We did just get the closing bell on u. S. Equities, which have been trying to break free of the range they have been in for some time. 2971 is where we are ending the day on the s p 500 the nasdaq indices up 2 on the day. 2 . Russell 2000 gaining energy, financials, and Communication Services leading the charge. Twitter among those names. And along to Analog Devices also with an interesting rise. Royal caribbean loses a little ground. Scarlet i want to jump in with breaking news. The regulator of fannie mae and freddie mac has come out with a plan that calls for more than 200 billion in capital. The regulators proposing the mortgage giants be required to hold hundreds of billions of dollars in capital to guard against potential losses, and this could eventually have an impact on Mortgage Rates and the Trump Administrations efforts to basically free the companies from government control. We are keeping watch of this as are needed fors existing government control. Is ben still with us ma
Weve given all of that back and then some. Yesterday, the market was down by 1,861 a decline of 2,443 points. All of that over the previous sessions we had given back futures are up by 626. Normally, thats the type of move that would make you sit up and say wow s p indicated up 69 points nasdaq up 192. Treasury yields have been moving all over the place as well we did see the 10year on monday up 0. 9 . Higher than that this morning, up 0. 2 on trading yesterday. Accelerated on the day everybody was on tender hooks to watch what would be happening here are some highlights of what is on tap car line, former citigroup ceo, former white house chief of staff, founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers joining us there. A lot going on there todays top story, uk gdp following 20. 4 in april the largest monthly fall on record as the pandemic lockdowns have battered the economy. Londons ftse down more than 18 , thats just year to date. Has liesman heard yesterday, the annual kansas fed symposi
About to see can be viewed in entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org and using the search function at the top of the page. First in february of 2015 the American Enterprise institutes peter appeared on our Author Interview program afterwards where he argued that Government Housing policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Peter, your new book is called hidden in plain sight, what really caused the worlds financial crisis and why it can happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Commission which was investigating the causes to have 07, 08 financial crisis. What did you see that they didnt . I had been locking at the housing system in the United States, doddfrank and well, im sorry, doddfrank and fannie mae for quite a while before i got on the commission. I had a lot of background on what had been happening in the housing sector, so i was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and what role they had played in the housing c
Coming off a fiveday win. A lot of the stocks in the nasdaq are for companies that do better in covid era. Remember, weve got many, many institutions with 80 to 95 of people working home. They require a gigantic change in the supply chain of work. And the supply chain of work is just generated a remarkable new wave of the cloud, of hardware, of software, and the companies that are really rallying for the most part are companies that do fabulously when you have to create new factories the factory is in the home theres a look at steve mnuchin. Well talk to him in a few moments. A lot over the weekend, whether it was mnuchin, kashkari, prepping us for the idea that the worst of the impact is still to come, even after that jobs number on friday which we didnt have you with us to discuss. Here we are i wanted one thing to be normal in my life Everything Else has changed like so many of us. I questioned the notion that this month will be worse we are hearing too many people who are reopening
Is time. A governor who doesnt want to see these businesses destroyed a person who has said, look, weve got the baseline we know what can go wrong. We have the ability to handle it medically. And initially when i saw this, carl, i said this man, this governor is a reckless fellow. The more i read his excellent speech yesterday, the more i realized the stakes are so high for so many people, im rooting for this man i think hes doing it in a way that makes me feel like if youre going to open it, open it this way i wanted to wait for the vaccines i wanted to wait for when we got s ser roll gist ologyists who coue antibodies it may seem illadvised, when you drill down to the speech he gave yesterday, i have to tell you, i was impressed i know everything has become politicized, but this is a man who is feeling for the Small Business people and recognizes theyre about to be done Scott Gottlieb on squawk this morning did say to him they picked the businesses most at risk and decided to open th