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Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Quintanier with Deirdreboza and John Ford. Today, our tech stocks cheap and still not worth buying ahead of the Fed the

investor debate over evaluations at these prices. One example might be Chegg and the difficulty

of catching a falling knife was down 70% a pandemic darling now down

another 40 cratering after poor guidance the CEO is going to join us this hour and

then new this morning some bearish comments from a few investing

titans. Ray Dahlia warns that even though tech valuations have come in,

still not a good time to get long equities. While Paul Tudor Jones said this this morning on Squawk.

You can't think of a worse macro environment than where we are right now. Clearly still some market anxiety at these levels and John we continue to turn to

analogs that we have in the recent past like the dot-com bust where the

NASDAQ had a similar fall to this one but then continued to tumble in the

next couple of years. Yeah you know right here I was asking Lo Toni

yesterday whether this was a historic

opportunity not to buy anything and and so many of the CEOs that I'm talking to

both on the sort of large large cap side and smaller startup companies.

They've got a siege mentality, but some feel like they're inside the walls being laid

siege too.

Some feel like they're outside the walls.

And it's a question of resources

and business health do they have enough resources to tough out a perhaps

extended difficult time when it might be difficult to raise funding sure from the public markets but even in the

private markets as some of these venture capital investors start to be choosier about who they

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