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Closing Bell Overtime: Deputy Treasury Wally Adeyemo On Blockbuster Jobs Report; Meta Bear Laura Martin On Company’s Strong Earnings 2/2/24

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.4139 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo talks the January jobs report that blew past expectations. Another record close for the S&P 500 and Dow, notching their fourth straight positive week. Unlimited Funds’ Bob Elliott and FS Investments’ Lara Rhame break down the latest earnings and today’s blockbuster jobs report. Needham senior analyst Laura Martin, a Meta bear, reacts to the tech giant’s standout earnings report. Coursera CEO on the latest quarter.

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0:00.0

Big Tech, big gains, as the major averages finish higher on the day and for the week we've got new records for the S&P, the Dow, and the NASDAQ 100.

0:08.0

That is the scorecard on Wall Street, but the action is just getting started.

0:12.0

Welcome to Closing Bell overtime.

0:13.5

I'm Morgan Brennan with John Ford.

0:15.2

Yeah, Meta-giving Communication Services

0:17.8

a huge boost, closing up more than 4.5%

0:21.6

on that sector, the social media giant closing at a record after a huge earnings

0:26.9

beat and announcing its first ever dividend.

0:29.7

Needham's Laura Mountain remains one of the few analysts on the street with a cell rating

0:33.6

ouch on the stop coming up she's gonna defend that call yes

0:38.2

plus deputy treasury secretary Wally Adeamo joins us exclusively to discuss the better than expected jobs report inflation and so much more.

0:48.0

Bob, first let's get straight to the market action.

0:51.0

Joining us now is Unlimited Fund CEO and CIO Bob Elliot and

0:54.5

FS Investments chief US economist Laura Raim guys happy Friday Bob with a jobs report this strong and the Fed already inclined not to cut in March

1:09.6

it doesn't seem like there's anything to throw them off of that game right now.

1:15.0

The convention of wisdom, I guess would be that it's bad for bonds.

1:18.1

But is it really, like if you're holding for more than a couple weeks, a couple months, we sort of know where the direction overall is most

1:25.7

likely to go.

1:26.7

Well, that's right, but the question is what's priced into the market and we still, we've moved

1:31.0

from December where we had almost seven rate cuts over the

1:34.2

course of 24 priced in now we're closer to five which is you know movement in

1:39.3

terms of pricing out the significant rate cuts that had been priced in. But remember the Fed was at

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