Good morning, everybody welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick here with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. A gain of just over 1 the dow now at 25,000. Now the dow is indicated up 162 points the nasdaq closed at its highest day. Now about 2 from its alltime high thats the run youve seen since the lows back in march treasury yields. Theyve ticked a little higher the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 75 crude oil prices yesterday, crude was up about 4 percent on this expectation that opec plus especially russia will extend those cuts put in place that was good for 4 as seen yesterday. Crude up by 1 to 37. 16 all of this against a tricky back drop. It is powering higher well talk to a lot of folks that will help us through this the need for Solutions Former white house and ceo of j j and they have big news on all of this. Getting an update of what has gone on. Reporting a day of mostly calm in washington, Late Afternoon in st. Paul, staging the protesters protesters ran past the
Wednesday and this morning, dow indicated down about 170 right now. S p down 21 and nasdaq down by 58 just 4. 5 from its alltime high more about what it has been doing well the nasdaq 4, 6 or whatever you dont call it the nasdaq 100. It is concentrated i heard Brian Sullivan saying early that of the nasdaq 100, that 35 of those companies are trading 10 higher or more for year to date not the full year but year to date what weve seen this year broadening out a little bit there is the big chetech and the big tech that seems to be well suited for what we are all doing. Not a total surprise oil hasnt hurt either remember, it was the may contract when it expired at the end of may something theyve never seen us before wti back up to 34. 07. That tells you what people are anticipating it has rallied 70 and only at 34. Right tells you a little about what is happening here also take a look at treasury yields we are around 21 for the 10year. 10year at 0. 664 . Andrew thank you, becky lets bring
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
About 2. 4 you are looking at additional declines the dow has improved we were down about 443 now we are indicated down about 366. S p futures indicated down about 32 all major averages saw declines but the dow was the biggest. S p off by 1. 8 . Nasdaq down by just 1 yesterday. A lot of it as we watched oil prices under pressure. Lets check thetreasury market 10year yielding below 0. 6 at 0. 0. 58 . Oil prices yesterday, nobody has ever seen anything like this no. Lead story went to minus 37. 63 a barrel. No place to put it people would like to store it. More people watching june switch over june is not much better obviously. No. I was shocked how much pressure that is under too. Big gain of 80 . Futures, strange things happen not everybody Takes Delivery reflecting the lack of capacity. I think peak oil might have been maybe not a real thing going back we are a wash in oil. Understanding all of the oil not being used crude delivery closed at 18. 27 and went to minus 37. 63 means selle
Every direction. The s p saw an even bigger gain. The nasdaq up by almost 3. 6 the dow futures also up. Keeping an eye on the Treasury Department seeing how the fed news will play out there the fed news is back about 0. 6 . Sitting at 0. 612 . If you watch oil prices, which has been a big indicator of demand around the globe and what is happening, this morning, wti is up about 16 . All the way back up to 17. 49. Wow, all the way back up. 17 unbelievable lets get an update on the pandemic the number of global cases that we talk about nearing 3. 2 million. I dont know how good that enough is for anything we have more than a million in the United States. New york state cases near 300,000. I dont know of the reliability that state prisons near 7 testing positive breaking overnight, california governor plans to order all beaches and state parks to close tomorrow to avoid repeating last weekends violations hot weather, the police memo leaked to several Media Outlets yesterday. Andrew to put