Lots of earnings coming out. Ups is the latest. They are withdrawing their 2020 forecast for revenue, as well as eps, as we have seen from Many Companies trying to estimate the impact. Theirre withdrawing forecast. They are suspending the Share Buyback for 2020. We want to get you all of todays top moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin with the volatility in the u. S. Oil market. Wti at one point falling below 11 a barrel. Bps ceo, after the Company Released firstquarter results which showed a 2 3 drop in profit. We have a situation where we have excess supply, and storage is filling up. Cushing is 70 full. People think we will reach completely full sometime in may. We are very fortunate to have a large trading organization, and they have been able to find a physical home for our crude, but not everyone is that fortunate. What is happening here is a very simple case of supply and demand, and the market really isnt going to find some stability until that comes
Selling but the glut looms over the market. The politics of the pandemic. The u. S. And china continue to trade barbs over their handling of the crisis. Washington says the world has been let down. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting First Quarter gdp numbers quarter on quarter, seeing the biggest drop since 2008. Young talking about a contraction of 1. 4 . It is still a little bit better than expected. The expectation was a contraction of 1. 5 but it will still be the First Quarter on quarter retraction since 2009. The year on year number rising 1. 3 , is also bigger increase and was expected. It was expected it would only gain 1 . It is also growing this rise of 1. 3 year on year coming after growing more than 2 in the past two quarters, so it is still a slowdown from the previous quarter. We are seeing manufacturing taking a big hit, a contraction of 1. 8 for the Fourth Quarter and also contraction from the previous quarter. We are seeing the hit on retail trade, accomm
A gut punch for the tech sector. Apple is the latest to pull the inperson events. Its worldwide conference will and a red online only ashless society fear of the virus via the greenback. Well talk to the cofounder of square. Take a eantime, let us look at how wall street ended, this wild week. I have no words. Erased all of the losses that we had on yesterday, look at this, s p having its 20008 and tech really one of the big outperformers here followed by as you can see, 13 basis points. At one point it was above 1 96 basis about points. South of the border with volatility this week, it was all at one point, we had a 75 on the vix, coming down to 57. And crude, a supply and demand in there above 30 a barrel. That means a bloomberg commodity made up of a lot of energy, you are getting the weakest levels you have seen 2016. Since it is all about king dollar, the safe haven bids investors rushed and the bloomberg dollar index now the strongest in almost three years. That we sawet moves th
Dropping below the s p 500 dividend yield which is crazy. You can make more money on the yield on the s p 500 than on the 30 year. Unfortunately the algorithms are utilizing global yields as the correlation to equities and that seems to happen from time to time. Remember prior to that it was the chinese currency any time that traded above a 7 Point Equities move lower. So youre looking at global yields and youre basically understanding that protectionism doesnt exist in global asset pricing. What do you mean . Thats exactly what is going on right now so the United States is blessed with technology. The United States is blessed with low energy. Zero versus the rest of the world. Correct but why is that becky . Because we are seen as the best economy globally and thats where i see protectionism doesnt exist in asset pricing the rest of the world is just driving capital here. So you can see bond yields coming down precipitously but still see it being something that doesnt drag the stock m
Inversions plus, tiffanys mixed quarter, the luxury retailer with an earnings beat. Peloton getting set for the public debut, widening losses ahead of its initial Public Offering as we have said twice now, stocks are set to open lower on worries about Global Growth and the risk of recession. Investors paying close attention to that yield curve and its inversions of the two and ten as well as trade tensions between the u. S. And china about an hour ago or so, we got a president ial tweet, quote, so interesting to read and see all of the free and interesting advice im getting on china from people who tried to handle it before and failed miserably. They got taken to the cleaners, were doing very well with china. This has never happened to them before this being a preference to the large tariffs in place that are set to go up september 1 and then december 15 and the overall there has been some press that echoed some things i was hearing shared on monday that the idea that the chinese have