That really made an impression on markets in europe. Lets look at how we are faring in the United States because we are down here, too, though not by as much. The 10 year yield at 65 basis points. Crude oil has erased any gains at saw after the drawdown in inventories earlier. 5. 42now trading hunting a barrel for wti it is now trading at 25. 42 a barrel for wti. Fed chair jay powell speaking this morning to adam posen of the Peterson Institute in washington, d. C. He pushed back against the idea of negative Interest Rates in the United States. He urged monetary and fiscal policy makers to rise to the challenge in order to avoid unprecedented downside risk. Chair powell while the economic response has been timely and appropriately large, it may not be the final chapter given that the path ahead is both highly uncertain and subject to significant downside risks. Economic forecasts are uncertain at the best of times, and today the virus raises a new set of questions. Vonnie for more, we
Jobs falling by almost 3 million but much less than what economists were expecting. Coming up on todays show, as more companies address the rising tensions in america, well seek with ursula burns, the first black ceo of a fortune 500 company, about how Business Leaders can work for real equality and change. Well Talk Solutions with her. Plus the ceo of etsy will join us to talk about what his company is doing to address societal issues and how the coronavirus has changed his business the big stories we are watching in this final hour of trading, as we look at session highs, mike santoli tracking the market rally. Leslie covering boeing and more on the vaccine front. Mike, start us off with another day and another big rally. A big one this was a day it seems you had a lot more people who decided they had to quit fighting the rally. An acceleration to the upside. Take a look at a oneyear chart of the s p 500 weve been talking about this in here, 3,130 the number. Weve been pointing out t
Disinformation and propaganda, President Trumps rhetorical assault on beijing steps up a gear. The u. S. Senate passes a bill to the last Chinese Companies on european and delist Chinese Companies on european indexes. The bank of england president said get of rates are not being ruled out. Plus, cut to junk. Angela merkel says a decision on the lufthansa bailout should be expected shortly after the German Airline becomes the latest to lose its Investment Grade status on the s p. Take a look at futures this morning. We do see losses in futures. Euro stoxx 50 futures down a little bit more than 1 . 0. 6 6 . Ures falling we see drops on u. S. Futures, as well. S p, and nasdaq futures all down by more than 0. 5 . Anna, the gmm . Anna lets have a look at the gmm. Quite a mixed picture in the Asian Session after some gains in europe and the u. S. Yesterday. Lifted in part by some better corporate reporting in the u. S. We see a little bit of nervousness around geopolitics and the ongoing ten
Deterioration here. We are suddenly down. 6 having gone negative a few minutes ago. Our bloomberg reporter is suggesting it is chinas response to President Trumps accusation. Safeguarding it will its interest and offer countermeasures after trump sent, a letter to congress a strategic approach. We will see if this continues throughout the afternoon. 500 isow the s p down. 6 . The Boston Scientific is down 5 . Best buy is down 5 , and many other companies. The 10year yield at 66 basis points. Dire Economic Data again today. Justollar index, it was about 99 at the beginning of todays session. Above 34 a barrel now. Higher. Long as it is lets talk about what is happening with the negative rates in the u. K. Replicated over in the United States as well. The eurozone has that experience. Tom withfrancine and the former governor of the bank of england. This was his take. I dont think it is credible to believe a longterm solution to the problems we are facing can be achieved by moving Interes
A headline that i found actually was geek boy from ireland and he tweeted at us and he said christ report fake customers in the restaurant an illusion of demand theres a kaiser report analogy in there somewhere and he was referring to an artsy headline that one german restaurant has found a solution to maintaining social distancing on his reopening manikins the family run businesses fail tables with plastic people in order to keep customers apart and create a vibrant dining atmosphere that is not creepy at all no not creepy. No its like that film airplane remember if they had the blow up pilot. Yes my ear. Yeah all kinds of mr fall out catch that film very missing well yes the potemkin villages in Northern Ireland during the crisis make it look like stuff was going on but there was Business Activity where there were no Business Activity so this illusion of demand is key to our modern economy because its demand 1st then supply is lay people think about supply 1st the demand like are goi