Meanwhile Federal Reserve not even thinking about raising rates now. Fed chair jay powell saying the current economic down torn is the most severe in our lifetime. Warning containing covid is essential to protecting our health and the economy. Big tech in focus all reporting today, their earnings after the bell, ceos grilled on capitol hill yesterday about anticonservative bias, Business Practices, privacy and china. Highlights from the fiery hearing coming up. Markets this morning pointing to selloff at the start of trading. Take a look at futures indicating decline 216 points right out of the gate, s p lower by 28. Marks rallied yesterday following Federal Reserve decision. The market was up 160 points don oh dow. The nasdaq up 140 and s p up 40 points yesterday. Unrest in america with violence in major cities. And the nba tipping off today, players taking to court in bubble at disney world with empty stands, we will check it out. The ceo of fanduel is here on how the virus is impact
Tom good morning, everyone. An exceptionally busy day here at bloomberg surveillance. Lots to talk about on the news front. Stimulus in washington or nonstimulus, the breaking news on china, and markets as well. The dollar moments ago breaks down to new week this of dxy new weakness of dxy. An ever weaker dollar index. That will be one of our themes across the hour. Our Kevin Cirilli reports a deeply divided reports on deeply divided republicans, and there are fire trucks in houston. Jonathan they are united on one thing in washington, and it is china. The consulate in houston shutting down after the u. S. Demand. We have looking up 70 times to that headline woken up so many times to that headline, so we have woken up so many times to that headline, u. S. China tensions. Gold, 1863 note an ounce. On a weekly basis, gold has had a record high. Go to the dynamics you have seen in highyield and ig. Lisa if you take a look at highyield bond spreads today, you can see to have shrunk dramati
Without question, the most odd, the most historic first half in the history of american finance. Theres no question about that, and it still continues. We will talk to you on economics, finance and investment. Jon will have a usable jon ferro data check for you. I really want to go to the farnt at hand, which is how people are behind after the down that we saw, and then the whipsaw up, up. Jonathan First Quarter since 2008 replaced by the best quarter since 1998. On the policy response, the next 30 days he is critical. At the start of march, end of february, we talked about building a policy bridge to the end of the year. I think what is clear going into july is that bridge needs a serious extension for a lot of people still in a lot of pain. Tom theres not a moment to patrick borrow from obrien. Much more than two weeks ago, it is let go. Lisa the more uncertainty there makers,e part of policy with fed chair jay powell expected to talk about this massive uncertainty, the more uncertai
Liz i do think spreads are important to watch. We always know theres a tight connection between the credit markets and the equity market. Especially high yield vs. Equity and i agree that when spreads got as compressed as they did, there was probably not sufficient compensation for those hotelers for the likely risk. Were seeing in it bankruptcies, which have spiked back up. They had a spike in may, leveled off and theyre picking back up back to 2009 levels and i do any what happens with spreads and more broadly in the credit markets, as it did in the march time frame will inform what happens in the equity market. Equity investors need to have a particularly close eye on the credit markets right now. Were seeing about a 50 uptick in terms of your average trading for the nasdaq. And what are you expecting for next week . As renee was telling us earlier, were heading towards a shortened week. Early data on the labor market only thursday because of the ourth of july holiday weekend. Lils
Fed vice chair Randy Quarles talking about the stress test next week, seeing dividends might be influenced by the pandemic. He thinks most banks will be allowed to retain the dividends, and particularly with wells morgan believe, and stanley, highlighting concerns about financials recently. So the underperformance today caught my attention. Caroline we get even more insight on underperformance, and what led to the selloff at the end. The northwestern wealth chief manage he chief strategy manager is with us. We were lower earlier and then i got a message from a key r on the bloomberg squawked talking about how the vice chair of the Federal Reserve was saying, there is no limit to fed treasury buying. That seemed to give the stock market a little more support toward the close. Is the fed still the be all and end all, is liquidity still the beall and endall in this market and can we grind even higher as the covid rate is still causing concern . 26 years of doing this, the fed has been sup