this forecast despite what is going on right now >> yeah. well, if i want to get nauseous, i will watch some of the garbage on daytime tv. i don't need to go on a carnival cruise i think it's interesting these stocks were higher the airlines, i think it was phil, maybe jeff mentioned, they topped out march, april, and went down from there they topped out when the news was at its best in terms of the vaccines and those types of things now when the news is at its worst again, the stocks in the bottom i think that's interesting tim says it all

i don't know if we are allowed to bet, but i'll bet any of you that number will be higher before the year-ends. before the filing ends next year. now, some of the rationale why they want to retire, just been disastrous congress. what have they achieved? in the last 12 months what have they been able to do with one-party rule? for $5 trillion socialist spending bill is unpopular with the american public. in fact, it is so unpopular, you don't have to take the republicans' words for it, just look to their own conference. congresswoman laura from virginia. you know what she recently said? she admitted she even avoids bringing it up when she's back home. leadership says they just need to get out and explain it more. and she says she avoids even talking about it. house democrats now they released their calendar for next year. very exciting action taking place this week. they scheduled the least number of voting days in modern history. if you take next year and this year, it will be 202 days. that's the least amount we have been able to do in the last decade. when republicans were in the m

it is a little more uncertainty about when you want to bet on an economic kind of reacceleratio relativeo, you know, what we've been seeing. so i think it is also about if you have been concentrated in these names that are imploding right now, you probably also own some facebook, you probably also own some apple everything kind of gets sold because you are in protection mode >> joanne, remember reddit remember the time when it was all or at least it seemed like it was all about momentum and fundamentals weren't necessarily a thing? i keep hearing how much retail trading is in this market, how much margin, how much options activity it seems like if you got new retail, you've got people who aren't used to things falling that much. so given that, what do you do strategically as an investor here >> right you know, this is the first time some of these retail investors have seen serious risks in the market and pull backs, and, you know, one thing that we advise our clients, you know, and they do get worried at times like this is to remember their goals, right, staying long term and, in fact, i

is it premature to make that bet, that this is one of the most likely bets to get upended as the fedkely to disappoint, as is being commuted gated -- being communicated to us by the market? steven: there are two forces driving of the dollar. one is the inflation numbers have been much higher-than-expected. but i think the market is also underestimating the risk off factor by covid. first the threat of delta across the world, and no concerns about omicron. both of those together are very dollar positive. we expect both of them to fade over time. in the short term we are getting news and bad inflation news. once that passes, which we think will be at the end of q2, we see dollar weakness ahead, and an extended period of dollar weakness. caroline: it was interesting that we got a shout out from jay powell yesterday regarding currency hedged treasury yields. this is why the long end has been so bid, because once you hedge up the ethics risk -- the fx risk, it is still a great buy. does this change your perspective? steven: i think he was stressing that a bit too much. that is something o

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that's a gigantic leap from here gm is my auto bet and it's near the highs, but still that pe multiplelously cheap. anything to move it would be nice. >> tim, what about you which of these headlines stick out to you >> i'll jump with ford just because i'll extend what karen said first of all, the f-150 has always been an office on wheels for a good portion of the small business community of this country. it's the most popular vehicle. the software that will now allow them to do paperwork and digitize a lot of their work but at a $39 a month price tag with interactivity is to me the kind of thing that should re-rate the stock. but maybe more importantly even if it didn't have any of this, this is a company that's largely as profitable as it's been in decades. in other words, they have eradicated bad businesses and streamlined a lot of processes and dropped regions that were not making money ford at 9.2 times earnings is the story. today's announcement is about a company that's trying to strive for being more involved in their consumers' life, and they're doing it. >> nadine, does mr. mu

the future of sports betting.ions. jeff? >> i think we are going to clear the press first. >> time for the hot topic buzz. that was president biden after little exchange that you just saw facing credit. following the covid call with america's governors. white house staff, jeff, as you heard him say clearing all press members ushering them out of the room before it was over. joe concha, this was such a strange moment. >> here is an obvious statement, cheryl, joe biden is the most guarded, scripted president that we have seen in our lifetimes. you rarely take questions from peter doocy and jacqui heinrich but you will find liz cheney at mar-a-lago. joe biden has done just 16 one-on-one interviews since taking office at the same stage of donald trump's presidency, he had done more than 70 interviews and it shows and telling that this president just sits cowardly when the handlers push the press out of the room at such a crucial time when it comes to covid inflation crime, you name it. cheryl: you have to wonder if th

against a santa claus rally here it's got bad odds to bet against the rally or williams. i don't think we've heard the last of the build back better either there will be a slim moderate they'll endorse. it's washington. you've got to keep in mind that the democrats have the narrowest possible margin in the senate which means it only takes one guy to hold the whole caucus hostage. i also believe that after christmas, the port situation will be lessened making the market more palatable. oil came douwn big today i don't to say it's a bad market like it's a bad football team. lots of good draft picks and fresh coaches, a lot of luck the stock market can turn on a dime so you need to be on the lookout for stories about how the omicron strain isn't particularly damaging as long as you're vaccinated and boosted. the bottom line, as more people realize they won't have to go to the hospital or take a few days off when they get sick, assuming they've got their shots, i expect the market to be able to mount a comeback let's take som hi, jim as a two-part question given your expertis

on the financial markets, they are betting the bank of england will have to raise the official interestway. normally i think that would be _ not straightaway. normally i think that would be a _ not straightaway. normally i think that would be a green _ not straightaway. normally i think that would be a green light - not straightaway. normally i think that would be a green light to - not straightaway. normally i think that would be a green light to go. that would be a green light to go ahead and raise interest rates now, but we have all this uncertainty around the omicron variant, we don't know what is going to happen to the economy. and that is why, on balance, we think they will wait at least until february, assuming that hopefully the worst of the omicron situation is behind us by then. there is more upward inflationary pressure in the pipeline. the prices paid by manufacturers for raw materials were up by an average of 14.3%, the fastest rise since 2008. after the worst decade in two centuries for improvements in living standards, they are now once again falling. andyjoins me now. a