250point loss for the dow the Chinese Government makes the rare decision to drop its growth target for the year as primier says they are facing great uncertainty. Into remote will remain for facebook around 50 of the employees will work from home in the coming years but warn those working outside of Silicon Valley may have to take pay cuts. A warm welcome to street signs. Lets get into our top story of the day. Hong kongs government will fully comply with the governments decision. The administration has rejected decisions the new laws will impact the rights and freedoms currently enjoyed by the hong kong people. Opposition lawmakers were removed forcibly a lot of escalations and tensions not only between Mainland China and hong kong but questions about what this means for relations between the west and beijing. Lets look at the Hong Kong Market hang seng index down on the back of this news eyeing the National Peoples congress the move has taken some by surprise the fact that they are p
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
Past week. By thursday we were down better than 20 from the february highs. That is definition of a bear market. The dow alone, down 10 on thursday that was the worst day since the 1986 crash and black monday. That left traders unsure how to handle the virus impact and questions abound about how slow the economy will become . Are we in a recession right now right now is a boston group chief officer david monson is here, joining us this weekend with 2 billion in Asset Management and eve got the ceo of van ecks, 51 billion in assets under management 80 of funds great to see both. Thank you so much for joining us. What a week, david lets kick it off with you. What did you do, were you caught flatfooted with that 2000point selloff on thursday quest mark. Thereto answers on that, i feel we are caught flatfooted in their sense of theres absolutely no time to react not just this week but over the last weeks. It is the unlike 20,072,008 and surly not like the 2002 bear market. This came so qui
Past week. By thursday we were down better than 20 from the february highs. That is definition of a bear market. The dow alone, down 10 on thursday that was the worst day since the 1986 crash and black monday. That left traders unsure how to handle the virus impact and questions abound about how slow the economy will become . Are we in a recession right now right now is a boston group chief officer david monson is here, joining us this weekend with 2 billion in Asset Management and eve got the ceo of van ecks, 51 billion in assets under management 80 of funds great to see both. Thank you so much for joining us. What a week, david lets kick it off with you. What did you do, were you caught flatfooted with that 2000point selloff on thursday quest mark. Thereto answers on that, i feel we are caught flatfooted in their sense of theres absolutely no time to react not just this week but over the last weeks. It is the unlike 20,072,008 and surly not like the 2002 bear market. This came so qui
Past week. By thursday we were down better than 20 from the february highs. That is definition of a bear market. The dow alone, down 10 on thursday that was the worst day since the 1986 crash and black monday. That left traders unsure how to handle the virus impact and questions abound about how slow the economy will become . Are we in a recession right now right now is a boston group chief officer david monson is here, joining us this weekend with 2 billion in Asset Management and eve got the ceo of van ecks, 51 billion in assets under management 80 of funds great to see both. Thank you so much for joining us. What a week, david lets kick it off with you. What did you do, were you caught flatfooted with that 2000point selloff on thursday quest mark. Thereto answers on that, i feel we are caught flatfooted in their sense of theres absolutely no time to react not just this week but over the last weeks. It is the unlike 20,072,008 and surly not like the 2002 bear market. This came so qui