Ahead on todays show, fashion in the time of coronavirus. Well speak to anna wintour about vogues new partnership with amazon on a Digital Store front. Plus we will speak to truist ceo about his efforts now for Coronavirus Relief lets focus in on the stories we are watching Steve Liesman with the highlights from the fed minutes. Just released in the last hour and oliver chen is with us to talk about retail earnings and the big box names he likes so far. Michael, start it off with you what stands out . Yeah. The market just bobbed right back up from that lateday selloff yesterday. In fact, the low for today in the s p 500 hit about three or four times was yesterdays high. So it seems as if, you know, big money investors continue to behave in a way that suggests they feel underexposed to stocks if theyre not going to pull back a lot weve been talking a lot about this rotation theme. You have small caps up a lot and fin tech and financial all were really doing is stretching the upside of
Saying it will reopen 100 stores in the u. S. This week and progress on the vaccine front with heavy hitters stepping in which well have much more on. We will and not just are we excited about the new package there, the music is exciting i had seen the graphic, but i add not heard this music they should just playing through the whole hour to keep people on their toes very dynamic and thanks to the team for making it work. 59 minutes left of the show and big guests to come a huge exclusive with the ceo of merck. Ken frazier. Hell join us as they lay out their strategy to battle the coronavirus. Plus, mt. Sinai teaming one a slew of companies to support front line workers well speak with the ceo and ceo of pinterest. Mike is drilling down on the action meg is tracking progress on the vaccine front and wilfred has new comments from jamie dimon, but mike, first to you on this Broader Market and take ussen inside what are you seeing . Yes, obviously have broken above these levels everybody
Because there is some, not a lot but some cautious optimism starting to trickle out around both the markets because they ended their day and they ended their week higher as well. Perhaps some hope on the horizon about america getting healthy and getting working again. But tim seymour with 22 million filing for jobless benefits in just the last three weeks wiping out a decade of job gains, no doubt some very hard Economic Times for millions of people still to come. Is there really any good reason for markets to be rising like they have been i think its a liquidity squeeze. Its been a skepticism trade that has squeezed markets higher it has been a combination of the Federal Reserve expanding its Balance Sheet to 6. 1 trillion. Its been all of this well ahead of the recession frankly its been a dynamic where i think the positioning of markets allowed markets to push on higher it doesnt change from where we are but obviously we started all this on covid19 as weve gotten more clarity on cov
But the bond proxies are back and they are big, the car sector an similar stories like that are selling off. German tenyear yields catching more of a bid. Something i want to highlight this afternoon is we are seeing emergingmarket currencies being sold off, including the russian ruble and the south korean south american rant. South african rand. For a bloomberg scoop, sources saying Chinese Stateowned entities are in talks to invest 5 billion to 10 billion in aramcos ipo. This comes as saudi arabia seeks commitment from friendlier governments to shore up the sale. We are joined now by our bloomberg reporter. How much is this impacting u. S. Markets and analyst today who might be interested in the ongoing deal . We knew this was going to get attention from a lot of the big sovereign wealth funds, they were going to be the folks to put their money behind it. This is a huge deal for china. Most people want to wait to see what kind of dividends saudi aramco is going to have. They have com
Trade impact on the economy. Lets look whats driving the action britain and the eu coming to a brexit deal although Boris Johnson still needs to win a vote back at home. U. S. And turkey agreed to a ceasefire in syria and despite ibm the overall earnings picture remains strong with beat from netflix and Morgan Stanley leading the market hire. Were happy to have stephanie link here. I know youre pretty upbeat. So far so good. There have been good reports from csx, from honeywell, from United Airlines jpmorgan, Morgan Stanley. Those have been rewarded also other earnings that have just been good enough. United rentals we talk about positioning, people are not positioned in industrials or health care those two sectors are leading the market today is that why we are where we are. People have your view earnings are good enough . Some are good enough but some are good the best earnings picture was johnson johnson. We also had a lot of health care you entitle e United Health expectations if t