The dow toing 25k. Steph, whats the significance of those big numbers we have now been able to get over . Its very positive. It makes people feel better especially if they were buying back in march and april and may. We have been getting pockets of activity thats picking up like the tsa travel numbers look bet per. Mortgage applications up four weeks in a row these are baby steps what this tells me is yes we had a horrific recession were still in it. Its probably going to recover a little bit faster than i initially expected i dont know if its a v but i think april and may are the worst months of the year on terms of the Economic Data and that we are going to start to see an improvement if you do see an improvement and get the economically sense tifr sto sensitive stocks to rebound, thats very encouraging. If you look at financials, they are down 26 on the year industrials are down 26 on the year these things could have a mean reversion and that could propel us higher along with Techno
New week, jim, with the focus once again on a resurgence of cases in certain parts of the country for the virus. Concerns about china, as well. And then the overall as we, of course, know, expectations regarding the economy and what the impact may or may not be as a result of what i just mentioned. Well, i think that its always surprising to me as someone who i think lived through it like you do that people in some of these states did realize the level of contagion. I mean, this is one when youre in the room with someone who has it, youre going to get it if you touch someone who has it, youre going to get it i dont know, did people feel they were immune i think there was a sense that maybe new york was isolated. I dont think this will be like new york because i think they learned how to treat people. So, i think the big scare of the hospitals being overloaded will only be perhaps some i mean, we had a war zone here in new york. I dont think that will happen there. The chinese situation
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Today. Lets go to the boards were not at the best levels of the day. Nonethele nonetheless, were hoelding onto pretty good dangains. The dow is up. Nasdaq has some profit taking today. Its been the big winner apple and microsoft and amazon giving a bit back along with some of the other names as well. Pete, im going to come to you first. Youre the one who had more stocks than you had in a long time where do you see things now . Friday have generally not been great because no one want toed go into the weekend feeling long then you had the gilead news last night you have boeing starting next week you have more plans to reopen even in a slow fashion where does this lead us as we head into the weekend . I think people want know how they should be positioned thinking about what could happen next week. Its nice to have a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, or something. Some sort of light thats what we got out of gilead last night we had move last night long before this morning. We w
But barely holding it together a warning from japans interior minister as a surging cases builds pressure for a nationwide lockdown. France germany and the u. K. Sent medical aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u. S. Sanctions. A strain has recorded its worst single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities within the past 24 hours now this is the 4th day in a row the spain has recorded more than 800 deaths and it brings the total number of those whove died to 8100. 00 spain is the 2nd worst hit country in europe after italy. Lets go to martha editor is joining us live now from madrid and martha this is a terribly grim milestone isnt that weve seen a consistent level of of increasingly high numbers of deaths but the numbers of people who are becoming info infected with covert 19 is actually flattening out am i right. Yes youre right that i think so those give us a little bit of a break for those terrible figures that were released today 94000 of people infected by cor