Markets up on this tuesday a u. K. Clinical trial known as recovery found a possible treatment for cobra 19 while providing low doses of the generic state steroids drug dexamethasone to patients with the coronavirus reduced deaths by up to one 3rd in severely ill hospitalized patients for patients on oxygen it cut death by a 5th while Oxford University professor Martin Landry coleading the trial said this is a result that shows that if patients who have coma 19 are on ventilators or on oxygen are given back some of the stone it will save lives and it will do so at a remarkably low cost co lead investigator peter or be added its a major breakthrough docs some of the stone is an expensive on the shelf and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide meanwhile stocks also jumped off of the u. S. Commerce Department Released data on Consumer Spending for the month of may after 2 consecutive months of record drops retail sales posted a record. 17. 7 percent thats more than double previou
Impact of the virus. We will hear from the investor this hour. Western europe loosens restrictions and says infection rates are using. This highlights systemic weaknesses in the Global Health systems. Shery looking at markets, futures under pressure. U. S. Futures are down. 4 after the second straight week of gains. This coming at a time we are hearing from government officials in the United States the worst may he over for the coronavirus pandemic. Nikkei futures down. 4 . We are going to get march trade data for japan later in the show. Nikkei futures are already at a sixweek high. Seeing downside for oil. 4 while brent is trading at 28 a barrel. This of course after we continue to see this gloomy demand outlook when it comes to oil. President trump is slamming china yet again, suggesting beijing caused the covid19 outbreak that has killed 39,000 americans, and said there should be consequences if the country was found to be responsible. Ros krasny is on the line from washington. We
Less normally. Lets start there, jim, in terms of the market overall. I have a lot of insight this morning to share on the credit markets where i tend to be focused of late. Like to come to you. When you see a rally, the likes of which we may at the open this morning, what are you thinking what i think about when i see this, the market got oversold, people last night went home thinking theres no possibility of any sort of deal. Without a deal all you have is the fed making sure theres liquidity but nothing in the hands of the people. If you dont get money in the hands of people, people will look at the landscape and say its really just falling apart something has to get done. Now theres an expectation that something will get done. If we dont get something done today with the senate, youll give up this whole rally youre banking on the politics getting together for something, otherwise this rally will be comical and you will wish you never bought in. Well be able to offer hopefully peopl
Before rebounding to finish up almost 5 , recouping half of the losses from mondays 2,000 point selloff. Jim, remember when we couldnt get a 1 move la last 12 sessions, s p moved 3. 5. The market feels broken to me not a lot of liquidity many things happening at night youll see the Interest Rates go down at night. Then suddenly the s p is having a nightly session. We have to play by that tune i get it theres i want to say theres not panic. People want to get out if there were people, you would see endless downing endless down you could say buyers will come in i was listening to jim paulson before, he sees a lot that he would like i dont. You dont no. I like utilities i like the drug companies, i like the highest growth tech, teledoc. The rest sell to you people are buying Royal Caribbean right here as if its like a buying opportunity. A lot of people using the term buying opportunity, b. O. , for things no. No, to b. O. As you might expect, people are focusing on the credit markets and
Indicated up about 40 points yesterday, we did see compressed yields higher prices for treasuries 10year at 1. 36 the twoyear at 1. 7 in japan, the nikkei falling over 300 points. The bond market won, so we are going to have our friend on today. He always says it is going to be because of slowing growth. He seems to get a little bit serandipitus about it. Ill give him credit. The slowing growth caused whatever caused the slowing growth gold is up. Stock market ignores things until it doesnt hope depot might help. Stock called sharply higher after reporting better than expected results i got a 242 bid, 242. 50 bid now. Right . 228 is 18 cents above estimates. Whatyou are seeing there does not reflect what we are seeing samestore sales up 5. 2 , which is strong. Consensus is at 4. 8 home depot announced a 10 increase to 1. 50 a share you can figure out the yield will double every seven years. Joining us with immediate reaction, the bottom line beat is big the samestore number is better.