Basket size and looks at the issue of what happens when you are able to open and a lot of your competitors are not right i think Doug Mcmillan has the four stages of, lets say, the opposite of grief and acceptance its more like acceptance and euphoria at the beginning theyre stocking up. By the end theyre buying tvs. He laid out a course that i felt was very, very optimistic. But not that optimistic for anybody who competes with him. When you hear what hes winning in, its every category that the Small Business guys do its the bicycles. They have the good tvs going boutique games owns all of that now he owns video games now. There wasnt anything that i heard that did indicate that you go to walmart instead of a Small Business david, doug was very interested in the fact that you bought your pullup bar there, that you might have gone to a gym, but you took that order from a Small Business guy and you gave it to the king yes, i guess that is true the power tower, it wasnt cheap. But its di
White hou on remdesivir and looking past chinas first gdp contraction in 40 years oil below 18 is something to watch. That report out of stat news reflects how much hope there is, whether its remdesivir or Something Else for an effective treatment going into the fall. It does it may also reflect thin trading having spoken to a number of people this morning who are wondering whether or not you can have big moves in the market with just a billion dollars of futures being bought, which may seem like a lot, but is not. Because, you know, you have a lot of Fund Managers who tighten risk, they took down their net exposure, perhaps they didnt kel quite a sell quite as much its unclear how much buying power is needed to move the market in a significant way. Remdesivir itself is important were all hopeful that it is going to actually have an impact on the outcome of the disease for those who get very sick and end up in the hospital but it is not going to be what we call a chain terminator it is
Say, someone who believed that things may not bottom. And i think hes switched. He may say its not in dramatic fashion because its near the middle of his piece, not at the top. I do believe what were seeing is a gigantic amount of liquidity put in by the fed, when it looked like things might go back down that mattered a lot. A lot of companies that dont have great credit are getting money. Thats important we saw the retailers go up last week it wasnt because retail sales were good, but because their credit was so bad, maybe they get a chance to raise money. Ge raising money a lot of companies are raising money that would not be able to raise money. That is going to be a major change to keep a lot of companies out of bankruptcy and in the same way that the oil deal might Keep Companies out of bankruptcy david, you know theres so much debt being issued now. And theres some opportunities for people who want to buy debt, but holy cow, is the government wide open to buying anything on thurs
Expectations china vowed to retaliate against u. S. Tariffs set to go into effect september 1 were now on track for a higher open lighthizer said its not possible given your past behavior so an awful lot to absorb today. Very interesting that the futures are up exactly the amount they are right now. They issued a very strident set of words toward us at the same time, announced stick l stimulus for hong kong where is what the president said on twitter what happened and without that, i think theyre going to view the olive branch of moving back to december as an illadvised move because the chinese arent playing ball were going to have Chuck Robbins later on this hour the chinese derailed their outlook. Asking them not to bid on business things are getting very, very tense. If we let that dominate the headlines and forget to look at what walmart said today, i think well have a false narrative because of how bad things are. Remember, we are not a big export nation. But yeah, the gloom is pr
We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk