Hackett. On the barrons round table, ben leveson, jack howe. Ben, we saw stunningly horrible economic numbers last week, really unbelievable, but the market actually was higher on the week. What is happening . Yeah. I mean, this data was just terrible. Retail sale, industrial production, empire state manufacturing, you name it, it was probably the worst ever on record. Unemployment, the jobless claims continued to rise another 5 Million People lost their jobs. I mean, its just bad. But we knew it was going to be bad, and theres also two rays of hope out there. One was a new set of treatments that gilead is working on for covid actually might be work. We dont have all the data on it yet, but that provided a boost for stocks x. Then theres talk of reopening the economy, and thats also helped too because it signals perhaps there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Jg jon so, jack howe, i know youre looking at valuations, and as ben pointed out, there is light at the end of the tunnel, b
Erasing much of the job gains over the past decade. Retail sales plunged to a new low in march as businesses continue to shutter due to this shutdown and stay at home order. The housing sector took another severe hit as Housing Starts and home builder confidence saw dramatic slumps. But while the white house is discussing guidelines to reopen the country as the data shows the pandemic is peaking, how long will it take to recover our economic luster . Joining us to talk about that and investing today in the broader markets during the shutdown is managing partner of the bonnson group, david bonnson. Great to have you this weekend, thanks so much for joining us. Good to be with you, maria. Maria so let me get your reaction to what we heard this week. The president came out with guidelines to reopen the economy in three stages. That certainly sparked a rally in stocks when he first started talking about it. Is this realistic . Do you think that the economy gets back to where it was, and wh
Over the past decade. Retail sales plunged to a new low in march as businesses continue to shutter due to this shutdown and stay at home order. The housing sector took another severe hit as Housing Starts and home builder confidence saw dramatic slumps. But while the white house is discussing guidelines to reopen the country as the data shows the pandemic is peaking, how long will it take to recover our economic luster . Joining us to talk about that and investing today in the broader markets during the shutdown is managing partner of the bonnson group, david bonnson. Great to have you this weekend, thanks so much for joining us. Good to be with you, maria. Maria so let me get your reaction to what we heard this week. The president came out with guidelines to reopen the economy in three stages. That certainly sparked a rally in stocks when he first started talking about it. Is this realistic . Do you think that the economy gets back to where it was, and whats your reaction to now this
Contributors of this report will talk on u. S. Approach to Counter China based on this report. So now introductions. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude towards the world, challenged by chinas ambition. Vice president mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, and this is very important, and said beijing government approach using Political Economic and military tools as propaganda to advance its interest and benefit its interest in the United States. So given that the United States need to win the competition, cooperation will arise in likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a deciding factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, the wild, wild west the winning side comprise but the losing side was composed of just four. During the u. S. Soviet cold war, 54 versus 26 eric so these facts indicate that the number of supporters correlate to the likelihood of winning the competition. Therefore, maintaining improving coll
Through a revolution what will 2020 bring and what names should you buy were going to begin with todays markets and bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange. Happy new year. Listen, joe, we are way off of our lows lets take a look at the major average. All three of them still down, yet things are moving in the right direction. Apple turned positive. Nasdaq down here today dow industrials, youll see theyre down 95. S p we were 3216 was the low there. Take a look at the s p 500 essentially the lows were at 10 00 a. M. And buying came in. Its not heavy buying. The volume is about average for a day. But remember, this is supposed to be a very light volume week, so even average volume is better than normal. What has been weak in the market were way overbought, so big momentum names would be selling off. So semiconductors, Home Builders have been really strong, tesla is weak. Master card and visa, big momentum names, all of this makes a little bit of sense when youve had the price runups wh