Despite strong sales during the shutdown, especially from walmart. And times of trouble in the Housing Market u. S. Home building dropped by the most ever in april a lot of talk of a bottom has those housing stocks up as well today. Absolutely. But as you said, the Broader Markets near the session lows. Coming up on todays who, well speak with Eric Rosengren on the back of that congressional testimony from chair powell and secretary mnuchin. Well get his read on the economy and whether weve reached a trough in the data plus, well speak exclusively with jim fiterling as the Company Releases a return to work playbook but lets focus in on the big stories were watch ing today. Mike is tracking the Market Action courtney has highlights from retail earnings. Mike, you and the market just selling you have a bit, but of course only lightly following yesterdays big rally. Actually today is i think the narrowest range intraday for the s p 500 in three months and by the way, three months to the d
Within the dow. Take them out of the picture, things wouldnt be as bad as they are now. Were well off the earlier lows, down 400 points, down about 165 points but also fueling this, offsetting this if you will is talk of progress on that stimulus front. You remember where they were looking for republicans, another 250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program . Well they ran into a buzzsaw of criticism from democrats that argued it was too tilted to business so they wanted to make assurances for health care workers, hospitals, that sort of thing. I stress that they have reached a broad parameters of a deal. It is not a deal until they both mutually agree. Were seeing progress on the front. That mitigated losses in the dow and offset the oil impact. Edward lawrence joins us now from washington with how this is all progressing. Hey, edward. Reporter neil, close, very close. That is how it is being described. As you said no deal, no ink to paper as it were for this deal. Republicans ini
The last 20 minutes or so. Nasdaq is down 33 and 3 quarters. Now these numbers coming after signs of the spread to have virus stabilized in hot spots. That led to strong rally yesterday. Here at the close yesterday, the dow gaining and s p entering bull market. U. S. Death toll topping 14,080 but there are signs that the spread is slowing in hot spots. The cdc issued guidelines to get to workers. The Trump Administration requesting 250 billion, democrats want additional 50 billion. Fed chair jay powell will be giving us an update on the economy and actions taken to combat the impact of the virus, thats today 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. More to expect from the fed. The today is a big day for oil. We are watching the contract right now. Its up almost 5 and a half percent. The investors are watching the opec meeting including saudi arabia and russia, can they come to an agreement . All rising on hopes of a deal to cut production and bring an end to the costly priced war. And then there was
Louns lou announced he is stepping down from his ceo role. And scott minerd will tell us why he doesnt think investors should be buying just yet. We have josh here welcome back to you. Interesting dichotomy setting up in the market. The stayathome stocks versus the gooutside pelaton was just hit on power lunch and netflix, zoom, are all outperforming and the goout stocks, the restaurants, the ubers are all getting hit. Theres the pocket of green there. Yeah. Look at live nation they do concerts. Yeah. Theyre thinking people are not going to go out if and when coronavirus comes here in bigger numbers. So the thing with that is that the danger with that is buying into a narrative because the narrative could be popular for two days and then all of a sudden it goes out of favor and people are like what was i thinking why do i own this stock . Because i think people are going to sit home . However, i do own zoom and another name thats been ripping, teledoc this is virtual doctors visits im
We want europe to take some of necessary prisoners, they came from several countries well, none from greece, so far. Good. Youre lucky youre lucky we have a lot of people right now in prison, isis fighters, that are tough fighters, and they are where they should be. I think we have done a fantastic job, but eventually, we want to be able to let iraq run its own affairs. Thats very important. At some point we want to get out, but this isnt the point. If we do get out, weve spent a tremendous amount of money on building airports, one of the largest embassies we have in the world, mike, and we want to be reimbursed for the various costs weve had. Well work something out i talk sanctions, but im only talking sanctions if were not treated with respect we have to be treated with respect. Ill tell you what, with what we did excuse me, wait wait wait one second with what we did with isis, and this was done during my administration, because it was a mess before we got here with what we did with