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Closing Bell

Closing Bell: Stocks Soar, Inflation Easing & Legendary Value Investor Bill Miller's Top Picks 1/6/23

Closing Bell

CNBC

News, Business

4.4139 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Stocks staging a big rally after the December jobs report showed wage growth is slowing, giving investors optimism that inflation may be cooling. Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slock says this is a clear indication of a soft economic landing and should force the Federal Reserve to pause its interest rate hikes. Legendary Value Investor Bill Miller reveals his top stock picks for the new year and why he is still bullish on Bitcoin despite the collapse in cryptocurrencies following FTX's failure. Plus, the big stock he just took a larger short position in. And the CEO of Clear, which provides security screening at airports and stadiums, discusses the outlook for travel demand. 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

It is the first big rally of the year. Stocks are off to the races after today's jobs report showed wage growth slowing what it all means for the Fed and the market. This is the make or break hour for your money.

0:10.6

Welcome everyone to Closing Bell. I'm Sarah Eisen. Take a look at where we stand

0:14.0

at the highs of the day right now. The Dow is up 726 points. We got more than 2% rallies across

0:20.5

the board. Look at the Nasdaq. It's surging 2.7% bonds are rallying as well.

0:25.0

There's the 10-year note yield all the way down to 3.5.

0:29.0

Weaker wage growth on top of that ISM services number,

0:32.0

which was a big miss and showed a drop.

0:35.0

Bad news is good news when all eyes are focused on the fat.

0:39.0

It's a broad-based rally. Every sector is in the green.

0:41.0

Take a look. Materials and consumer staples are leaving the way right now, but it is across the board and technology is bouncing back strongly after a rough start to the year.

0:49.6

As I mentioned, the NASDAQ up 2.7 percent. Information technology as a sector is up more than 3%.

0:56.5

Coming up this hour, legendary value investor Bill Miller the third and his son Bill Miller

1:01.8

the fourth. Here to discuss the outlook for the market their top picks including whether they are still bullish on Amazon and Bitcoin both have been painful lately as well as their fun succession plan. Don't miss it.

1:13.0

But first up, let's head to the market dashboard.

1:15.0

Senior markets commentator, Mike Santoli,

1:18.0

what do you make of this rally?

1:19.0

It's impressive actually,

1:21.0

and it shows you the amount of energy that got built up with

1:23.8

this real sideways tight coiled pattern that we had for a last few weeks

1:27.7

been pointing that out right around 3,800 the market had refused really to buckle

1:31.7

below that level.

1:33.2

That goes all the way back to mid-May of last year

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