Created 4. 8 million jobs, and that is much stronger than expected almost every single sector improved, bringing the Unemployment Rate down to 11. 1 . Isnt that the kind of news that makes people want to buy pretty much anything . Then the rally did taper off near the end of the day. The dow only dwayne e gained 92. Those are big numbers, but we got spoiled, didnt we what do these numbers mean what reflects the state of the labor market in the middle of june how does it impact your money . First, you need to understand that were still nowhere near where we are before the pandemic struck we still have a lot of ground to make up. The economy was smoking hot. I, however, think its a legitimate comeback. Its a legitimate comeback and a comeback gives you more latitude to buy stocks that depend on a healthy economy, not just an unhealthy one. But these are before the latest outbreak thats forcing many stocks to go back into lockdown mode, so its a glimpse into a post covid future that we ha
Some places are reporting record single day increases lets kick things off with meg terre terrell. Were seeing a couple days worth of data with record cases. If you look at the United States in total, now the sevenday average of new cases is starting to tick higher again meaning trends to the south and west of increasing cases are starting to overcome the positive trends coming down in the northeast as of yesterday, 27,000 new cases were reported across the United States United States. If you look at individual case, weve been getting the new case counts for today for states like arizona now up to an additional 3200 cases today california reporting 4300 additional cases today but that could be due to Testing Backlog from l. A. County we saw in the numbers yesterday. Florida also reporting record high cases today 3800 South Carolina another one of those states reporting record highs. Now in terms of the hot spots in the country, the areas with the fastest case doubling times, it is clos
Last weeks big rally with saudi arabia and russia feud over cuts the oil market taking a hit today. We do have full Team Coverage of these markets for you. Bob and rick covering the action in stocks and bonds. Steve on the latest economic fall out from the virus. Bob, well kick it off with you and this rally that just keeps building it started early on we got right up great overseas numbers. When Governor Cuomo started talking a couple of hours ago, we moved up on his comments on hopes for plateau. The market took it positively. I want to point out that we are, i call it markets in the middle. Were now 20 off of the lows from the february 19th high, were now down 22 remember at one time we were down 35 a bull market to bear market to i dont know how to characterize characterizeize this morning were 20 off the lows the most beaten up are rallying the most retailers they are a big today wayfair up best day since march 26th for the banks. Here are some of the regional banks. Sta stap stap
Virus could soon peak in new york city. Weve already seen the apex in madrid italy is clearly over the hump that means buy storks. Cover your shorts. The bull is backs todays run d 1627 points marking its best day in two weeks s p soaring 7. 03 . Nasdaq 7. 3 . Can it really be this easy or does this represent too much optimism i think its a bit of the latter wall street is a group of index buyers and traders when we care about the new number of coronavirus cases, number of hospitalizations and mortality rate index buying was so intense it moved stocks like they were play things now, does that mean we should buy the nasdaq when we have more ventilators, sell it if we dont have enough personal protective equipment . Do we buy the s p retail etf when we get a decent number from, i dont know, Governor Cuomo . No, its kind of ridiculous. Were simply seeing, though, the flip side of what happens when people were downbeat as they were last week when the president s team told us some pretty ho
Done here you see the home builders, weve had a terrific rally in the builders in the last few days but hovnanian was 29 just a month ago. Its a 9 stock right now. Yes, weve had a great rally, but bear in mind how far weve come and how many more headlines we have yet to get through a lot of people are also optimistic watching the vix drop it has dropped exactly in half since march 15th it was 86 on an intraday basis march 15th, you see it at 43 exactly a 50 drop thats making a lot more people a lot more optimistic. A lot more arguments that the markets are higher have been mitigated by the fact that weve just had such a big rally and its hard to push against this rally right now. Look at these stocks right here and how much they have moved since the market bottomed, the february 21st close, which is when things really started get getting bad. Walmarts up, verizon is only down 1 . Merck and 3m down a few percent. This is when things started getting really serious you see how much the ma