500 on pace for their biggest quarterly gains in nearly 20 years, and the nasdaqs about to have its best quarter since 2001. We will break down all the numbers for you. While this quarter was rosy, the future might not be so bright. If you ask Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, the fed head warning of an extraordinarily uncertain economic picture due to the coronavirus. Treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin just wrapped up testimony on capitol hill, long day for them. We will go to d. C. For all the fireworks that happened in that room. Meanwhile, we are just nine hours away from the deadline for Small Businesses to tap into what is left of the Paycheck Protection Program. It still has more than 100 billion available. The ceo of Valley National bank is here to tell us how he thought the program worked and what should be done with all that excess cash and should there be more stimulus. Then theres this. The Work Life Balance turned upside down during the coronavirus pandemic but as st
Coronavirus confirmed in the u. S. New york, new jersey and connecticut are banning all gathering over 50 people and closing dine in restaurants and bars following that recommendation from the cdc. U. S. Airlines are seeking 50 billion dollar in government assistance and if approved, it would be the industrys first broad bail out since after the september 11th attacks we have full Team Coverage this afternoon. Bob is monitoring conditions at the new york stock exchange. Rick is out at the cme watching the bond market. Bob, well begin with you. Third trading halt in the last six trading sessions. Thats this morning after the open 9 30 or so. 15 minutes the s p down 7 these trading halts have, at least, served to slow the markets down a little bit and do bit put a bit of a break on things well keep an eye on that. Were continuing to see this bifercation in the market. Health care and staples are out performing this has been the trend since thursday here. Market gainers, if you look at so
Times Peterson Foundation poll, only 14, 14, 14 of families own stocks outright. Meaning the market is creating all this wealth for the few, not the many 60 of americans dont even know that stocks are up for the year and theyve advanced 24 hallelujah so after a sedate day where the dow gained 28 points, the nasdaq climbed 0. 05 , lets talk about what the heck is going on here i think its a lot more complicated than simple ignorance. The first reason why people who can afford to own stocks are sitting on the sidelines earning very little, the disastrous bear market at the turn of the century impoverished a whole generation of individual investors who got burned by chasing, yes, the hottest stocks imaginable when the dot com crash hit, it ended the greatest love affair ever told. I was part of it i started the street. Com in 1995 immediately found hundreds of thousands of people with a thirst for any investing knowledge to level the Playing Field. Between the rich and the not so rich at
Yet thats exactly what just happened with the dow slipping just 143 points. The nasdaq backsliding a meager 0. 28 . Even though the price of crude spiked more than 10 gigantic, gigantic gain. How the heck is that even possible how could we have so many stocks that rallied on the news simple were a changed country. We have so much oil in this country and we have a lot of stocks that now do better with Higher Oil Prices and as well we have a lot of stocks that thrive if higher oil causes the economy to slow. The United States of today looks a lot different from the United States of even ten years ago first lets understand it looks like iran launched drone strikes that wiped out a huge chunk of saudi arabias Oil Infrastructure and theyre the biggest exporter in the world. That sent the price soaring, the biggest gain in 11 years and that translates into higher gasoline which means consumers have less money to spend on going out to shop. So we have it making per secretary sense. Theyve had
The nasdaq got spanked and slit 1. 6 but the average value 29 points in an it is passion of the upcoming rate cut, the first in ten years allow me to set the stage, on wednesday fed chief jay powell will give us the read on the economy and announce a quarter point rate cut to breathe now life into a business situation for many different industries. I know there will be sticklers that say with unemployment with the lowest level since the 1960s, it is ridiculous for the fed to think about cutting rates. Others like President Trump think a 25 basis cut isnt enough the president endlessly tweeted the Federal Reserve is way too tight monitory policy has been holding back the economy did it again today when your Interest Rates are too high, the currency gets stronger versus the rest of the world our rates are much higher so the dollar is very strong and makes the internationally Oriented Companies far less competitive and can hurt the Auto Industry and housing industry both of which are weak