Handling protests breaking out across the nation. Lets get straight to Julia Boorstin with the very latest. Julia. Melissa, Mark Zuckerberg did defend himself and his stance in that meeting with facebook employees. Facebook just issuing a statement moments ago saying open and honest discussion has always been part of facebooks culture. Mark had an open discussion with employees today, as he has regularly over the years hes grateful for their feedback the New York Times reporting that zuckerberg said in this meeting that of the decision not to flag President Trumps post, quote, when the looting starts, the shooting starts is what he called a tough decision but that it was pretty thorough zuckerberg reportedly saying that the companys free speech policies show that the right action where we are right now is to leave this up zuckerberg reportedly saying in this meeting with employees that he knew this decision was going to lead to people within the company being upset as well as to critic
With you great to see at least your picture here and hear your voice. I want to start with the markets in general and warren buffets comments his comments appeared to go against popular wisdom i think in how to manage investments he sold airlines low, didnt buy anything during the historic selloff i wonder what you think from a Research Perspective how investors playing at home should what they should take away from that after having one of the worst months ever in march april has ended with one of the strongest rallies in about 30 years across a number of benchmarks the s p 500, the nasdaq, and u. S. High grade. So i think that you should expect some consolidation this month. Now there is just so much liquidity in the system. We estimate the Central Bank Balance sheets will expand 17 this year. You dont bet against that we still think you should be, you know, constructive, but consolidation is in order. The markets responded the fastest, the virus and the economy last and the data pri
Whats up, zoom is up, amd, shopfy, nvidia, stocks that would be categorized as stayathome stocks, companies that benefit from people using their computers, using broadband and video conferencing, Something Like that. Maybe thats whats driving the trade for the morning thus far well see where it goes from here, morguen. Thats exactly why the nasdaq is positive, albeit just above the flat line as the quote unquote stayathome stocks, and worth noting that the small caps, the russell 2,000 is underperforming down 1. 5 where the nasdaq has sort of become the stayathome stock shutin index, if you will, because of all of those tech names that are levered to the dynamics weve seen playing out in society in the last couple months, the small caps aremuch more geared towards the reopening and the prospects of reopening, given the fact they are so domestically skewed economically sensitive and tiered to what its going to be like to get workers back into jobs and the like and what that process is g
Earnings and econ perspective and focused on what reopening looks like we have Something Like 16 states that have already put forward plans to begin reopening and lifting restrictions to parts of the economy plus seeing some of those efforts take place in europe as well key to all of this, though, jon is testing and treatment, something were going to talk about in this hour. We are certainly. Want to mention the major indices higher, all three, the dow, s p and the nasdaq, by about 1 as we look at this very active week in earnings season, particularly in tech were going to get microsoft and amazon earnings wednesday and thursday everybody likes to focus in on the cloud lines in those earnings because those are the two biggest players. I think the question on cloud for them is going to be which customers are using more services than in the past, which customers are using fewer and then as we start to look out beyond the second quarter, whats the Impact Likely to be in the second half of
It took a tumble in less than six weeks and then rebounded 36 of the lows from april yesterday. The s p down 34 from february 19 to march 23, less than five weeks. Crazy to think about how quickly that fall came then we were back up 30 off the low for april. Joe . If you used april then i could get to 82 years i dont think sorkin was listening to me. I was i said, no, i dont remember. You are always saying maybe i wasnt around for that here is my proposition for you, andrew sell in may is a common expression go away ive never felt more like selling in may than i do right now. I have to be honest. It is not just you. Look at the dow this morning down 454 points. Just to test whether this kind of thing works. It would be impossible for me to go long with money what was he, 163 or something. I saw another guy say it is going to be so hard over the next year that we are looking at another 40 drop others that say the average recession that the market doesnt bottom for 11 months although jim