The nasdaq down by 25 points this morning, youll see futures are lower again. These are modest declines. The types of numbers we used to see all the time in the morning just over a month ago. Right now, the dow looks like it would open about 42 points nasdaq around 18 points. Keeping track of treasury yields we find ourselves this morning again with the yield indicated around those levels. 0. 7 and change andrew lets bring you an update on the pandemic and some of the numbers. The number of confirmed u. S. Cases rising to 400,000. More than 12,000 have died in america. New york is the epicenter with 140,000 confirmed cases. New york, new jersey and l. A. Reporting the deadliest day. And los angeles mandates masks as essential sharing this responsibility to keep workers and everybody safe which is why we are requiring customers to wear face coverings. Shopping for groceries, picking up a precipitation or any other business, you will need to cover your face. If you are not covering your
At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
Across america. Famed investor mario gobelli has lived through many a crisis. He is here in a fox business exclusive on how hes maneuvering his money and hes going to reveal, stay tuned for this, five stocks he is buying, one of which he just scooped up 100,000 shares of. Youve got to hear. We will give you all the names. In less than 24 hours, Small Businesses are going to line up around the nation for federal money, but theres one group of Small Businesses who may be shut out of 2 trillion in stimulus money. Venture capitalist rohan oza, behind brands like vitamin water, so many names out there, hes here in a fox business exclusive to share his advice for Small Companies getting caught up in the covid19 crush. We have been talking about zoom video communications, one of the breakout stars of the work and learn from home environment, but what about slack and Microsoft Teams and zoom . Are they stressing the internet . We have the net app ceo, we will ask if the webs plumbing is holdin
Going to have to deal with and maybe today were finding out. Is that what this is yeah, but ill tell you whats so interesting. There are very few people, i believe, who really thought that the rosy scenario was going to occur. I know we had that press conference this weekend that was a little disorganized, but the sudden recognition of a number that i think, unfortunately, a lot of people really kind of hoping wasnt going to happen is jarring the market but and i by the way, jeffrey gundlach, hes right this is one of the easier rollovers to predict but i want people to like look into their own brains and hearts and really, really answer, did you really think it was only going to be a couple thousand people did you really think that . When they finally announced that number, if that should cause the selloff, then youve got to rethink whether you want to be in stocks. Because i think that theyre just making up numbers, as dr. Fauci says hey, thats the input so dont sell on that. Sell bec
Last week, i warned you. Didnt think it wouldlast. More bad news about the pandemic and we would get slammed again thats what happened today dow plummeting 900 points, s p plunging 1. 4 . Nasdaq also nose diving, 1. 4 . Last night the president gave us pretty down beat, realistic forecast for covid19 fatalities if youve been following the experts and a potential death toll in the hundreds of thousands, might not have surprised you. But for a lot of investors it was a rude awakening i cant blame anyone for selling after that miserable First Quarter with very little good news on any front in the battle against covid. Lets be real. This market is an incredibly leaky ship if youve been laid off, having health problems, your family is hurting, supporting a loved one out of work, youre most likely going to have to sell stocks to get through this period. People need cash you cant fight that kind of selling. Thats what were seeing so why not simply dump everything, flee, maybe head for the hil