When the selling is resuming for a weekend there nasdaq lost 11k. It is the worst two days they are trying to get 3400 back as the fns or week. Lets check in with bob pissani and get a since of what you think is going on. What was interesting is we were drifting lower going into the nonfar payrollm payrolls there is tech to the downside. Right across the board industrials are a little weak. Energy is better and bank stocks are up as we have seen the yield curve steepenning. A lot of pressure in the middle of the day the stocks in the last several days, he would have gone on a up and down in the last five or six days and i will show you a couple examples of that. These are all stocks that have been extremely frothy in the last 60 trading days docusign had excellent numbers and very positive commentary overall. So what happens next in a correction when you get big frothy runups you can overshoot. Nvidia when from 505 to 580. All of the way down to 580 you can see it is slipping below tha
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
And the news for china, sense that the president is cking supplies for huawei [indiscernible] on slot for china. We have the index above 100, and the 10 year yield at 62 basis points. The market except in all of this dire data we are getting this morning. s get to that data now [no audio] michael why that is, unless people just sort of got used to what was happening, and the fact that they have been locked down and couldnt go shopping or Something Like that. That is the only thing i can think of, and maybe the idea that as the weather gets warmer, they are seeing they are feeling a little bit better. I have no good answers for that. For theay, the numbers sentiment are really high, but they didnt do what they said. They didnt go shopping the way they said they would because retail sales were down 16. 4 on the month. That is a new record drop for the month of april. Of course vonnie vonnie vonnie and of course, the data earlier on included retail sales , but that was only temporary as w
Lawmakers also heard testimony from the head of the housing agency, this hearing is just under three and a half hours. Will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled, the end of Affordable Housing . A review of the Trump Administrations plans to change Housing Finance in america. Before i recognize myself, members, today is mr. Mchenrys birthday. [ applause ] if anyone wishes to sing happy birthday, please save it until later. Thank you. We all thank you for that, madame chair. Happy birthday. Thank you. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Good morning, today were here to discuss the impact of the Trump Administrations Housing Finance reform plans. We are joined by treasury secretary steven ma shun, ben carson, and mark calabrio welcome. Let me say up front the Trump Administrations housing reform plan would be a disaster for our housing systems. The Trump Adminis
Test. Test. Test. Test. Jennifer wextomoments if y respond to the questions that you were not allowed to answer when they were asked. You had to be still while, they threw more insults your way, but if you would like to take time to respond now, you have that time. I appreciate that. You know, obviously, the reason i took this job is because i feel that our country is in trouble. And we need to do everything we can to provide the right kinds of opportunities. At hud, for instance, an organization that was largely focused on just getting people into programs, getting people under a roof, and thats not a bad thing, but i really want to maneuver us to a place where were getting people out of programs and to a level of selfsufficiency. We have really aimed at that. And the question that was asked about homelessness, this is a very serious problem and one that i think is solvable in our country. You know, with a place like tokyo, which has more people than new york city, can solve homelessn