370 but did end the day lower. It was the first down day we have seen in five trading sessions well watch what happens today we have a fed meeting coming up. That will be the pla is to watch as we hear from the fomc later today. The 10year just below. 6 a month. This has been the best month for the dow in 18 years because we are coming off of march because that was the worst year for the dow in 22 years. You see these huge swings first down and then up what we are watching in the equity markets the one thing about 10 crude, every dollar it goes up, we could go back to 30 every day. Lets use the dollar every day that might not happen. Equities do seem to do better. Thats a lot of room to go. Maybe. But sooner or later, thats not good either. The move came after data from the American Petroleum institute. Showing that crude jumped. That was 600,000 barrels less than expected. We saw some wild swings yesterday all around these low levels 10, 11 14 today, as you can see market stocks gave
Seeing some good things in its earnings. We are also getting a few good out of a study on a gilead drug, sending shares higher today. It looks like this particular duration taking the drug allowing for the same results, which means we will be able to get more testing done to see if it has an impact on covid19. Guy the data are bad, the science is good. That is probably the message coming out today. The gilead news having a positive effect on european stocks. We are near session highs. Today is aial sector prime driver. Volkswagen trading to the upside. Airbus reporting numbers today, trading around 10 higher today. Outve also had a surprise of cycle downgrade for italy. Yields moving up a little bit, not that much. Big volatility continuing in the crude space. Brent trading up by 10. 5 . Vonnie keep an eye is well on the fed decision this afternoon, and the statement, which will be interesting. Jay powell will hold his virtual News Conference in the afternoon. For his thoughts, we are
Companies that will start to benefit most. A lot of the companies that have been benefiting, the companies that will benefit most from this , not just the Big Companies like amazon, you have a lot of Small Companies that will all benefit from this. Peloton is one. We will get those earnings after the bell today. It will be interesting to see what they have to say. Lets get a broader breakdown of what happened in the markets. Taylor riggs is standing by with that report. Risk on acrosstheboard with tech leading the gains. Betterthanexpected results from countries like google. The small midcaps are outperforming 90 of those midcaps. They are up. I want to flip the board and show how far we have come from march 23. We are now up more than 31 , going back to the highest since march 6. We are on track for the best month since 1974. I want to flip the board again. Google had betterthanexpected results. Facebook had some positive momentum today. Tesla is still waiting to come out. Chris out e
This on top of slight gains yesterday at 4 00 oclock. Markets were up. As you see dow industrials up 33 points and nasdaq up 139. Getting america working once again. President trump announcing plans to reopen the economy in phases. The president went through it yesterday. The Small Business aid program has run dry on capitol hill. The battle is waging on how much money, how much to add to funds to help business and American Workers now. Coronavirus is taking a toll on the chinese economy. It has contracted 6. 8 in the First Quarter. First ever quarterly contraction and wuhans death toll revised up 50 adding fuel to questions of beijings actual reporting on the virus. Secretary of state mike pompeo live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern on the possible origins of the virus as more people focus on the lab in wuhan, something that ive been putting the spotlight for months. What actions can be taken to china for lack of transparency. Mornings with maria begins now. Positive news on gilead. You saw the
It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraordinary. And we are at a loss for words for them obviously, all these people are now in some way or another getting compensated this week. But i think its not enough, and i keep thinking that the longer we dont have and its not opening or closing america the longer we dont have faith in being with each other, youre going to have to keep seeing these numbers. I have to tell you, i was hoping i never