Second week in a row that its starting out just in the right way. Yeah. I think theres people who just feel that this great shutdown is over obviously its worldwide the spending will begin again. I keep hearing that theres a surprising number of survivors that its not as bad as we thought. With the exception of some mortgages and some credit card, the forbearance wont really reverberate through the system reverberates to the banks. I know theres people who want to try to get the banks going. I say stick with whats working. I know its boring i know people want to rotate its something that Portfolio Managers love to do. I dont like to rotate into any stocks that have numbers cut thats really important. Im looking at david faber, who looks, of course, fabulous im thinking about him because its the credit markets we have to worry about, not the stocks they look great. Whats your concern in the credit market specifically, jim . Like hertz. Its not like theyre nothing. Hertz owns a lot of ca
Remain independent. Economy ts, the global takes precedence over the geopolitical tensions between the u. S. And china. The price of the bailout. Brussels set its criteria for backing the state aid pac package from berlin. We are just under an hour away from the start of cac equity trading in europe. Ets take a look at where the u. K. Markets were closed yesterday. They didnt get that take part in the risk on rally that we saw across the continent. We also see u. S. Equity futures rising. U. S. Cash trade was also closed yesterday to honor the memorial day holiday. As a result we see futures in new york up about 2 on the dow and nasdaq futures as well as s p futures up 1. 8 right now. Lets get your first word news. Here are todays top stories from the bloomberg terminal. Once a virus hot spot in europe, italy reported the fewest cases since february. Below 100 for a second day. The global death toll tops 340,000 with 5. 5 million cases confirmed. In england, Outdoor Markets and car sho
Netflix up and gains by apple and facebook getting help this morning from what we see in oil prices. Youll see wti is up almost 10 . Up about 9. 5 to 23. 34. That is a big come back for wti. Thank you, becky. Oil market market oil thats been a lot of the story want to bring you other headlines. United airlines as mentioned, planning to cut about 30 of management jobs in october according to a company memo that works out to 2,400 white collar jobs and has also warn the pilots to prepare for displacement that it will let go about 30 of its pilots. The airline has accepted aid and if they cant may pay by the end of september 30. This was always the issue, if you are going to give government money and taxpayer money to the airlines, you are going to force them to keep people on the payroll, you are eventually planning to let go of them anyway, there is something off about how this program was structured we want people to stay employed but either restructure to a bridge where they can run t
Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
Joe, the big story is oil prices once again im ready to move out past june move out where . June is too close if we are not going to open anything up, no reason to think it will be anything different than minus 38 a barrel it is related to the price of gold and the price of a suit, so i should have been buying andrew, you are spending 10 times what you are on a suit with those hugo boss things. Which none of them have belt loops for 4,000, you could get a couple of belt loops no hugo boss. It is ralph. Ralph who oil prices, it is not funny. This is out of the realm of anything weve ever seen brent crude only a 20year low you look at wti or what may was before the contract rolls. It is incredible supply shortage spiked overseas. The u. S. Movement, wtis june contract the price giving up earlier gains. Up 11 see, im ready to move to september. August at some point what does this mean for the saudis youve had your picture taken there on a sand dune youve got a feel. They should have done