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Dow. Stocks are having a nice bounce on some renewed optimistic about reopening the economy in various states of the nasdaq closing in on going flat for the year oil is up on signs of gas repairing. A general believe in a Third Quarter rebound has some exists warning too much optimism too early. For that we will turn to steve lease man. Carl, good morning. The rapid update does indeed show this historic, unprecedented Second Quarter decline. A Third Quarter rebound. And i want to talk about that. The Third Quarter rebound is even more ingrained. Stocks trade on this idea after we get through the Second Quarter, you will have a Third Quarter rebound. Down 34 after minus 6 . Up 16 in the third. Up 12 in the fourth 7 in the first quarter. Not enough to make up for the year where the average of our 11 economists is 5 decline but take a look now at a bunch of outliars. They are contrarians on the street on this Third Quarter rebound. The q3 rebound bears bank of america, minus 1 . Rsm up ju
Europes closed. Apple didnt give a forecast and this white house commentary. I would start with the white house commentary the apple stock, even after you knew that there was no guidance, was up rather dramatically when we got word that the United States was going to retaliate against china, that was it it gave up the ghost and accelerated the decline in amazon we did have the greatest month since 1987 so that january month was augmented by tremendous japanese buying in 87. It was artificial. This was a solid rally off the bottom its time to consolidate theres no we have to get used to consolidation meaning a 400point dow instead of a 100point dow. We went down 34 in 25 sessions, up 35 in 27 sessions what does consolidation mean now . It has to do with the idea that we give up some of this last gain. The last gain was a short squeeze in airlines, in travel, leisure. We started believing in marriott up 10. Then yesterday we had a really strange day where the most important thing that ha
Here are your top headlines. Blame game. President trump raised the prospect that china deliberately caused the coronavirus outbreak. This as the u. S. Pauses some tariffs for 90 days but not those on chinese steel or aluminum. Crude collapse. Wti sags to its lowest level in the 21stcentury on concerns that Storage Space is running low. The demand outlook remains gloomy. Signs of easing. Germany begins to reopen its economy as spain, france, and the u. K. Report the fewest coronavirus fatalities in weeks. Just under one hour away from the start of cash trading. Lets take a look at where futures are headed in europe. Futures are higher, whereas u. S. Futures are down. You can see the ftse 100 futures up more than 1 , as are the dax futures. S p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures, red arrows. Further away from the start of trade on wall street. It looks like we will kick off the week in europe higher. That divide between europe and u. S. Futures is interesting. We will watch that as we go th
It took a tumble in less than six weeks and then rebounded 36 of the lows from april yesterday. The s p down 34 from february 19 to march 23, less than five weeks. Crazy to think about how quickly that fall came then we were back up 30 off the low for april. Joe . If you used april then i could get to 82 years i dont think sorkin was listening to me. I was i said, no, i dont remember. You are always saying maybe i wasnt around for that here is my proposition for you, andrew sell in may is a common expression go away ive never felt more like selling in may than i do right now. I have to be honest. It is not just you. Look at the dow this morning down 454 points. Just to test whether this kind of thing works. It would be impossible for me to go long with money what was he, 163 or something. I saw another guy say it is going to be so hard over the next year that we are looking at another 40 drop others that say the average recession that the market doesnt bottom for 11 months although jim