Predictability. Strong winds blanket the bay haze fromdark, thick wildfires throughout the state, rolling blackouts as firefighters prevent more fires from breaking out amid extreme weather conditions. Joining us now in new york city, bloombergs abigail doolittle. I hope you have clearer skies than we do today. I want to talk about the tech rebound, the biggest rebound after the worst stretch since march. Saying you nailed it the only certainty is volatility. That is going to continue, it seems the worst stretch since march, and then today, the best day for the nasdaq 100 going back to april 29. The big question is whether it will last. Will investors continue buying the dip, knowing what they know about options volatility going into august . You jump in that huge down. Apple and tesla, certainly a good day for each. Apple, down 4 , excuse me up 4 today after dropping more than 10 over a few days. Nothing changed in that story. That tells you the degree of hesitancy, uncertainty on the
Peter navarro. It has been a huge swing s p futures up, nasdaq up by 62. The nasdaq up seven sessions in a row. S p is up. Watching for the month of june, all three of these is up on track to be the third month in a row taking a look at treasury yields youll see the 10year is yielding 0. 715 . Crude oil up above 40 for the First Time Since the lockdown in early march. Getting to the story it has been a wild ride overnight. Last night on fox news, white house trade advisor Peter Navarro responded to a question about the china trade deal saying it is, quote, over. At that point, futures plunged about 400 points but then recovered after he later clarified his comments saying it had nothing to do with the phase 1 trade deal which continues to be in place. He was speaking to the quote lack of trust of the Chinese Party after they lied about the origins of the chinese virus. President trump posting a tweet saying the china trade deal is fully in tact. The lesson is that the move is a good re
Welcome to power lunch, everybody. Stocks are just off the lows of the day. The dow down b about 200 points. Still on pace for its Third Straight session in the red with apple the biggest drag and gold reaching 1600, its highest level in seven years and utilities leading today on pace for a record close the second best performing sector this year next to tech up 9 for more on where the money is move ng todays market, lets get to bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. Hello, again. Much of damage is cue to apple and theyre worried about krohn kro coronavirus. Exxon mobil, another new 52week low there and also were seeing some of the big global industrials like caterpillar, 3m pretty modest response leon cooperman was saying the the biggest risk to the markets is the u. S. Elections and this is the way a lot of the Fund Managers seem to think bank of america, 150, the biggest Fund Managers in the world. He said that, too. The 2020 election is the number one thing. Were all worried ab
Weve got record highs, dow surging. S p gaining. Nasdaq 1. 06 texas earnings forecast and yesterdays trade deal with china. At the same time individual companies are taking action to fight Climate Change in a way thats unprecedented these are issues that could hurt earnings per share yet the market doesnt seem to care. The market seems to like it. Its insane. For my entire life, especially the last 40 years, you have companies doing anything they could to make a profit and the government working to restrain them. It was the government that forced big business to care about clean air and clean water. Thank you richard nixon. We took it as a given companies would try to get away with anything they could to maximize profits for their bosses the shareholders this endless cost for growth, wall street didnt care at all it was amoral. And if you want to be a good investor, you ordered this stuff. But in eamon yumtal twist weve seen a shocking paradigm shift suddenly capitalism is trying to re
Yesterday, a headline said china planning to surprise trump and negotiators with a last minute plan for phase one to remove september tariffs this has never been talked about. Delaying future tariffs was the most we were going to agree on trump was getting traction because of the bite. This has never been on the table. China will get it done then i read it today it said these are now part of the negotiation. The way it was cast is that it was almost like an appeasement or throwing in the hand. Is it negotiations or are we backing down the deal is likely to get done each side wants to say we got what we wanted now, if that happens, the markets will be like that. Thats the big question, does the market care if it comes without any teeth. Do they just want a truce and no more ramped up sort. For phase one, do they want to give up what they were working to force them out of the table. I think what the market is really looking foreGoing Forward is if you are going to continue conversations.