After jay powell made down beat comments about the economy just as coronavirus cases were spiking in the south and the west today the fed chief once again made it clear that the economy remains weak and were seeing more gigantic coronavirus spikes in the south and west this time the dow surged 527 points as it jumped 1. 90 , nasdaq pole vaulted 1. 57 . How is this possible how is it possible goes down gigantically, same thing, next time goes up two key differences. First the fed is planning to buy individual Corporate Bonds to ensure Companies Stay afloat if we had survival of the f fittest, powell is doing everything to limit carnage, survival of everybody. Second, we had the biggest sales gain in history up 17 in may. That sounds very vish we have a super accommodating fed at the same time were Getting Better data which means the recovery has staying power and almost broke oil company or restaurant chain wants to issue bonds, the fed would probably buy them i know there are a lot of
Ken frazier earlier on squawk on the street, take a listen to this when theres unrest, people put out statements, they put out platitudes they say this is terrible. We decry racism. We believe we ought to build a just society i think business has to go beyond what is required here before the pandemic there was 12 milliontilunfilled jobs in this country and 5 million inner city kids who want access to the economy. They want to be participants, citizens and consumers what they lack is the education, they lack the training there are opportunities for programs ken is so right well talk a lot about how American Business, how the corporate sector tries to heal this country thats obviously broken youre correct. It is the corporate sector and some of us would say other than the Atlanta Mayor who gave such a tremendous speech, were looking for leadership maybe we find it more in corporate or im reminded gina rometty created low income and low opportunity neighborhoods where she built schools, p
Today. With the dow jones average skyrocketing 530 points, s p 1. 32, nasdaq 1. 72, one point before more saber rattling with china. All sorts of beaten down stocks, though, were higher. While the covid19 winners, well, they got slammed theres just one tiny problem with this action we dont actually have a vaccine. Does that mean the stock market is getting ahead of itself lets unpack the issue first this rally is based not just on hopes of a vaccine but a firm belief that the whole virus problem isnt nearly as dire as we thought a lot of people feel it has been blown out of proportion by the media, and the president s right, the people feel the president s right when he says we should open up everything betting on a vaccine makes sense. Since the beginning of the pandemic they warned us a vaccine would take a long time the fastest was the mumps which took four years. Every day were bombarded about another attempt to end this nightmare. Today we heard merck is working on a Magic Technol
The futures indicated up about 322. The decline of 30 points futures point to bigger gain at the open of about 30 points. The nasdaq is open it is very early we have seen a lot of volatility lately lets look at what is happening in the treasury markets. Wti said the july contract that is the active front running Contract Trading above 22 a barrel one point of favor for the bulls on this. The 10year at 0. 698 . Andrew thanks, becky we have a huge lineup of guests. We keep saying a huge lineup but we do. It is crazy. Joining us exclusively this morning is walmart ceo, head of cocacola, james quincy, another exclusive with the new ceo of united the ceo of lonza that is partnering with moderna. A huge three hours ahead lowes, wow. Adjusted net 1. 77 the estimate was 1. 32 look at the stock. Up almost 4 home depot yesterday which was part of the reason that dow fell was because of home depot. Same store sales up 11. 2 . Dot com sales rose 80 lowes is going to invest quite a bit to support e
Also jay powell making comments that added to some of this those who have been under such pressure, those stocks were the ones that were the biggest rebounders disney up more than 7 banks were up across the board wells fargo up by 8 bank of america and citigroup up jp morgan up mgm resorts up 10. 5 carnival up 15 . Airlines each up 13 all of those gains coming as there is hope there will be some time those stocks can get become to normal and people will feel comfortable. Thats the early trade also lets look at whats been happening i thought theme parks disney and comcast which is over 2 pretty big gain. Who knows whether it is displaced but it was on hopes of normalcy i dont think it is only moderna we are talking about there is four or five real pharmaceutical Companies Working on it. So just the potential you get and other data point where they say someone else has the success to we dont know what technique i dont know if it is mrna pfizer is working on the mrna technique as well. I