Bullishness as manifested by a huge part of the market, i call it the 11 11. 5 trillion portiono the market, which is related to the cramer covid index you cant get enough of these stocks these are the companies that do best when you stay at home whether it with General Mills, a surprise preannouncement that was extraordinary yesterday or a lot of the apple number bumps today. Even just out of the woodwork abbvie put on the recommended list why . Now you can stay at home and go get your botox there is just absolutely a level of bullishness about this stay at home, work at home market then theres the rest of the market, which is just awful. And astonishing. Well get to calhouns comments on the today show in a moment i know you have logitech on tonight. Sales up 13. Theres a lot of web cams, mice, and keyboards that are being bought right now if you want logitech. Its so interesting because soi. They have a particular mouse that is almost as good as a wired mouse. People want that becaus
Likely to hit around 15 . This morning, the private sector reports the loss of 20,236,000 jobs just in april. Reopening the economy is designed to try to bring back some or most of those jobs. So here we are. With all the bad Economic News breaking around us, what does the market do . Well, it rallies. For the third day in a row, the market opens higher. This is a bet on the recovery and a bet on the federal reserve, which is putting at least 4 trillion into the economy, and the treasury which is putting in over 3 trillion. Thats called stimulus. Investors appear to like it. The dow is going to be up about 140 points. Nice gain there. The s p up 15, nasdaq up about, what, 58, 60. Look at this. Oil, 23 a barrel. Thats where it is now. Earlier, it had been at 25. There has been a dramatic fall in supply and a hopedfor pickup in demand as some states start opening up their economies. So thats why we are in the mid 20s for the price of oil. But you can say goodbye to the gas price decline.
The answer is not for a long time even the greatest optimists think a mass vaccine in the middle of 2021 maybe something smaller this fall the idea of something that is just given to you in the hospital iv that makes it so it eliminates the lets say the odds of you dying, its something that makes us feel like maybe this is the tamiflu for this dreaded disease i think, of course that makes people feel more optimistic. Everybody wants the country open, but nobody wants to do its been that stark, that bipolar. How about we get it open versus getting really sick. Thats something that people will say open it up, thats why the market is flying its not the tamiflu, its for when you are already fairly sick its very important i dont want to discount it in any way, listening to Scott Gottlieb has been one of the more rational voices on this throughout. He frames it properly. We actually do still need those antivirals that would be taken earlier in the course of the disease to mitigate its effect
And the estimated number of deaths we will get ism today. Adp is out several european banks are spending dividends jim, how much of this mornings action does reflect the grim picture that the white house set forth yesterday . Its difficult to imagine how, lets say, optimistic people were versus what the president said last night. I think many people in the stock market understood that the numbers were completely understated. You did leave the office saying, wow, that could be just terrible because they didnt caveat it as much as you might have thought they didnt say, all right, but were doing great in this state, this state, this state they said look, this is the reality. I think the reality rolls back some of the 19. 9 gain we had last week in the s p then whats going to roll back the rest is if we have credit problems ill defer to david. David knows behind the scene what day it is today today is the day youre supposed to pay your rent david, a lot of people wont make those payments,
Day where we can see some real progress. Charles what this means for businesses coming up, what this means for businessing coming up. Plus as more may be needed, a man whose devotion to the constitution sparked a uproar on friday. Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie will be one of my favorite guests today. Food network host guy fieri joins us spores forces with other Celebrity Chefs to create a relief fund for restaurant workers across the country. He will join me at the government of the hour. All that and much more on making money. Charles briefly exited bear market territory. The s p, nasdaq however, remain more than 20 off their alltime highs. Not all bear markets, folks, are the same. In fact according to Goldman Sachs there are three types of bear markets. You have got structural, the ones with the most devastating downsize. Theyre caused by financial imbalances. You have cyclical. These correspond with normal slowing economic cycles. Then event driven. Event driven bear markets a