The market, its the same as yesterday, the markets churning with gold moving higher. But you are right, we have seen a bounceback to green on the screen after the navarro flap. Its clear, its a market in search of a story in the line, maybe we can find a story from philip. Francine we will talk about runaway inflation with him shortly. Lets get to first word news. President trump calmed that the phaseng one agreement is fully intact. Peter navarro said that aspect of the trade deals were over on fox news, and he said his comments were taken wildly out of context. Mike pence is warning that more young people around the country are testing positive for the coronavirus. Making their mark in a Conference Call with governors. Concerned byed Texas Governor greg abbott. The infectionat rate is rising. Boris latest stage in johns Boris Johnson announcing the latest age in lifting the coronavirus locked down. Movie theaters and museums may open the door after next month and he may also cut the
The regime changes that are out there in our medicine, the pandemic, as with about the american economy. James bullard of st. Louis will join us here in a moment. What we would really like to do is talk about the regime changes that we see right now in the market. To me, it is a very correlated list up off of the navarro uproar of 14 hours ago. Jonathan what a move overnight, whipsawed by Peter Navarro, who set the u. S. China trade agreement is over. The president of the United States, his boss, coming out and correcting him. The confusion on that issue is massive over the last couple of weeks. I think john boltons book over the last week or so has made things a little more interesting as well. It. No question about i know lisa is almost 2 3 of the way through the book. One question which you are an expert on commode is the great distinction between larry kudlow and Peter Navarro . Jonathan Lawrence Kudlow seems to have the president s thoughts very much in mind. He is speaking for th
I wanted to point to the mexican peso. Has not moved much today but we are keeping an eye on the earthquake that struck the country. Now lets get a status report on the credit markets. 13 u. S. Companies sought bankruptcy parks section protection last week. It comes even with the intervention of the fed which has injected liquidity across the markets and given borrowers. For more insight, lets bring in srikanth sankaran. The last time we spoke, we were already seeing a calming in the credit markets. Where do we go from here now that the fed has backstopped entire curve in the credit market . Srikanth our thesis over the next 12 months is we get a grind tighter with respect to spreads. Our call is for credit markets to deliver positive exit returns across investmentgrade and highyield markets. Effectively, you want to be more selective, but at the end of the day, this is an environment where you have to look at rerisking portfolios in times of weakness rather than missing out when the m
Into the end of the year. Some say good for him, it is about time we focused on hiring americans. That and more on making money. Charles apple, amazon, microsoft, facebook, netflix, yeah, all in record territory folks. [inaudible]. Sectors are higher with tech and Communications Services leading the way. As new home sales may have smashed expectations for may. 676,000 was the number there. Richmond fed manufacturing number saw a huge improvement. Then is was the bmi number almost at expansion. Wall street analysts and titans theyre coming around despite the fact they get hammered in the Financial Press for being optimistic. Credit suisse joined Morgan Stanley saying yes, well have stronger stock gains this year. Steve schwarzman says economy in for a big vshaped bounce. Where should we invest right now as we Gain Momentum . I want to bring in belpointe strategist david nelson and Heritage Capital paul schatz. Let me get your initial thoughts on the current action in the market the last
It is still up there, unchanged for now. President the suspended temporarily visas of hundreds of thousands of workers used to work in the united visas, including the h1b used widely for immigrant employees in Silicon Valley. First, a check of the markets. Ending the day slightly up despite all the political commotion. Abigail doolittle has been watching the back and forth. Investors again looking past the bad news. Why . Most part, they are looking past the bad news. Relatively risk on close. Close itself in the past couple of hours, not so great. At the highs, the s p 500 and nasdaq up more than 1 . The nasdaq of course closing at yet another record high. That has to do with todays strength, the stayathome stocks and stayathome sectors. Both at aamazon closing time. The longest winning streak since july of 2019. The stayathome team has emerged. A couple of weeks where the cyclical sectors were doing better. As the virus has started to hotspotscertain areas, created fear. Weeks, thest