Despite strong sales during the shutdown, especially from walmart. And times of trouble in the Housing Market u. S. Home building dropped by the most ever in april a lot of talk of a bottom has those housing stocks up as well today. Absolutely. But as you said, the Broader Markets near the session lows. Coming up on todays who, well speak with Eric Rosengren on the back of that congressional testimony from chair powell and secretary mnuchin. Well get his read on the economy and whether weve reached a trough in the data plus, well speak exclusively with jim fiterling as the Company Releases a return to work playbook but lets focus in on the big stories were watch ing today. Mike is tracking the Market Action courtney has highlights from retail earnings. Mike, you and the market just selling you have a bit, but of course only lightly following yesterdays big rally. Actually today is i think the narrowest range intraday for the s p 500 in three months and by the way, three months to the d
Business lending facilities to keep credit flowing as u. S. Job losses surge past 30 million. Shery lets get started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing pressure on u. S. Futures, falling more than a percent at the moment, after the s p 500 fell from the sevenweek high. But yes, it was the best month since 1987. We saw the s p 500 climbing 13 this month. We have more pessimism about the economy today. We had dismal jobless claims data. Slowing down but elevated. We have positive sentiment being filtered through with the fed expanding the scope of the main Street Lending program. Also, the nasdaq was helped by results from microsoft, facebook, and tesla. When it comes to wti, we continue to see extended gains. It is trading near 19 per barrel. This, as we saw signs of fuel consumption start to recover in the u. S. We have a few markets that are closed across asia. China,cludes hong kong, singapore, india, and many more. Limited trading in the asian session. Haidi yeah. Shar
In the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson defends his handling of the crisis. Phillips is set to produce 15,000 ventilators per week to ease shortages. This phillips number coming through. In terms of what we are looking at, 4. 2 billion euros. Estimate 4. 16. A little bit off a beat. Phillips said it wont provide 2020. Pecific guidance one of the questions, whether they would suspend that guidance for the rest of the year. They could not really quantify the impact or duration. Manus they had gone for a comparable target this year of 46 . They are aiming for cfg. Rise in 2020. In First Quarter comparable sales, what they are doing in terms of the respirator business, then there is the rest of the world to think about. Comparable sales are up nearly 23 . Billion,arly 44 significantly below the estimate of 289. At 6 30, he will join us for that conversation. Lets set the agenda. It is about oil, about the banner headline, crippled by 20 at the nearly open. If you want to understand dem
Here are your top headlines. Blame game. President trump raised the prospect that china deliberately caused the coronavirus outbreak. This as the u. S. Pauses some tariffs for 90 days but not those on chinese steel or aluminum. Crude collapse. Wti sags to its lowest level in the 21stcentury on concerns that Storage Space is running low. The demand outlook remains gloomy. Signs of easing. Germany begins to reopen its economy as spain, france, and the u. K. Report the fewest coronavirus fatalities in weeks. Just under one hour away from the start of cash trading. Lets take a look at where futures are headed in europe. Futures are higher, whereas u. S. Futures are down. You can see the ftse 100 futures up more than 1 , as are the dax futures. S p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures, red arrows. Further away from the start of trade on wall street. It looks like we will kick off the week in europe higher. That divide between europe and u. S. Futures is interesting. We will watch that as we go th
Against midway, against the japanese in world war ii the s p jumping 6. 24 . The nasdaq gaining 5. 60 in spite of the hideous jobless claims number in history this is the best day since 1931. So far covid19 has run the table against us we were not prepared and this virus has had us on our heels the whole way. Attacking the very basis of our civilization, life, liberty and especially the pursuit of happiness which in this case means the right to watch march madness, grab a beer, see Cirque Du Soleil in vegas at least until today were up against an insanely bullish last few minutes of trading. Astonishing return for large caps bully. Weve seen big run in all things tech it wasnt coordinated. Like our initial attempts to homeland the line in world war ii we were overcome by a prettier prepared enemy, virus its killing people directly and killing the economy. Like the greedy win at midway, google, watch the movie, even the terrible remake. I am beginning to think we can hold off one of the