Edition of squawk box, which is starting right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Weve been watching with the u. S. Equity market and things are under pressure dow was down by 600 points on friday and adding to those losses today dow futures right now down by 273 points earlier this morning we were down by 350, so this is some improvement from a half an hour ago. The s p is down by 28 points the nasdaq off by 61 lets get rightto our big stor of the morning that is, of course, the Berkshire Hathaway meeting that was health over the weekend. Warren buffett speaking out about the Global Pandemic and his recent investment moves. This was a little different this year no crowds. Usually theres 40,000 people there. This time it was just buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Vice President on stable but his message was still received loud and clear. Buffett made the case that you should never bet against america, b
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
Their best to support their teams without going inside the state. Should get a welcome to the Program Countries across europe are beginning to blacks lock down measures have made warnings from experts and health is that it will be a slow and gradual process schools in germany are getting ready to reopen on monday after they closed in much even families struggling to adjust to the challenge of home schooling now teachers face a different challenge bringing lessons back to the classroom well keeping students safe. This is the ask to linger in Elementary School not far from minds stuff here are getting ready for the children return to school. New physical distancing rules means. Pupils will be allowed in the classroom. 2 distancing begins before the children even enter the narrow hallways. And bring with me markings out in front of the school where the children will line up each child warmly then be allowed to enter the classroom individually. The new measures mean tabletops and door hand
Today. We are seeing crude fall 13 when it comes to w. T. E and the phillipines, that is one of the weaker side. But when it comes to the june ontracts, down 4 to 19 bucks. Look at what it comes to w. G. E . We are hovering around the 11 mark when it comes to new york crude, down 13. 6 . We mentioned about the United States oil fund, the largest oil fund in the world selling off e and ingsings in w. G. Unexpected move. Lets get more analysis with jp morgan asia yeah strategist. Is this starting to hurt the equity market . I think the moves that we are seeing in the oil complex is very, very specific. And looking across massive impacts doesnt i think the easiest thing to see the forward looking long data futures on Oil Prices Remains rather stable and it is not assuring. And the weakness we are seeing the new york futures is specific to the supply and storage they are seeing. I wouldnt put too much into that will market at this point. Interesting you say that, there is a divergence and
Virus could soon peak in new york city. Weve already seen the apex in madrid italy is clearly over the hump that means buy storks. Cover your shorts. The bull is backs todays run d 1627 points marking its best day in two weeks s p soaring 7. 03 . Nasdaq 7. 3 . Can it really be this easy or does this represent too much optimism i think its a bit of the latter wall street is a group of index buyers and traders when we care about the new number of coronavirus cases, number of hospitalizations and mortality rate index buying was so intense it moved stocks like they were play things now, does that mean we should buy the nasdaq when we have more ventilators, sell it if we dont have enough personal protective equipment . Do we buy the s p retail etf when we get a decent number from, i dont know, Governor Cuomo . No, its kind of ridiculous. Were simply seeing, though, the flip side of what happens when people were downbeat as they were last week when the president s team told us some pretty ho