The market while classic reopening plays like cruise lines, airlines, they are moving low. Net net we are flat as we stand on the s p 500 sara. Ahead on todays show, investing legend Jeremy Grantham, stunning rally we might be realizing emergence of a bubble. Plus well speak exclusively with Marilyn Booker, former head of Morgan Stanley suing the firm for race and gender discrimination lets focus on the stories were watching mike santoli with a look at broad market action. Steve liesman highlights from fed chair jay powell and covering coronavirus resurgence in beijing mike,ic can us off with a look at the session flat on the average butthat doesnt tell the story. The average holding the gains in the last three days, wavering around the flat line a lot but mostly due to the trillion dollar trio, amazon, apple, microsoft all outperforming. This is an oldfashioned early february day where the big megacap Growth Stocks holding index together as average stock slips a little bit this is the
Fed set 2022 and what the chairman will say and what i assume will be a Virtual Press conference today. Ofncine we will have plenty market action. We will look at the markets every 15 minutes, including what is happening in treasuries. We had the oecd coming out with their economic outlook. That was released about an hour ago, and the oecd, it is a smarter way of doing it, tom. Forecasting the pandemic would cause a Global Economic slump of 6 here, but if there is a second wave, that becomes a seven point 6 slump. It is a good way of visualizing percent comes a 7. 6 slump. By thewas taken aback differentials between the bar charts of europe and the United States. I did not have in my head how much worse the guesstimate is for gdp decline in the europe verses in the u. S. It is a very good report. Francine it is also because of where europe was in the economic cycle. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. A warning from jeffrey gund
Versus value. We had the nasdaq earlier this week trading at record highs. We have not really seen the other indexes get back to those record highs. Wayrussell 2000 is a mild is a mile away from its record highs. Are you comfortable with this idea that we only have a relatively small cohort of companies and sectors pushing this market higher, or do you want to see broader participation . I think it helps make sense of the market action. Thinking through, where would you want to put capital to work . What is driving this vshaped recovery . I think it would be quite irrational given what is going on with the pandemic and the broader economy. Investorson here for is where do you put capital to work from here on out. These positions within technology, there are some unstoppable trends like digitization, cybersecurity, which are really interesting given the work from home environment. Some of that, we do believe would continue to move higher. An area that you like. That not just the fact th
Winning streak falling by 300 points yesterday take a look at whats happening. Yesterdays session, the dow was down s p dipped back in for the year inching its way in the day before the nasdaq did power to a new record close and briefly broke above 10,000 for the first time. Lifted by amazon, apple, facebook and microsoft which all closed at record highs adding about 5 trillion. About the amount well spend in federal spending this year also take a look at whats been happening with u. S. Equity this hour both the dow and s p are under a little pressure. Dow indicated down by about 60 points s p down by 3. The nasdaq, even after all these gains is indicated up by about 17 points this morning taking a look at whats happening in the treasury market the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 797 crude oil prices are in the red. Crude oil prices, talking about the recovery theyve made. Talking about wti. Down about 2. 3 . What an improvement or a gain in crude oil prices now above 38 thank you it is
I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both the ppp and Unemployment Insurance are quite innovative in th