Chinese demand levels almost at precrisis level. Time for todays market moving news from our washington and new york teams. We want to start with fed chair jay powells comments on the economy. In an interview with cbs, he expressed confidence in the recovery, but timing is still hard to predict. Chair powell the economy will recover. It may take a while. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really dont know. Michael mckee, International Economics and policy correspondent, has more. Was there anything new on cbs . Michael nothing really new, just summarizing what we already knew from the fed and from economists and disease experts. He suggested that what it is really going to take is a vaccine before people feel really confident and the economy can start to move back in the direction of where it was before all of this started. He said congress and the central bank may need to do more to keep us afloat during that period. Appropriate government policy could buy time for work
The big apple housing bust how hard is new york City Real Estate being hit and if it will get any better anytime soon . It is wednesday, may 6 you are watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening. Welcome. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for watching here on Worldwide Exchange on wednesday morning. Here is how your markets and your money are setting up. Futures about 145 points on the upside parts of this due to reopening the economy. Remember this, the dow was higher a week ago before we started talking about reopening. More likely the move is that hedge funds now have the highest net exposure to stocks big tech, once again, the names you know, the faang stocks outperforming again yesterday. Oil is part of the story as well it tells the story of more demand down the road oil up again this morning. Now up about 30 in a week demand for gasoline is slightly on the rise. Production cuts for chevron and exxon and others coming faster than expected in the Un
Coronavirus and almost 100 deaths. This as lyft, pelaton, grub hub and tmobile report quarterly results. Its a mixed bag. I want to bring in taylor who has been covering the markets today. Walk us through the resiliency of tech in general. You saw the s p and the dow down. But again the nasdaq rising. Unbelievable. I think a lot of the earnings have come in much better than expected. Youre getting the sense that the tech sector here is sort of a defensive sector in this new environment. Its also another day that ive been tracking chinese tech stocks rel toive u. S. Tech stocks. They also relative to u. S. Tech stocks. They also are overperforming. A lot of growth and ot mitchell overseas filtering in through. The s p tech index is positive for the year, as crazy as that sounds. It is the only index in the s p. Now the only sector thats positive for the year. Youre really getting a sense that now big tech is the leadership in this environment. And weve got some quarantine favorites repo
What may be the most important stock in the market right now. The roller coaster ride that is crude Oil Continues last night, july falling below 18 a barrel a lot going on on this wednesday, april 29. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan here is how your money and markets are setting up their wednesday. The dow did fall a bit yesterday but as bob pointed out, many thought it was a relatively good market day for this reason it wasnt just the four or five big cap tech stocks leading the way as they always had been. Banks, small cap stocks, which had been notable underperformers were actually stand outs some people want to see that kind of rotation today, Big Cap Technology could be in focus. Following googles quarter which wasnt as bad as some feared, stock up nearly 8 premarket. Oil on a macro level becomes the metric to watch. Crude oil in the frontmonth contract, which is june, is tradin
Joe, the big story is oil prices once again im ready to move out past june move out where . June is too close if we are not going to open anything up, no reason to think it will be anything different than minus 38 a barrel it is related to the price of gold and the price of a suit, so i should have been buying andrew, you are spending 10 times what you are on a suit with those hugo boss things. Which none of them have belt loops for 4,000, you could get a couple of belt loops no hugo boss. It is ralph. Ralph who oil prices, it is not funny. This is out of the realm of anything weve ever seen brent crude only a 20year low you look at wti or what may was before the contract rolls. It is incredible supply shortage spiked overseas. The u. S. Movement, wtis june contract the price giving up earlier gains. Up 11 see, im ready to move to september. August at some point what does this mean for the saudis youve had your picture taken there on a sand dune youve got a feel. They should have done