We have seen some push pull here. Some of that weakness still russellg with the was 2000. 8 . 10year yields continuing to rise. Breaking out of what was earlier 82month trading range between 54 and 78 basis points. Now, incredible the break and we have seen the last two days. Further weakness in the bloomberg dollar index. We are back to weakness that we have not seen since march 11. You wonder how much of that is the feds continued stimulus into the markets. I want to talk about the data that make up this morning. U. S. Jobless data showed continuing claims failed to decline again and instead rose above the forecast of 20 million, to 21. 5 million. The market is reacting to the news as a cast doubt on the hopes of a strong economic rebound. For more, we are joined by nela richardson, edward jones senior strategist. This is one of the first times for the market that it is reacting to the poor Economic Data. Been in your opinion, has driving the weakness of today after what has been a s
Held by chief executive carrie lam, saying hong kong will increase Virus Testing to Something Like 7000 a day. Thats the hope, anyway. They will be extending that capacity for this territory here as well. Thats the backdrop here is carrie lam just outlined this increase in the number of people who will be tested here in hong kong or who can be tested here in hong kong. Haslinda chinese president xi jinping is promising to make the Coronavirus Vaccine available the pledgedeveloped, as part of efforts to defuse critics to the governments response to the pandemic. The virus does not respect borders. Mankind is a community with a shared future. Cooperation are our most powerful weapons for defeating the virus. Tom mackenzie has more from beijing. She succeed in trying to persuade critics . Tom the u. S. Will keep up its drumbeat of criticism for china. He did make some important points in the speech to the governing body at the world health organization, talking about the need to develop a
Debt. Joining us to discuss is a high veteran, Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors chief Investment Officer martin fridson. I want to talk about this wave of downgrades we have had. Yet, itenomenal, and seems like we have not reached the apex. Do you anticipate more double and triple downgrades . Martin i think we will see that continue for some time. If is such a dramatic change in environment, it is taking a while to get through all the companies, but in addition to aat, some Companies Just had light switch turning off kind of change. Historically, you have some finance companies go down quickly if they lost their ability to borrow, they could sell quickly. Industrial companies historically have taken a long time to make the migration that we observed recently. 1100 basis points around march 23, and then we had a bit of easing. What do you see in terms of levels, spread wise, and default wise . Martin default will clearly rise. Defaults will clearly rise. We think double digits. The high
Quarter. We are down 1. 4 on the s p. Weve got a big show coming your way well speak with the ceo of hologic which says its new coronavirus test could help increase the countrys Testing Capacity and a massive afternoon of earnings. Apple, amazon, gilead, visa and whirlpool. And an exclusive interviiew when i will pools ceo. Michael tracking the market on this final day of the month. Courtney has a strategy update for macys and julia is watching big moves for media stocks mike, start us off with the market down day, but big up month and a big five or six weeks since the market low take a look at the s p this is a twoyear this was a 35 drop on intraday basis. To yesterdays high, it was a 35 rally off that lower level so very sink niehaus in that way. I also point out that right around here, 3005, people are talking about how its gained more than 60 of the overall point losses that has some significance its kind of a may period. Seasonals get weaker and yesterday was kind of a big headlin
Top producers consider even deeper output curves. Shinzo abes state of emergency now covers the whole of japan after critics said his initial virus response offered to little, too late too little, too late. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless rate coming in at 3. 8 . As expected, a rebound from the previous month of february. February was a 3. 3 . In the month of march coming in at 3. 8 . In line with estimates but still a rebound. Of course, we have seen weakness in retail and hospitality, employment, given this coronavirus pandemic. The government has tried to create jobs and that has helped the economy. They of course have already passed a 10 billion extra budget, but we are now seeing the jobless rate climbing to 3. 8 . This as president moon jaein has called for more aggressive measures on job creation. Of course, moons Ruling Democratic Party of korea just won the implementer elections. Take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. We are se