Program:  Cavuto Coast to Coast
Date:  5/4/2021
Station:  Fox Business News
Time:  12:00PM

NEIL CAVUTO: Meanwhile, do want to draw your attention. We are showing the Nasdaq for a reason, down three hundred forty-five points right now, led by big declines in the likes of Amazon and Microsoft and Alphabet and a host of others. The heavyweights that were leading the parade are now leading the exit from the parade for now. Scott Martin, Kingsview Asset Management. We’ve got Jack Macintyre, Brandywine Global Portfolio Manager. Scott, to you first off, If I had a dime for every time I’ve seen the Great Correction and ensue technology stocks and titans. I’d have a lot of dimes right there. So the latest argument is they’re coming back to Earth because interest rates are rising. Capital gains taxes could be rising. A good excuse to sell these high flyers while you still can make some money. So is this time any different from some of the prior.

SCOTT MARTIN: Yeah, and you could have made a few dimes plus, Neil, if you actually bought into those corrections and actually tried to avoid the fear trade that was out there in the selling and actually take advantage of lower prices. Look, these tech stocks, these high flyers, these momentum plays don’t like the notion of higher interest rates. We’ve learned that a lot this year. Here’s the one discouraging thing, though, Neil. The companies you mentioned earlier on, the Apples, the Googles, the Microsoft, the Amazons, all had blowout earnings of recent notes the last couple of weeks or so. Some of the earnings reports that these companies had were amazing. And the company stocks have not gone up since they went up for like a day after and then pulled back considerably in some cases since that’s a little discouraging from the standpoint of what the market was expecting, what the market got and what we’re seeing from the stock prices themselves.

CAVUTO: You know, maybe adding some soul to the selling wound today, Jack, was this news out of Janet Yellen at this Atlantic conference in which she said that rates would have to raise somewhat to keep the economy from overheating? I don’t think she said anything that the average market watchers would be stunned by, but maybe coming as it does a week after we heard from the Fed chairman, the president, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, say that that was unlikely. I’m wondering what’s going on here. What do you think?

JACK MCINTYRE: So, you know, we’ve had rates move up pretty significantly since August of last year than in February and March, the long rates really started accelerate. So, you know that I think that’s sort of reflective. Neil, one of the things I think might be going on as we get into twenty twenty-one, you know, markets are forward-looking. They’re going to start looking at twenty twenty-two. Hey, we’re we’re probably at peak economic growth, peak earnings growth, you know, and certainly a peak fiscal stimulus. So I don’t know. And I’m again, I’m not trying to pick a top in the market, but I just to me, it kind of makes sense that we start to see maybe a little bit more two-way flows in certain sectors. And tech is certainly one of those.

CAVUTO: Yeah, you know, it’s hard to glean trends in a market like this, but it’s one that bears watching and we’ll keep watching it Scott and Jack, thank you both very, very much.