Really, all eyes are on the treasury markets today, where ae 10 year yield is at 11 level we havent seen in a while. There was a bit of a joke this morning when we got the mammoth refunding announcement. Crude oil, down 5 . There was a boost after inventories were lighter. Back downown to now at 2330. Disney, moving today after earnings were not as bad as people maybe anticipated. Up one quarter of 1 , they got a boost of about 4 after earnings. Lets get to taylor riggs now, standing by with a deeper dive into todays action. Taylor folding that into Something Else we are doing on the yield curve steepening, between the twos and attends. And the tens. Some of the stimulus programs we have announced, the treasury this morning announced plans to sell twentyyear bonds, you are seeing a steepening of the yield curve as you expect more supply to come. I want to flip up board and talk about technology. Isney, the tech index positive for the year. Its the only sector in the s p 500 back in the
Of a job since mid march and Business Activity grinding to a halt around the world and finally, Energy Stocks are jumping on a rebound in oil prices by far the best performing on the s p 500, which is higher, wilfred, by about. 6 though off the highs of the day. Went briefly flat as well so improving for the last hour or so the dows up 0. 9 or 200 points. Coming up, well speak with former bp ceo, lord browne about the oil markets this week as crude sees another double digit move today plus Tiger Management president , Alex Robertson, will join us to talk about investing and how his company is helping to support new yorks front line workers. Zblncht mike is tracking the Market Action for us as always meg has the details on the possible setback for gileads coronavirus trials, which sent the market off its highs during the session as we mentioned along the hannah, from the ft, who cowrote the story that broke that news and kayla is covering the house vote on the next round o the stimulus,
We ended last week strong coming off a very weak base last week the best week since 1932, well, we continued some of that momentum today. The dow ending the day up 690 points pretty much most stocks you look at they were higher today we will get to those, the one thing that was not higher continues to be oil. Down 7 as well. Well get to more on oil and what it may be signaling throughout the show. Welcoming. We are pleased today to be joined by guy adami and dan nathan for the entire hour, we welcome in emily roland of john hancock financial. Its good to have you back here on cnbcs fast money you said it seemed like the indiscriminate selling might be over, that gave you some comfort, were you more comforted by todays action . Yeah, and its great to see, great to be here i have to give a huge shout out to everyone in Englewood Cliffs for making this possible to getting us all on. Thank you. I hope everybodys safe obviously, and number three, yeah, i take a lot of comfort in the fact th
Just because a deal gets done that doesnt mean it will make sense. The dow finished flat, s p advanced 0. 7 , we need to address the merger mania because this market was dominated by deals today. Both real and imagined before we get into the weeds let melee out my position for you. I love mergers and acquisitions. The higher the stock market goes and it reduces the supply of stock floating around and anything that takes out supply is good news even if its applied to buy backs, however, i dont love speculating on mergers and acquisitions especially when acting on a tip as always, i say tips are for waiters if youre not for sure a deal is coming, Accurate Information is illegal. If you dont know, then youre just gambling. My rule of thumb never bet on a stock because of the speculation, only buy a stock of a company with healthy fundamental. Any potential deal activity lets say thats gravy which brings me to todays action this morning david faber reported that xerox wants to buy hp ink w
Is tech in trouble, have the stocks gotten too expensive . Do we need to worry about what happens with the group if President Trump cant find Common Ground with president xi and with the market at lofty levels, the s p back slid and the nasdaq gained 2. 4 its something that Money Managers will talking about it was cleverly titled changes and the big takeaway was it was time to lighten up on my Favorite Group which is technology their thesis theyre worried about it shifting to the tech war, American Companies only buying from nonchinese suppliers and you have the strong dollar to worry about with tech rallying you have a crowd of weak headed investors who head for the hills at the first sign of trouble. We heard some discouraging things in technology look, just last week, cisco it gave a downbeat forecast for the reasons that bank of america and merrill cited. Even though it represents a good balance sheet, some okay growth, investors are soured on it especially some of the big guys bec