Levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, im going to start with you. According to the textbook, the value of stocks is based on future cash flows. And with Interest Rates so low, of course, those future cash flows are a little more valuable. Add that to the fact that this Coronavirus Crisis presumably will pass over a couple quarters, and that hes eye academically at least the stock market should be rallying. To you buy that . Do you buy that . I think the market in some ways have lost its mind, but theres so much money out there right now. The feds dumped money and the governments put money, and now were seeing this good news in terms of reopening. And, you know, its as if we can just look past, the market is looking past all the bad stuff right now to a time when everything is back to normal. And if we can get back to normal, if earnings can get back to the trajectory they were on before, if the economy can get back to the trajectory it was on before, then the market make makes
As we see more states open this weekend, 25 states reopening. That is about 33 of the gdp. All of that coming up. But first, the Coronavirus Crisis wreaked havoc in april resulting in the worst jobs report since the end of world war ii. The u. S. Economy lost more than 20 million jobs in the month of april with more than 33 million filing for Unemployment Benefits over the past seven weeks. The Unemployment Rate 14. 7 . Joining me right now to discuss the brutal jobs report as well as how quickly this economy can recover is mohamed alarian. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, maria. Maria you know what i find odd . We have these jobs numbers on the one hand which obviously show the results of this shutdown. And its been selfimposed but, nonetheless, all these job losses. Taunt, weve got a rally in at the same time weve got a rally in markets. Whats going on with this dichotomy . Not only is a dichotomy, but its fueling a lot of political rhetoric on main street versus wall str
Timing, the pace, the safety of this economic reopening. Right i think that at this point, we know that the v is off the table. The struggle here is whether we have a ushaped recovery or whether we dont have a recovery and i keep coming back to there are two things that can happen you get a vaccine, and youll have a vee you dont get a vaccine and youll have an l and i think on days like today when you see the unemployed numbers, you say to yourself, without a vaccine, this is going to be a very, very long slog, just like what chairman powell said yesterday chairman powell is giving you the straight stuff and this number should not be a surprise to people who listened to him yesterday when you think about a vaccine this week, jim, we have heard promising comments from pfizer and j j today, the novartis ceo saying its likely a second half 2021 story. What do we believe i think its second half 2021 if at all. Its a very, very difficult virus. But you know, that may just mean when you look
Take a look, winning week better than 1 . Nasdaq turning positive for the year with gain on the session yesterday of 125 points, the dow industrials up 211 almost 1 and the s p yesterday 32 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. On the trade front top u. S. And china negotiators holding a call agreeing to implement phase 1 of the trade deal as and bombshell on Michael Flynn case. Justice department dropping the case against National Former adviser Michael Flynn after serious memo raised questions about the investigationment we have all the details. Boeing ceo David Calhoun, special guest live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and look at Airline Industry and the latest of the still grounded 737 max fleet, mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets look like this. Take a look. Easing of trade tensions to the United States and china where the two sides agree to finish out the phase 1 deal, cac quarante 36, dax index up 88. German experts down nearly exports down nearly 12 on record. Best performe
The nasdaq up about four points. Yields firmed up a little. You can see the 10year, as equities came up, the 10year about 0. 624 all of this as Energy Prices got stronger the june contract up about 13 now trading at 15. 68. Hard to believe that is a strong level. 15 a barrel is pretty strong for oil when they were paying people to take it from them earlier this week. Time for the squawk planner is it . It is yours, joe. Getting to closely watched jobless numbers. More than 4. 3 million americans are expected to have filed for jobless claims that number rose on the earnings front, well hear from eli lily, blackstone, dominos. Well see if dominos has the same type of positive numbers like chipolte. Nobody eats at dominos intel is reporting after todays close. Now, andrew. Now. You were eager this better be good. You know, im just doing the update on the pandemic numbers as we do every morning it is not good it is not good global cases have risen to 2. 6 million. U. S. Cases 842,000 with