Come friday, thats mayday, with spring weather, getting out of the house and back to work will surely take another step forward. Look at this. Investors love it. We know we are in the middle of a seriously shrinking economy but back to work means a way out of the mess. Top officials including the president and the treasury secretary expect a vigorous recovery later this year. And soon, we will see the Financial Statements from the allimportant big tech companies. Investors are expecting solid results and that, too, is helping the overall market. Heres the big negative of the day. The tumbling price of oil. We dropped to 10 a barrel. Now we are at 11. 87. At the moment, its not hurting the stock market, but the possibility of going back to a zero price or a negative price as we did two weeks ago, that is still on the table. Gas, yep, keeps on falling. Not quite quickly enough, maybe. 1. 76 is your National Average. Wisconsin still the cheapest. The average price today actually went up i
Your stat of the day only one stock in the nasdaq 100, pfizer fell today, 99 out of a hundred in the nasdaq 100 are on the rise. Big banks, a big story for earnings and the results, the stocks not doing so much and former fdic chair sheila bair is here with a new white house op ed and the new Coronavirus Briefing, we will be monitoring that in the last couple of days there has been more news and this one a little different. Look at the location it is not in that press room this is in the rose garden which, we dont know what theyre going to say, but historically, when we have this one podium in the rose garden, we tend to get more news so there is a lot going on, but lets get right back to the markets. Tim seymour, i want to begin with you and really today i need a china story. Apple, iphone sales jumping 2. 5 million in march versus 500,000 in february. Better import export data. Did bigcap Technology Today to you sort of signal that china is providing a kind of road map for our reopen
Because there is some, not a lot but some cautious optimism starting to trickle out around both the markets because they ended their day and they ended their week higher as well. Perhaps some hope on the horizon about america getting healthy and getting working again. But tim seymour with 22 million filing for jobless benefits in just the last three weeks wiping out a decade of job gains, no doubt some very hard Economic Times for millions of people still to come. Is there really any good reason for markets to be rising like they have been i think its a liquidity squeeze. Its been a skepticism trade that has squeezed markets higher it has been a combination of the Federal Reserve expanding its Balance Sheet to 6. 1 trillion. Its been all of this well ahead of the recession frankly its been a dynamic where i think the positioning of markets allowed markets to push on higher it doesnt change from where we are but obviously we started all this on covid19 as weve gotten more clarity on cov
Consumerfacing businesses and both are on the move in the afterhours session and we have Team Coverage to break down both of these reports and lets kick things off with csx with the call now under way and lets get to Frank Holland with the details. Melissa, shares of csx up, and something weve seen in a number of other companies and one of its competitors, union pacific. On that call the ceo says production demand was too hard to forecast in this covid19 environment. Also during the call the cfo kevin boone said the Company Raised 500 million in debt and the Company Believes it is in position for a potential recovery and maintaining a strong cash reserve. Our Liquidity Position is extremely strong with nearly 2. 5 billion of cash and shortterm investments at the end of march this represents multiples of what we would consider normal, targeted cash levels cash may be strong, but volumes are weaker year over year to start q2 its been seen in the three weeks since the First Quarter ended
Quite a bit now. Its big ramifications for the reelection campaign, as well. A 7. 8 down 1660 when it was halted we have had 1,000moves for 7 straight sessions. Lets get more on everything going on bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange bob . Our fourth trading halt, a circuit breaker. Down 7 . The fourth one in two weeks here look at the markets here 2351, very important number. The old december 24, 2018, low technicals not much good to anybody these days we are sitting right on top of that again, just want to review the Circuit Breakers level one, we halt 7 . We halt 15 minutes so well reopen in about ten minutes or so. If that happens again, theres no stopping at 7 . The next one is 13 . Thats until 3 25 and then there is no trading halt after 3 25 p. M. Eastern time unless you drop 20 in terms of whats bothering the market, ill put up a chart to explain everything everythings down. So here you see Corporate Bonds down here you see the s p 500, equities down. Here you see croude