Together we have been observing 8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence apts the Stock Exchange in tribute of the life and legacy of george floyd and the movement his death has ignited. Well have full coverage roho tayere on cnbc. Well be right back. You doing okay . Yeah. This moving thing never gets any easier. Well, xfinity makes moving super easy. I can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. Wow, that is easy. Almost as easy as having those guys help you move. We are those guys. Thats you . The truck adds 10 pounds. In the arms. Okay. Transfer your Service Online in a few easy steps. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. I want to welcome you back to the Halftime Report i want to take you to the wall its about 11 minutes, 12 minutes past 12 00 its a mixed picture on wall street 27,315 is a los. Nasdaq bucking the trend today taking a bit of a breather as the value stocks join
Market. Three year and 10 year bond options coming in superstrong. Watch how that winds up performing. Time now for todays top market moving news from our new york team and washington team. We want to begin with economic the u. K. Economy shrinking on the 6 in march. Predicting what could be its deepest contraction in more than three centuries. Bloombergs Michael Mckee has more. Michael ask not for whom the bell tolls. It is the u. K. This time. Just one week under lockdown was still enough for a 2 contraction during the first quarter. As you mentioned, a 6 contraction during the month of march. Britain plunging into what may be its worst depression or recession, at least, since 300 years ago. Three centuries, according to those who have been figuring out. Tourism fell by 46 , air transport down 44 . Engine ofpending, the the economy, down 1. 7 in the first quarter, the largest drop since the financial crisis. We got data from the British Retail Consortium saying total sales down 19. 1
Last ten minutes or so and finally, optimism around the possibility of new stimulus. All of that helping the market up about 1 on the s p 500 as we stand. Coming up on todays show, big moves in the banks space and Goldman Sachs is bringing workers back to the office well talk about that with the president and ceo john waldron and Michael Novogratz will lay out the risks he sees. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action and a pair of key faang names holding their annual meetings as tech underperforms today and mike, start us off with the Broader Market and the action were seeing right now. Yeah, so weve been talking about this rotational activity away from the big growth winners into all other areas of the market that are more sickly call and smaller. It is really happening in a benign way so far. Sometimes the baton can get dropped in the handoff but it is towards its highs so kind of stalled out at this area, but below the surface, equal weighted is up close to 5 so it is kind of st
Well as in london. We begin with a biggie week a busy week for Central Banks. Bank of japan says they will take on unlimited buying of Government Bonds, lifting the cap also on corporate holdings. I, he joins us now. , kitchen sink, we are still throwing it. Michael Central Banks are all as string the question of what you do when you have throwing the kitchen sink. In the back of japans case, you just make the sink a little bigger. The bank of japan already has negative rates, Corporate Bond and etf buying, and an emergency Lending Program, so they just decided to make those programs a bit bigger. Unchanged at rate 10 basis points. Remember, they do yield curve control. They mentioned they would buy as many Corporate Bonds as they need to and expanding access to its Emergency Loan Program for a wider range of banks. For analysts, theres a bit less here than meets the eye. They dropped their ¥80 trillion limit on Government Bond buying, but they werent buying anywhere trillion, so it d
The various heroic people working at mount sinai hospital, i am tom keene, Francine Lacqua in london. Cavendish,d to baron it is an interesting mix in the United Kingdom of the politics of the government and the fairly grim pandemic statistics. Seenine we also havent from Boris Johnson and a while, so the daily briefings are led by various cabinet ministers, and yesterday we had the further three weeks of lockdown expansion extended. As baroness cavendish was saying, maybe we need more testing. What the markets are looking at, they are looking through the number of cases that are slowly increasing in europe and still increasing in the u. S. , they are looking through the deaths and infected cases, and chinese gdp was horrific, the first contraction in a decade, and they are focusing on the positive. We could have a drug that is working, from gilead, and President Trump has given a timeline and thought on how the economy could reopen. Tom i really want to emphasize, every politician in