Google ad demand although previrus quarterly was of. That march was difficult. Started. Ts get you we are seeing u. S. Futures coming online, flat, a bit of Downside Pressure. We have u. S. Stocks in the regular session wally. The Downside Pressure on big tech, really leading the declines. The nasdaq composite reversing two sessions of gains. U. S. Consumer confidence dropped in april to the lowest since 2014. There is a big week of earnings not to mention centralbank decisions ahead of the fomc meeting. We have the dollar falling because it has been weighed down. Rising wti rebounding, in the overnight session, above the 13 a barrel level. It felt in the new york session fell in the new york session. There were some swings in the u. S. Oil fund, saying it will sell out june positions. Haidi our next guest says the next turning seasons will not offer much to investors but they are bullish on u. S. Stocks. Jim macdonald joins us. Great to have you with us. You are more bullish in the u.
The p. M. I. Well dive deep into this in a bit. Look at the boards. The dollar still holds on to the retreat. That is helping some asian currencies out there. Ere holding on 706. We were near the 100day moving average. Were siegristance now that the dollar seems to be hovering around the twoweek lows despite the fact but were seeing the dollaryen pretty much at 168 but seeing at least six days of gains so far for the japanese currency. Watching oil price. We see it climbs once again. You are seeing w. T. I. Futures. 4 higher for brent crude. Gold snapped out of four dives declines. It is largely unchanged. Hovering around 62 basis points now. We have the First Official gauge for chinas economy in april. Weakened again. Investors are waiting to see what steps the pboc may take to bolster the economy. Our guest from citigroup joins us this morning. What is your assessment of the p. M. I. Data that we got. Nonmanufacturing. Manufacturing below the forecast. Still in expansion territory. A
Market gaining ground after the president signed the 484 billion tumulus bill into law, this provides billions in aid to Small Businesses, hospitals and a lot more small loans to start rolling out monday. He said he wants to help the oil and gas industry. One company is in the middle of the pandemic is biomed, this is the nations biggest independent reducer of ventilators. We are going to talk exclusively the ceo of companies lifesaving equipment being used in the cova 19th battle. Last night nfl draft, not without its usual fans, we both tell you how they are raising money to end the coronavirus pandemic. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. We begin with breaking news right now, once again, we are looking at the white house, live pictures there. The president mean at any moment with nasa officials. About their contribution to the fight against the coronavirus crisis, including a new ventilator designed from nasa. We will take you there when we get that in
Countrys seniors. We will bring you all those breaking headlines as soon as we have them. But well kick it off with fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman with the latest from the white house and Lauren Simonetti is watching the markets. Lets start with lauren. Hey, melissa you started talking about the disconnect between the Economic Data coming in and where market is headed. There was a selloff, the dow, s p 500 and nasdaq lower. But if you look at the month of april, the dow and the s p are looking at their best month since 1987. If you take a look at the nasdaq, its best month since 2001. It is only down for the year by 1. 1 . Why . Big tech coming in a big way this year. Lets take a look at these companies. Theyre 38 of the nasdaq. Facebook was the best performer in the nasdaq. Ad sales are stablizing. Amazon closing at a record high. These companies, amazon, apple, reporting momentarily. Health care was another bright spot today. Gilead is very close to getting fda approval for
15,000. Take a look at the kospi. We are focused on samsung earnings. Samsung warning of a profit slide as this virus squeezes the tech industry. Samsung shares largely after the results came out unchanged. We are watching out for the singapore jobless numbers coming out this hour. 2. 6 , an 11 year high. We see this recovery momentum coming back in offshore chinese stocks. The moving average yesterday when things close, and we are higher here today. Bank of china among them. Dollaryen, a little strength. And some strength for the korean won. Oil remains the story, but take a look at volatility. When it comes to oil contracts, we are leapfrogging of june to july and seeing wild gyrations. We have bounced back after wti auched 10, but we lost quarter of the value when it comes to crude. It looks like volatility will continue. Into julywill roll with the spread of the june and july contracts especially for wti getting rocked by volatility. Tom we will get more on that story in a few minu