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
Yield actually lower. Still seeing a bid in the long end, but nothing dramatic appeared to what you wouldve thought when headlines broke saturday. Lets get the update here. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you the market moving news from around the world. Joining us from riyadh is yousef , and Michael Mckee here in new york. We begin in saudi arabia, where aramco tells customers certain deliveries will be delayed, especially in october. Yusuf, give us the latest yousef, give us the latest. Yousef we are waiting for a Firm Response from the saudi government. The Foreign Ministry made it clear that they are going to treat this aggressively. They will defend the land, and we expect a press conference from the Energy Ministry as well to outline the day in a bit more detail the exact damage to the infrastructure. Bloomberg even understands a tour of some of that damage could be in the offing, but at the moment, saudi aramco scrambling a little bit to get those oil barrels to the
Asia a new benchmark lending rate, 4. 25 down from 4. 31 that help stocks early in trading and the hang seng and shanghai gave up those gains. Hang seng down by a quarter of a percentage point stocks in japan were higher. The nikkei closed up by just over half a percent. In europe with the early trading taking place youre going to see that at least the three major averages are in the green right now. Germany just barely. Its just above the flat line but the cac is up by a quarter of a percent stocks are weaker in italy and spain and then if you check out the treasury yields here in the United States, this again is what the market has been watching so closely. Those yields lower today the ten year note sitting just below 1. 6 the two year at 1. 518 and the 30 year bond is above 2 but just barely 2. 04 . Home depot reporting 317 a share. Thats above 308 thats what the consensus is however the revenue indicated 30. 984 and its at 30. 8. So the stock is indicated at this point down a littl
But we begin with another tough day on wall street stocks hitting the skids as yields head south just adding to wall streets wall of worry wp Goldman Sachs, morgan stanley, ubs, bank of america all out with new notes raising the red flag on trade tensions hitting the market so what do we make of all this the sort of, i dont know, stuttering in the markets based on trade its interesting that youre getting some of the macro folks around the street starting to become a little more concerned when in fact i do think that weve seen bond yields telling us something very dramatic 164 we closed on the 10year dollar holding in. But i think the concern around the rest of the world truly that were seeing major contraction, a couple of pmis weve had over the last couple of weeks weve got regional fed surveys this week weve got a cpi number in the states which i do think the fed will be closely watching to at least give them something to follow through behind in terms of inflation or lack thereof gi
Going down. Look, i have the i have a list in my hands, like senator mccarthy of 54 known stocks in the s p and how they would do inverted the top 20 ive been working on. Three are hurt 17 that win. If everybody decides that theyre going to pay less for every stock because of this, all lose the algorithms are set to make sure all these use our economy is not as uniquely sensitive. These are not exporters that need to have a dollar weaker dollar is just getting stronger. Extraordinary rally in the dollar dont want to see it i struggle to reach a conclusion that this is all bad given the fact that germany had rates for some time and the market is not doing that badly, even though they have an export economy and their dax, real terms, is up even though theyre exporting right to china in and those sales are weak as we see the numbers from china it is not the end of the world or the German Market would be down. No one is asking if it is the end of the world if it is the end of the cycle, ri