Futures indicating gain at start of trading. Take a look. Dow industrials up 38 points on top of rally yesterday fueled by a rise in oil prices. All the major indices higher this morning. Oil prices adding to yesterdays gains as well. Take a look at yesterdays close. Dow industrials up 456 points. Other averages also strong, oil prices this morning 1. 95 at 1573 creeping back higher on oil. Reopening the american economy, lockdown easing in some areas of the country bringing cheers to some and concerns to other including the white house. Most if not all of the economy will open later this summer. Secretary of state mike pompeo meanwhile blasting china and the World Health Organization saying they need to be held accountable for lack of transparency as the focus remains on the lab in wuhan as the origin of virus, something ive been putting a spotlight for months. Meanwhile missouri is filing a lawsuit against the Chinese Government. Attorney general eric schmitt, 7 30 a. M. Eastern on G
Reopening process going. Look, it does feel that there is a very self confident sense by governors that its time. I think that the president is so oriented towards its time, and the president is soed ed ed eet in having a vaccine by years end, that theres an element of two different worlds here. Theres the real world influenced by the president saying open it up, people want to do it, and the stock world influenced by Warren Buffett who said i sold the airlines because that industry has fundamentally changed. Its a big gulf. Really the largest ive seen amazing. David . Sorry, carl weve been talking about that for weeks. The many phone calls that you or i will have with Business Leaders who are focused on maintaining their liquidity, focused on just being around to fight another day come the end of the year. The many ceos who join us on air who constantly talk about their businesses not coming back to the levels they were prior to the virus for maybe two or three years. Now they may be
The crown a virus has infected more than 2400000 people globally its taken more than 160000 lives while some countries are seeing a flattening curve others are still seeing a surge in new cases coppa 19 has infected more than 766000 americans while thats in the u. S. Have top 40000 new york state which is finally seeing a drop in new cases announced that its going to begin aggressive statewide Antibody Testing this week protests continue across the u. S. Over shelter in place orders amid pressure on governors to reopen local economies at sundays briefing president said that hell use the defense production act to increase manufacturing of testing swabs while working with governors to reopen their economies. Some of the governors doing a better job than others the robust capacity that weve brought online will empower governors to deploy sophisticated strategies so they can safely reopen their states. Some people believe in test play and other people believe in it less strongly but still
Lots of earnings coming out. Ups is the latest. They are withdrawing their 2020 forecast for revenue, as well as eps, as we have seen from Many Companies trying to estimate the impact. Theirre withdrawing forecast. They are suspending the Share Buyback for 2020. We want to get you all of todays top moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin with the volatility in the u. S. Oil market. Wti at one point falling below 11 a barrel. Bps ceo, after the Company Released firstquarter results which showed a 2 3 drop in profit. We have a situation where we have excess supply, and storage is filling up. Cushing is 70 full. People think we will reach completely full sometime in may. We are very fortunate to have a large trading organization, and they have been able to find a physical home for our crude, but not everyone is that fortunate. What is happening here is a very simple case of supply and demand, and the market really isnt going to find some stability until that comes
Futures and negative territory for the first time on record. Air travel is floundering with carriers slashing services and grounding planes. Richard branson says the virgin operation may not survive. Today was big story the crash in oil prices. We have the wti futures settling at 37. 63 per barrel. You are taking a look at june futures at the moment. This of course still at a volatile level, but the real question being is will it suffer the same fate . Today, we saw the technical auditing exacerbating the price plunge away from the may futures contract ahead of the Energy Companies running out of place to store oil. U. S. Futures jumping 3 10 of 1 after they pulled back from a six week high. Quibi stocks under pressure. Jim. Ng us now is what was interesting in todays session was it a virgins we saw in the market. We had the price of oil collapse but at the same time, really not a lot of movement when it comes to the u. S. Stock market for the treasury market. Why are we seeing such di