Thats a 13. 8 increase month on month. Pretty good, alix. Israel alix can it last . And coming up this hour well speak to valley grant, Senior Vice President and henry mcveigh, ahead of global maam row and Asset Allocation with his report on economy and investments. The main macronews that happened was beijing following through on the threat of retaliation, china ordering the u. S. To close the consulate in chengdu and comes after the foreed closer of a Chinese Mission in houston. Sharon chin the asian bureau chief, how big of a disruption is it between the two countries . Sharon i mean the whole dispute over the consulates, the u. S. Asking china to shut its houston consulate and china asking the u. S. To shut down its consulate in chengdu has en a severe reaction and the worst theyve taken in the last few years. Here it was immediate, people on the ground expressing support for the chinese government. There was a lot of security on the scene in front of the consulate in chengdu and a
The dow up. 2 . Moves. Elping those , back above 42. The dollar index at 92. 74. Stronger sterling, stronger euro, stronger yen. Pandemic an interesting time for investors, distressed investors among them. Erik schatzker is speaking to howard marks of oaktree. Always terrific to have howard marks with us on bloomberg television. Weigh in on tenterhooks for your memos. A lot of them in march and april. Not so many as of late. You are out with another one, time for thinking. You raise a number of provocative points and questions. Them states the obvious, the Financial Markets are at the center of a titanic struggle between the pandemic on the one hand, and the government effectively on the other, recession versus the fed and treasury department. You and i have talked about this before. As recently as may, youre thinking was that the fed could not keep it up forever. Am i to divine that perhaps youre thinking has changed on that subject . No, i still dont know if they can keep it up forev
The bill nar has the blews these days he will explain why his businesses are struggling and the things that could get worse beyond that and what hes trying to do about that power lunch starts right now yes, it does the nasdaq hitting another all time high today. Its on strachan for its sixth straight day in the green. Bob has more for us. Modest weakness on the day. That tends to mean tech will still out perform. Thats happening today. Its airlines under perform and transports and Logistics Companies like jb hunt and fedex tend to out perform. This has been going on since the coronavirus issue back in february and march and again you can see that happening today. Ben carlson pointed this out the top ten stocks by market caps are up 10 so far this year the top 50 are up 2 but look at the bottom 50. Down 39 thats not a typo. Thats a huge disparity. Its true big stocks tend to be important. They always move the market. Bottom line is they have never been more important than they are right
Call it. Netflix yesterday closing at an alltime record high. Oil a little higher as well, but still around an 18 year low. Still brutal for the market. Just checking in one more time they comec had before out. Time now for bloomberg first take. Here to discuss from our inhouse team of wall street veterans and insiders, michael mckee, and Damian Sassower. Mike, we know that jobless claims are going to be bad. We dont know how bad. I think the question is, how do markets actually respond to this, when sometimes they want to respond to bad data, sometimes they dont . Michael im not even going to go there. Yesterday we had dismal numbers on industrial and retail sales. We thought they were priced in, but apparently they werent. Youve got to wonder if weve priced in jobless claims because weve talked about it so much over the past three weeks, but we are expecting 5,500,000 as a consensus. If you get that number or even a little bit below it, we will have wiped out in one month all of the
Charles payne himself. Plus finding the good in people in these uncertain times. One Plastic Surgeon in new york city doing something amazing to help the city. He will be talking to us about it. In a little bit all that and more coming up on making money. Deirdre moments ago the senate announcing it will take up the stimulus package tomorrow. Gop senators calling for an urgent change to the text that they say will trigger massive layoffs. Hillary vaughn, what is the detail . Reporter deirdre, i want to show you a live look at the press conference any moment were expecting with a group of republican senators, tim scott, lindsey graham, ben sasse, the ringleaders behind flagging this key part of the bill they say would incentivize people to be laid off instead of work because they would make more under this bill, being laid off as opposed going into work. They want to make a change for that. The text for this is still rapidly being finalized. They reached agreement on bones of it at 1 00