Ben leveson and jack howe. Ben, i want to start with you. We got a glimmer of hope as we see maybe social distancing is actual working, the growth of coronavirus cases is slowing. We also, of course, had unprecedented moved by the moves by the federal reserve. So tell us what you see in the market. Its got everything that it could have wanted this week. It got the good news, the illness appears to be slowing and then the fed coming in with this massive package where its going to buy highyield bonds and muni bonds to make sure that the markets are functioning correctly. You couldnt ask for anything more. And its just, its just spurred the market back to this height that its had. Its now up more than 20 from the bottom. Jon jon which is extraordinary, but you dont necessarily see this continuing. Were not going to see a v straight back to 30,000 on the dow. It just usually doesnt happen that way. Theres the too much that can go wrong. We can see the disease either pick up again or maybe
Leveson, jack howe. Ben, we saw stunningly horrible economic numbers last week, really unbelievable, but the market actually was higher on the week. What is happening . Yeah. I mean, this data was just terrible. Retail sale, industrial production, empire state manufacturing, you name it, it was probably the worst ever on record. Unemployment, the jobless claims continued to rise another 5 Million People lost their jobs. I mean, its just bad. But we knew it was going to be bad, and theres also two rays of hope out there. One was a new set of treatments that gilead is working on for covid actually might be work. We dont have all the data on it yet, but that provided a boost for stocks x. Then theres talk of reopening the economy, and thats also helped too because it signals perhaps there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Jg jon so, jack howe, i know youre looking at valuations, and as ben pointed out, there is light at the end of the tunnel, but still stocks look a Little Pricey give
Ben, i want to start with you. We got a glimmer of hope as we see maybe social distancing is actual working, the growth of coronavirus cases is slowing. We also, of course, had unprecedented moved by the moves by the federal reserve. So tell us what you see in the market. Its got everything that it could have wanted this week. It got the good news, the illness appears to be slowing and then the fed coming in with this massive package where its going to buy highyield bonds and muni bonds to make sure that the markets are functioning correctly. You couldnt ask for anything more. And its just, its just spurred the market back to this height that its had. Its now up more than 20 from the bottom. Jon jon which is extraordinary, but you dont necessarily see this continuing. Were not going to see a v straight back to 30,000 on the dow. It just usually doesnt happen that way. Theres the too much that can go wrong. We can see the disease either pick up again or maybe even show up in the next si
Hackett. On the barrons round table, ben leveson, jack howe. Ben, we saw stunningly horrible economic numbers last week, really unbelievable, but the market actually was higher on the week. What is happening . Yeah. I mean, this data was just terrible. Retail sale, industrial production, empire state manufacturing, you name it, it was probably the worst ever on record. Unemployment, the jobless claims continued to rise another 5 Million People lost their jobs. I mean, its just bad. But we knew it was going to be bad, and theres also two rays of hope out there. One was a new set of treatments that gilead is working on for covid actually might be work. We dont have all the data on it yet, but that provided a boost for stocks x. Then theres talk of reopening the economy, and thats also helped too because it signals perhaps there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Jg jon so, jack howe, i know youre looking at valuations, and as ben pointed out, there is light at the end of the tunnel, b
Leveson, jack howe. Ben, we saw stunningly horrible economic numbers last week, really unbelievable, but the market actually was higher on the week. What is happening . Yeah. I mean, this data was just terrible. Retail sale, industrial production, empire state manufacturing, you name it, it was probably the worst ever on record. Unemployment, the jobless claims continued to rise another 5 Million People lost their jobs. I mean, its just bad. But we knew it was going to be bad, and theres also two rays of hope out there. One was a new set of treatments that gilead is working on for covid actually might be work. We dont have all the data on it yet, but that provided a boost for stocks x. Then theres talk of reopening the economy, and thats also helped too because it signals perhaps there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Jg jon so, jack howe, i know youre looking at valuations, and as ben pointed out, there is light at the end of the tunnel, but still stocks look a Little Pricey give