Just eight or nine pennys away from 40 a barrel. Markets hit session highs as President Trump this morning championed the jobs numbers while standing in the rose garden. He is now in maine meeting with commercial fishermen who were hit hard by the covid lockdowns he will during this hour visit a factory that makes swabs for covid19 tests. He compared the coronavirus lockdowns to a hurricane and he calls for the reopening of the economy and he shared his desire for additional stimulus including a payroll tax cut. Were following all of his moves in maine ahead of his remarks at the top of the next hour, meanwhile the protests over the death of george floyd in minnesota continue at this hour, you are looking at live pictures of demonstrate or s at the National Cathedral in washington d. C. , and more marchers in brooklyn, new york who just began their march minutes ago in prospect park. One ceo, is using his power and influence to make the workplace more kind. Bar founder and executive ch
We have you covered on all of that. Could be another big week for the white house. As the Administration Pushes for more reopenings, the economy after the worst jobs report since the Great Depression on friday. More staffers put in quarantine at the white house. And war of words with china is escalating as we speak. We expect a briefing by the way, from the white house in just under two hours from now. A live report from d. C. Coming up to tee it you will for you. Plus tesla, ceo elon musk is at it again. Over the weekend he threatened to pull his companys headquarters out of the state of california. Well tell you all that and more right now. Cheryl treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin saying that the economy may be permanently damaged if it is not reopened and reopened soon. Coming as white house trade advisor Peter Navarro hammered china over its handling of the pandemic. Blake burman joins me from washington over the latest. And what is happens at the white house. Reporter cheryl, no se
Year high as the coronavirus layoffs start to show u. And Oil Rebounding crude on track for its biggest oneday gain ever. Absolutely. Its up 26 though still down 17 for the week as a whole. The dow was up 500 points. Now only up 235. Lets focus in on the key stories were watching mike is tracking todays Market Action e meg is covering new developments from the Pharma Industry and kayla has the latest on proposed bailout, but mike, lets kick things off with you. Thanks. Obviously seeing a general pause in the intense selling weve seen perhaps had a wave of that liquidation pass us by and the big old Growth Stocks are leading the way. That hasnt changed through this whole sell off especially sed soed if you look at a one yore chart starting with the nasdaq, 100 the leader, s p 500. The equal weighted verse then the small cap russell 2000 you see that distinct tearing on a oneyear bases in terms of what has worked better if you just focus in on the last month, by the way, one month ago to
Out to new highs deedra bosa has details on alphabet. Larry page stepping down as alphabet Ceo Sundar Pichai ceo both of google and alphabet in terms of day to day unlikely to see major changes which is why you may missouri not see a lot of change in the alphabet stock. Under google umbrella pichai ran advertising cloud devices, software he has been ceo since august of 2015 since then alphabet stock has soared relative broad are market but underperformed wig tap peerings remember the split from alphabet to google. Alphabet was the place where the moon shot including way missouri, selfdriefgt stores internet balloons and health care projects. Perhaps the question now is what happens to those moneylosin initiatives . Will we see more financial zmin under pichai and ruth porat from wall street mo has been known for financial dplin. As pichai steps up does he step away from those and the traditional businesses like advertising paying for them. Deirdre bosa wove been tweeting over this news
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Morgan brennan is in simi valley at the Reagan National library we start with jobs numbers, sending stocks surging, near session highs, up 303 on the dow, flirting with 1 gains in the session. Joining us to morning, mike santoli covering the up swing in the best of both worlds. The market was craving a good number, good news is good news no implications for the fed trying to restrain things. It is interesting, you look at the week, we did a v in psychology and the stock market, a week ago yesterday hit the alltime high, 3150 in the s p 500. We ran into ism numbers that challenged the rally u. S. Growth close to 2 . Weaver an overbought market, little shakeout. Now it seems like numbers since then restored that premise that things are Getting Better or never got that bad as we thought late summer. The question now, we return to the highs. Still have valuation r