Coming up, in a few moments, Global Investor mark mobius will join us. Chinese equities see a big week of gains they slipped a bit this morning. Shares of carnival jumping after they gave an update on the state of its business. Well speak with the Ceo Arnold Donald in a cnbc exclusive and Major League Season starting the season in florida. Well speak with the leagues commissioner about the risks and reward of taking to the field. We look forward to all that. Sara, up 0. 7 on the s p 500 lets start right there with the markets. The we have seen a big swing intraday futures starting off in the red. Hopeful signals then coming from gilead about the coronavirus treatment. Helping turn things around early. The company saying it was associated with an improvement in clinical recovery and 62 reduction in the risk of mortality compared with the standard care. Lets get to mike santoli tracking the moves in the names and sectors today. Yeah. Sturdy Performance Today solid week you would have tho
Get started here this morning. Look, i think that we are actually experiencing something that we havent lately which is that the analysts are almost entirely positive, and yet there is an underlying current both from the unemployment claims, which they are never going to be good until we get a vaccine. And also a general on wee that we dont have it under control, there i am talking about covid19 so why own anything . I think that thats an incorrect view there were many many piece this is morning that talk about what i can only say i am going to borrow a term from larry kudlow, green shoouts. There is much thats good in the economy. It is just not where we thought it was going to be, david. It is not all encompassing, but there are some areas that are very strong. All right so go over those and explain to me why they are not what we thought they would be. I think we thought travel and leisure would come back. That cruiseships would come back, that there would be Corporate Travel only on
You were just talking about times when its okay to sell if youve had gains on some of these big cap tech names. Yeah, im not advocating that this is a get out now moment, i just think that we have had such a good run, there was something that came out on the screen this morning that we are having the best quarter since the Fourth Quarter of 1999 and i just cant be, oh, well, so what, when was that that was a seminole top. Theres been some fantastic runs and i think that sometimes we forget why we own stocks we own stocks to create wealth there was a gentleman on just now, mr. Bailin and he said so many good points, he agrees with me on selling some of the ones that have really moved he would like to rotate into the stocks that havent moved yet. What i am saying is there is no sense for a lot of our investors who watch to rotate into something that hasnt moved when they can just sit and wait with some cash, which is cash has been so vilified and i think that i am not coming in early lik
Record highs that has the nasdaq setting a record as well better than expected home sales in the u. S strong activity numbers out of europe as well uk, australia to name but a few. Were up, sarah, nearly 1 on the s p 500. Ahead on todays show, a big first on cnbc interview with howard marks fresh off his latest memo. He said the odds are not in investors favor and whether he sees any opportunities right now in the market plushgs connecticut has certainly seen an encouraging dropoff in coronavirus numbers of late. Well ask governor lamont about his advice for states like florida, arizona and texas that are seeing their cases swell and how hes trying to keep those cases out of his state lets focus in on the big stories were watching mike santoli tracking todays rally. Meg terrell has the highlights from Anthony Faucis congressional testimony and phil lebeau is covering another volatile session with the Airlines Start us off with the Broader Market on the three month anniversary of the ma
Steepening and broadening and a lot more this is one of those rallies that not only is taking people by surprise, but continues to roll and were seeing major gap ups i was mentioning on squawk major gap ups in the morning more of the 1980s action and its very interesting because stan talked about his views of the 1980s and theyre pertinent as ever. We have incredible and we have a president who wants new highs and we have stocks that are recovering well ahead of the fundamentals but some people can say that is what should happen look at the airlines we are hhad some numbers from pl lebeau and almost as if people decided covid is over and its a vshape rally and you better get on board and that makes you a little uncomfortable. Well, i just think that the friday rallies, as sweet as it was off the unemployment number has not put out any sellers, carl and i often think that there have to be sellers at a certain level. I mean, can you really take the banks up so much when there was so much