Australiachina relations think again with beijing slapping penalties. Australia will challenge the move at the wto. Shery lets get you started on how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure, down 1 10 of 1 of the open. This after u. S. Stocks jumped the most in six weeks during the regular session. It was a risk on trade. Stocks finish at the highest level since early march. The s p 500 saw gains in cyclical stocks that have been battered leg energy, autos, banks. More than 90 of the s p 500 gained ground. More haven stocks did lag. The nasdaq rose 2. 64 . We did get some comments from fed chair Jerome Powell before the hearing tomorrow. The fed prepared to use its full range of tools as the benchmark lending rate reaches zero until the economy is back on track. See how markets are shaping up in asia. Sophie kamaruddin joins us in hong kong. Soph . Sophie the bulls perk up in asia. We have futures pointing largely higher. Nikkei futures fell somewhat but h
Pete, i begin with you buffets gone. Are you staying around you know, it is disappointing. Its something thats a bit of a surprise, quite honestly we know what a hit the airlines took it was very clear and how the numbers look right now and some of the Recovery Period was he getting out on the lows i think there is some upside right now im only in the options for delta. They had a great run up until we found out the oracle was bailing. They cut that back a little bit. Bren, you have a small position in delta as well. If this is a statement this group of stocks is uninvestable, if the greatest seller sells out completely and who knows what prices he got out but thats statement in and of itself absolutely. Its a statement the buffet backstop is out of the airline stops. Were practicigmaticpragmatic. Were not dogmatic we will move out of this Airline Position because theres a ton of other companies that will not have this negative head wind we just dont know the trajectory of the u. S. Ec
All out on the hardhit travel giant. Its time to risk less to make more options action starts now. Lets get right to it. After a volatile day of trading, the dow, s p and nasdaq all managing to close the day in the green, despite the move higher all three major indices posting their worst week since march much of todays trading activity came in response to the retail Sales Numbers down more than 16 in april thats nearly double the decline of marchs retail numbers. So, mike, with all of this volatility in stocks, what were you seeing in the options pit . Yeah. So this is a very interesting situation we have here normally, in my professional experience anyway, when we have these types of periods like the one that weve been going through we have basically some form of a market crisis. We see elevated volatility and we see elevated and implied volatility and we reached some sort of a zenith and then it starts to fall off and you take about 90 days or so and you see what the market is imply
Its time to risk less to make more options action starts now. Lets get right to it. After a volatile day of trading, the dow, s p and nasdaq all managing to close the day in the green, despite the move higher all three major indices posting their worst week since march much of todays trading activity came in response to the retail Sales Numbers down more than 16 in april thats nearly double the decline of marchs retail numbers. So, mike, with all of this volatility in stocks, what were you seeing in the options pit . Yeah. So this is a very interesting situation we have here normally, in my professional experience anyway, when we have these types of periods like the one that weve been going through we have basically some form of a market crisis. We see elevated volatility and we see elevated and implied volatility and we reached some sort of a zenith and then it starts to fall off and you take about 90 days or so and you see what the Options Market is implying and normally in this situ
Suddenly very risk off, with the s p 500 and dow down. The nasdaq is down one point 25 for the worst performance. , dow jones news reporting it is facing criminal and civil scrutiny into years of 77 max Quality Control lapses. Once again, reporting that boeing is facing criminal and civil scrutiny into years of 737 max Quality Control lapses. As we know, boeing plays a part in many of these indices, so it is definitely weighing on those in the last few minutes, erasing most, if not all of its gains. In numbers tomorrow, which is worth bearing in mind. Inopean banks are firmly focus. Loan loss provisions a big part of what we are seeing here today. , one of which is results out today. What thee a listen to banking ceos we have been talking have had to say about the economy. Greatres obviously a degree of uncertainty around that range. We saw 3 billion of expected credit losses in the first quarter, up fourfold on the charge from q4 of last year. 7 billion to 11 billion range is an estim