Firmly in the red here nasdaq is up 104 . Up 3 this week alone. Only tuesday coming up on todays show kraft is trading higher. Of they outline two billion in cost cuts and selling off part of the cheese business not all of the cheese business and some confusion as to which cheeses go and which stay. Well find out why the companys president about those moves will join us to discuss whether lack of fresh stimulus can impact and speaking of stimulus, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us and his article calling for more than 2 trillion in government spending. We begin with breaking news on apple. It is much anticipated event unveiling a new number of products we have the latest josh so a lot of news in that 60 minutes of apples show today. Start with the new hardware. That new ipad air. It is going to start at 599 available next month 10. 9 inch display with a huge boost in performance we know the ipad is a hardware line clearly benefitting from that work from home trend apple w
Here believe it or not, maybe your stat of the day, 164 of the s p 500 are actually higher now year over year for all the market damage over the past year. A good chunk of the market still remains higher we have a great Investment Committee lined up for you again today. That would be guy adami, and karen finerman, who will join us in a bit let us begin the show by focusing on four big mac row calls today from well known firms, all kind of saying the same thing are you ready, folks lets walk you through it, number one, goldman sachss, the market urn likely to make new lows morgan stanley, pull backs should be bought jpmorgan chase, were going to hit all time highs in the market next year. Piper stanley being more direct. The bear market has concluded. There you go guy adami, you heard that, you have four calls all saying the same thing, its not taken away from main street and the human toll we understand we are focused on the markets. Do you agree with those pretty optimistic views no,
A far better measure is the ten Million People who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. Fed governor lockhart just told maria the jobless rate is already more like 10 . Clearly, we are in an employment crisis, and another report that comes up at 10 00 eastern will likely show the Services Sector in collapse. Thats a strong word to use but its accurate. Later this hour, we are going to talk to larry kudlow, the president s chief economic adviser. I will ask him how bad is it and he will spell it out. Look, with nearly 300 million americans under a stayathome order, the economy is shut down. Morgan stanley says that between now and june, the economy will shrink by 38 . That would be a depression, the likes of which we have not seen before. Travel, shut down. At the airport tsa checkpoints, they are processing two million fewer passengers every day. Thats down 93 from a year ago. Those flights that do take off, virtually empty. Public transit ridership, down 75 . Commuters ju
Cuts so futures are pointing to further declines despite the jobs growth today, smashing expectations for february. The economy added 273,000 jobs during the month, versus the expected 175 Unemployment Rate 3. 5. Wall street looking to close out a turbulent week, the tenyear did tumble below 70 basis points for the first time ever, as investors look for safety amid fears. Revisions on the jobs number not bad but people are calling it the least important jobs number in a long time i dont want to go there. Im going to say the opposite. When you come in with a head of steam, at least you got some possibilities that were not going to go immediately into the recession because there were you dont hire and then lay them off the next day the 53,000 jobs in Food Services and drinking places, thats an extraordinary number are we going to fire all those people interesting. Not right away. Not right away. But there seems to be a growing belief that we are going to have a recession. Right but im sa
Governments around the world pump cash into the Financial System the president promised a large stimulus package, including direct payments to every american and boeing and u. S. Airlines, a Financial Aid package for billions of dollars as the treasury secretary called the situation worse than 9 11. Steve liesman has the latest from the fed Kayla Tausche is tracking the fed response from washington much more from her as you just heard. Lets start with you, mike, on the key market levels. We just bounced off a key market level, wilf s p 500. We closed yesterday about 1 above that december 2018 closing low about 2351 we spent very little time under the 2500 level now what this is, i would call it a very modest bounce, given the destruction that we saw in recent days. I think you can make the can case between thursday to monday you had a multistage capitulation process we should be bouncing on a tuesday after a washout monday right now looks okay but not so decisive were down 30 from the