Rips into Silicon Valley and defends the companys government work and no symptoms, no test. Why the cdc is quietly updating its coronavirus testing guidelines normally, jim, i wouldnt start there, but you were just tweeting a moment ago about how important testing is as the number the sevenday average of new tests in this country is the lowest since early july. I just think that the main gap in the system is you hear people say, well, my daughter just got it from college and weve been all trying to test in the family, its five days, we dont know what to do. I think that that halting nature of what to do has gripped this country and has changed it from a country where you go places to a country where you stay at home its a country where you do not travel overseas, its a country where youre frightened over a five and sevenday period endlessly and we live with the tyranny of it. Testing would end it, but its got to be instant. Cant be a lab a lab is a big, big obstacle. Yeah. We will talk
Moment as we look at the labor economy of the united states. ,resident trump out front giving his strategy on the adp report to dovetail a big number for friday, with the reality of the adp report in 14 minutes. Jonathan i think we are both lost for words over this one. Adp report around 15 minutes away. The estimate, positive 1. 2 million. It continues with claims tomorrow and concludes with payrolls friday. The churn beneath the surface, we talked about this so many times. Claims only show you one side. We will try to get the net of things friday. Really unpredictable. Tom i agree, adp is a little squishy. It is likely john swann axios interview. Theres a huge margin of error on the jobs report. How do you see the bond market set up for the margin of error of fridays report . Lisa heres a question, are we already seeing a policy error with the delay of some sort of stimulus package . Are people going to be trying to find other reasons to take a move . I will say the bond market right
A bipartisan letter urging for delay in implementation. Every entity both banks and nonbanks which were not included in the cares act on the same footing can conduct the study with real life se narp owe that we had going today. Given the actions by congress, should we delay as i and my colleagues have called for and should the treasury examine the real life scenario we have gone through when kwuki inconducted study. I think that should be considered we are working on the study. The president issued an executive order with regards to each agenc looking at the rules, regulations that were waived, declined or whatever if they dont work now, why should we continue them down the road when we get out of this mess i assume everybody is doing that this accounting principle would fall in that area of we need to be looking at this as something down the road. I would agree thank you appreciate that. Theres a time and place for rules and regulations and a time and place that are nonfunctioning whe
Whether its medical, some of these states posting some of their highest caseloads since the pandemic began, but then again optimism about the recovery at the same time. Right look, i think that we are all kind of thrown its governor to governor, yesterday in new jersey suddenly we get the you can have 100 people outside, 50 people inside. Versus six we are all kind of confused. With he see some parts of the country looking worse, other parts of the country that were so terrible its wide open and the confusion to me is what are the numbers going to be look like what are they going to look like given the fact that new york now feels like post wuhan and the rest of the country seems like, i dont know, maybe is it going to be italy, is it going to be spain i dont think it is. I think its going to be better, but i have to tell you, carl, that the stuff thats being bought is not in synch with whats happening, particularly the airlines, the hertz rental car, we saw a very good piece in the jo
Are straight ahead this big bank is underperforming the peers and today one veteran analyst says sell its our call of the day Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. It is good to have you with us on this thursday. Our Investment Committee today liz young is the director of market strategy. Another high for the nasdaq. Pete, this ramp continues into the end of the year. S p is at 23205 phase one what we talked about led into that thing. People have gotten comfortable we continue to kick things down the road because of that i think its given people more fuel to want to be somewhere else in the market particularly in some of the nasdaq stocks with growth. Some of them have easy still, the valuations arent too stretched. Some of them are that the ones im starting to avoid more and more. I think that some of these names are great. Theyre getting it done the right way, but when i look at some of the valuations in specific names theyre overly stretched. Wells c