Return especially in texas is a factor. Now look at this. Five stocks at or near record levels. Apple, microsoft, google, facebook. What you are looking at is premarket prices. I see apple and amazon up again. Not much of a selloff in the other three. Facebo facebook, google and microsoft, after yesterdays stellar performance. Put together, these five make up 22 of the s p 500. Now, that is dominance. The news from the street this morning. It is not good. In atlanta, armed men took over a small area and refused to let the police in. In wisconsin, a state senator beaten when he took a photo of demonstrators. In our Nations Capital, the flag burned by a cheering mob. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart a political bombshell is unfolding. Longtime democrat congressman of new york, elliot engel, is fighting for his political life. The 16term incumbent is trailing by double digits against a progressive. He received the full support of congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. Engel was su
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Attention to the virus to aid in war against the pandemic, live tomorrow morning for special interview you dont want to miss. Do stay with us for that. This morning pointing to higher opening. Take a look at future, up better 250 points on dow industrials, s p is up 29 and nasdaq higher by 116 this morning, this after the dow, nasdaq, s p ended down last week. As you can see better in the dow and s p. Google parent alphabet, microsoft, facebook, amazon, Technology Names reporting earnings this week and at the end exxon reporting numbers. Holding china responsible. Senator tom cotton telling me the coronavirus escaping its borders was a deliberate attack by the chinese and calling for action against the Chinese Communist party. Plus questions rolling with the health of north Korean Leader kim jong un as he remains unseen. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning are rallying, take a look at europe indices, ftse 100 up 95 points, cac quarante in paris is up 86 an
All the major f. A. N. G. Companies. They are set to release their numbers and guidance. Thank you for joining us im Brian Sullivan lets talk more about your market setup you have dow futures indicating a gain of about 100 plus points at the upside. 200, as a matter of fact, stock futures are well in the green despite the fact that oil has come down significantly. The price of oil down again right now. Remember, we are in that june contract it is off about 13 this morning, down to under 15 and change so, watch oil. There is a story in the oil patch to Pay Attention to as well that is Diamond Offshore Diamond Offshore, a major oildrilling contractor, obviously like the name immris, off the coast. An offshore company has, indeed, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection the Company Simply not able to meet its obligations so Diamond Offshore has filed for bankruptcy protection. Keep an eye there on that story as well. Also you want to watch the stock of loews, ticker l, not the Home Imp
As being totally disingenuous. The jd of what happidea of whatt week with the minus 37, theres a couple of Financial Instruments that are wrong they are broken. We dont regard things as broken because it seems almost impossible that something could break. But the future that you see and the actual prices are very different, particularly in the out years. And i think whats going to happen is this has to go to zero again, because we dont have more space i heard the ceo of the largest Tanker Company on friday saying theres no room. Why should this number not go to zero it should go to zero faster than it did last time any chance it will go to zero. Yeah. Any chance that it doesnt because we will begin opening u some of these states thats certainly a hope, but there are times in life where people know that theres an instrument that is faulty. And they can shoot against that instrument and bury these people there is this financial problem that people behind the uso, they are financial peopl