60,000 new cases in a single day for the first time oil is holding 40, gold topping 1800 for the First Time Since 2011 david, it was a quiet calendar already going into this week, but it does seem like today in terms of looking for inputs traders are really on their own this morning they are. I mean, you know, the only calendar, carl, that really seems to be getting busy and staying busy is the ipo calendar which we should mention as well just because it is some sort of reflection of demand in certain parts of this market the latest of course Rocket Mortgage, thats going to be an enormous ipo, we can talk a bit about that later if you want other than that not that much to key off of clearly, mike, this is not a market that seems to be particularly concerned in terms of keying off of the rising cases of covid that were seeing around the country and the reversal of reopenings, the slowdown in business, certainly in travel, leisure, restaurants, that is resulting from the rising caseload.
Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
Reporting this week for the s p 500. It might provide some we can do some glimpse into how companies are thinking about the future. Of those companies is united airlines, already saying it is going to have a 2. 1 billion loss, and that is just the beginning of the pain. It is cutting 90 of its capacity in may, and similarly will do Something Like that in june as well. It will get about 5 billion for the u. S. Payment program. And we have the 10 year yield at 63 basis points. We get more Economic Data this week, including initial jobless claims, but also pmis, new home sales, and so on. Those are all going to show dire readings and are not going to be really reflective of how the economy moves forward, except to suggest that we are definitely in a very thick recession. Guy lets take a look at what is happening here in europe. Meansis down, but by no down as much as it is in the United States. Pricing inntract not such difficult times, but nevertheless, do you want to take physical deliv
Still down. That is not eating into stocks. The reason why the tech heavy nasdaq is up higher is being helped out by the faang index. At this point the investors who have chosen to invest alongside the fed liquidity efforts and nuanced machinations. They are benefiting with stocks down just a little bit. Some of the stocks are helping out, the stayathome stocks, netflix reports tomorrow. Theyll be interesting to see whether the stayathome companies are benefiting from all of this. Some are making the point people might be at home, but if they are already a Netflix Subscriber it might not boost their numbers. David that is what i was going to ask. How much of this is an anticipation of some of the tech earnings . Abigail i do not they do it is in anticipating, i think it is the momentum for some of the stayathome stocks that they will benefit. One will be that the crisis will last much longer than expected and those stocks are up. Another idea could be the new normal is forever changed
Amendment fight. The states have power to reopen. New york state Governor Andrew Cuomo will sue the white house there are two task forces. One on the northeast, one on the west coast, how do you see this playing out . I think they will all end up working together. I think the president wants to be able to share his vision of the appropriate timing. He has got a lot of real professionals working with him and i think the governors do really want to work side by side there may be discussions who is in charge of what. Reality is, look, timing on this, the timing on this recovery will be depending on science. It will be dependent on our ability to get back to work as soon as possible. The president has the right idea. We need to open up the economy as soon as possible but at the same time these governors, i think they feel the same way. Theyre going to want, theyre going to want us to respect the federalist, the federalism that has been a part of our country but most certainly i think this