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Squawk on the Street

April Jobs Report and Apple Combine to Spark Market Rally 5/3/24

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber covered all of the bases on Friday's stock market rally. The two main catalysts: The April employment report shows the economy created fewer jobs than expected, fueling investor hopes for a Fed rate cut. Apple shares surged as the company's Q2 earnings beat, guidance and record $110 billion share buyback program overshadowed a decline in revenue and iPhone sales. What does it all mean for big tech? Also in focus: A "Faber Report" on the Paramount deal saga, Amgen soars, earnings winners and losers, Cramer reacts to the New York Knicks eliminating the Philadelphia 76ers from the NBA Playoffs. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market insight and analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.

0:05.7

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk of the Street. I'm Carl Kenton, with Jim Kramer, David Faber, at the New York Stock Exchange.

0:12.0

Futures are soaring as the market welcomes this miss on April jobs. 175,000, some negative revisions, wages run cool.

0:20.0

Ten year is back below four and a half. And that's where

0:22.5

our roadmap again. Stock's roaring on the less than expected number. Unemployment rises a tick to

0:26.9

three nine. Plus Apple is posting a double digit drop in iPhone sales, but it did approve that

0:31.9

$110 billion buyback. That's the most ever for a public company, and it is giving the stock a boost

0:37.6

in the pre-market. And the price for Paramount, Sony, Apollo submitting what is an all-cash, $26 billion

0:43.6

offer. That includes debt, by the way, for the company. But I will bring you up to date with the

0:48.2

very latest reporting on this saga. Let's get the market reaction to this morning's jobs number, as we said,

0:55.6

175. We were looking for 240, negative revisions of about 22K. Bond market kind of sniffed this

1:01.0

one out, Jim. Yeah, it did. This is one of those moments where I think you're sitting there and saying,

1:05.8

well, think about the narrative we had on Tuesday that tomorrow, a pal's going to lower the boom and talk about how, yeah, I mean, the chances are we could have a rate hike. And he would have looked very foolish. Instead, now people are saying that he had the number. No, I don't think he had the number. It's pretty tightly kept secret. But David, when I look at this, I say to myself, all right, well, probably will get a rate cut if things get a little bit lighter

1:29.2

and that the market is very poised to have a run here, which is really amazing.

1:36.9

Well, yeah, I mean, the tenure right there tells the story, doesn't it, Jim?

1:39.8

Yeah, it sure does.

1:40.6

Falling dramatically in terms of yield as it has.

1:43.5

We were at 4-7 very recently.

1:46.0

Yeah. It's very positive. It's very positive. Yeah, it is because now we're, there's not much

1:51.2

ahead of us because we're kind of out of the big earnings period. Yeah. So if you can kind of coast on a lot

1:57.4

of stocks. That said, we're still going to continue to have this endless conversation as to how many and when in terms of rate cuts. And it doesn't appear that one is on the horizon in the nearest term. Well, let's do this. Why don't we just ban it here and just do our viewers a favor and just say, okay, look, we had unemployment and we had a Fed meeting and those are the two things that really matter. And now we're going to have to be like the Fed and be data dependent. If there's data that's in line, then we should just stop squawking about it and play. We should not be playing the parlor game of, well, so-and-so from the state of Cleveland. That's how I view it. Well, then you've just wiped out about six hours of programming a day here on CNBC.

2:34.5

We're jumping back into Fed speak tonight. When you figure out how you want to reprogram that, you let me know. Well, how about we try to make people money? It's a novel idea. Radical idea. I had draftings on last night. Story was really good. I would buy that. I had Brinker. I mean, I can't believe he's turned the corner. or Senko de Ma is a really big day for him.

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