Enough clarity on the economy to justify restarting payouts yet. That decision is not yet final. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Welcome to bloomberg markets. I will be speaking with bill ackman. We will discuss the debut of his new Blank Check Company which raised 4 billion in its initial offering. He will weigh in on what kinds of companies he wants to target with the money and other investments. First, lets look at the markets. We are higher. The nasdaq has erased all of its gains. 25 . P 500 is up mark forck at the 70 the you in the. With heating up today expulsion of the envoy from china. I want to point to the fact that we will be talking about in a moment and that is the Blank Check Company that is trading up an ipo today. The expectation was to raise 4 billion and we will be talking
Andrew ross sorkin with joe kernen becky is off again today a little in the red. The treasury yields and earnings that may have an impact on all of this. The 10year note, we are now below. 6 we are down to. 592 we can debate what that means for today. Discussing Market Recovery and earnings Kansas City Southern and United Airlines ceo and health and Human Services secretary you want to stay tuned to squauchl the nasdaq down pretty significantly. It was up two or three hundred. It was up and did you know and up and down. It was really crazy. You heard cramer talking about that it was truly crazy. Insanity. The didnt hold on to the big gains. I think it was down almost 300 when cooperating on that at the end of the day, well see. I heard it said, well, you gave him an out he could have been resting on his laurels by now saying i would at least nuance it so i could claim to have been right if we had extended here. Doesnt it feel extended here. If i were paulson. Fur trying to be right all
Out. Alix yields on the 30 year in the u. S. Down 19 basis points. Lets get some more layered a, Julia Coronado joins us now. We have been trying to answer this question, what is driving the dramatic decline and move into safe havens . Onryone has been blaming it jay powells gdp forecast for 2022. Do you buy that . Is notthe feds forecast at all out of step with the consensus in bloomberg, bluechip, all of the congressional budget office, so i dont think that is new to the market that it will be a gradual recovery, and i thought that powells message was steadfast in terms of the feds commitment to participating in the recovery. I dont think this can be blamed on the fed. Into complacency with the virus. States that are opening up are starting to see escalating cases even controlled for increased testing. This is still a problem that we need to grapple with, is coming back to the forefront. We were always going somet a risk aversion and point the market would have a ritz look at what is
We can get above that 200 day. I have to tell you, once again, what causes a decline its always the banks. Why the banks . Because we cant value we cant value them because we dont know what their future loan losses are going to be. I think that the feds chilling statements made for a tremendous confusion because, remember, weve been skating everybody has been saying how can the market almost bet a its high the answer is because we dont have any data. No real reports that contradict that i didnt like the nike quarter, but people already apologized for that it is the banks and, once again, when i think of the banks an article today about credit cards and how people arent taking the big credit cards with the 400 and 500 fees. David, the credit side continues the buyers jim, that is really interesting to see when we start to get the earnings where the focus of investors is. After the close we get jeffries. Investment banking not overry large but what will be interesting, jim, im sure well
Which prevent michiganders crossing the street to visit family members. No relaxation of the social distancing rules from President Trump. Hes considering extending the keep your distance regulations into the early summer. Then theres this. Antibody tests that show far more people have been through covid19, three million in new york state, 20 of new york citys residents have had it. That means the fatality rate, the number of people who died from the virus, comes way, way down. Interesting. Quickly to the markets. Not Much Movement at the open today. Orders for durable goods in march down 14 , yeah, thats bad but it was expected. The dow is going to be up 193. I call that little movement. How the times change. We will be back to 23,500, big gain modest gain for the dow, nice gain for the s p and for the nasdaq as well. Look at oil, staying at low levels. We are looking at 17 a barrel. In the absence of demand, we are still not driving very much, we are running out of places to store al