To get into longterm investments and later on, a staggering stat that youve got to hear around netflix that stock continues to be bought as we all binge watch tv. We are going to get to all of that, but weve got to get to breaking news that is important on the virus, and it is also moving the market after hours. Gilead sciences shares they are surging on some very promising drug news. Lets get right now to meg tirrell with more on this big story. Meg . Hi, brian this is breaking news from stat news basically, they got a glimpse from one of the hospitals thats running remdesivir at the university of chicago. Essentially what they saw in video communication with the faculty members there is on the report of the Clinical Trial it sounds like the patients according to them are making rapid recoveries at least in terms of their fever and respiratory symptoms and reported nearly all patients discharged in less than a week this is not controlled Clinical Trial data and we expect to see the fi
Discussing just that, an early return to work. 9 40 eastern time today on this program. There is outrage at Speaker Pelosi loading up the stimulus package with a host of items unrelated to supporting workers and industries. For example, canceling post office debt, the return of obama phones, same day voter registration, 35 million for the Kennedy Center for performing arts. What has all that got to do with getting money to people who have just lost their jobs, millions of workers thrown out of a job. However, treasury secretary mnuchin and senator schumer did meet last night, and they suggested that a 2 trillion rescue package, stimulus package, is close. Well see. All this has given the market a shot in the arm. For much of the morning, we have been limit up for the dow jones average and at the opening bell, the dow will be up, what, 900 points, maybe more when the restrictions of the limits on trading are off. S p, nasdaq also up 4 , 5 . Clearly, investors like the 2 trillion rescue
And say the market is reaching extremes of being oversold theres been signs of internal panic and we were set up for at least some kind of snapback. A couple caveats there, we did have a couple tuesday rallies of 5 and 6 the past couple weeks that did not arrest the downtrend. One thing you can hang a little bit of weight on right now is the fact that over the past several days youve been able to look below the surface of the indexes and see more differentiation, separating winners from losers and a little more stock picking and less indiscriminate selling all sets us up for a good bounce on obviously expectations of policy traction that were getting from the fed and congress likely. All that seems to say its a bounce, a very strong one, its an overdue one will it carry on to anything i dont know that we can say for sure, but i like to say every bottom start with a bounce, not every bounce becomes a bottom. In the meantime just i think to put your point into one phrase, its turnaround
Record that we saw back during the financial crisis of 2000, march of 2009. Jim, stunning though the number is, of course, we also have the stimulus or socalled lets call it more of a recovery act making its way through the congress the house set to act shortly on it were going to be joined by the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, about 15 minutes from now to discuss that. And so many other things in the economy. What is at the fore of your thinking as we get started with trading a half hour frau noum . The gap we have 3. 2 million that file claims obviously, money comes for them, but i want to know date that the check is in the mail how it comes, how you get it, will it make it so that Small Business stays alive medium sized business stays alive, and is it enough to keep them alive for the pandemic . Is it one month, two months . How long does the 2 trillion last because this number is so big, and i dont think its peaking we have to be sure the American People themselves dont have r
And global names are all taking it on the chin. The market itself is down close to 40 from highs reached a little more than a month ago. And this is feeding on itself. Now, the excuse de jure seems to be the fact that the senate could not cobble together a rescue package late last night. 2 trilliondollar package, democrats say was tilted too much towards businesses. Now theyre scrambling again to come up with something that might be more mutually acceptable. Questions whether it is too little too late. If you consider the 3 1 2 to 4 trillion that the Federal Reserve has provided through everything from cutting Interest Rates down to essentially zero to buying mortgagebacked securities, buying corporate paper, buying anything that they can get their who little hands on to get the cash in the system, that is what it is all about, get cash in the system so people dont feel theyre frozen out, or there is no money available, you hear a lot about this quest for liquidity. Liquidity, my frien