Investors wanting to make sure. It is a shortened week so some traders might be taking off after all of the action earlier this year. David it has been exhausting for traders. He mentioned we had the best quarter last year. You mentioned. That might not be good news because i saw a note from you that said historic as we go back to big shift in the market and there is a recast in the bottom. Recast sixere was a or seven months after the 1929 low. A similar situation in the mid1970s. In 2000 there were several that went lower. 1987, the longterm is as of 2008. All of history does suggest that there is some sort of a significant testing of the s p 500 lows. There are also some options that i talk about saying that there are signs of that coming. When that may come is unclear. Investors are going with the fed and central bank liquidity. Unless there is a systemic shock that undoes what the fed has been able to emblem it and support markets implement, it seems that stocks could go higher. H
Of apple and microsoft, highgrowth names that have strong balance sheets. We are seeing continued investor preference for the stocks. Apple and microsoft hit fresh records. Amazon did earlier today. It is now lower. 4 on news of the results of walmart plus, its rival to compete with amazon prime. Longerterm, all of these have widely outperform the Broader Market and have contributed the largest chunk on a points basis to the gains we have seen so far and theyre holding us up in todays session. Just what we need is one more streaming service. Do you have a sense of how much this might be attributable to the strength of the dollar. There is a straight theres a perception some countries in europe and asia are doing a better job than we are on covid19. Kailey the dollar has been flat. It has been an interesting risk proxy. Your point about europe and china and the outperformance we have seen in those markets as they are interpreted as having a superior response to the virus , china ands. H
We are starting to catch a bit bythe u. S. Back end, down 5. 7 basis points switzerland moving a little bit. The bond market starting to catch a bit. What are we going to be talking about . We have great guest lined up for you, we will be talking to citadel a little bit later on. We have an exclusive interview ofh joe mecane, head Execution Services at citadel. We are going to figure out exactly what we can take away from what citadel is seeing in terms of the flow right now. We have that conversation a little bit later on in the program. Joining us now to give us a sense of whats going on . Alix ashwin,t . Guy set us up perfectly. Big bombs, big tech, but now we have a market searching for the next catalyst. Which is it . Ashwin a reflection of what we are worrying about the most, the ironclad resilience being shown in an environment that is fraught with many significant macro risks. When a market like the current market appears to be pricing in a nearperfect picture, you have to be v
The market in one direction or the other. As of yesterdays close the s p 500 had rallied 865 point off of its lows on march 23. 251 of those have come from five names. That equates to 29 of the gains we have seen in the equity markets and it underscores the fact the market is held hostage by the performance of the make cap companies. It carries us along the upside but also carries a risk on the downside. Tech is nottoday down as much as some others are down. What is going on with bonds and gold . Kailey we are seeing the classic risk off trade, the dollar is stronger and seen as a safe haven asset, and you are seeing a bid into treasuries. The 10 year yield is down four basis points. Coming slightly weaker, off the highest since 2011, a little bit of profit taking. The more interesting commodity is copper. Dr. Copper usually very sensitive to the Economic Growth story. It is higher today as well. That is a mystery. David that is a mystery. Thank you to kailey leinz for that report on t
Continues to spread in the u. S. , these hotspots, all of it being pressured by the bloomberg dollar index. Does not feel like a huge haven bid, but the fact that you do have the dollar higher can create a sense of risk off for the risk assets. That is what we are seeing. A little bit of a catch up to reality. Investors not climbing that wall of worry at falling off it to some degree. David and of course we have the numbers out of florida, which were alarming. There was really an uptick. Then we had new york and new jersey and connecticut say if youre coming from a virus hotspot, you have to going to quarantine. That has to be raising questions about this recovery, how fast we will come back. If it is not the dollar, are there other safe havens . Rashad we are seeing a bit abigail we are seeing a bit of a bid for bonds. Earlier not quite so much. Now at the lows a decent bid for bonds. The yen not being bid up. Gold is being bid up. Psychologically it does not help. It has felt to many