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Squawk on the Street

Morning After the Worst Day for Stocks in '23, Fed's Bullard Speaks, Intel Slashes Dividend 02/22/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber engaged in wide-ranging discussions about what's next for the markets after Tuesday's sell-off, which resulted in the worst day for stocks so far this year. Cramer outlined six things that must happen before he can declare an end to the sell-off. The anchors also reacted to pre-market comments that St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard made to CNBC about rate hikes, inflation and the markets overpricing the chances of a recession. Also in focus: Intel slashes its quarterly dividend by 66%, Baidu doubles profits and ramps up its AI bot strategy, Regulators in Beijing reportedly told Chinese tech giants not to offer ChatGPT services, Palo Alto Networks surges on earnings, plus what to expect from Nvidia's quarterly results after the close of Wednesday's trading.

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC Squawk on the Street. Don't miss a minute of the action. Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Canton-A. with Jim Kramer, David Faber at the New York Stock Exchange. Looking for some stabilization today after the biggest sell-off since mid-December. Jim Bullard on Squawk, arguably not as hawkish as some may have feared. Yields are lower

0:21.5

ahead of Fed Minutes this afternoon. Our roadmap's going to begin with stocks struggling to

0:25.2

bounce after the worst trading day in two months. Bullard does say markets are overpricing

0:29.8

recession risk. Plus Intel's rare move, it is cutting its dividend by 66%, although it is backing

0:36.8

its prior earnings guidance.

0:39.8

And China's AI warning regulators seeking to rein in AI chat boss, reportedly telling tech giants in the country don't offer public access to chat GPT.

0:49.8

Let's begin with the markets, though, after yesterday's sell-off gym, reflections on that.

0:54.0

And the argument that some made that volume, if you were really worrisome, would have been a little bigger than it was.

0:59.7

Yeah, look, I think we're the cat mice game.

1:02.9

The cat of the bonds, as interest rates went higher, there's just selling, selling, selling.

1:09.0

But it seemed like very future selling, not common stock selling.

1:12.0

So I didn't think that there was that much to it.

1:15.7

Today, really unbelievable appearance by Mr. Bullard.

1:21.2

Calm, not throwing bombs, making sense.

1:26.5

Therefore, completely the opposite, David, of everything I ever hear. Everything you've

1:30.2

ever heard from who? Well, from everybody. I mean, the guy didn't say we're about to ever say,

1:35.7

things aren't falling off of Cleveland. He didn't like sound the alarm. He didn't speak like a hedge fund

1:39.7

manager telling you to short everything or get out now. He offered what I regard as genuine homespun wisdom.

1:45.9

Okay, okay.

1:47.1

Well, his projection has rates hitting 5.375%,

1:50.3

not to put too fine a point on it.

1:53.1

That's kind of where a lot of, in the last couple of weeks,

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