Green. Were currently holding onto some gains despite the miserable number out of adp, 20. 2 million jobs lost in april looking at commentary from disney and gm on various stages of reopening in shanghai, here in north america and the nasdaq continues to confound some of the bears as it is less than 1 from going positive for the year. Its actually pretty incredible and speaks to how defensive those megacap tech names have been viewed to be by investors in the market and for good reasoning looking at what weve seen so far where earnings are concerned. The other thing to keep an eye on is crude prices after five Straight Days of gains you have futures up 28 for the month of may so far. Those coming up because of the u. S. Private payroll numbers, that 20 million plus drop in april, which was not unexpected but still obviously so painful, especially when you put it in context of being the worse jobless in the history of the adp report that as you balance the daily data that shows decrease
Seeing some good things in its earnings. We are also getting a few good out of a study on a gilead drug, sending shares higher today. It looks like this particular duration taking the drug allowing for the same results, which means we will be able to get more testing done to see if it has an impact on covid19. Guy the data are bad, the science is good. That is probably the message coming out today. The gilead news having a positive effect on european stocks. We are near session highs. Today is aial sector prime driver. Volkswagen trading to the upside. Airbus reporting numbers today, trading around 10 higher today. Outve also had a surprise of cycle downgrade for italy. Yields moving up a little bit, not that much. Big volatility continuing in the crude space. Brent trading up by 10. 5 . Vonnie keep an eye is well on the fed decision this afternoon, and the statement, which will be interesting. Jay powell will hold his virtual News Conference in the afternoon. For his thoughts, we are
More than 2 on the stoxx 600 great s p futures point to another day of decline in the u. S. On track for six days of declines and heading for lowest close since october and global stocks for the 10 year yield hitting a fresh record low. Yields are dropping across the u. S. Curve. The two year yield sitting around 112. To the euro missed the risk off memo . Three out of the past four days. 10947. It could be down to the broad dollar weakness. The yen has been big today along with gold. Saying we could get 1800 on gold. Wti extending its slide beyond a 13 month low. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. We begin with italian Opposition Leader Matteo Salvini who accuses the government of underestimating the threat of coronavirus. He is urging them to earmark at least 10 billion euros for emergency measures. I think it will be the composed of factions the dont like each other. Its already the weakest in terms of growth. After the virus, which will evidently slide us into a recession, a g
And joining us now to see what 2020 has in store is managing director, victor anthony, and Portfolio Manager at needham growth fund, Chris Retzler good morning. I look at the tech stocks that did the best this year, a lot of them were kind of underdogs, roku, top of the list coming into the year, people talked about netflix would beat up on them this year, the narrative seems to have shifted. Apple is another one people thought apple would have a bad year not only trend wise in tech whats important in 2020, are there underdog names you particularly have in mind . Victor well, mostly on small cap large cap, i see amazon, alphabet, google, facebook continue to outperform those arent underdogs. Are they no. Angies Home Services which underperformed significantly in 2019, i think another one, comscore, unforeseen event, management departures, outperformed significantly Online Dating app, the meet group, meet glad it is spelled that way different kind of stock if spelled another way. Up abo
Josh lipton talked to tim cook last night after the earnings print and joins us this morning. Josh reporter carl, investors want to see iphone trends improving. Thats what they got with the latest report. Iphone revenue dropped 9 in q4, but revenue dropped 12 in q3. Ceo tim cook telling me for iphone specifically we improved year over year performance even more compared to last quarter, and significantly compared to the first part of the year, and we are off to a really good start with the iphone 11, iphone 11 proand iphone pro11 max i asked about tariffs and trade tensions cook tells me he did not ship more iphones here to the u. S. To try to get ahead of potential new tariffs in december, nor does he plan to, as analysts know that means recent positive supply chain data points represent real demand. More broadly, cook is optimistic a trade deal gets done, saying i am still optimistic in the end there will be agreement between the countries where it will not solve everything, it will