Tesla getting set to take off. And tesla is up 9 today. Were going to take a look at the growing musk empire. And booming sales at walmart and home depot but the stocks not getting that same boost today. Power lunch starts right now welcome once again to power lunch, im john fort boy, its hard to swim up stream in the amazon. Cvs, wall green, right aid and dorsey and zuckerberg and ceos testify in front of the senate one bright spot in the s p 500, cruise stocks as norwegian is near the high of the session for more on the market action, lets get to bob pisani. Hello, john its sort of a choppy, indeterminate day. The market cant quite decide what it wants to do today. Weve had a great run in bank and material stocks. The cyclical names have done really well recently those are on the weak side today. Tech is kind of flattish overall today here and then we had Energy Stocks and reits. So energy has been holding up very well today and so has Real Estate Investment trusts on top of that. Te
Disaster. Monetary policy works through emulating aggregate demand and that is important now. Ultimately, there is a job to replace lost income. Our congress stepped in and there has not been a faster or stronger response from congress to an economic emergency since the great depression. The cares act and other laws have been passed to more than offset lost income in the aggregate. There will be people for whom that is not true. You see high levels of savings on the Balance Sheets of households. Not experienced the downward cases we were worried about of mass insolvencies of businesses so far. So far, so good, i would say. There are no full recoveries without confidence. Do, which ipart to think we have done. The path forward will be challenging for a number of reasons, and i am sure we will get into some of them. Congresso do more and might need to do more with fiscal policy. The particulars of that are up to congress and not up to us. It is likely more will need to be done in time. O
Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Impact its going to have on markets plus one of the major giants in the kobe 1000. 00 vaccine race has hit the brakes probably an unexpected event in trials we bring you up to speed on the slowdown and where the world stands in the sport for a cure and major markets for major major Global Regulators have come to an agreement on road rules for Digital Currency moving forward later on well have an indepth in tech and now with this with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the International Monetary fund lightly more positive outlook for the Global Economy in the wake of the kobe 1000. 00 pandemic now according to the i. M. F. The Global Economy is now projected to shrink by 4. 4 percent this year and upward revision from junes us that of 4. 9 percent contraction now the organizations chief economist spoke about the factors which caused the upward revision during a briefing tuesday. As a result of. Eased lockdowns and Rapid Deployment of blood money in f
International Monetary Fund the slightly more positive outlook for the Global Economy in the wake of the kobe 1000. 00 pandemic now according to the i. M. F. The Global Economy is now projected to shrink by 4. 4 percent this year and upward revision from joins us from it of 4. 9 percent contraction organizations chief economist spoke about the factors which caused the upward revision during a briefing tuesday. As a result of eased lockdowns and Rapid Deployment of both monthly and fiscal policy support. The ones hes coming back from the depths of his collapse in the peak of this crisis which was the 1st half of the. Employment levels have partially rebounded after having plummeted to historically knows. That said this crisis is far from over. The ascent out of this calamitous Great Lockdown is like. To be long and even highly uncertain it is therefore essential a tricycle in Monetary Policy support and not treatment surely would draw on as best possible the i. M. F. Also altered its pr