By thursday we were down better than 20 from the february highs. That is definition of a bear market. The dow alone, down 10 on thursday that was the worst day since the 1986 crash and black monday. That left traders unsure how to handle the virus impact and questions abound about how slow the economy will become . Are we in a recession right now right now is a boston group chief officer david monson is here, joining us this weekend with 2 billion in Asset Management and eve got the ceo of van ecks, 51 billion in assets under management 80 of funds great to see both. Thank you so much for joining us. What a week, david lets kick it off with you. What did you do, were you caught flatfooted with that 2000point selloff on thursday quest mark. Thereto answers on that, i feel we are caught flatfooted in their sense of theres absolutely no time to react not just this week but over the last weeks. It is the unlike 20,072,008 and surly not like the 2002 bear market. This came so quickly and so
We have that and a whole lot more on making money. Charles major indices in selloff mode this morning with most testing key support points. Many are bracing for this. Many are hoping for a pullback in a long time. How does an investor know when it is overdone . I want to discuss that with Gibbs Wealth Management cio erin gibbs and liz young and Capital Wealth Planning jeff saut. Let me start with you, liz first because youve been kind of feeling like okay, wall street has been talking up this day for a few weeks, perhaps over a month when it came. Were at this moment. Where do we go from here . Leading up to this day weve been saying the risk for disappointment was pretty high. The shanghai composite was down only 2 before this. That didnt seem like enough. Markets in the u. S. Rallied through the beginning of the year. Didnt seem like there was enough after pullback. It felt like it had to be shakeup. Charles everyone agreed there wasnt enough of a pullback and you couldnt get the pul
Significant rally, up eight at the opening bell, a gain of 55, urging the fed to cut rates. We wait to see when the fed is. Some money coming out of treasuries. I want to see it but cant, dont have it but it is up from the historic low of one. 03 , it is one. 12 as we speak. Politics. A mad scramble by the democrats to support joe biden and beat back the bernie challenge. Amy klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg throw their support to biden, beto reappears to back him up. This is desperation time. Today bernie is expected to win the california and texas primaries, all hands on deck for the moderates, they are panicked at the thought of the bernie nomination but there is still bloomberg. He says even if he doesnt do well today he is not bowing out. Democrats are locked in a 3way battle, totally split, at war with themselves. Just wait till you see joes latest gaffes, that is plural. Varney and company is about to begin. Tomorrow is super tuesday. I was waiting for a black man to pick me up and
Based on the risk off the further markets. It is time now for global exchange. We will bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Where to begin in asia, the coronavirus continues to spread in china, with the number of confirmed cases climbing above 75,000. Engle. Me is Stephen Stephen for the second time in about a week, china has rejigged its methodology for how to classify confirmed cases of the coronavirus in china, that has led to this now becoming a bit of a global crisis. We are seeing more speculation that the data we are getting is we necessarily reliable, or are seeing a significant dropoff in the number of confirmed cases. In hubei province, just 349 new cases reported overnight. Is that because of the new methodology, or do they have the containment efforts under control . That is raising a lot of confusion and questions. Also, it adds to suspicion that officials in china may be prema
Estimates by about 0. 30. Revenue was also better than estimated, and they see revenue up, so that stock jumping in the premarket. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to brussels, des moines, iowa and new york, our bloomberg forces are on the ground with the latest top stories. Chinese growth and imports beat expectations. With us from hong kong is in the curran. Is enda walk us through the numbers. Numbers. Ty good a couple of factors behind these good trade numbers, sentiment was much better in the month of december and late last year in advance of the trade agreement that is going to be signed this week. There was an element of front running of the orders because in Chinese New Year falls january. A base effect gives the numbers a bit of a polish, but also importantly, china found new markets even as it suffered from tariffs on its goods going into , and even into europe. Nd Southeast Asia total chinese exp