Yesterday carl was a discouraging day for a lot of people who have been chasing momentum because last week was maybe one of the best momentum weeks i can recall since 1999, which meant that if you bought it went higher and how much fun is that . Yesterday was the day that you bought it went higher and then you got crushed. So i think that usually takes a couple days of reset where maybe you can after stocks that arent as hot, say, as tesla. So you would focus, say, on Something Like the banks ive been through the banks and i know dave and i talk about this all the time, they are incredibly complex beasts, they are not like, oh, tesla, hot and when i first went over them i thought they looked pretty good but already theyre reversing. This is not an uncommon pattern as people find one line or two line that they dont like and then they sell these stocks. David, its happening once again. You know that these banks could have had littered with bad loans, its not, they have great trading, the
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Weve given all of that back and then some. Yesterday, the market was down by 1,861 a decline of 2,443 points. All of that over the previous sessions we had given back futures are up by 626. Normally, thats the type of move that would make you sit up and say wow s p indicated up 69 points nasdaq up 192. Treasury yields have been moving all over the place as well we did see the 10year on monday up 0. 9 . Higher than that this morning, up 0. 2 on trading yesterday. Accelerated on the day everybody was on tender hooks to watch what would be happening here are some highlights of what is on tap car line, former citigroup ceo, former white house chief of staff, founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers joining us there. A lot going on there todays top story, uk gdp following 20. 4 in april the largest monthly fall on record as the pandemic lockdowns have battered the economy. Londons ftse down more than 18 , thats just year to date. Has liesman heard yesterday, the annual kansas fed symposi
Microsoft was up by about 7 if you watch this morning, dow futures are indicated up s p up by 11 and up by 55 points the treasury yield looking below where we are now the yield on the 10year last i checked weve gotten used to that 0. 8 range. 0. 7 in that area now. Andrew becky, it appears weve found a bottom we have an update on the numbers to bring to you. New york has more thans the epih more than 61,000 of those cases. New york governor made this appeal for Health Care Workers across the county to come help new york as governor of new york, i am asking Health Care Professionals across the country if you dont have a Health Care Crisis in your community, please come help us in new york now we need relief Governor Cuomo said new yorkers havent been doing well with social distancing and he implored the public to be responsible and stay home. A hospital built in central park will officially open today located in front of mount sinai hospital up in the 90s there on the east side. It hold
Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t