555 dow points. Ahead on todays show, were going to dive into this plunge in oil prices, what it means for the u. S. Economy and jobs to the financial losses reverberating through the market right now plus we will speak with illinois governor j. B. Pritzker and former commerce secretary Penny Pritzker, his sister, about illinoiss battle against the coronavirus and the race for more protective gear and testing. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching with 58 minutes left of trading. Brian sul vab focusing on crude oil collapse, mike santoli will tie that in with broad movements were seeing today latest on the snag on government funding. Brian, first to you on this unprecedented move in oil. A day for the history books. It is a day for the history books. Ending a futures contract in negative 30 or what it was. Sara and wolf, it doesnt make sense as i talked about in power lunch as well. We started the day around 10. We continued to fall now negative 30 these are contracts. Negativ
Julia . Thats right. Disney cfo christine mckarther announced disney will be sustaining the dividend which will preserve 1. 6 billion in cash and this comes as the Company Announces that covid19 cost disney 1. 4 billion to its bottom line in the quarter and that includes a hit to advertising, movie delays and think, most of all, the closure of disneys parks. The disney parks alone had an operating income loss of 1 billion in the quarter due to covid driving a 58 drop in operating income now heres what the new ceo says about the plan that he Just Announced to reopen disney shanghai on may 11th take a listen. The approach we take may include implementation of density control measures as well as health and prevention procedures that comply with state and federal guidelines we are seeing encouraging signs of a gradual return for some semblance of normalcy in china the company talking about how before it began to close its domestic parks in midmarch they had been seeing an increase in both
Tonight. We have got guy adami and we have tim seymour and steve grasso and brinmar trust jeff mills. Guy, were up 770 points on the dow and we have oil spiking, as well and banks participated and a lot of different sectors participated in this mini run or mini rally and whatever you want to call it is it because of fed help . Is it because some of these coronavirus numbers came down, giving us a reason for optimism or was it Something Else yeah. Typically its all of the above and ill have to reposition my camera in a second and i apologize if the shot is lose pep yesterday made sense to me in the way the market traded up and failed at the levels that we talked about it didnt make sense to me, but to your point, i think the howard marx article helped and the fact that Bernie Sanders dropped out helped and i think the dr. Fauci comments helped and its an amalgamation of a lot of things that are positive and i understand the reasons for optimism my concern is even with the market current
Dose of downgrades today, well find out if any of our traders are touching our stock shares are lower right now as the companys Conference Call is underway well break down any of the big headlines that come out. We begin with an historic collapse in energy prices. Oil falling below zero dollars a barrel for the First Time Ever the main contract tumbling more than 300 to around minus 36 a barrel yes, minus 36 a barrel. The more actively traded june oil contract also falling hard in todays session look at what happened to some of the energy stocks. The etf held up. Are there stocks that are presenting some big opportunities in this crude collapse guy adami, could we be seeing some sort of a sign of a floor for some of these equities wait a second, we dont just go right into the show i think the last time you were request us was probably december 5th or 6th, is that right . Yes here we are december 3rd, were back april 20th, youre not going to say anything. I dont want to speak on behalf
10 , but lets be honest the markets are still down big time this year so cold comfort for investors who may have gotten in toward the end of last year well dissect all of that. One big theme today is the Federal Reserve effectively riding to the rescue of the bond market and even the etf bond market look at the hyg, something we have been highlighting and were going on more than a month now up 7 as well as the fed as it says there goes all in and we are all in with a great lineup for you again. We have guy, tim, weve got karen and weve got steve grasso it is going to be a beg hour we have Paul Macaulay with rare mineral supply chains and i want to get to steve grasso because the Federal Reserve, and i know it is very difficult for the audience out there who is not doing this every day to keep track of the alphabet soup of acronyms the Federal Reserve came in today with another 2 trillion program. Did they effectively bail out a big part of the etf market yeah. I think they did so the f