Taking new steps to address income and equality and Environmental Issues and apples tarring 2 trillion stock getting a downgrade to fight through that record valuation. This is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening im Brian Sullivan you are watching cnbc. Futures are flat should pick up the next couple of hours well call it flat groundhog day for stocks on wednesday. Another day, another record. Six Straight Days of gains they went above 11,000 for the first time ever. Not to be outdone, your first session in a row this could be your rbi we have 17 s p 500 stocks up 50 this year. Lots have done that. This is up 50 on the year the single best performing stock is dexcom, a wearable device to track glucose. That stock has nearly doubled year to date lets get you trade to the top stories from the show that just ended moments ago. Amazing how quickly you do the turn around. Anything to make it on to wex. Looking at sterling. Rallied to a fivemonth high v
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Disagreement about the illegal Fireworks Show going on . Almost on a nightly basis. Too much, they have gone till midnight, 3 00 a. M. Its season, it is just irresponsible. Im not a fan of it. Reporter officers from the Oakland Police department responding to calls of illegal fireworks. Oakland Fire Department will have five additional crews over the weekend, three of them will be patrolling the lake merritt area. Expect to see many many fires tomorrow over 15 wildfires just since monday. Reporter a small brush fire tonight mountain boulevard and Fontaine Court while the cause is under investigation, oakland Fire Department says there was another fire in the area on sunday, that was caused by fireworks. Trying to crack down on these illegal shows oakland fire has these buckets throughout the city to collect fireworks. Oakland police have also been busy, hundred and 10 pound hall of highgrade illegal fireworks confiscated near international boulevard today. All in an effort to keep ever
Numbers, 8 30 this morning. We knew it was going to be bad because bricks and Mortar Stores have been largely shut down, and it was bad. April sales down 16. 4 in april after dropping 8 in march. So heres the market, with just minutes to go to the opening bell. Red ink all over the place but not as bad as it was. The dow off about 180, 25 down for the s p, 121 down for the nasdaq. Thats of course inspired by apple, which is way, way down this morning. What were looking for is how fast we can rebound on the other side of this really bad Economic News. Thats the other side of the coin. The great reopening. Which gathers steam this weekend. There are only a handful of states that are still trying to enforce a complete lockdown. This will be a test of our willingness to get out and about, our willingness to travel, eat out and shop. This is important. We need to open the economy. We need to get back to work. This weekend, i think its a prelude to memorial day next weekend which is the unof
555 dow points. Ahead on todays show, were going to dive into this plunge in oil prices, what it means for the u. S. Economy and jobs to the financial losses reverberating through the market right now plus we will speak with illinois governor j. B. Pritzker and former commerce secretary Penny Pritzker, his sister, about illinoiss battle against the coronavirus and the race for more protective gear and testing. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching with 58 minutes left of trading. Brian sul vab focusing on crude oil collapse, mike santoli will tie that in with broad movements were seeing today latest on the snag on government funding. Brian, first to you on this unprecedented move in oil. A day for the history books. It is a day for the history books. Ending a futures contract in negative 30 or what it was. Sara and wolf, it doesnt make sense as i talked about in power lunch as well. We started the day around 10. We continued to fall now negative 30 these are contracts. Negativ