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Closing Bell

Closing Bell Overtime: Howard Lutnick On Why He’s Expecting One Cut This Year; DoorDash CFO On The Quarter & Consumer Spending 5/1/24

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.4139 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Fed and Jerome Powell kicking May off with a bang for markets, as the rally during his press conference proved short-lived; the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gave up their gains by the end of the session. Jefferies Chief Market Strategist David Zervos and G Squared Private Wealth’s Victoria Greene parse the Fed’s actions and the market reaction. Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick gives his first reaction to the Fed and tells why he is expecting one cut this year. Earnings from Qualcomm, Wolfspeed, Doordash, Etsy, eBay, Zillow, Carvana and Informatica. DoorDash CFO Ravi Inukonda on his company’s results.

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0:00.0

Well it was a bullish reaction initially to Fed Chair Powell's words but those

0:06.0

gains fading fast into the close as the S&P ends lower at the highs it was up

0:11.0

1.2% today that is the scorecard on Wall Street but the action is just

0:15.6

getting started welcome to closing bell overtime I'm Morgan Brennan with John Fort

0:19.6

yeah we have got another jam-packed hour of earnings heading your way, including results from

0:23.9

Qualcomm, Door Dash, Etsy, Zillow, and more.

0:26.6

Plus billionaire businessman and Cantor Fitzgerald, CEO and Chair Howard Lutnik joins us with his first

0:32.4

take on the Fed and when he thinks cuts could be coming and so much more.

0:37.0

But let's get straight to the market and that reaction to the Fed.

0:40.6

Joining us now, David Serbos of Jeffries, Victoria Green from G-squared, private wealth.

0:45.0

What an afternoon of trading it was.

0:47.0

David, I mean the Dow still eked out again here, but the S&P of NASDAQ after a big pop in the midst of that pal presser finishing the day lower.

0:56.3

Doveish here?

0:58.3

Or when you start to look below the hood and at some of the specific words that the Fed Chair was using including about

1:04.4

the signals from data was this really more down the middle. I actually think it

1:10.0

was quite dovish. I think the market's initial reaction was actually correct. I'm not

1:15.2

exactly sure why the market got a little cold feet at the end of the day. Maybe we'll

1:18.3

see something else that comes in. But I think from the Fed's perspective, this was a dovish move, it was a dovish policy move,

1:25.5

with a dovish statement and a dovish press conference.

1:28.0

The rave markets seemed to embrace that story, maybe a little bit more than the risk asset

1:32.3

markets.

1:33.2

There was definitely a lot of fear that he might go down a Bowman-type path and talk about the

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