Damage the coronavirus crisis, he says, raises those longterm concerns that he was talking about. The u. S. Response to that point he says has been swift and forceful the fed has acted with unprecedented speed and force. He cites a survey that shows in the month of march, 40 of households making less than 40,000 has lost a job carl lets get to the webcast. Here is the fed chair. Its very hard to imagine we could have anyone better than jay powell thank you for coming back to the Peterson Institute, chairman powell thanks very much, adam. Its great to be back. I have some brief remarks and then ill look forward to our discussion the coronavirus has left a devastating human and economic toll in its wake as it has spread around the globe. This is a Worldwide Public Health crisis and Health Care Workers have been the First Responders showing courage, determination and earning our lasting gratitude. So have the legions of other essential workers who put themselves at risk every day on our b
Spacex, and it is actually playing out in the market. Because spacex is privately held but if you look at the handful of more pure play space names, virgin galactic, not affiliated with any of this right now but represents Space Tourism play is higher today also the ufo space etf is trading higher ahead of the launch its scheduled to happen a few minutes after 4 30 p. M. Eastern right now but well see how the weather and Everything Else plays out here, john. You talk about space a lot, its a an important story, an Important Technology story also. I cant help but look at whats happening to silicone valley and tech at large over this incredible year especially that weve had. If you think back over the past decade, the elon musk brand of tech that is hardware, big hardware, difficult engineering, its tesla, spacex, that wasnt the popular thing. It was more the instagrams, the airbnbs, the we works. I think weve seen in this, you know, virus crisis that swept the globe its some of those in
Last ten minutes or so and finally, optimism around the possibility of new stimulus. All of that helping the market up about 1 on the s p 500 as we stand. Coming up on todays show, big moves in the banks space and Goldman Sachs is bringing workers back to the office well talk about that with the president and ceo john waldron and Michael Novogratz will lay out the risks he sees. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action and a pair of key faang names holding their annual meetings as tech underperforms today and mike, start us off with the Broader Market and the action were seeing right now. Yeah, so weve been talking about this rotational activity away from the big growth winners into all other areas of the market that are more sickly call and smaller. It is really happening in a benign way so far. Sometimes the baton can get dropped in the handoff but it is towards its highs so kind of stalled out at this area, but below the surface, equal weighted is up close to 5 so it is kind of st
Midmarch. Well get to macys and more and oil above 34 as the reopening drives demand. Jim, you just said to joe the reopening is working and Even Companies like ford that might have to send a few workers home on a given day are finding ways to adapt look, things are a little better his is the depression taking off the table. A lot of people seem surprised when you get an expedia number where they say theres a little more travel, and best buy is able to do a good job doing curbside pickup. People turned out to be more inventive. We heard that from Brian Cornell yesterday, and hell be on the show today facebook being inventive a lot of people have figured out a new way to do business in a pandemic and i think its vising because we didnt think it could occur im not predicting some sort of gdp revival, but i think that ingenuity is playing a big role in this particular moment when it comes to the pandemic i do want to get quick to some Home Building because theres some numbers out that 41
That this may reflect an extension of that stayathome trade weve been watching. Look at all the stocks popping early on those are all Companies People were giving up on even ten days ago when they felt the trade was the mike corbat trade. You recognize if you can do what some companies are doing, which are saying its up to you if you want to come back. I think now the onus is saying im not coming back. No way lets dig n get bin and get bet cybersecurity. Those are the stocks that are popping. I respect that from people who say i do not want to be back at that building. The pandemic is not done and the pandemonium has begun. What explains boeing up 1 , carnival up 2. 5 i assume were looking at hopes that these demonstrations and protests will not result in a further outbreak of the virus, and that these epicenter stocks will continue to outperform. We keep betting you have to have it. Its been seven days now the incubation period, theres a lot of news stories saying the new strain is ou