Hardpressed drillers . We will ask. Now we are quoting the next contract for june delivery. The price coming in at, where was it moments ago, what was it, 15, 16 a barrel. The president will fill the Strategic Petroleum reserve with up to 75 billion barrels. That helps storage capacity. But it makes no impression on collapsing demand which is at the heart of the oil price problem. A lot of people expect that that price, the one we see right now, what was it, 16, 15 a barrel, expect it to down from here. Well see. Stocks, theyre down in part because of the Oil Situation. Its another indicator of how badly the virus is affecting the economy. Investors not happy about the demise of Americas Energy industry. The dow will be down 500, s p, lets see, 54 points down and the nasdaq down about 82. A small loss in percentage terms compared to the dow and the s p. Well, the president s twitter account active last night, late last night. He called the virus the invisible enemy and said he would is
Road, maybe that is actually not the case. Rolling overs as well. Maybe that is oil. It could just be a sentiment feeling, as well as any sort of Political Risk because of kim jonguns health uncertainty. Lets get to todays market moving news from our team in new york, as well as washington. We want to begin with this meltdown in the oil market. Wti futures plunging below zero for the first time in history yesterday as many storage tanks reached capacity. Brent for delivery in june pushing to the lowest levels since 2002. Annmarie hordern has more. Annmarie what we are really watching today is the number of contracts for wti and brent. Yesterday, the big question was is this just a big technical anomaly. I think what you are seeing today is that this is more widespread. What is showing is what traders have been saying for quite some time. Thething i want to bring up point is the june contract, trading at 16. 69. That is a contract that is not expiring. In 18dropping the most years. You
Putting pressure on oil markets as well. And marie hoarder me for more. Walk us Annmarie Hordern joins me for more. Walk us through the veracity of the selloff, and does it last . Annmarie the next 24 hours is going to be quite bumpy for this may contract. Basically, it is Financial Derivatives meeting the physical oil market and what we are seeing on the storage side. If you are not out of this position financially and you are a futures trader, you have to accept the physical oil. The problem is, theres really nowhere else to put it. Look at cushing. That storage is quickly filling up, and that is the main hub in the United States, where you have pipelines to canada, the midlands, or the gulf. The may contract now trading at , which3, plus contango means if you look at the june contract, trading at about 23 a barrel, it is about a nine dollar differential, the most on record. If you look down the table of what you see for june, july, august, the prices are certainly higher on the futu
They keep opec happy there are now more than 368,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States. This is according to Johns Hopkins. How they tracking the virus and if peak in new cases is near lets send oifrt to kelly. I always feel better when i see you in that lovely set up there. Thank you bob is tracking the market moves for us bob, lets start with you. Were coming off the highs here. A few sectors are participating. Its good to see the banks up again. Its good to see the Energy Stocks up as well. Its good to see retail up as well tech curiously is lagging here apple is doing nothing today the consumer names not doing too much the kroger, general mills. These had big rally or they out performs in a down week overall theres some big movers that people are saying. Look at kohls up 28 . These stocks have been cut in half kohls was 5 45 a month ago an now its 17 carnival was up big two or three times more than it was right now. Simon property, kimco. All of these stocks have bee
12 Million Barrels a day, flooding already saturated global market. That saw crude drop 30 . 10year crashed below 50 basis points and now there is concern we could join other western nations with negative yields, japan, germany, switzerland, netherlands, belgium and france. Major markets around the world before the u. S. Opened sparked enough selling for Circuit Breakers to limit preopen downside. Those limits are drifting in, Circuit Breakers once trading got underway. To discuss, erin gibbs and Capital Wealth Planning chief market strategist, jeff saut. Jeff, great to have you in studio. Pleasure. Connell charles my man, youve been calling it up and down. Youre reworking mod tell feverishly as the numbers change dramatically minute to minute. Where are you now . I was on your show in january, short term signal ad sell position. We told me to sell positions and raise cash. I didnt think it would be this bad. We were dealing with the virus and bernie surge in the polls. This collapse o