Just three Industry Groups are higher, and really, the highest among them are the food, beverage, and tobacco index. Mainly, the banks are lower by 2 , consumer durables down by 2 . Everything else down 1 or more. The 10 year yield at 57 basis points. I mean, essentially, the market is taking this really dire labor number very well. Down seven for the month of for the down 701,000 month of march. Was weeks before the mandated quarantine for many, so we know this is going to get worse. 26. 89, reflecting the mood between the president and russia and saudi arabia. Russia said it never saw prices going to 20. The dollar index at 100. 7 right now. An eye onant to keep that. The dollar continuing to be something of a stress point and a little but of a tell on these markets. U. S. And european stocks are down hard. We know that your to date. The s p down circa 20 . The stoxx 600 down 25 . A lot of people asking the question, is now the point at which longterm investors should be looking to r
Something we havent seen for the dow and s p in more than a ho month and a half to wilfred frost who has breaking news. Hi, morgan. Yes, james gorman the chairman and ceo of Morgan Stanley sent a note out to colleagues that were seen by myself and the content confirmed by a spokesperson at Morgan Stanley, in it he said, quote, 90 of our employees are working from home. As a result the normal bonds created by every day interactions with colleagues have been impacted and im hoping my perspective on the firm and crisis will be helpful and you have all seen the Federal Reserve actions are extraordinary but given the circumstances necessary markets cannot function without liquidity and they have taken real steps to address this critical issue he went on to say, slowly, governments across the world are putting aside their politics to arrive at blockbuster support and stimulus packages. Way too many people have lost their jobs overnight and it is central for government to act as aggressive as
Plus and russia signaled they want to try to cut output to help restore some balance going on at least on the supplyside of things. So crude of course having a pretty good start to the second quarter. I do want to flip up the board and fold it over into some analysis we heard from muhammad el 5 arian between the risks of the high yield market and investment bond market. He said beware of fallen angels. Theres a risk of some of these triple credits being downgraded to junk. One of the biggest risks is it spikes way above the feds tolerance. You buy what the fed is buying but becareful of these fallen angels and we saw just a slew of those in the last week and i think strategists are arguing it really could get a lot worse from here. David . 12340e9 taylor this is Bloomberg Markets balance of power. Earlier we did speak to larry kudlow, the economic counselor director. Lets listen in to what he had o say. Lets listen in to larry kudlow. Lets take a look at some of lets get a check on wha
Brokered. Weekrude about 13 on the but we cant go without pointing out we are down about 50 on the year. The dow, the nasdaq, the s p down roughly 1. 5 on the day. The big decline or is really the russell 2000. A lot of concerns about what the smaller and Midcap Companies are going to fair. We also saw a selloff in the financial space. The bank index down about 4. 8 on the week. We should also point out, on the weekly gains and losses, the only three sectors that managed to close with gains this week was energy, consumer staples, and health care. Also up about 2 , scarlet. Scarlet it is interesting how weve seen the gains that initially came at the open disappear pretty quickly. For all the talk that the data is backwards looking, the fact that it is friday and we have so much uncertainty i had of us with worsening numbers presumably means that investors dont want to be long heading into a weekend. Now all eyes are looking towards the opec Conference Call on monday. Certainly there a l
Treasury, the efforts to stimulate an economy in free fall jim, you got off a call or an interview it was a call as well with secretary mnuchin what stood out to you . That you shouldnt lay people off. I want to point out i got a correction, he said on Small Business payroll, two weeks, he meant two months two months means you do not lay people off without, i think im not saying its irresponsible but everything is being done to keep businesses open Small Businesses open. David, with the fed, i think theyve taken off to me anything involving credit the secretary talked about anything involving liquidity we cant produce demand. You keep people around for two months, but they wont be able to produce demand. There will still be a burden on Small Business not sure how that will be resolved thats an interesting point jim, we did we were watching the futures, which appeared to be limited down at different points in it the evening last night after japan opened as well then we got a fed announc