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Squawk on the Street

Stocks Surging, Full Speed Ahead for Tesla, Caucus Chaos

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber breakdown the morning movers as stocks rally for a second day. Investors shrugging off news of the fast-spreading coronavirus. The total number of people infected hitting 20,682. Tesla on a tear, the stock surging higher this morning after Billionaire investor Ron Baron says the company’s revenue could boom to $1 trillion in 10 years. Shares of Tesla are up 117% so far for the year. Alphabet shares sliding after beating earnings, but coming up short on revenue. The tech giant breaking out Cloud and YouTube revenue for the first time. Plus, chaos at the Iowa caucus as we’re still awaiting the results from last night’s contest.

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0:00.0

Market moving insight and analysis join Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintania, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:12.0

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kinteneo with Jim Kramer, David Faber, the New York Stock Exchange.

0:17.0

Equities are rallying all around the world as China injects another 57 billion in market

0:21.9

liquidity, offers some reassuring comments on the coronavirus impact. Tesla's parabolic action

0:26.8

continues today. Europe's up about one and a half percent. The tenure is getting close to

0:30.9

one-six and oil is rebounding after closing in a bare market on Monday. Our roadmap begins with the

0:36.2

recovery rally. Stocks are set to open sharply higher as virus fears abate.

0:40.9

China is set to take additional steps to stabilize the economy.

0:43.9

Plus Tesla shares skyrocketing, jumping another 15% this morning.

0:48.8

They're up more than 100% this year.

0:51.5

But, of course, the question, is this meteor going to come back down to Earth?

0:55.8

And the winner in Iowa is, oh man, it's on to New Hampshire a week from today as Democratic candidates remain in the dark about the timing of the Iowa caucus results.

1:05.2

We'll start with the markets. A stock set to extend yesterday's rally in a big way despite these concerns about the coronavirus.

1:11.0

Dow is on track to erase its year-to-date losses at the open gym. China says unlikely to

1:16.7

affect their phase one commitments. Who says there's no evidence of mutation and that you do need

1:23.0

close contact to contract it? Well, I do think that this is unprecedented, Madam Bundy, that China's ejected.

1:29.4

I mean, this is just the most fierce intervention I've come across.

1:33.9

But I think yesterday the CDC had a press conference, and it was a very good press conference.

1:39.9

They said a lot of things about how it's a public health matter now in our country.

1:45.6

Not really a medical matter because we've slowed it down.

1:48.9

I think they were also gleeful without saying it that the president said no more to people coming from China.

1:55.6

So that he can get their arms around it.

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