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Strongly in the green on the day. Small caps up more than 3 on the day. The nasdaq composite yesterday erased all its losses for the year. Now up about 1. 7 on the year. Gainers today, energy, industrial, and materials. Basis, energy, tech, and a couple discretionary names here. We saw a pretty dramatic move on the short end of the u. S. Treasury curve. Traders still pricing in the prospect that we could hit negative rates in the u. S. It will be interesting to see if that materializes and what that would mean. Scarlet and just a followup on what you were pointing out with regards to the different sector performers, energy, the best performer for the week. Week for the major u. S. Indexes. And the russell 2000 also doing better than good compared to its largecap peers. Lets bring back gabriella santos. One thing we should mention with energy stocks, weve seen oil prices now put together two weeks of gains. We havent seen that since february. Do you think weve seen the worst in oil, and ....
The dollar still strong against currencies like the euro, but the commodityrelated currencies are performing really well in the em, as well as the g10 space. Time now for todays market moving news from our london and new york teams. We want to start with the markets after we have u. S. Futures rebounding. Joining me on the phone is bloombergs dani burger. The question i feel like, last week we saw the bottom, now feels off the table. Every day people are saying it is the bottom, it is not the bottom, but the picture continues to change. There is so much uncertainty. A bit of a lift in markets today. It is really the Energy Complex helping lead the way today, getting a boost from china beginning to buy oil for their state reserves. But any upside today is likely to lack conviction. Stocks in u. S. H fields are really starting to march higher. A slight backandforth in terms of u. S. 10 year yields, no moving lower after being just s ....
President s chief economic adviser larry kudlow. Hes going to join us. Thats the question we will ask, when, where and how will some americans be able to get back to work. Now, check out the market. It reopens today after a threeday weekend. Last week was one of the best weeks in decades, with the dow rising 12 . No significant pullback this morning. We are down just maybe 70 odd points for the dow industrials and well above 23,500. How about that. The s p down about. 33 and the nasdaq, same thing, down about. 33 . That is not a significant pullback. Not helping the stock market is a forecast from jpmorgan. They suggest that gdp could fall 40 this quarter and unemployment could reach 20 . Now, that is a dire prediction. Check out the price of oil. The u. S. , russia, saudi arabia and other Oil Producers have announced an agreement that would take 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil a ....
About 800 points on the dow. Youre still looking at a loss of greater than 5 a huge story today the crude oil crush as the saudis initiate a price war. We should think about it in terms of the speed and velocity of decline the s p the is down about 17 . We hear about the news with are the russians and saudi arabia. The problem i have is you have a very healthy patient being the market now it appears to be in intensive care we dont seem to have any doctors around to treat them in intense iive care negative rates are present in the uk, first time ever. We are battling here in the United States with the potential for negative rates the missing link in all of this which is what we saw in 2008 was a global coordinated effort. There does not seem to be a globally coordinating effort to address that i think thats what the market is riding against. Liz young, what do you see . Lets start with the globally coordinated effort i think theres ....
Than annihilated overnight. U. S. Futures surging after Chinas Central Bank announced they are going to a similar jump in futures after china announced a rate cut but that 441 point rally in the midday session was wiped out by the end. The blue chips closing down 205. The s p has lost 2 trillion in market cap over the past seven sessions. You did not like yesterdays open. Do you like this one in. I think there will be a better time if you want to buy. I think there have been some bargains created. Thats a big difference. I think yesterday is funny. We should have been down one . Yesterday europe was pushing the euro down. Interest rates werent that good. Interest rates not that good. We have a couple things i like. Schlumberger is the greatest in the oil patch. Theyre making an acquisition. Weve been waiting for consolidation there. The actual individual components of retail that have been strong. I think the last 45 minutes ....