Spot index down. 75 . That giving a boost equities as well. Within the equity market, the stops outperforming confirm the narrative is about reopening more economic optimism. The best performers are the likes of airlines, travel stops, the Airlines Index and hotel index up 10 or 7 . In the economic front, it is the more growth sensitive sectors leading the pack. Industrials up 4 in todays session. David which is a big change, it seems to me. In the past it was all about tech and health care. Now we are starting to see stocks that only do well if we can get on top of the virus. Is that because we have hope we are getting past it or because theyve gotten beaten down so badly at some point it makes sense . Kailey it is a little bit of both. Financials and energy are the worst performing sectors yeartodate so there may be buying coming into the market given how depressed the valuations are, but the fact that it is the cyclical growth centric stocks that are outperforming. Investors may be
Also jay powell making comments that added to some of this those who have been under such pressure, those stocks were the ones that were the biggest rebounders disney up more than 7 banks were up across the board wells fargo up by 8 bank of america and citigroup up jp morgan up mgm resorts up 10. 5 carnival up 15 . Airlines each up 13 all of those gains coming as there is hope there will be some time those stocks can get become to normal and people will feel comfortable. Thats the early trade also lets look at whats been happening i thought theme parks disney and comcast which is over 2 pretty big gain. Who knows whether it is displaced but it was on hopes of normalcy i dont think it is only moderna we are talking about there is four or five real pharmaceutical Companies Working on it. So just the potential you get and other data point where they say someone else has the success to we dont know what technique i dont know if it is mrna pfizer is working on the mrna technique as well. I
Romaine we will get back to david in just a moment. Taylor to jump over to riggs. Taylor attack, the big movers. Wanted to take a look at interday of the s p 500. Pretty volatile. Earnings around, so if you dont mind, i will jump to the end of my segment here where we were taking a look. Amazon saying that they are 26 ng net sales up yearoveryear and just a little bit higher than the estimates of of a 73 and three quarters billion dollars. Secondquarter net sales a here, versusy estimates of about 78 billion. They are saying that they see the crisis, demonstrating adaptability and durability. Amazon First Quarter net sales just above estimates. Sales rising about 0. 25 . In theally interested cloud service. That is where we saw a lot of strength with microsoft and alphabet. Strength within that cloud business. Very curious as Amazon Web Services is the leader. I will leave you all with that note. We will finish that later. Amazon coming out. That is going to be the key driver here as w
Online more Central Bank Action from japan helping fuel the bulls and despite all of that, oil plunging again, down more than 20 as we see one Energy Company file for brankruptcy. Ahead on todays show, were taking a deep dive on the path forward for retailers. That sector deals with the fallout from the lock down well speak with about the issues facing the industry and be joined by former macys ceo as Department Stores deal with their own challenges and bankruptcy concerns swirl around the sector were up 5 on the s p with 59 minutes left citigroup is up 8 still down 42 year to date. Lets focus on the big stories were watching today mike is is tracking the market moves. Meg has the latest mike, lets kick it off with you and the broader markets. After about two weeks of going sideways, the s p 500 gets a little bit of a boost today to basically the levels it saw at the post crash highs of ten days ago. Take a look at how it fits into the broader picture here 2874 is a number that we firs
Josh, walk us through what we know. Josh we started the week with the president saying he has absolute authority. This plan gives governors widely way to make wide leeway to make their own choices. You can jump into phase one immediately if you have met certain conditions. The governors will have a lot of leeway to determine if the states have met that. He is recommending that if they do not see outbreaks or meet certain conditions, subject to their interpretation of those conditions, you can get back to normal in about four weeks. This will raise questions about the risk of a second wave. Whether the u. S. Has the Testing Capacity to respond. Call the president had a with senators and governors today. What do we know about that phone call . Josh we have seen this thing brewing for a while. Protests in michigan this week against what they view as stringent orders. The governor of michigan is democrat who could be joe bidens running mate. What he heard what we heard on that call, republ