Or 1800743cnbc. Today our hospitals are packed with covid patients. This milestone seems damn right crazy. After another trip of the dow surged 455 points and s p jumped 1. 6 i am telling you that this surge to 30,000, dont look at it that way. How do we explain this region of the bull market. Ten reasons why this thing work. Not only it will holdup overtime, you got to know it first, the results, results wont be overturned. There was a slim chance hell be able to beat biden in the courts or if not the polls but he could not pull it off. At the end of the day there was just not any fraud when the president lost in pennsylvania, it is up second, vaccine. We got one vaccine of 95 efficacy from pfizer the second one is similar. Then astra seneca. 100 million doses to the United States by years end if they get the delivery right which they probably will. You have to hope it will go to First Responders and Nursing Homes and you get it at the pharmaceutical locations trust scientists and tha
Yeah, President Trump started promoting mask wearing on twitter. A major shift and the stocks have been fitted from a reopening economy are higher today and thats how the dow jones gained 160 out performing the s p 500 but trouhe nasdaq. the cramer covid19 index is out. The recovery stocks are in at least for today our country has the worst coronavirus outbreak because we turned wearing a mask into a cultural issue the president tweeted a stark black and white picture of himself wearing a maface mask wh the explanation saying many say its patriotic to wear a face mask when you cant social distance there is nobody more patriotic than me, your president. End quote. Well, kind of the only one why does it matter because President Trump is the de facto leader of the anti mask faction. Thats why he spent months refusing to wear a mask in public and framing this as an issue of personal freedom. That emboldened people to take ridiculous stands against mask mandates invoking the first amendment
From tjx to l brands to bjs as they report sales better than feared. Coming up on todays show, the view from the south. We will speak with atlanta fed president Raphael Bostic about how reopening is going in his district plus, Scott Gottlieb has called Antibody Testing a game changer. We will speak with the head of quedel and we will ask how his companys rapid diagnostic measures are up to the traditional tests we talk so often about. As sarah said, lower 0. 6 but off the sessions low Mike Santelli is tracking a volatile day for the market. Joining us to discuss big money being spent in the race for a vaccine are Chris Meekins from Raymond James and meg terrell as always mike, lets start with you. Yes s p 500 pausing right below levels everybody is walking, 3,000 on the upside, right around the 200day average look at a oneyear chart of the s p, we spent most of last summer in this relatively narrow defined range between 2,800 and a little over 3,000. So it is familiar territory. I dont
Decline and that is a forwardlooking indicator on this, not so much tragic deaths but we like to focus on that is assigned to come to the process and we to go to the hospital and then you see what youre doing in the hospital in the most severe cases and ends up on a ventilator, and then sadly you die at that point but that is a logging part, if you see a downtrend in the number of people getting in to the hospital and encouraging and keeping an eye on it, the governor of new york is outlining other promising developments as well, we will get into that later in the show, minutes await the president signing off on the 484 billion Small Business stimulus measure, some are calling relief, whatever you want but it is going to be widely seen as an opening with more stimulus down the pipe, blake has more on all of the above. Hi, you see our colleagues lined up in the Briefing Room meaning they are still awaiting to go into the oval office, we expect the signing at some point later this hour,
The s p 500 are lower. Wti trading at 5. 31. We have a lot to discuss about the oil markets. The 40s and staying there. The dollar index inching ever higher. Sticking with the oil markets, we had that etf halted earlier today, as it was tapped out. Lets take a deeper dive in the oil market with taylor riggs. Taylor as you mentioned, a risk off tone across the board even as we look across asset. High yield of debt is down, so is copper. 10 year yields down to 56 basis points or so. The lowest yields going back to march. The dollar is stronger, treasuries are stronger. Dollar is ruling in this time of stress. Something else going on in the oil markets, on the uso etf, it was briefly halted for volatility trading. It is now reopened but we are still down. It does reflect the changes we have seen in the wti contract. It has been plummeting along with the price of oil. If you look at the chart im showing in my terminal, something wonky is going on in the etf market, given there is such a ru