Consumer sentiment levels rising slightly there are some signs momentum is faltering. Corporate america making big layoffs. Underlying the wall street main street divide. 59 minutes left in the trading week s p 500 set for its sixth Straight Record closing high 7th day in a row of gains and 5th week in a row of gains coming up in a few minutes. Were going to speak with James Bullard about this weeks major fed policy shift the strength of this recovery, washington stimulus stalemate and much more. A bold call on energy, we will speak with a strategist who says now is the time to buy the sector continues to lag far behind the Broader Market, despite todays pop. Lets get straight to this resilient market, the s p 500 looking to close out its 7th straight day of gains, the dow turning positive for the year. Mike san tolly tracking all that action resilient, relentless, persistent, this uptrend, the s p 500 clicks the 3500. So essentially bumping up against that thats your High Water Mark i
Headlines. Fang with all the headlines in the greens, apple, amazon, netflix up 1. 5 . Tech remains hot, hot, hot. Still to come, definitely coming on todays show, coronavirus cases climb and states continue to rethink their opening plans. Well speak with fed chair James Bullard, what it means for the economy. Shares of Taylor Morrison posted record sales well speak to the ceo about whats driving the strength in the housing mark up a third of the percent. Lets start focusing on the big stories. Mike santoli tracking the markets, meg tirrell with the rising case count and courtney watching flags in the Retail Sector mike, lets kick things off with you. Market idling right here, holding above the flat line for the moment it seems like stealth pullback consolidation weve had last few weeks, s p 500, talking about a summer trading range this is what we had last summer. It looked like that on a narrow basis. Scares in both directions. Were not there in terms of prolonged sideways action. Th
1 2 3 boeing is having a big day today. The reopening trade is in full effect Piper Sandler is up today. They say the pain trade is up. They reiterate their 3,600point yearend target for the s p, which sounded crazy when they first put that out, but now i wonder if we have to start looking at that as a coming formali formality, as crazy as that sounds look, ive been adding capital to the market and if you asked me a month ago what i would be doing, i would tell you, i would be down 50 in my exposure not for performance, but for taking money off the table this has sort of hit the frenzied period. The reason why its doing that is because its a valuation holiday, its a fundamental holiday. And when you see things that are happening in the real world, the social injustice, the division in the u. S. , the division in terms of International Relations with merckel not wanting to come to g7, with the relationships of china, you would say, you know what, the markets getting through that so i fe
Bullishness as manifested by a huge part of the market, i call it the 11 11. 5 trillion portiono the market, which is related to the cramer covid index you cant get enough of these stocks these are the companies that do best when you stay at home whether it with General Mills, a surprise preannouncement that was extraordinary yesterday or a lot of the apple number bumps today. Even just out of the woodwork abbvie put on the recommended list why . Now you can stay at home and go get your botox there is just absolutely a level of bullishness about this stay at home, work at home market then theres the rest of the market, which is just awful. And astonishing. Well get to calhouns comments on the today show in a moment i know you have logitech on tonight. Sales up 13. Theres a lot of web cams, mice, and keyboards that are being bought right now if you want logitech. Its so interesting because soi. They have a particular mouse that is almost as good as a wired mouse. People want that becaus
Discusses the Coronavirus Response. House5 am, daniel ober discusses how the u. S. Power grid is responding to the pandemic. Host good morning, it is wednesday, april 1, 2020. President trump in the task force released new estimates projecting the deadly virus 100,000240,000 americans even under the current efforts. He warns those numbers could be much higher if they dont follow the guidelines aimed at keeping the virus from spreading. This morning onwashington journal we get reaction to the projections. Also, you could send us a text this morning. You do, please include your name and where you are from. On social media and twitter it is cspanwj. Very good wednesday morning to you. You could start calling in now. Some of the front pages coming off of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force briefing yesterday. This is Washington Post. Dire, thetoll is front page of the new york and this from the front page of the Washington Times. I want everymp american to be prepared for the hard days