1 plus for most of the session. Yen is paring some of its gains. 107. 29 after the bank of japan said it would do what it takes to keep the economy in check. The 10year yield at 64 basis points. They are in that range, quite happy to stay there. President trump and retailers are set to announce expanded coronavirus testing programs. That is something to look out for. Standing by is taylor riggs with a deeper dive into the market. Taylor some broadbased gains within the equity market. I wanted to dive deeper into financials. One of the best performers today, up 3 . This after yields on the 10 year are rising. You are seeing financials benefit from the steepening of that yield curve, lifting up the long end of the curve. Also getting a little bit of strength, the rebound. Crude on the other side of that. Clearly bearing the brunt of this with the oversupply problems, lack of demand. I want to take a look at the equities market in the last 24 days. Equity markets bottomed out on march 23,
Strongly in the green on the day. Small caps up more than 3 on the day. The nasdaq composite yesterday erased all its losses for the year. Now up about 1. 7 on the year. Gainers today, energy, industrial, and materials. Basis, energy, tech, and a couple discretionary names here. We saw a pretty dramatic move on the short end of the u. S. Treasury curve. Traders still pricing in the prospect that we could hit negative rates in the u. S. It will be interesting to see if that materializes and what that would mean. Scarlet and just a followup on what you were pointing out with regards to the different sector performers, energy, the best performer for the week. Week for the major u. S. Indexes. And the russell 2000 also doing better than good compared to its largecap peers. Lets bring back gabriella santos. One thing we should mention with energy stocks, weve seen oil prices now put together two weeks of gains. We havent seen that since february. Do you think weve seen the worst in oil, and
This week with tesla mike khouw downshifts on the name and its time to risk less and make more. Options action starts now. Welcome to options action, we begin with crude oil, and the wti rallying 25 as investors bet that the worst is over for the energy space our carter worth says hes got the chart to prove it. What are you seeing, carter . Well, a bunch of charts something this happened this week, seven weeks in a row, the Energy Sector is up and thats only happened eight times in the 32year history of the sector and the probability of occurrence of 0. 5 what do we know . We know that the sector bottomed actually before the market we see on the first slide here that the Energy Sector bottomed on the 19th and aed there while the market went out and made its low on monday the 23rd we know this ricochet has been huge and were talking about double the market and it dropped 65 and the ricochet up 25 is twice that of the s p up 34 and then this is the interesting thing. The next slide youll
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
The world. The nasdaq up 0. 9 . Gold continues to rally. 1733. 48 an ounce. Plenty of currencies are moving against the dollar. How are we doing in europe, guy . Guy we are up, being driven by the oil and gas sector once again. We are trading near session highs. The stoxx 600 up by around 0. 6 . Relatively muted volume today, and to be honest, the volatility , soting to come down again bear that in mind. We seen a lot of centralbank news over the last few minutes. Christine lagarde has been briefing eu leaders as they kick off their summit, their videoconference. She has been warning them that gdp may fall by 15 within the region as a result of the virus. That is largely backed up by some of the pmi data we saw earlier on, particularly very Weak Services numbers coming through for the eurozone. A littlearting to see bit of tightening in some of the spreads. Btpsbunds coming down a bit, so a little bit of outperformance for peripheral bonds, but other big move upside for brent. To circl