i'm dominic chu with me for the entire hour is analyst lindsay bell, also a cnbc contributor. we'll get to lindsay in a moment breaking news as u.s. stocks look to open sharply higher after a rocky day on wall street the dow falling almost 1,800 points to march in march when it fell almost 13%. you can see with the time lapse those moves. the dow is now down more than 7% at this stage. s&p down nearly 6%, nasdaq down 3% all on track to snap win streaks with the major average this week alone. yesterday, we continued to watch technology microsoft, facebook, apple, amazon, alphabet all closing sharply lower. shedding more than, get this, $269 billion in market value >> this is the nasdaq 100 etf versus the russell 2000 small term etf over the last couple of weeks, w we saw all of that create tiffity in those names and small caps and underperformance there. a trade we'll watch specifically play out today around the world, we've got red ar owes in asia overnight and mixed pictures in europe matt taylor in singapore and julianna tatelbaum in our london news room. matt, we'll begin wi

first off, lindsay bell. glad to have you in the cnbc family it is a good one >> caller: good morning. i'm so excited to be part of the family thanks for having me this morning. >> i guess, lfindsey, listen no one knows what is going on. 40 million unemployed more out of work, protests and yet the stock market continues to climb. it has jumped wall and is over the wall i need help explaining what is going on and that's why we have you. >> it sure is a head scratcher, brian. look, the stock market and the economy don't always mirror each other. this one just feels a little bit more -- it doesn't feel right. it feels more off than normal. a lot of what is driving the market has been the historic amount of stimulus the fed and the government has put towards combatting the government which has been great for risk asset like stock we are three months into the pandemic 22 million people are still out of work collecting unemployment claims we heard that yesterday. over the past two weeks, social unrest from racism h