It started out boring earlier this morning. It is not boring anymore. John will do jon will do a data check. 0. 5 inaq 100 up a good the last 30, 40 minutes. I am going to say that the chancellor of the exchequer, or the egg shells, whatever it is, giving a speech in the United Kingdom really talks about the stimulus to come. That has been the underpinning to a good feeling about this market. Jonathan this is smart policy we are seeing from the u. K. , and it lays down a market for fiscal authorities elsewhere as well. Lets start with the labor market and with the chancellor is doing today. The chancellor is incentivizing the government is companies to bring back employees. They are really trying to help the young. The companies will want to be incentivized as well. How do you incentivize them . You offer them money to help hire young people. That is an important step as well. Now weve got to talk about the industry getting really beaten up. Restaurants, hospitality, tourism. The chanc
When you say a line, more than two people i think they have to be at work at 6 00 or something. I was upstairs getting my coffee everyone had a mask on but there were six or seven people out there waiting. Were you one of them . I was notone of them. Much better smelling. That would be from your standing and not max cutting the losses in half. Im willing to give that to him . I have to say, Brian Sullivan puts on a very good show i appreciate the lead in i listen because i do my hair and make up about five feet from here energetic at 5 00 a. M he brings it every day. You could be up or down up 2. 3 . S p was up 1. 5 . Both of those averages now on track for the Third Straight gains. This has been an impressive quarter. All the way back to the Fourth Quarter since 98 we have seen three months in a row that have been impressive. If things went south, you could see the s p 500 wipe that out. Those gains are in the green for the month of june. You can see dow futures are down only about 35
Moreid things were much complicated because of the chinese. He also said the phase one deal on trade was a strong agreement. He expected to be implemented. Is he right. Is a good agreement . Us i am not sure it will be implemented. The world has changed a lot. U. S. China relations have changed quite a bit. Frayed, given that large tariffs have been imposed on china, and the campaign rhetoric, which is very , some of itst china very valid, like the actions in hong kong. On top of that, covid19 came along, which has made it difficult for china to implement this part of the trade agreement. It promised to buy 200 billion worth of products, agriculture, manufacture products and Financial Services and also opened up Financial Services. Is throwing the chinese economy as well as our economy for a loop. China will not be able to live up to its end of the deal. Onna wants to keep relations solid footing. That is part of why they have invited the secretary of state pompeo to meet with their to
You can describe it, connell. John bolton, the former National Security advisor for President Trump, his book is set to be due out on tuesday and an excerpt has been published, wall street journal, other outlets i believe as it relates to President Trumps meetings with president xi facetoface when it came to hammering out the trade deal between the two countries and it raises some serious questions about those oneonone interactions. In a passage just posted to the wall street journal, bolton writes, in his book, the following, he says, quote, trump then stunningly turned conversation to the coming u. S. President ial election alluding to chinas economic capability and pleading with xi to insure hed win, he, the president , stressed importance of farmers and increased purchases of chinese soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print trumps exact words, bolton writes but the government prepublication review process decided otherwise. On the last sentence, department of just
Narrative is that President Trump and the ministration looking to get things back to work, even as the coronavirus is now firmly in the white house itself and the administration. We have the likes of Cardinal Health 5. 2 , and some of the other Health Care Stocks like gilead, eli lilly up more than 2. 5 apiece. Under armour continues the guidance story, not giving any indication of what it is expecting, but says the Current Quarter will be the most impacted by the coronavirus. Shares are down about 11 . The yen we getting today. Stronger dollar once again. Food is unchanged crude is unchanged, 24 a barrel. Guy interesting to see that spread between brent and wti widening out. Lets figure out what is happening in the markets and what is going on in terms of portfolio construction. Riserto gallo from algeb investments is joining us on the line. We are trying to figure out how we reopen an economy in the united states. Weve got the u. K. Starting to think about reopening its economy, or a