Andrew is out, so i have to find a way to annoy you what you asked for. Your birthday is tomorrow, right . Tomorrow, not today tomorrow. Its friday. Everybody deserves to be embarrassed. Well do it anyway this is the last day youll be 19 23. Exactly. Anyway, lets check out the futures this morning as joe mentioned, youll see the dow down slightly by about 26 points s p down by four s p off by eight getting ready to wrap up another week the dow up by 2. 5 over the last four days. S p is higher. On track for a Third Straight positive week. A little different story for the nasdaq tech has been on an incredible run. Many of those names have pulled back not by a lot nasdaq down by 1. 4 this week. If you are watching it, the index is up nearly 17 for the year thats about 58 above the march 23 low and above the march intradate high we hit on monday. We are continuing to watch that. The 10year is the one we watch so closely it looks like the 10year is sitting at the 0. 604 . The bottom level o
The crude revival comes after opec agreed to extend production cuts through july and positive economic in demand is about to return to the market our chart master says the energy surge has gone too far too fast. Carter, take it away conceptually what we know is this is a poor market. Energy peaked in 2014 and obviously collapsed here with the covid news and has recovered. Lets look at a few charts and figure it out. The first, of course, is a table. If you look at the 10 gic sectors that compose the s p 500, obviously that which went down the most is often that which bounces the most you can see the stacking order here energy is up almost 100 followed by Consumer Discretionary up almost 60 largely driven by amazon, home depot, a few others. I understa industrial up 57 s p bringing the rear up 46. Lets look at two charts look at the xle, the etf captures all energy, dominated by chevron and exxon 40 plus percent weight the 22 to 44 what you can see clearly is were up against a fairly we
Seeing this as a sign that they do see sort of a light on the horizon here. With all the states beginning reopening, expanding the reopening, it will continue to be good for the economy, even in a staggered fashion. There is that. Were following markets across the board. Even issues with disappointing numbers and earnings, most seem to have factored that in. So well get detail by detail, casebycase, sector by sector. This is a remarkable comeback here. A lot of this buoyed by this news out of Gilead Sciences that its drug just might be the panacea some hoped it would be for treatment of the coronavirus. Way too early to tell that here but certainly a different reaction as that stock soars close to 6 on the day. Blake burman, monitoring developments at the white house right now including the president having a sitdown with the louisiana governor. Also meeting with more ceos and those in the agriculture, meat industry. The president you might recall has said that the Meat Processing plan
Waless strength and conditioning coach hugh bennett came to japan as a player and he has been backed recently as part of a Welsh Rugby Union delegation promoting rugby. There is a lot of work going on, but for the players, just to feel the welcome, just for one. Weve had some great welcome is already, as soon as some great welcome is already, as soon as we come here some great welcome is already, as soon as we come here off the plane, but throughout the training session, with 15,000 full capacity stadium, was outstanding. Wales have orally proved to be a good hit injapan and they can count this place is a home from home. Now as they begin their quest to win a first world cup, they will hope to earn yet more fans along the way. David pritchard, bbc news will stop that is all the time we have on sportsday, next on bbc news, it is the papers, but from the tea m news, it is the papers, but from the team here, it is good night. Hello, good evening and welcome to our look ahead to what the p
Until the close, cnbc contributor stephanie link from tiaa a nuveen company. Welcome, stephanie thanks. Energy doesnt usually lead this market but is today on the oil bounce and questions about whether thats sustainable and given sort of the scale and increase in tensions whether the move is big enough to bring back the sector and commodity trade i dont know. I really dont because its been a tough industry for the whole year. For a whul of years now. So this is really more a supply issue concern. I think the Biggest Issue for oil are demand and the demand environment has been slowing and the revisions have been lower. So with that as a backdrop this might be just temporary. You would have thought oil would have been rallying much more than it did. I spoke as well about 20 minutes ago to one of the senior traders at one of the major investment banks and said was pleased to see the algos didnt disrupt the market when pompeo came out and clearly blamed iran on that. That could have been a