I wanted to point to the mexican peso. Has not moved much today but we are keeping an eye on the earthquake that struck the country. Now lets get a status report on the credit markets. 13 u. S. Companies sought bankruptcy parks section protection last week. It comes even with the intervention of the fed which has injected liquidity across the markets and given borrowers. For more insight, lets bring in srikanth sankaran. The last time we spoke, we were already seeing a calming in the credit markets. Where do we go from here now that the fed has backstopped entire curve in the credit market . Srikanth our thesis over the next 12 months is we get a grind tighter with respect to spreads. Our call is for credit markets to deliver positive exit returns across investmentgrade and highyield markets. Effectively, you want to be more selective, but at the end of the day, this is an environment where you have to look at rerisking portfolios in times of weakness rather than missing out when the m
With phase two of the reopening plan the top new york state Real Estate Broker will tell us what she is seeing on the ground and 30 or 40 stories up. Power lunch starts right now. We are about even on the advance decline line but its Technology Stocks to keep powering those names, particularly in the top 25 let me show you sectors here thats essentially at a historic high. Quibble about it. Also having a great time that smh the second one there but Everything Else is kind of lagging so even cyclicals like industrials and banks, even defensive sectors Like Health Care and Consumer Staples they are lagging the big cap Technology Stocks. We have new highs as you heard there at the top but a lot of it is basically mega cap stuff at new highs. Apple is at a high new microsoft, adobe nvidia these are all of the top 25 in terms of market cap. All of them well over 200 billion in market cap at new highs. The big market cap they drag the rest of the indexes along with them they are saying walma
Do this week at least not right away but we very much know what nvidia is doing right now nothing artificial about this intelligence the company is kicking off a big conference in california today and word is not only showcasing the a. I. In advance but a supersecret superpowerful series of new chips that could be a game changer grade for nvidia stock but not as great as it was this morning and Tech Companies from computer to alphabet even with todays bumpy ride are soaring even more. Working to get into the details time for tim anderson to spell out geek speak, what you make of the nvidia news in the Technology News bumpy and crazy ride today i dont understand the reason of that but i understand the intention of what its announcing. What do you think. I think we have to think back 5 10 years ago when Apple Developers Conference Room got tremendous amount of attention and definitely had market impact, apple has been much more of a mature product line and nvidia is all the rage and you
President biden. In it they describe biden as being sharp, fit and having striking stamina. Okay. Were going to take that one on. Meanwhile, former twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey endorsed robert f. Kennedy jr. And he wants to see primary debates and guess what hes predicting that kennedy will win the race. Well talk about that. Former fbi director james comey bashing President Trump and proving people are right to be concerned about partnership in our government agencies. Comey claims trump could be wearing an ankle monitor while accepting the gop nomination. Well tell you what he said also about biden. Lets take a look at oil. Big story this morning, jumping after saudi arabia Cutting Oil Production by a Million Barrels a day. That could mean of course higher prices at the gas bump, Oil Moving Higher there it is up 2. 5 . Lets take a look at the futures as the trading week kicks off with a nice rally at the end of last week. Today its all very muted a mixed bag the dow slightly down, s p sli
Thats what im beginning to believe as i survey the sometimes massive destruction in stock prices that weve experienced in march and april. Of course we have a glorious lack of big picture economic information, getting some weaker labor numbers last week that could put the if hefed on a cout interest rates. Weve got a couple of fed officials lurking around, waiting to speak in public. Theres some Consumer Confidence along the way. Not to mention worries about disneys number. When you look at the survey, dow gaining 107 points, s p jumping, nasdaq jumping 1. 9 . You know we have moved on to an after math of a vicious selloff. A decline here might be occasion to bye bye bye. In other words, maybe the worst is behind us. Lets take the quintessential stock of the new year, lets take nvidia. I want you to think of the nvidia ark, it started on march 8th. Thats when it peaked and we got a strong report. Whats happened since then. Nvidia introduced incredibly revolutionary chip called blackwel