All about the big game of chicken that is breaking out in china, but first, what is the real read on retail . The Group Holding strong as we wrap the major week of earnings and we could dash hopes of any robust retail rebound and another 2. 4 million americans filing for unemployment last week and while we all knew that the number would be awful, it may not be telling the whole story. The total claims exclude hundreds of thousands of selfemployed economy workers, as well. So with millions of americans and millions of consumers out of work, which retailers are best positioned for this road ahead guy. Hi, mel hi, guy i feel it necessary to say hi so i wont see you so which retailers are best suited in this environment and thats a great question and something well talk about and i know steve will talk about costco correctly and karen had thoughts on t. J. Maxx, but the one i keep coming back to is Dollar General and i think Goldman Sachs just initiated the name with the 202 price target a
All of faang higher with names like paypal up 5 today. We have two bad final hours of trade over the last two sessions and we have sold off over the last couple of hours off the session highs as we stand. Ahead on todays show, well speak exclusively with Thomas Barkin on the heels of another massive jobless number why he says we may be at the bottom of the downturn he just said that on a podcast about an hour ago. Plus, former treasury secretary, jack lew, will join us to discuss the governments tuss efforts and whether cash is going to the right places and the countdown to another big afternoon of earnings. Uber, roku, dropbox and trip adviserme adviser. Well bring you all the numbers you need the know as soon as they hit were off the session highs. Dow high was 430 points. Up 206 just shy of a percent s p 500 and nasdaq still up more than lets focus on the big stories mike is tracking the market rally. Meg has the latest on moderna jumping on news surrounding its vaccine candidate, b
Here it is, word for word, quote, trump says china may or may not keep the trade deal, end quote. That sent stocks into the close. Check out the move on the nasdaq, for instance it was up big for most of the day and the sharp slide in the final moments of trade ditto for the s p 500. So guy adami, is china back in play here . Is this the next big risk factor for the markets . Yes, and before i get into great detail, i have to wish tim seymour, as he power pitches today, a very happy birthday just wanted to get that out. Happy birthday, tim seymour what was that very kind thank you. Yeah. I absolutely think this is a big deal and we started talking about it last week, and not in terms of their trade deal or where theyre going to keep their end of the bargain and in terms of some of the rhetoric coming out of the Trump Administration what im commenting is the rhetoric seems to be getting louder and in no way, shape or form is that market bullish especially given the fact that the markets
Ready for the having sounds like a horror film, but its not everything you need ton about the major event about to take place in the cryptocurrency world. We start with the historic jobs report more than half a Million People put out of work. The market rallied with the dollar ending higher and the volatility index dropping below its 1 hund00day moving averag. When unemployment skyrockets to nearly 15 , do you think the stock market would be down but it didnt. So guy adami, what do you make of that . One would think and one would be myself, absolutely look, i definitely saw the move back to 2790 we talked about that for a while and kudos to tim who i use the word all of the time and the pain trade is higher and here we are. What do i make of it when look wid siquidity is slosg around and its good that were talking about disney later because the markets clearly in my favorite area of disneyland which is fantasy land and at 3393 when the s p 500 made an alltime high we were talking about
Dollars, but hes in luck and our traders are here to help him fix his portfolio and we start with the major news on gilead that weighed on the major averages gilead dropping on reports that the companys coronavirus des v remdesivir it is difficult to part through because it was halted from china that didnt have enough to finish the synopsis on these partial results were posted by the World Health Organization on its website immediately taken down, but not before the Financial Times and stat news got a hold of it. What that showed was that 237 patient were enrolled in this trial and 158 of them were on remdesivir and they had planned to enroll 453. One of the gauges they looked for for success was mortality and how many patient surs viefed at 28 days they found 14 of the patients on the drug passed away versus 12 in the control group. In a summary of the screen shot here they said that remdesivir was not associated with clinical or virological benefits. We regret that the w. H. O. Prema