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Closing Bell

Closing Bell Overtime: Rebound Ahead? 5/2/22

Closing Bell

CNBC

Business, News

4.4141 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Stocks rebounded in a late-day rally and the Nasdaq Composite closed near session highs. Bearish strategist Eric Johnston from Cantor Fitzgerald explains why he just turned “tactically bullish” for the short-term. Plus, Tom Lee from Fundstrat Global Advisors says the FAANG trade is a “no-brainer.” And, Michael Santoli’s “Last Word” was “normal.” Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to overtime. I'm Scott Walkney. You just heard the bells. We of course right here

0:03.2

post nine just getting started in just a little bit. I'll be joined right here at post nine by

0:07.5

funstrats Tom Lee. A new month beginning for your money. It's gotten off to a volatile start, an interesting turn into the

0:14.0

close today. Does it mean more pain is ahead or a stock's closer to a bottom? We were

0:18.0

going to ask Tom and he's going to tell us. We begin though with our talk of the

0:21.4

tape. A big call by someone who's gotten this market repeatedly right

0:25.3

Cander Fitzgerald Eric Johnston who now says he is turning tactically bullish on stocks he's come here to post nine to make his case. It's good to see you.

0:34.4

You were coming here to make the case before we had this nice move off of the bottom

0:38.0

today. Why is today the day that you say is time to get more bullish?

0:41.4

So we have the Fed meeting on Wednesday and we think that's time to get more bullish. So we have the Fed meeting on Wednesday,

0:44.2

and we think that's going to be a clearing event for markets.

0:48.1

If you look at the Fed since the last meeting,

0:50.9

financial conditions have tightened sharply since then.

0:54.2

The 10 years gone from 2.15% to 3%, equities are down 5%, the dollars rallied 5%.

1:00.4

So with financial conditionings tightening as they are, we think the Fed is going to be slightly more dovish

1:06.0

than the market is expecting and we're going to have the event behind.

1:10.0

In addition to that sentiment in positioning right now is at extreme low levels.

1:14.8

You have hedge fund net exposures at a year and a half lows,

1:18.0

CTAs are net short, and a lot of these sentiment readings are at 10 to 15 year lows and the data that we've

1:24.7

run suggests that over the next three to four weeks we are going to see a fairly sharp

1:28.8

rally off of that.

1:29.8

Okay so the reason you pay attention to what he said I mean anybody can show up and make a call.

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