Recognize me of my tie was fixed. Just leave it this way. I do not consider myself a journalist. I begin to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a how do youity firm define leadership. What is it that makes somebody tick . Talk about your career at bank of america and how you became the ceo because i think it is interesting. To go back to your background, you are from ohio and your father was a chemist . Brian my father was a chemist. David you are the sixth of eight children. When you have eight children you share a lot. Brian you have to be very aggressive of always getting your share, lets say that. David you went to Brown University and you are the cocaptains of the rugby team. Rugby is a top sport. Tough asit is not as banking. Brian nothing more powerful to see one of those scrubs. I was never in there, because i was not big enough. It is a fantastic teamwork game. That is consistent. The teamwork, all players participate consistently.
Terrible composite pmis from the region. Oil continuing that recordbreaking rally yesterday. Some delegates a little bit more optimistic about getting deals done. Now i want to update you on our top stories from our new york team. We want to begin with europe. Thentioned the economies in slump of unprecedented scale, pointing to a contraction of about 10 . Bloombergs Michael Mckee joins us with more. Good morning, mike. Michael we are getting to the point where Economic Data are almost irrelevant to investors. Yeah, it is terrible. We know that. Weve traded it. Thats why you are not seeing a huge reaction in equity markets in europe because it was largely expected. It is sort of exactly what you think wouldve happened. Services pmis and composite pmis just falling off a cliff. The story in spain and italy there, but also france and germany. Those economies have basically shut down. Economists try to put a number on what that means, and that is where you get that 10 contraction figure,
Well, tech is holding up well given it has high multiples coming into this part of the reason tech is the answer to some of the issues particularly working from home, things like krits tricks, zoom, microsoft, amazon, have outperformed it appears this is going to be somewhat of a permanent change theres a spike but even coming out they could benefit we would like to see more breadth within tech. Its been big and focused. Last week was interesting. As we started to get a rally in tech we got a sense for whats going to perform on the other side, services,semis, smaller cap names. We dont think were there yet but looking for infection rates to come down, pmis to improve. The economy is on the mend and then hopefully on the other side steve, its interesting over the past day we see some little moves in this environment that might suggest something. Yesterday microsoft announced changes to office 365, calling it microsoft 365 planning to open up access to teams and features in teams to more
Treasury, the efforts to stimulate an economy in free fall jim, you got off a call or an interview it was a call as well with secretary mnuchin what stood out to you . That you shouldnt lay people off. I want to point out i got a correction, he said on Small Business payroll, two weeks, he meant two months two months means you do not lay people off without, i think im not saying its irresponsible but everything is being done to keep businesses open Small Businesses open. David, with the fed, i think theyve taken off to me anything involving credit the secretary talked about anything involving liquidity we cant produce demand. You keep people around for two months, but they wont be able to produce demand. There will still be a burden on Small Business not sure how that will be resolved thats an interesting point jim, we did we were watching the futures, which appeared to be limited down at different points in it the evening last night after japan opened as well then we got a fed announc
Italy overtakes china as the country with the most coronavirus deaths in the world. Gains in france and spain. Removing the red tape in america. President trump says he is working to speed up approval for treatments as teva rushes to bring a malaria drug to patients. California orders its residents to stay home. Rush hour refuses to submit to saudi arabias Oil Production plan. The kremlin sees riyadhs move as blackmail. Is there more turmoil ahead . Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look at futures. We are seeing some decent gains in european futures, Even Stronger than what we see in the u. S. You can see euro stoxx 50 futures up 50 , as of the futures for dax. Take a look at u. S. Futures. More than 2 gains with nasdaq futures up 3 . If you take a look at the big drops during the recent crisis, the nasdaq has fared far better than the s p and the dow jones. Today looks like it will do better in terms of gains as w