Profit increase as iron ore holds up amid the pandemic. Relations go even further. China says attacks on tiktok were bullying and rejection of fair competition. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures opening flat after the s p 500 and other major indices ended the session mixed. We had a rally in Technology Companies with the nasdaq gaining 1 . Selling off sos the s p 500 was dragged a little lower. Still closing at the highest level since february. The third time in the past week that the index topped above its february closing record during the session, but ended below it. Still up more than 50 from its march low. We did get more positive ecodata. A gauge of Builder Sentiment jumping to the highest since 1998. Take a look at oil because that positive sentiment over the economy taking oil for a five month high, all the right now under pressure. Wti now headed towards 42 a barrel. See how things are shaping up, here is Sophie Kamarud
Taking a break yesterday, but we have apple climbing again. Investors want in on this defensive and growthy tech stop. Facebook up 4. 7 after facebook and twitter both blocked President Trump, a video on covid misinformation. Facebook getting a bounce on that considering they had not taken a strong action in the past, something some investors wanted to see. Making it interesting, when we take a look at the vix on the nasdaq 100, it is higher. That tells you going into the payrolls report or some expectation volatility tomorrow could pop. David stocks may not be moving much yet, but there is action on the bond side. My question is how low can the 10 year yield go. We are well into negative territory on the real yield. Abigail this is a great question. We have had this rally for stocks, not just out of the march lows, but more recently as the nasdaq has been carving out alltime highs. Over the last five weeks, bonds have been rallying. A very persistent rally in stocks and bonds. Many fo
Than 1 . Connell, im not convinced about the report of california staying closed for another three months. We saw a big leg down on that, near session lows. Plus at the white house this hour, President Trump is preparing to sit down with republican senators just moments after nancy pelosi and House Democrats unveiled a new aid package worth 3 trillion, because money grows on trees. Fox Business Team coverage. Break burman with the latest from the white house. Lauren simonetti watching the markets and Edward Lawrence is in washington. Lets kick it off with blake. Reporter melissa talking about moves in the washington. President trump set to meet with republican senators. That meeting comes after House Democrats today unveiled their next step proposal, their phase four relief proposal. Nancy pelosi unvalling the heroes act as she calls it. An 1800 page bill. Through it all, roughly 3 trillion it proposed in relief. Let me tick through some of the items. Calls for 500 billion to states, 7
There have not been big problems to note thus far. We do not know about cases whether well see a spike in cases. It is inevitable we probably will. They just want to keep that relatively contained. Welcome, im neil cavuto. Youre watching coast to coast. Were on top of the president en route to phoenix, arizona, visiting a honwell facility that has been retrofitted for respirator masks and the like. Blake burman on what we can expect to hear from the president later today. Hey, blake. Reporter hi, there, neil. As a lot of these states start to open there is a lot of focus on the different models out there what they project. By and large the white house is standing by the imhe model coming out of the university of washington. It is new projections over the next few months between now and august 1st, there could be by that time some 134,000 covid19 related deaths. However when you look at the model it is showing that the daily number of deaths will be decreasing over that time as well. Th
Coronavirus fearing weighs on the market, surpassing 100,000 worldwide. We are expecting a briefing from Vice President mike pence a bit hear this evening. Though that survey was conducted in the middle of february before the outbreak took hold in the u. S. In just a few moments well talk about russ cost rich he says the u. S. Consumer remains strong and where he is putting to work now. Dan, what are you doing . Not a whole heck of a lot week on week, there was a bit of optimism. As investors star thinking about how to allocate towards equities visibility will be the big point. I think i dont think were going to get that anytime soon right now. That was the low for this move you had a strong reversal off of that we set ourselves up for a powerful rally, but most of that snsht has dissipated, so some say you will have to retest the low, and were doing it right now on a relatively tenuous way, so i still think, given the stress in credit markets, stocks are not yet convincingly saying we