Instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy iranian gun boats if they harass or ships at sea obviously thats a policy, thats going to make it so that anyone who is short oil theres so many people short oil, might say its worth covering here. I had a big win. Its geopolitical, the fact theres a failed instrument out there called the uso, i say its failed because its not been able to handle the selling yeah. Executing a 1 for 8 reverse. Are they really we talked about the usa more th than we ever have. Some things should have never been created, the uso was blessed when the s. E. C. Not around, people lose money, but theres no constituency that says you cant lose money. What do you make of the general notion that the president s tweet aside that some of the results last night were better than feared. You have a list of companies now that have been able to either sell a stake privately or through secondaries and well get to that in a moment. Plus the Senate Package making progress
Brown, pete nigerian on the phone, erin browne. First, lets check out the markets to see where we stand this hour as the busiest week of earnings season starts to ramp up the dow up just 28 points. Nearly 400 point gains the s p just marginally to the downside the nasdaq up nearly one full percent at this point. 8657 there a key focus for many traders up about 1. 25 at this stage its great to see you i guess i would start by saying the s p 500 is now down 11 year to date. The recovery has not been anywhere near as robust for the median stock as it has been for the gigantic stock in week is what i call the playoffs of earning season the most important stocks to the overall direction of the s p or reporting. You know the names microsoft, facebook, google, et cetera those are really the stocks that i think matter most directionally. This could be a very interesting week its not all bad yesterday was a massive day. Thats what youd want to see. It happened. The iwm had a 4 3rs day. Not much
The opecplus curbs doing little for the global glut. The virus drags on demand. Policymakers are focused on the Economic Impact of the virus. We will hear from a policymaker later this hour. Shery we are seeing downside for u. S. Futures. This coming on the back of a second straight week of gains. We have seen coronavirus cases start the United States to stabilize. We are seeing coronavirus debts and cases here in new york coronavirus cases here in new york start to decline. Brent is down. There was a loss of 8. 5 on friday. There is a gloomy outlook on oil prices, wti at the lowest level on record. Haidi we have been listening into President Trump speaking at the daily Coronavirus Briefing at the white house, talking about additional testing and stimulus and conversations with the democrats coming close to a deal. President trump saying Vice President mike pence will be helping having discussions with u. S. Governors when it comes to shortcomings in testing in information will go ahea
It is up 25 , but still well below 15 a barrel on a supply glut in the u. S. And around the world. And as Congress Passes that 480 billion relief package to keep the Paycheck Protection Program running, td bank has promised some 26,000 Small Business loans. The ceo is going to join us in a few moments and tell us how he did it kelly, over to you all right, tyler, thanks. Todays rebound is led by tech stocks again they were under pressure yesterday. Lets get to bob pisani for more on the rally bob . And like i said, the last hour, threetoone advancingtodeclining stocks, thats a nice move up. But this is really in a sense tech and even mega cap rally the five biggest stocks on the s p 500, huge gains here facebook is up 7 . Google is up 4 . Microsoft, apple, amazon look at these moves up the other bigger five, berkshire, walmart, only one, Procter Gamble were down when you get nine of the top ten moving up, the s p is going to move, even if the other ones dont do much at all this is a me
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