Last weeks big rally with saudi arabia and russia feud over cuts the oil market taking a hit today. We do have full Team Coverage of these markets for you. Bob and rick covering the action in stocks and bonds. Steve on the latest economic fall out from the virus. Bob, well kick it off with you and this rally that just keeps building it started early on we got right up great overseas numbers. When Governor Cuomo started talking a couple of hours ago, we moved up on his comments on hopes for plateau. The market took it positively. I want to point out that we are, i call it markets in the middle. Were now 20 off of the lows from the february 19th high, were now down 22 remember at one time we were down 35 a bull market to bear market to i dont know how to characterize characterizeize this morning were 20 off the lows the most beaten up are rallying the most retailers they are a big today wayfair up best day since march 26th for the banks. Here are some of the regional banks. Sta stap stap
Defense officials now talk about what this means for the program. As i have consistently said, the f35 Program Remains one of my top acquisition and sustainment priorities. Earlier this month at our last press briefing, i made a commitment to come back to you when we were ready to announce the next f35 contract. So here we are. As the f35 Program Milestone authority, alongside Lieutenant General eric, the f35 Program Executive officer, were here to announce the u. S. Department of defense and Lockheed Martin have made tremendous progress and now have an Agreement Regarding the lot 12 through 14 production contract. This is an historic milestone for the f35 enterprise as the f35 is our largest tack air investment and will form the backbone of the u. S. And allied fifth generation inventory for the foreseeable future. Ans and the joint Program Office are laser focused on driving cost out, quality up, and achieving timely deliveries of our capability to our war fighters. With respect to o
Defense and they have made tremendous progress and now have an Agreement Regarding the lot 12 13 production process. This is a new milestone to the enterprise as of 35 is the largest investment and will form the backbone of the u. S. And allied inventories for the foreseeable future. Anf in the joint Program Office are laser focused on driving cost out, quality up and achieving timing delivery of our capability to our war fighters. We respect ontime delivery, we have exceeded the total aircraft quantity we delivered to the war fighter last year in revenue to 6 ontime delivery rate. A tremendous improvement from where we were last year with an average ontime delivery rate of 64 . On quality while we have made progress, there are still significant opportunities for improvement and we continue to communicate to concerns based on the data we collect. The 34 billiondollar agreement for of 35 low Rate Initial Production 12 14 of 478 f35 aircraft. 149 for lot 12, 164 lot 13 and 169 for lot 14
President trump, of course, has been pressing the fed with ever greater urgency to cut rates much more aggressively, but for now at least it seems the central bank is planning to take its own sweet time with only gentle rate cuts likely in the fall. The u. S. Economy, meanwhile, continues to perform well. With unemployment near a 50year low and wages rising. But theres a lot of uncertainty out there. The biggest source concerns the global economy. Now, when hes not picking on jay powell, the fed chair, the president s been going after china, raising tariffs on that countrys exports to the u. S. Beijing, of course, has retaliated. This weekend a new round of higher u. S. Tariffs is due to go into effect, although this week President Trump did say that the two sides were till talking, raising some hopes in Financial Markets that perhaps tariff increases by both sides might be averted. Now, this trade battle continues to keep businesses on edge, but the president says its essential to get
Greater urgency to cut rates much more aggressively, but for now at least it seems the central bank is planning to take its own sweet time with only gentle rate cuts likely in the fall. The u. S. Economy, meanwhile, continues to perform well. With unemployment near a 50year low and wages rising. But theres a lot of uncertainty out there. The biggest source concerns the global economy. Now, when hes not picking on jay powell, the fed chair, the president s been going after china, raising tariffs on that countrys exports to the u. S. Beijing, of course, has retaliated. This weekend a new round of higher u. S. Tariffs is due to go into effect, although this week President Trump did say that the two sides were till talking, raising some hopes in Financial Markets that perhaps tariff increases by both sides might be averted. Now, this trade battle continues to keep businesses on edge, but the president says its essential to get china to change its unfair ways in the way it goes about doing