Ppp money that he took . And, of course, today juneteenth, and the calls are louder than ever to make it a national hospital. What i think this means for our nation. All that and so much more on making money. Request. Charles so this week has seen extraordinarily light volume, a negative breadth which has been masked by these innocuous closes, right . Down days nothing dramatic. Now, one dilemma i think particularly for Institutional Investors is getting forward guy dance right and valuations. Its certainly understated right now that earnings are going to be a lot better than official wall street estimates. Now, in a different environment the current valuations would certainly be a major deterrent. Many old school investors are hesitating. One thing are these yields across the board on stocks, bonds and other investment instruments. Is so more than likely the catalyst to sort of get them off the sidelines and that big money into this market would be higher markets. Of course, the highe
Under an hour left in the session. Lots coming up on todays show a big exclusive interview with bank of americas ceo. Well get a read on the Small Business relief program. He joins us live in about ten minutes time plus as retail bankruptcy concerns swirl, well speak with the president of sax fifth avenue about whether customers h actually return to stores when doors do reopen but first, lets focus on the big stories of the day. Mike is tracking the market pullback on this first day of may. Josh is covering apple diedra is watching amazons move and phil has the shocking tweet from elon musk that sent teslas shares tumbling. Mike the s p 500 down almost 3 today. About 3. 5, 4 from its highs just two days ago. Look at a chart. Just to map where we are down about 4 we had broken on a shortterm basis the uptrend from march i dont think anyones going to get too concerned about this unless it goes deeper than at least 2550 week and a day or so ago, last tuesday, we were down around 2730 so w
The p. M. I. Well dive deep into this in a bit. Look at the boards. The dollar still holds on to the retreat. That is helping some asian currencies out there. Ere holding on 706. We were near the 100day moving average. Were siegristance now that the dollar seems to be hovering around the twoweek lows despite the fact but were seeing the dollaryen pretty much at 168 but seeing at least six days of gains so far for the japanese currency. Watching oil price. We see it climbs once again. You are seeing w. T. I. Futures. 4 higher for brent crude. Gold snapped out of four dives declines. It is largely unchanged. Hovering around 62 basis points now. We have the First Official gauge for chinas economy in april. Weakened again. Investors are waiting to see what steps the pboc may take to bolster the economy. Our guest from citigroup joins us this morning. What is your assessment of the p. M. I. Data that we got. Nonmanufacturing. Manufacturing below the forecast. Still in expansion territory. A
Jerome powell talks of heartbreaking harm from the coronavirus and says the pandemic has brought the u. S. To an abrupt halt. We are seeing optimism with asian stocks really prized to follow the leader when it comes to gains on wall street overnight. The s p 500 gaining 2. 5 percent, touching a sevenweek high as we have the dual optimism over expected track to a vaccine with the socalled operation work speed from the Trump Administration. More encouraging news about efficacy on a Gilead Sciences therapeutic as well. We are taking a look at gains resuming in new zealand. Japanese futures pointed up after yesterdays public holiday. U. S. Futures also showing an extension of those public gains. On seeing futures looking positive as well. Korea closed today and hong kong markets closed for the birthday holiday. Taking a look at oil because we are seeing a second day of gains for wti up, the 22 plus gain in the overnight session. We are seeing opening up here higher by over 6 in asia. This
Second. I do not believe theres Public Comment on that piece. All those in favor say aye. For closed session for today, before we go into closed session, is there Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, weth. The other Board Members will join us shortly, but i do not want to lose a quorum. We have several action items important action items to hold this afternoon. With that, we need to come out of closed session. So moved. Second. All those in favor . All right. Well start with Public Comment. The general Public Meeting rules apply. Please follow the normal rules that are posted about turning off your cell phone, etc. , etc. Open for Public Comment. My names john stinson. Im a 45year member of our pension fund. There were two things the public Pension Funds have in common. Number one, theyre all underfunded. Number two, one of the reasons why theyre all underfunded is because theyre over diversefied in highrisk investments like hedge funds. Most Pension Funds want 7 to 7. 5 return o