Good morning for our audience worldwide, this is bloomberg surveillance on tv and radio alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Just about positive on the s p 500. Tom not your father strike. When i saw it, they nailed it about the 10 00 p. M. Stock. This is an original strike going back over to uaw history, back to 1958. Into real challenges before world war ii. It is an original strike, a selective strike, that is what is new. Jonathan gm said they offered unprecedented package. From ford, the union made little movement. Rambo, we have not heard from this white house, have we . We are waiting for a statement from the president. Lisa hit the he did speak with the leaders and auto manufacturers. What did he tell them at a time where his policy is contradictory . In one hand hes pushing for electric pickles and a lot of the vehicles are pushing back on yet they are helping some of the auto manufacturing with those. On the other hand, it is it is the most prounion in
Seeing across Asset Classes that are seeing the stocks lower. It is the biggest oneday goinge for the s p 500 back to august. We saw that earlier in the week as well, and we are also seeing simultaneous at least 1 decline for each of the major averages. This has become increasingly uncommon until the past week or so, when we see volatility returned to the market. Scarlet mentioned what has happened on the week as well. As well,500 down and you have to go back to february 2016, or depending on the lowest today, maybe even january 2016 to find this kind of magnitude of a drop. It is being felt in a lot of different ways in the market today. We are watching media stocks among the groups that are selling off today. Are both trading lower, Discovery Communications as well. Analyst who covers media was on bloomberg earlier, and he says he believes the cbs ceo is reluctant to go ahead with some sort of combination between cbs and viacom, something that has been talked about recently. In other
And nasdaq up by 12. This comes after a big up week for the markets where nasdaq was up 2. 3 across 6,000. Closed the week at 6,047. The dow was almost up by 2 . Closed very close to 21,000. Were going to continue to watch, as we get closer to the opening bell. Take a look at crude oil prices as well. Crude oil was down about 29 cents. The big story was it was below 50 for many days last week. This morning, its down another 16 cents to 49. 17. Let get you ready for the first trading week of may. The agenda chockfull of Economic Data and earning reports, the ism manufacturing and construction spending, tomorrow, april auto sales, Paychex Small Business jobs and wednesday, adp, Service Index and fed decision at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. Thursday, q1 productivity and factory orders, friday, april jobs reports. As for earning, more than 100 companies in the s p 500 reporting. The big names to watch, include conocophillips, merck, apple, facebook, tesla, kellogg and cbs. More than the holdin
Slightly. The Chinese Markets were closed for the dragon boat festival holiday. The nikkei ended flat. Down by 4. 5 points. In europe, some of the early trading, youll see right now it looks like things are flat for the dax. In germany the cac is off, and in london stocks down by a third of a percent. Crude Oil Prices Last week were all over the map. Ended up down 50. This morning down to 49. 57. Several headlines out of europe this morning. It is the euro moving following comments by mario draghi. Draghi signaling the bank is not yet ready to unwind simplus measures decemb s simplus st s measures. Lets look at the euro, at 1. 11 right now. A greek government spokesman denies that greece will opt out of the next bailout payment. Athens was weighing the option, but the greek spokesman said there will be a solution reached when european minute centers and minute centers and i sglooifrnlgts ministers meet. British airways saying Computer Networks are operating normally today after an outa
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt, sara eisen and me at post 9 on a very busy friday as the market stumbles a bit for the first time in about a week, taking a pause in their historic rally as the president goes to South Carolina for that meeting with boeing. Investors seemingly undeterred this week through headlines and fake news and cabinet changes. The question is, will that confidence continue as the president s policies move closer to implementation . Were joined by richard clarendon at pimco and mike ryans, global strategist at ubs. Good to see both of you. What a week weve had. Its not just been potus. Its been yellen, philly fed, cpi. What can we say this after week weve had . Weve had strong data for several weeks. We had yellen on the hill for Humphrey Hawkins stem. She leaves her options open, didnt show her hand for the march meeting, but strong data. One question, mike, is do you sense there is any rise in complacency, underestimation of the risks, you