Futures indicating gain at start of trading. Take a look. Dow industrials up 38 points on top of rally yesterday fueled by a rise in oil prices. All the major indices higher this morning. Oil prices adding to yesterdays gains as well. Take a look at yesterdays close. Dow industrials up 456 points. Other averages also strong, oil prices this morning 1. 95 at 1573 creeping back higher on oil. Reopening the american economy, lockdown easing in some areas of the country bringing cheers to some and concerns to other including the white house. Most if not all of the economy will open later this summer. Secretary of state mike pompeo meanwhile blasting china and the World Health Organization saying they need to be held accountable for lack of transparency as the focus remains on the lab in wuhan as the origin of virus, something ive been putting a spotlight for months. Meanwhile missouri is filing a lawsuit against the Chinese Government. Attorney general eric schmitt, 7 30 a. M. Eastern on G
Friend. Were watching that very closely. Were keeping close eye on washington. Were focused on capitol hill. The house taking up the stimulus measure, relief measure, whatever you want to call it, to the tune of 484 billion. Now the house physically there, in person, some Wearing Masks to make sure they get this done. Lets get the latest from chad pergram, how this will all sort of fan out. Chad . Reporter hey there, neil. This is the debate. They started 15 minutes ago on this bill, about 324 billion of this goes to Small Businesses. You might recall a couple weeks ago that fund ran dry. The cupboard is bare. The cost of this bill ballooned from 251 billion specifically to Small Business, to 484 billion as you say. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says democrats improved the bill. There is money in here for hospitals and testing. Listen to the speaker. Im very pleased that it was transformed from a bill two weeks ago on the floor where the leader in the senate said, this is it, 250. Were no
Credit market. Thats coming up in the next hour were also going to talk to matt shay about the pain the pain out there with retailers weve heard about furloughs from gap to macys. What kind of unemployment statistics are we going to be talking about for the biggest private sector employer in the United States and do they qualify for relief in the new congressional package. Lets focus on the big stories were watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani joins us with a look at the quarter mike has a deeper dive on the s p 500 today. Steve has more on the feds latest move and what the economic signals are telling us. As we get ready to close out the quarter. Boy, good riddance and good riddance, exactly. Treasuries up and rebalancing. Buy stocks, sell bonds might help a little bit towards the close. Corporate Investment Grade flat and high yield down. Reminding us that in a recession, high yield tends to act. I want to show you the charts here boeing, have you seen anything go to 150
News coverage. We begin today with the dow up about 700 points now as youll see in a moment. It has been a whip saw day for wall street as virus fears loom. The dow dipping below 20,000 but zooming back as much as 1,000 points as the Federal Reserve and the Administration Step in to calm investors. Health Care Companies are targeting the virus from treatment to Testing Solutions there you see it up. The ceo will join us this hour here is what you need know. Theres more than 5600 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u. S. Marriott will furlough tens of thousands of workers as the hotel giant shuts down locations. We have coverage of this today we have more on the white house plans here bob is watching the market seesaw steve is all over the latest move from the Federal Reserve. Ka kayla, lets start with you. Reporter were waiting comments fr comments from capitol hill the rough contours were about 250 billion for Small Business loans and about 500 billion for a payroll tax cut. It appe
Recession. The dow down lost 2,400 points in three weeks and 1. 2 away from wiping out all of last years gains most other indexes already have. Your team of fast money traders to want steve grasso brian kelly, Karen Finerman and guy adami. Im Brian Sullivan guy, i dont like to use this word but is part of this market, investors, panicking no. Again, panic is the wrong word we are within 7 or 8 of alltime high. If people sold stocks given where we were is that panic . The speed things are moving is scary. I dont suggest its panic i dont think youve seen panic. And frankly the job isnt to stoke the flames of the panics its not the job to assuage concerns its our job to tell you what we nifrpg is going on with the vix at this level given the fact that people are not traveling, not going to games, schools closing, thats a fact now we talked about it last night. Thats having a huge effect on the economy and the subsequent kwekt effect on the market ill say this again, i think steve agrees,