We are waiting for that bricker hughes baker hughes breakdown. We had six straight weeks of declines. On a decline coming into this week. Total rig count is 408 according to baker hughes. We are still waiting for some of the oil rigs specifically to come in. When we get that data, we will come back to that. You can see crude prices are up 3 . Overall in the last five days, the Energy Sector has been a pretty poor performer. Performer today but still on track for six week of gains. It is the best week going back to april 10. The largest of streak you have had since may 18. You are getting some of that rig count data falling to 408 rigs. I want to look at the canadian dollar. Getting some weakness relative to dollar strength. Bank of canada named a new governor, going back to a veteran who led in the 2008 crisis. Finally, it is all about the individual stocks we are watching. Reported operating income next quarter could be negative. American getting a price target cut. One dollar a share
Friday coming off the exhaustion of all of that central bank news, the analysis of the markets, the big tech earnings. I would focus on this may day, on the persistent theme, the dawning awareness about a seriousness a pandemic continues to be. One lighter note, there is a beach war in america. The governor of california is shutting down the beaches while alabama and texas are talking about opening the beaches. That is the distraction in a very difficult virus statistics. Howcine it is interesting in the u. S. It differs from state to state. With the bloomberg first word news in new york city is Viviana Hurtado. Viviana we begin with u. S. Federal reserve expanding the scope of its main Street Lending program. Now businesses with up to 15,000 employees will be eligible, so will those with up to 5 billion in revenue. The central bank is expanding its paycheck protection facility. This after the initial round of funding was spent in under two weeks. European central bank looking to ease
Munster. Hospitality disruptor. Shortterm holds that combine elements of hotels and apartments. We will hear from the ceo. But first to our top story. Record highs on tuesday on averages, but Something Interesting happened during the day. The s p 500 tech index closed down slightly. Is this a sign of trouble to come . Joining us to talk about what this means is bloombergs abigail doolittle. I want to take a look at a chart im showing in my terminal which highlights some of the profit taking. I am wondering if that is what happened today given the overbought levels on the tech sector. Abigail i think you are dead on with that, taylor. That is exact a what that represents, you little bit of profittaking. That stock up so much this year, and that is really what makes today so interesting, the nuances you were talking about, the nuances, each finishing at a record high. The stocks and chip index also finishing i record high. The reason that stands out is they are leading up all year, up mo
We will get thoughts from gene munster. Hospitality disruptor. Shortterm holds that combine elements of hotels and apartments. Will hear from the ceo. But first to our top story. Tuesday ons on averages, but Something Interesting happened during the day. The s p 500 tech index closed down slightly. Is this a sign of trouble to come . Joining us to talk about what this means is bloombergs abigail doolittle. I want to take a look at a chart im showing in my terminal which highlights some of the profit taking. I am wondering if that is what happened today given the overbought levels on the tech sector. Abigail i think you are dead on with that, taylor. That is exact a what that represents, you little bit of profittaking. That stock up so much this year, and that is really what makes today so interesting, the nuances you were talking about, the nuances, each finishing at a record high. The stocks and chip index also finishing i record high. The reason that stands out is they are leading up
Where i was over the weekend among the headlines and there were a lot, a warning about potential risk for the u. S. If Tech Companies decide not to do business with the pentagon. My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on department of defense, this country is in trouble. That just cant happen so we have to, it is up to the Senior Leadership to say i understand these are emotional issues, we dont have to agree on everything, but this is how were going to do it we are going to support the department of defense. This country is important. Meantime, heavily redacted 103 page document that was just made public a short while ago, amazon says President Trump launched, behind the scenes attacks against the company, which led to it losing out on the major jedi contract for Cloud Services that we have been covering so closely. Guys, in general the bottom line from jeff bezos at the event this weekend is amazon, you could make the argument origin, the Space Company looking for Nation