Well china for instance reporting an increase of cases and u. S. Officials warning this week will be the toughest yet as hospitals struggle to maintain and eck up and down their capacity. Coming up on todays show, blackstone is donating millions of dollars to support Health Care Workers and First Responders in new york well speak to the ceo about that and his thoughts on this volatile market. Plus, well be joined by the ed of the transports union. 59 minutes left of trade. Lets focus on the big stories we are watching nowful meg with the latest on treatments for the virus. Peter from canter fitzgerald is here with us to talk b about the volatility in the oil market in particular, but first, mike, want to get your take on todays rally and where this puts us a pretty crisp rally, cant argue with that. Where it takes us is one of the most interesting things. A oneyear chart, 26. 30ish on the s p 500. Its exactly where we closed on march 30th so you remember that was that big three day ral
The etf industry, big numbers are par for the course. Our analyst Eric Balchunas is used to big numbers. Eric this is no exception. This is the end of the year, the last show, so normally go over weekly. You today numbers are big. 324 billion. That is the second biggest year of etf flows ever. 7 organic growth. Lets look at the top leaderboard of the year. Bti broad market. 31 , that is the best return for the s p since 1997, even though it did not feel like that. Usmv was a shocker. Interesting for smart data. By one basisee point, enough to win this internal the battle. That is the hangover from 2018 and rates falling. Take a look at the Asset Classes. January to october, equities not that big. 40 of their flows in the past two months. Fixed income, look at that drop off. Gold as well. Look at their growth this year. A little below average but 18 look at their growth this year. Fixed, way above last year. Lets look at the leaderboard in terms of the issuers who won and lost. For the
Welcome. Good to have you with us on this thursday. Our Investment Committee on the table, jim, steve, michael is back. We begin with surge, s p and dow hitting fresh highs today. Trade the reason. Reports say the u. S. And china agreeing to roll back some tariffs in phases, doesnt take much to get stocks climbing. Jim, weve been asking all week if theres a green light for this sevenweek surge into the end of the year. Were higher today, what do you think . I think there is a green light. What we were worried about yesterday was somebody not wearing the right shoes for when the meeting was going to happen. Obviously thats yaeesterdays news. Today theres talk that the tariffs may be rolled back and the market support in the is still i market that teeters whoon happens wi on what happens with trade. But were still waiting for that euphoria phase. I dont think we get that this year i think thats something where the stars have to align in 2020. More on trade. More benign politics. These ar
Lower on concerns about the health of the u. S. Economy and a number of new bearish notes from new wall street firms hurts the sentiment further. Lets check in on the biggest losers in the dow, which as morgan just said, is down sharply, near session lows, which were 462 points. Its currently down 410 points, as you can see, pfizer down 4 Goldman Sachs down 2. 7 cat down healthily 2. 56. The 30year just hit a yeartodate low of 2. 117 t the. Joining us for the full hour, victoria fernandez at cross mark global investment. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure when you see yields slip like they have done, like they did last week, does it make you want to press the sell button for broader u. S. Equities . We dont want to sell we have that longer term outlook. We think theres a lot of volatility going on and thats going to continue to play out. We are looking at these treasury buys, not just from Short Coverings but outright buying as well but i think you stay invested at this point there we
And their currency is under siege. Our problem is a Federal Reserve too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much and that i was right. They must cut rates bigger and faster and stop the ridiculous quantitative tightening now. Which gets us to the markets this morning, jim. We have been talking about negative rates, they only continued to worsen. It is a strange phenomenon to be sure but it is also a worrisome cycle people believe because you have negative rates that auger for weaker Economic Growth or a lack of growth you have what are it becomes selfreinforcing you have the global coordinated monetary easing going on right now. And you have the first time people talk you about the possibility of rates here falling dramatically from where they are now have you ever seen a ten year whipsawed as much in yield in the half hour period as we did this morning almost as if someone wants to get ahead of even lower yields there is a big short position in bonds. Th