Between antifa and Trump Supporters on the streets of washington, d. C. What can be done to curb the growing division in america. A look at market this is morning futures pointing to a rally at start of trading up 275 points right now. On the dow industrials nasdaqup 57 and s p higher by 29. The dow the best performer last week while the tech heavy nasdaq struggled with a selloff with the dow industrials up 4 on the week and nasdaq lower by half a point. And the s p higher by 2 . Covid cases on the rise across the country mean wheel as world waits for a rollout of the vaccine. Well be talking with new york state senator brad and who is one of fact pfizer vaccinings patients his insight coming up. Plus american i think knew try bring you highlights from latest spacex launch with four american astronauts onboard mornings with maria is live right now. European markets take look like this pretty much a firmer tone s p 500 up 45 and cac up 60 and dax index higher by 69. Pretty much about ha
This nation and worldwide, and on Bloomberg Television as well. Thrilled you are wishes for a good conversation forward to this important statement by jay powell, an update on how the fed can help america. The backdrop this morning is wonderful. Markets up. What is so important is you need to be advised. Robert miller will join us of blackrock any moment, and we are thrilled to bring you Raghuram Rajan at the bottom of the hour for a must listen interview. Jon ferro, against everything i is yesterdayters reaffirmed just in the last 60 minutes this up, up, up for the stock market. Jonathan with a defensive tilt to it. Aroundfutures up by 0. 8 . I didnt think we would see a day like we saw in the last 24 hours, where you could have a down market and still see the likes of apple, amazon and facebook up about 3 . That is the regime we are in. They are the defensive names in 2020. Apple with tom rumors, speculation of product announcements through this year, and one of those signals of corp
Oleary is with us kevin, welcome back to you look at where we stand right now following that adp employment report been all over the place. Nasdaq has been positive throughout dow has been bouncing around, as has the s p 500. The jobs number shocking, neutralized somewhat, though, by the continued move in tech stocks, like apple, rising above 300 a share today pete, thats really why were talking about the divergence these horrific economic numbers. And yet, unbelievable stock market numbers, because of tech, which is the only s p sector positive on the year yeah, its been an unbelievable rise out of those tech stocks that you mentioned, and sprinkle a little bit with the tech stocks as well. Because weve seen a really nice rise there we know how narrow this is the narrowness really comes with those megacap stocks and we talk about these all the time and thats something that obviously last year, f. A. A. N. G. Was the big story. We continue to have a narrow sort of group thats absolutel
President. That was then. A lot of people think it is fundamentally different this time. All of this is really catalyst, via a virus. But again, one of the interesting things im also following is that we still have negative Interest Rates at the very, very front of the socalled yield curve. One month and threemonth bills are still in negative territory right now with the one month bill at negative. 117 , the three month bill at negative 0. 348 . I hate to add that. That is actually good news. People dont look at a prospect of negative rates as good news but what it means technically, when you give the bank your money, you have to pay them for a privilege. A lot of people look at that, say, what the i will take my chances in the stock market. At least with conservative investments and dividend yields north of 3 i could do better almost doing nothing. That is the view. It benefits stocks. The fact we think were over the worst of the potential Economic Impact of this. That might be premat
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