And volatile session the. 5 rate cut by the fed morning doing little to calm markets. Maybe exj rating the selling dow giving up half of mondays gapes at the end of the day down 785. Keep this in mind. The dow is now down 3,500 points from highs of less than a month ago. Stocks of course a story but the big story of the day was the bond market. Holy smokes. Bond yields continuing to fall on the 10year, in fact the freefall at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time at 0. 99 . The drawing is not good but you get the point. Under 1 on the benchmark 10year note we have never seen that before buyers not just coming into bonds, also flocked into gold and the gold mining stocks the precious metal up 3 the miners even more the gdx, a gold mining dpks index up 5 today. If you tuned in last night we hope you did everybody around the desk said they were not buying into the gains. In fact, guy adami i believe you said well rally to the 3,500 on the s p 500 on fail you nailed it what do you think of the markets n
Its a good discussion for you guys to pick up. Be well, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody, to an important show tonight im Brian Sullivan the Virus Outbreak rattling nerves thats a live look outside thes that zach. Normally at is this time, times square would be packed with tourists, theater goers, commuters right now it is eerily quiet. The president saying the virus could stick around until late summer the impact being felt from main street to wall street. The dow ending the day down roughly 13 . An incredible 3,000 point drop by far, the biggest point drop ever apple down 12 microsoft lost 14 today every s p 500 sector finished deep in the red, perhaps the most incredible move of all, bogue down 23 pshs, to 129. Boeing was a nearly 400 stock just a few months ago. The selloff comes despite unprecedented action for the Federal Reserve, which did little to ease peoples concerns we have full Team Coverage for you tonight. Lets kick things off with bob pisani, who again is on the
Im also brian sullivan. Welcome. What a week this was and guy adami, i am not going to take anything away from a dow that rose nearly 2,000 points and its better for most peoples portfolios than it falling 2,000 points. But i believe were going to eamon are we going to eamon . You have time now to think about that question. Lets go to eamon lets go right now to eamon jafers who is at the white house with more news following the president s News Conference which certainly moved market, eamon. Boy, did it it was a thousandpoint spike while the president was hearing. Traders clearly liked what they heard and the president takinga i ceofocused approach and bringing on the ceos of target and name checking google the president i thought taking a much different tone on the coronavirus. Hes tended to sort of minimize the danger of this over the past couple of weeks and yet today he said Something Different heres what he said. In the coming weeks we will all have to make changes and sacrifices,
Into correction. Meaning theyre more than 10 down from the highs. Selling has been hard, fast and really until late today a bit indiscriminate hard to believe that just last wednesday we were talking on this very show about alltime highs. Since then, the Broader Market down 13 18 s p 500 stocks lost more than 20 this week. All told, the s p 500 wiped out nearly four trillion dlarps in market value over the past ten sessions thats the budget of the United States of america. So, guy adami heading to the weekend, im pulling a fast one on you fast money one on you you. Fire away. The big violent move up into the day you know the chatter im not saying anything out of school maybe the fed steps in over the weekend and does something do you think we see something from jay powell and company this weekend your buddies. A consolidated Global Central Bank thing which the answer is yes why they think that will be effective in this is jond my scope. Im not an economist its more madness on top of th
That china would take more measures to bolster its economy. Companies from adidas to tyson are spelling out what the impact will be on their bottom lines and the pace of homebuilding fell less than expected and it surged to a 13year high our closer today, with the debate just showers way, former chair sheila bair willbe here to discuss a wealth tax, financial transaction tax and how markets are responding why she says as a republican shes voting for warren. Thats all coming up after the bell joining us for the hour, keith bliss, welcome back, keith. Thank you very much. The question has been asked a lot of times, and yet you still look at these markets and record high territory going up every day despite the coronavirus warnings and fears and cases and you wond frer if theres a disconnect. I dont think theres a disconnect i didnt think there was going to be much to this story its a serious story and could impact the markets the longer it goes on. Now were starting to see the trend is c