Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices besides tech, and they were starting to feel comfortable w
Losses early in the session after the ceo of russias Sovereign Wealth Fund told cnbc and moscow and saudi arabia are very close to an oil deal. Wti and brent are both coming off their best week on record. Not recent records on records ever all the way back to 1983 when they started tracking wti last week wti was up by 31. 7 . Up by 12 on friday alone. A meeting of Major Oil Producing Countries was delayed but still expected later this week that news just being told to cnbc that it looks like they are close to a deal. Andrew, ill send it over to you. Meantime, the latest on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases worldwide now totaling more than 1. 2 million. More than 330,000 of those are right here in the United States and more than a third of the u. S. Cases are in new york state. The death toll in america standing at more than 9600 overseas, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests a spokesman called it a precautionary test the Prime Minister test
Italy overtakes china as the country with the most coronavirus deaths in the world. Gains in france and spain. Removing the red tape in america. President trump says he is working to speed up approval for treatments as teva rushes to bring a malaria drug to patients. California orders its residents to stay home. Rush hour refuses to submit to saudi arabias Oil Production plan. The kremlin sees riyadhs move as blackmail. Is there more turmoil ahead . Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look at futures. We are seeing some decent gains in european futures, Even Stronger than what we see in the u. S. You can see euro stoxx 50 futures up 50 , as of the futures for dax. Take a look at u. S. Futures. More than 2 gains with nasdaq futures up 3 . If you take a look at the big drops during the recent crisis, the nasdaq has fared far better than the s p and the dow jones. Today looks like it will do better in terms of gains as w
S p and fitch approve their assessment of the u. K. s Credit Outlook, but the pound continues to slide as fears of a Nodeal Brexit mount. Fedex in freefall. The carrier cut its profit forecast for the second straight quarter. Deutsche bank called the results rest taking lee bad breathtakingly bad. A 5050 merger. Of course, one is buying. The others. We will sort out which. They will sell some of their steak but not all in peugeot. Lets get more on that major socalled merger with milan. Ureau chief tommaso i know that pr wants us to believe this is a merger of equals as so many do. Is psa buying fiat . Tommaso good morning. Good morning, matt. How many times we have discussed on bloomberg tv about the industry. Now, the deal is really announced after more than one month of talks between fiat and peugeot. The question the answer to your question is fiat and peugeot will put together their 5050 percent company. Actually, the new company will have half the shareholders by fiat and half by