Bought bank of america for 12 Straight Days. You own it, what do you think . The stock is still down we like it, we like it for its diversified businesses ive been wrong for the last, you know, year owning this stock, but as we get forward to i think closer to a normal market, whenever thats going to be, bank of of me and j. P. Morgue aren in a good place. They have a lot of businesses and are trading when you look at the market at a very cheap value. Yeah, the catalysts are not there yes. He as got a good position in it. Jo he, 12 Straight Days, right . Stocks up 8 in that time frame, maybe giving it a bit of a jump start, 337 million they know own almost 12 of the outstand, should investors following the oracle into bac and maybe the banks more broadly . Well, i mean, colt he could buy it for another 12 days he cant fix the headwinds you know im in pmorgan. Thats the one bank in the best in breed the reasoning behind why i am not in that is just the significant consumer exposure that
In dubai. F quite the riskon rally along these markets. Let me give you a rundown with stocks in the u. S. , with futures up. 7 as we speak, and this is given thee impressive climate. Monetary currencies are powering forward. Eurodollar trade at the highest since march 10. In terms of the bank space, we have the german10 year the german 10year, again, a lot of these haven bids. Barrel, you are looking at counterbalancing forces that are kicking in, even though they are revising their forecast to the plus side. Lets get to the first word news now and cross assets with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, yousef. Beijing is in a new position that drew a rebuke from china and added fresh uncertainty for businesses in the Financial Hub. Legislation,gned saying u. S. Officials responsible for cracking down on dissent in the city. Italy has set a course to nationalize controversial tollroad operator auto strata after all night talks on the politicallycharged issue. Taking t
Any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that theyre responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, staff will mute members when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. All house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. [ inaudible ] economy and i know recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Chair powell, the law that required the Federal Reserve chair to testify before congress twice each year was established back in 1978. However, no fed chair has ever testified before this committee with the economy in the condition that it is in today. More than 116,000 americans are dead from the coronavirus. And just last week, 21 states recorded an increase in their average daily new cases compared to the prior week. The april jobs report was the worst in Americ
York times article today on the gravity across the entire sunbelt. It is going to be fascinating to see how the mayors and the with ars buttress up washington that seems to feel like the pandemic has moved on. That is decidedly not the case this morning. Jonathan the pandemic has not moved on. We turn to the Economic Data a little later this morning. We constrain the reopening process for the economy. Neither is positive for the economic outlook. We are already seeing that was companies hesitant to rehire people as a result of a lack of confidence. Read ofget the latest initial jobless claims in the united states. The pace of filing is still very high, 1. 3 million filings expected. Hear from, we will the sec chair in front of the House Financial Services committee. Interesting to hear what he says. Later today, we get the fed stress test results, possibly indicating whether banks may have to cut dividends. A lot of people are already expecting they will curtail those payments. See wha
The Leadership Group right now so joe terranova, i go to you on that note, the melt up in tech seems to be picking up we asked the question whether the growth tech stocks wrestled the market back from value and then thats where the money is going to be made Going Forward clearly the mega cap growth names have wrestled the market back theres an added dimension to it, scott, being popularized in a lot of Research Notes im reading. Pippa stevens of cnbc has a great report element of esg investing and something i didnt think about in prior weeks but if you take all the esg funds, the largest esg etf, its popularized by all the names that youre talking about. The apples, the amazons, the microsofts, so theres an added element to these hyper growth names that are not just about the quality and the cash Balance Sheets and the very visible return to Earnings Growth but an importance as it relates to social and governance and youre seeing a significant amount of fund flows into esg and thats ev