recession fears. recession isn t inevitable. jason: but there are some things that might crush this u.s. expansion. carol: we caught up with economic expert, peter coy. why do expansions die? right now, you ve seen since october the stock market has come down quite a bit. it s because people are worried the good times are going to stop rolling and yet a week ago this friday we had an incredibly strong jobs report. more than 300,000 jobs created which tells you the economy is really strong. how can these two things co-exist? how can people be talking about a recession and at the same time, you have all evidence of, current indicators are quite strong. because one of the arguments there is that that s a lagging indicator. the stock market is forward looking, sees around the corner, and here s what c.e.o.s and others are saying, good times may be running out. what do you hear? that s true. the stock market, if you think why is it a forward looking indicator? because look,
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zte. jason: can paypal survive on its own. carol: recession fears, it isn t inevitable. jason: but there are some things that might crush this u.s. expansion. arol: we caught up with economic expert peter coy. why do they die and why do they end? right now, you ve seen since october the stock market has come down quite a bit. it s because people are afraid the good times will stop rolling, yet on friday we had a great jobs report. ow can people be talking about recession and at the same time you have all evidence of, current indicators are quite strong. because one of the arguments there is that s a lagging indicator. the stock market is forward looking, sees around the corner, and here s what c.e.o. s and others are saying, good times may be running out. what do you hear? that s true. if you think why is the stock market a forward looking indicator, look, if you think something is going to happen that s going to cause stocks to go down six months from now why would you
they were down 9% today. this is the second worst performer in the russell 1000 over the past couple weeks. off about 30% of its value. i bring it up because i love the headline we had on the bloomberg terminal. wwe s stone cold outlook slams shares to a 20 month low. whoever wrote that headline, i will buy you a beer. scarlet: let s dive deeper into the action with our markets reporters tracking equities and commodities. abigail: it will be hard to beat that headline on wwe, but all new record highs for stocks, it is interesting because since of the breakout of the coronavirus, this is quite a chart. what we are looking at his we really have not had a true recovery. what we are looking at in oranges crude oil, down 13%, on the year down more. copper down 8.8%. china of course the world s largest user of natural hitting those commodities. those are also risk assets. at some point for the overall risk appetite. pink, down about 4%. s&p 500 with today s gains is .5%, erasing th
chief megan murphy. let s begin with the european cover story. perhaps the safest women in european politics right now because no one wants to replace her and they don t know the replacer with, theresa may. megan: this is the story that keeps on giving. you really do have some sympathy for the woman who has not only faced an extreme series of internal political challenges, including sexual-harassment scandal in parliament, ministers leaving, but also overshadowing all of this is not only her own inability to lurch from crisis to crisis to crisis, but this fixed timetable on brexit and all the challenges they face over that in terms of securing a deal with the eu that is refusing to budge on so many issues about single market, timing, compensation. it is the worst of all worlds for her right now. julia: some people don t have sympathy. why did you cause an election? why did you squander the lead you had over that period when you went into this election? some of the comparisons