Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t
The s p is up. The pmi data driving the euro higher. You are seeing a little bit of a market, buthe bond its not a big one. Its not really reacting in the same way that the rest of the market is. We have some great guests lined up. Hour, up later on in the the former secretarygeneral of nato and former Prime Minister of denmark. We will get his take on whether europe is capable of standing up to china. He wrote an interesting piece today. We will get more on that. Alix to start focusing in on europe and the optimism from the positive pmi, mike mckee joins us now to dig through the details. Mike, what are the highlights . The question would be why better ko not doing is why is france not doing better . Measure howxes Companies Think this month is compared to last month. It doesnt tell us anything about the level of activity, but it does tell us there has been some sort of rebound, particularly in france. The french manufacturing numbers are over 50. The Service Numbers are over 50. And
At 1. 08. The unstoppable market as investors digest the details of that china trade deal. Stocks ready to open on new records. Southwest is pulling the boeing 737 max until june. Airlines are digging in for more delays. And shares of Morgan Stanley before the bell. They posted record profit and revenue in 2019. Stocks looking to make more history a day after the dow closes above 29k for the first time and the president signs that phase one deal with china the s p on its way to the seventh weekly gain in eighth. Total holiday, exauto and gas up 44. Names like target might have been an execution issue. Yeah, i have to say that. I just dont find any other excuse i do think that Brian Cornell pretty much said, listen, we screwed up other people, other stores kid better that aggregate number is so much stronger than anything you saw from target. I have to believe they went to walmart, best buy or costco but they sure didnt go to target. Were going to get more earnings as we shift from the
Barbara duran from bd8 capital markets. Thank you for joining us today weve got a lot of forces at play again another kind of side waist market, but some Risk Appetite if you look at whats moving higher today i agree with that i think that the action has been very constructive. And i think whats going on is youve seen the earnings expectations come down you had just a little sample last week, but majority of Companies Beat earnings and the most important thing, i think, was jpmorgan and American Express talking about the strength of the consumer in loans and spending and thats really the underpinning to the economy. And so we also know the fed, they have a meeting coming up. Im not expecting them to cut rates, but they have made it clear they stand ready and i think that forms an underpinning for the market. And not to mention china we have a little truce there i think we were all expecting some more down babeat commentar from what weve heard so far but so far, its been okay maybe rest