A half percent. Another thing i am watching as the rnc tax policy. Toer this hour, we are going look at taxes and how they play into wealth inequality. We are going to do that with Dorothy Brown november university. First, economic data. Confidence, 84. 8, the market was looking for 93. Ist is a week number that a weak number. This tell us something about the stimulus debate, the employment market in terms of the present situation. That has weakened significantly from the 94. 2. The expectation number has weakened as well from 91. 5. We have an 85. 2 this time around. Newhome sales continuing to drive onward. The Housing Market showing no respite. Look at the lumber prices. Sales, 901,000. That is a 13. 9 permit very strong number. Consumer may be starting to show signs of weakness and concern. Lets talk about the market today. We have already indicated what we are seeing is stocks, global stocks continuing to push on very strongly. What is the excuse . U. S. Chinese officials holding
Its 46 waiting to apple, amazon, microsoft, facebook, and google. We are seeing the worst case fear on the part of investors that if those names go down it will take the market. We are seeing that split between the s p 500 and the nasdaq. Small caps getting a bid, which did not happen yesterday. David speculate with me. How much of this is the real world . We have the big european fiscal bailout approved yesterday. We are talking today about one in the United States. Is it possible this is reacting and stocks would do well if there was a recovery . Abigail i think this has more to do with trading and technicals. When you look at the rotations, there are many rotations going on week after week between the different sectors. It does not fit into one bucket , and lestlogy investors think one week unless investors think one week recovery. Where we have real euphoria is silver, up 60 . Gold lagging behind on the year. Gold is leading. It is not stocks that are getting a huge big rally out o
To the president s allies, with former Vice President joe biden, by being able to say they were pushing for a recovery, pushing for a reopening, when democrats and democratic lawmakers were not. Obviously, there are a host of different tangibles that are still in the mix here. But after a very tense and volatile week inside the nations capital, some good news for President Trump and his economic team. Jonathan kevin, looking forward to that address in washington, d. C. , just around the corner. From new york city, that does it for me. I will be catching up with larry kudlow a little bit later and programming. Equities up two percentage points. This was the countdown to the open. We are just over 30 minutes into the u. S. Trading day. Im guy johnson in london with alix steel over in new york. Number really blowing past all expectations. The market was expecting a vshaped recovery. Was it just what it got given . Was that the vshaped recovery . Abigail and the question is, where markets
New york stats state we have full Team Coverage stooefr steve is all over the unprecedented action the package has hit some snags what is the latest the out come is looking like the same one we got last night with democrats not signing onto advance the 1. 6 plus trillion dollar stimulus package. We have a vote right now of 4442. 44 yays. 42 nays. You need 60 votes to pass it its difficult with five in swe selfquarantine. Bernie sanders not voted last night. He was following this from afar and following this in negotiations from there. Senator Chuck Schumer said today this vote is meaningless the package is done. The real work is happening behind closed doors. To that end he said that work is very, very close to producing a deal that inif he canned some optimism into the market but he is making clear hes not authorized democrats to back this move to advance the vote as it stands. We know cabinet members have been meeting to reach a compromise slow and steady progress is what they are ca
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