That shape which would be very good news. Taking a look at some stocks, apple as you mentioned alltime highs, adobe, amazon, microsoft, all close within 3 of alltime highs. Thats a range of different kinds of stocks. Apple and microsoft are the two most valuable stocks that i track, two of the most valuable companies in existence right now. Adobe had been more of a kind of growth momentum play type stock despite fat k despite fact its big and strong and has strong growth. For that to be as close to high as it is and up nicely this morning as well, serge sacertais something morgan. Weve been talking about it all week, the rotation into the stocks and sectors that are tied to this reopening narrative that were seeing play out across the country and really across the world in general perhaps unsurprising to see airlines, leisure and hospitality, banks and financials, the type of stocks leading the market higher today, even though from a sector standpoint in the s p every sector is in the
Thats leading the dow right now. Jpmorgan chase, rough week overall. The cardholders, mx, visa down this week, doing better. Exxonmobil also on the upside. And the laggards, and this is like perfect, the symmetry here, all the stuff thats been the Market Leader is down. Walmart, a 52week high, new high, Procter Gamble raised their dividend, merck is up on the week, health care is up on the week, united health, apple had a good week. Its down. Weve been telling you how goldman has downgraded apple, maybe a surprise, but talked about lingering low sales and margins a possible delay, possible in the 5g phone everybody is anticipating towards the end of the year, and i think this is the most important thing, a shallower recovery hard thing to call at this point. Everybody is all over the map on that shallow recovery apple has regained almost 65 of the losses weve had, a little better than the s p 500. Its trading right now at 23 times forward earnings and if youre like me and look at the e
And the estimated number of deaths we will get ism today. Adp is out several european banks are spending dividends jim, how much of this mornings action does reflect the grim picture that the white house set forth yesterday . Its difficult to imagine how, lets say, optimistic people were versus what the president said last night. I think many people in the stock market understood that the numbers were completely understated. You did leave the office saying, wow, that could be just terrible because they didnt caveat it as much as you might have thought they didnt say, all right, but were doing great in this state, this state, this state they said look, this is the reality. I think the reality rolls back some of the 19. 9 gain we had last week in the s p then whats going to roll back the rest is if we have credit problems ill defer to david. David knows behind the scene what day it is today today is the day youre supposed to pay your rent david, a lot of people wont make those payments,
To not make haste good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. Morgan brennan heads our coverage at headquarters bulls trying to hold the bounce after the worst day for stocks since 1987 the five Big Tech Companies apple, facebook, alphabet, amazon and microsoft lost more than 400 billion in value on thursday the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin joined us this morning on squawk on the street. Take a listen. The president is looking at a major stimulus package whether its through the payroll tax cut or through another means of delivering liquidity to hardwork americans, weve announced what will be about 200 billion of liquidity through delaying irs payments, so hard working americans who have tax payments due or small or medium sized businesses can delay them i can assure you we will use whatever tools we need to make sure that the industries impacted by this get through this this is a shortterm issue it may be a couple of months but were going to ge
Againlls over the weekend pointing to a conservative victory. We have a mild bid on the german tenyear today, 31 basis points. Weve now got a three handle again. But its a big week for the euro, with the ecb coming up later on. Certainly watching Christine Lagardes first performance after that decision is made on thursday. Vonnie. Vonnie just a little while ago, we got word that paul volcker had died. The former Federal Reserve chairman broke away from runaway inflation brought the bank to and later,lation, during the obama administered and the obama administration, was brought in to create the volcker rule. For more on his luck as we are joined by stephanie flanders. Clearly, volcker had an enormous career. He served under six president s, both republican and democrat. Started to really change the way the u. S. Handles Monetary Policy. What would be his most outstanding legacy . Stephanie i think youre spoiled for choice because he was involved in some of the key Landmark Events in Gl