For the country and the economy with ian bremmer who says we should be thinking in terms of three years. Plus, well speak with Kevin Durants Business Manager about the lockdown of the sport. 59 minutes left of trade iing. Lets focus on the big stories mike is tracking todays Market Action near the highs of the session. Phil lebeau watching boeing dragging down the dow. David faber covering the executive shake up at at t and kayla on the latest round of government stimulus. Mike, first you on what were seeing slight gains, still lower on the week an upward drift here in the afternoon, but as you suggest within the range, obviously just consolidating r very, very big really historic magnitude of a rally we saw during march. April rather weve come right here, 28 20s is an interesting level in late summer its kind of rushed up last summer we were afraid of some kind of perhaps tipping into a mild recession. Here we are looking at a vastly worse recession. The earnings picture is very opaqu
The answer is not for a long time even the greatest optimists think a mass vaccine in the middle of 2021 maybe something smaller this fall the idea of something that is just given to you in the hospital iv that makes it so it eliminates the lets say the odds of you dying, its something that makes us feel like maybe this is the tamiflu for this dreaded disease i think, of course that makes people feel more optimistic. Everybody wants the country open, but nobody wants to do its been that stark, that bipolar. How about we get it open versus getting really sick. Thats something that people will say open it up, thats why the market is flying its not the tamiflu, its for when you are already fairly sick its very important i dont want to discount it in any way, listening to Scott Gottlieb has been one of the more rational voices on this throughout. He frames it properly. We actually do still need those antivirals that would be taken earlier in the course of the disease to mitigate its effect
370 but did end the day lower. It was the first down day we have seen in five trading sessions well watch what happens today we have a fed meeting coming up. That will be the pla is to watch as we hear from the fomc later today. The 10year just below. 6 a month. This has been the best month for the dow in 18 years because we are coming off of march because that was the worst year for the dow in 22 years. You see these huge swings first down and then up what we are watching in the equity markets the one thing about 10 crude, every dollar it goes up, we could go back to 30 every day. Lets use the dollar every day that might not happen. Equities do seem to do better. Thats a lot of room to go. Maybe. But sooner or later, thats not good either. The move came after data from the American Petroleum institute. Showing that crude jumped. That was 600,000 barrels less than expected. We saw some wild swings yesterday all around these low levels 10, 11 14 today, as you can see market stocks gave
White hou on remdesivir and looking past chinas first gdp contraction in 40 years oil below 18 is something to watch. That report out of stat news reflects how much hope there is, whether its remdesivir or Something Else for an effective treatment going into the fall. It does it may also reflect thin trading having spoken to a number of people this morning who are wondering whether or not you can have big moves in the market with just a billion dollars of futures being bought, which may seem like a lot, but is not. Because, you know, you have a lot of Fund Managers who tighten risk, they took down their net exposure, perhaps they didnt kel quite a sell quite as much its unclear how much buying power is needed to move the market in a significant way. Remdesivir itself is important were all hopeful that it is going to actually have an impact on the outcome of the disease for those who get very sick and end up in the hospital but it is not going to be what we call a chain terminator it is
To get into longterm investments and later on, a staggering stat that youve got to hear around netflix that stock continues to be bought as we all binge watch tv. We are going to get to all of that, but weve got to get to breaking news that is important on the virus, and it is also moving the market after hours. Gilead sciences shares they are surging on some very promising drug news. Lets get right now to meg tirrell with more on this big story. Meg . Hi, brian this is breaking news from stat news basically, they got a glimpse from one of the hospitals thats running remdesivir at the university of chicago. Essentially what they saw in video communication with the faculty members there is on the report of the Clinical Trial it sounds like the patients according to them are making rapid recoveries at least in terms of their fever and respiratory symptoms and reported nearly all patients discharged in less than a week this is not controlled Clinical Trial data and we expect to see the fi