Say, someone who believed that things may not bottom. And i think hes switched. He may say its not in dramatic fashion because its near the middle of his piece, not at the top. I do believe what were seeing is a gigantic amount of liquidity put in by the fed, when it looked like things might go back down that mattered a lot. A lot of companies that dont have great credit are getting money. Thats important we saw the retailers go up last week it wasnt because retail sales were good, but because their credit was so bad, maybe they get a chance to raise money. Ge raising money a lot of companies are raising money that would not be able to raise money. That is going to be a major change to keep a lot of companies out of bankruptcy and in the same way that the oil deal might Keep Companies out of bankruptcy david, you know theres so much debt being issued now. And theres some opportunities for people who want to buy debt, but holy cow, is the government wide open to buying anything on thurs
Consumer stocks like kimberlyclark and chi pochi pot lay showing signs of strength. Well take a deep dive on the debate over how and when to reopen the economy well speak to the mayor of las vegas, who has called the a stayathome order in nevada total insanity and floridas Lieutenant Governor and well speak with cme ceo terry duffy about the wild swings in the oil market those negative prices. And billionaire harold hamms call for an investigation of crude futures trading. Lets drill down on the big stories we are watching. 59 minutes left of trade mike santoli tracking the market rebound. Phil lebeau has fresh comments from deltas ceo on the back of earnings and meg tirrell with the latest on the race for a vaccine. Mike, start us off with the market and the rebound were seeing today yeah, sara. Down about 5 in the s p 500 from fridays close through two days of trading, getting back in a very gentle way i will say today, kind of lowvolume trading. About half of that, not quite half if
This of course, the saudis are flooding the world with oil right now. The russians, its not clear where the heck they are because theyre very secretive, but i know who is not there, the drivers. Theres very little demand david and i talk about this with you all the time, carl theres this overall sense, you know what, if we just get things moving, things will come back again. We need customers. We need customers to get their hair cut, to go to the dry cleaner, the restaurants, and we need customers on the road without them, i really dont care what president calls who, you need a tariff to keep the to keep the saudi oil from coming here, and you need the chinese to restockpile, and frankly, thats still not going to be enough to be able to make it so oil real demand goes higher good point yeah. Sorry, carl. 6 Million Barrels a day, jim, is what im hearing right now as we still try to adjust. Even know we know each others cadences so well 6 Million Barrels a day here and its not just not j
Limited number of cases but more important were tracking all the people who are in periods of cooling off and we track that very carefully, make sure that they come through without getting sick and if they need to be tested and stuff we work with them. Boris johnson comes down with it i talk with my wife. Are we going to get it, our kids, who is going to get it do you have to think like that at bank do you have people working closely with each other . Social distancing, im sure youre trying to practice it, but its on everybodys minds am i going to get it . Sure. For our teammates immediately, the first thing we did a couple weeks ago plus now is went out and solicited all the people high risk and you heard the medical experts, dr. Fauci, dr. Birx and others talk about that, you know, the high risk is a much different case. We went out and said, please identify and got them off the line and put got them home and away from the situation. I think that probably goes back two weeks ago now.
Less normally. Lets start there, jim, in terms of the market overall. I have a lot of insight this morning to share on the credit markets where i tend to be focused of late. Like to come to you. When you see a rally, the likes of which we may at the open this morning, what are you thinking what i think about when i see this, the market got oversold, people last night went home thinking theres no possibility of any sort of deal. Without a deal all you have is the fed making sure theres liquidity but nothing in the hands of the people. If you dont get money in the hands of people, people will look at the landscape and say its really just falling apart something has to get done. Now theres an expectation that something will get done. If we dont get something done today with the senate, youll give up this whole rally youre banking on the politics getting together for something, otherwise this rally will be comical and you will wish you never bought in. Well be able to offer hopefully peopl