Measures fail to emerge. On the monetary side, the bank of england, becomes the latest to cut rates treasury yields hovering around 80 basis points. Full Team Coverage of todays market plunge. Mike san tolly is with us and meg on the latest on the coronavirus. But well begin with breaking news out of washington major Bank Executives meet with the president today. Well get to wolf at the white house. Reporter the president and the Vice President and the treasury secretary currently hosting in the white house behind me the leaders of the major Financial Institutions of this country in attendance we have the leaders of jpmorgan, bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs, wells fargo, black stone making it the type of gathering we havent seen since the peak of the financial crisis. Theyre all inside, as we speak. What will be on the agenda well, two main things. Number one, liquidity and the functioning of markets number two, lending to businesses that are most affected by the coronavirus.
Year high as the coronavirus layoffs start to show u. And Oil Rebounding crude on track for its biggest oneday gain ever. Absolutely. Its up 26 though still down 17 for the week as a whole. The dow was up 500 points. Now only up 235. Lets focus in on the key stories were watching mike is tracking todays Market Action e meg is covering new developments from the Pharma Industry and kayla has the latest on proposed bailout, but mike, lets kick things off with you. Thanks. Obviously seeing a general pause in the intense selling weve seen perhaps had a wave of that liquidation pass us by and the big old Growth Stocks are leading the way. That hasnt changed through this whole sell off especially sed soed if you look at a one yore chart starting with the nasdaq, 100 the leader, s p 500. The equal weighted verse then the small cap russell 2000 you see that distinct tearing on a oneyear bases in terms of what has worked better if you just focus in on the last month, by the way, one month ago to
2020 fresh economic stimulus from beijing adding to the optimism but under the surface the russell 2000 seeing its worse day in a month and we got some mixed labor market data here in the u. S. Earlier in the session. We are up 235 points on the dow, near highs on the session for all three major averages joining us paul hickey cofounder of the spoke Investment Group very good afternoon to you happy new year to you. Where do you stan in terms of whether this bullishness is justified. Is it easy to pick bullish or bearish as we stand . When you look where things stand out, you look at the equity pros and cons which we look at on a regular basis, the pros are balanced with the cons. That doesnt suggest you should be taking a cautious view or just a neutral view implies average returns for the market Going Forward. And when we look whats going on in the market now, whats happening now, brett hits new high nasdaq hitting new highs what we follow closer than any other group is semiconductors
Negotiations with china. Mixed Economic Data as Consumer Confidence falls, but Housing Market remains mostly steady and disney rallying on two positive notes, which has helped them propel the dow higher. We are on record high watch once again for the major indices. Joining us for the hour, Barbara Duran from bd8 capital partners. Barbara, how do you feel as we sit at these record highs. Can we hold this momentum through the rest of the year i actually think we can normally, ive been very skeptical. I really thought we would just be in a trading range and unlikely to see new highs. But i think weve got one or two new highs left and its not just optimism over the china trade partially being resolved i think its also, unlike last year where people were rushing for the exits, i think this year, theyre rushing to get in, because youve got the performance issue. The market is up so strongly and i would suspect most active managers are underperforming here barbara is with us for the full firs
Huge Public Health crisis. Carol and aramcos mega ipo is finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed viewed as a stepping stone to driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. With autopilot, which is viewed this cover story is an ethics course of how do we get there . Tesla is already doing this in real time with autopilot, and other companies have been not quite as bold as what tesla has chosen to do. Carol joel, dilemma is right. The more miles we get on the road with something, the better. There is so much data involved in making this better, but in the interim, youre going to lose some lives. Joel thats right, that is the moral calculus that we are living in right now b