Suffering a record drop. Earning season is in full swing. Pharmaceutical giant merck topping estimates but cutting its guidance as the coronavirus pushes the rest of its portfolio to the sideline. The ceo ken frazier will join us for an exclusive interview in just a few moments kelly. Looking forward to that. Health care and tech are two of the stock sectors leading stocks lower today. Lets get to bob with a lot more for us just the fact were up three points on the s p is remarkable. This is the second day in a row this has happened. I cant remember when but were down 1 or 2 on all the big names. Microsoft and apple, google and amazon look at all those stocks down. The s p is still up 3 the reason were up is because banks and industrials have helped out today look at these industrials. 3m is seeing growth in some of the safety the blue angels just flew over theres a big roar outside pepsi, xerox, u. P. S. , Harley Davidson withdrawing guidance. Here is a list of the companies withdrawi
Which will hit in b about an hours time. The s p up by just three basis points coming up on todays show, former National Economic council dr director, gary kohn, will join us about reopening the the economy. The debate over funding for states and the Small Business ppp funding. Plus, a flood of big name earnings set to hit this afternoon including as you mentioned, alphabet. Starbucks, ford, am well also speak with the ceo after his Company Reports earnings, what consumers are doing and how much theyre snacking around the world. Lets focus on one hour of trade. Mike is tracking the Market Action in whats shaped up for a volatile day meg has Quarterly Results from big pharma names mike, start us off with the brorder market of what you seeing some pretty strong opposing currents holding the index in a steady mode. Look at the s p 500. This goes back a couple o years because i want to point out the areas that were encountering with this rally. Here we are around 2880. That takes us back t
Any moment. I want to bring in our Bloomberg Markets reporter, taylor riggs. Walk us through the equity markets. Pricing seemed to deteriorate toward the close. Taylor so much volatility today, on days you would typically see from earnings. Companies reporting like caterpillar, 3m, really thinking that the worst is not as bad as it seems. All of that, like you mentioned, really deteriorating into the close. A lot of that had to do with Consumer Confidence data, showing that levels are down to the lowest since 2014. The russell 2000, 1 of the bright spots in an otherwise pretty negative day. Continued talks about states separating from the federal government and trying to reopen on their own time, a lot of these smallcap stocks are the performers today as we continue to get these talks about reopening the economy. Crude is another big story we are following today. All over the place today. Positive, negative, positive territory. About 3 act ending up higher or so. You did have some nega
The coronavirus outbreak. This is a group of experts are outbreak could go on for another two years and wont be contained until 2 3 of population is immune. Joining us to break down the day wall as at least on street, taylor riggs has been digs into the markets for us. Tailor, a rough day, there were so many signs of hope this week . Felt like a mood shift this morning, emily, we woke up, a sentiment had been negative. As you remember, 30 after we bottomed out on the lows on 23. H there could have been some rofit taking here as well as some concerns continuing about the economy. We got news in the past few days overnights that trump was considering floating around some ideas of how to punish china for for the handle of the virus, for shutting down a lot of the doctors back in december who were really trying to warn this. Some of those renewed tensions some of the ng debt, thats very far stretched according to some of the to, ysts that im speaking but another option to be tariffs. Now t
Justh to reopen california today taking smaller steps to ease its lockdown later this week. The first state to shut down its in our lets bring Bloomberg Markets reporter, taylor riggs. Why did tech outperform the rest today . Taylor a lot of the optimism new yorkn newsom, from governor andrew cuomo, seemed to turn that around in the final hour of trading. , all of theoned direction today. Fangs,daq along with the the peak out performers. Microsoft, amazon, apple leading those gains. Needp hearing that you that leadership for this rally. Emily Warren Buffett seemed to be driving a lot of the pessimism, saying he got out of airlines entirely. Walk us through how his remarks may have played out today. Since down the lowest september of 2013. Warren buffett said he would rather take losses in those positions. He said, the airline business, and i hope i am wrong, and i may be wrong, but it has changed in a major way. He said the future is much clearer to me. 137ew his cash pile to billion.