We have three markets. Maybe even more. After a day where the dow advanced 39 points, s p declined. 05 , nasdaq did one point, i want you to forget about the averages for a second or a week or a year or until the end of the pandemic. Thanks to the onslaught of the coronavirus, something that no ones ever seen, were seeing Something Else thats incredible not just the complete untethering of main street from wall street, but the disentangling of even small publicly traded companies and medium size ones from the big dogs that have it easy and can handle this hellatious moment. We all know main street isnt wall street. When we get another hideous jobs loss claims number like we did this morning, now were seeing more separation, that is its stunning. In my 40 years of investing, i have never seen anything like what im about to talk about so im going to walk you through what could amount to a destruction of a fair share of American Business that incredibly might not impact much of the stock
Coverage. Blake burman with the latest from the white house, Lauren Simonetti is watching the markets and Edward Lawrence is in washington. Lets kick it off with edward. Reporter exactly. Chairman Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve keeping Interest Rates where they are foreseeable future. Federal reserve chairman Jerome Powell said the coronavirus had Significant Impact on Economic Activity, employment and inflation, further lowering expectations. The Federal Reserve chairman believes well see doubledigit unemployment when the next Unemployment Rate comes out. He backed off saying there would be a robust Third Quarter going farther, saying some uncertainty around when the crone cron treatment will be available is when in fact the economy will start to pick up again. But he would not say if the announcement after treatment or a vaccine changes anything that the fed is doing. Also Federal Reserve open Market Committee statement saying that the fed will keep rates where they are until they ar
Josh lipton standing by and gene munsters gearing up for facebooks call and we kick things off for Julia Boorstin for facebooks big quarter quite a move quite a move, Melissa Facebook shares up almost 10 on better than expected revenue and user growth. Cfo dave waner reassuring investors saying that while the outlook is uncertain, advertising is stabilizing so far in april were not immune to this from this crisis. We did see a steep decline in advertising revenue starting at about the first week of march, and that sort of continued weve seen some more recent stabilization as part of the Earnings Release we did include information on the advertising performance in q2 in april and thats about flat year over year. Facebook lowering its expense guidance for the year for 56 billion, as the company spends less on travel events and marketing as well as slower head count growth while the user growth and engagement did surpass expectations with 2. 36 billion people using one of its apps every s
Teams and teams and delivery of cars for 2020 and so forth. Were starting to get a clearer picture on whats happening in technology as well. This is a big earnings week in general but we got the alphabet earnings last night. And one of the stark things was the difference between direct response advertising and general brand advertising. We heard direct response is doing better we heard it from snap. Heres the general idea from alphabet, gives you a read through whats going to happen with facebook. There were other numbers that alphabet talked about that could have implications for apple, certainly for amazon and microsoft in their cloud numbers. So that data, that intelligence were getting not only for what happened in q 1 but the trends in beginning of q 2, morgan, are so important. Yeah, potentially read through for apple when we get those results after the bell tomorrow, too. We started the week talking about the outsized leadership of these names, microsoft, facebook, amazon, alpha
White house briefing. We will be monitoring that for any headlines as they come. Shares of the biggest banks, citigroup and bank of america, plunging today after disappointing Earnings Results revealing just how hard the pandemic is hitting them. Goldman shares ended the day up. Their portfolio took a big hit. Joining us now, sonali. Walk us through these big loan losses and why did banks do so poorly today . Sonali these loan losses are the number one reason we are seeing issues at the big banks. This might get worse in the coming quarter. Let uncertainty as what is making investors nervous. When you go to bank of america, they expect they are considering what a recession would look like into 2021. You are drawing out time frames that go well past a couple months that people expect the economy to be closed for. The banks are factoring in the reality that the American Consumer will not be able to spend as much and that there will be bad loans as people are not able to pay back all of t