paul hickey saying last hour it is a positive sign crude with a volatile session after the more than% jump yesterday. seeing it consolidate it here. wti up around $104 a barrel. first weekly loss since 2021 snap and pinterest and meta and twitter up more than 15% this week and chinese internet names continuing the climb they're all up more than 30% this week including the moves midweek. and the online retailer etf up 12% this week for its own best performance since april of 2020? ty >> despite the move lower the dow and s&p on pace for their biggest weekly gains since november of 2020 so is the all-clear for investors? next guest says, no. there's a leg down to bring a buying opportunity as investors sell everything no matter what the fundamentals sort of classic washout. joining us is greg branch, a cnbc contributor you say that all the good news for 2022 is in the market right now and that the optimism is misguided. why so blue, my friend >> look. i certainly think that we are pricing in a best-case scenario. this rally is built on the sentiment that things are improving in the rus

tech near the bottom of the pack let's bring in paul hickey i was going to ask you just how strong thebut we break the streak today first down day for the dow in six. it has been a better tone. we are off the lows, so what have you noticed >> i mean, we're up in the last hour right now here. we're up -- i'll get to it in a second, but the rally last week as you were discussing, has been almost a dash for trash, and you have it there in the headline. what we have seen is the lowest quality stocks have seeb the biggest rallies off the lows and you know, there's not that much you can read into it, as you have discussed a lot, that can be a dead cat rally or the beginning of a meaningful bounce but what we have seen is in the last hour strength, four days last week in a row, we were up 33 basis points or more in the last hour of trading and based on where we are right now, it will come down to the close, but today could be the fifth straight day where you have seen 33 basis points or more in the last hour of trading that may not sound like a lot, but the four days is already the longest st

. >> let's bring in paul hickey from the spoke paul, you track the history of all of these moves a 20hing of that nature what typically happens we're seeing the pop now then what >> i think you got a pop short-term like you see here you don't have to look back more than a month when google announced, alphabet announced, recently, you saw part of it was a pop on that and then the stock has done nothing since then i wouldn't read too much about it amazon, you know, it's a name we like, for the long-term. but we wouldn't use this as any reason by any stretch to buy the stock. nor would we ever use a stock announcement as a reason to become incrementally more positive on the stock. especially nowadays brokers allow you to buy fractional shares, so it is even less important. >> yeah, i mean, it's interesting, because this is a company which -- this is not its first stock split. if you go back to the year after it became public in the late 90s there were a couple of splits when it was much more routine, companies didn't want to have a four-digit stock price for practical reasons and cost of

instant analysis of earnings from salesforce, sofi, and efrbl others first, nancy tengler with us paul hickeyip? we have real dip buying in last week, and now with oil prices surging anew, treasury yields falling, signaling potentially slower growth ahead, what does an investor do >> you summed it up in the beginning. wild swings. that's what we have been seeing all year, for that matter. nasdaq 100, 1% intraday moves every day this year. that's the longest since april 2020 you have today was the first day actually since february 18th where the nasdaq 100 wasn't up and down half of a percent at some point during the trading day. we had these wild swings, and rather than make a stand, i think investors rather than make a stand, use some of these extreme opportunities, these extreme moves to take advantage of some opportunities. so like what you're seeing now in the last couple days, or the last couple weeks is energy and defense stocks have really gotten ahead of themselves those may be areas where you want to lighten up or not chase. and then on the other side of the spectrum, you have the se

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