Guys, that interview with barry right now makes you feel better. Gives you hope i think its important to he hear, are stocks cheap yes. Is the system working . Yes. Is the opportunity going to be great if the countrys locked down no so whats important is to find out where the country is fiscally thats why its important to speak to the treasury secretary. Yeah. The concerns that we had yesterday continue to be the concerns we have today, which is about businesses forced to potentially suffer significant financial damage as a result of being closed or having no customers. And what that will mean. Liquidity is always an issue it does seem to be not in the treasuries where we have seen illliquidity that scared people moving into credit, which we need to focus on huge repricings. The cost of capital has gone up for corporate america. You can provide people money, but those people dont want to go out we are a service economy, twothirds of our country is service. What do we do when you get mo
Today, the blue line is the 20 day moving average. Joe so much action. Plunge, the. 4 worst decline since august 2011, a sixth straight day of losses, and we are in correction mode. Lets talk with all of our reporters. Abigail. I would like to put today in context. It is brutally ugly. It is brutally ugly. Headed to its worst week since 2008, the nasdaq down 12 . Is down 14 . Ex 500 is the only one to go below its 200day moving average. Chart ahead of the selling of the bearish divergence was so stunning and so striking, the question was not when or if the music stops, but was. The new york faang index is we could seeended a decline of greater than 15 , supported by the bearish rsi, not even close to oversold. Ahead fore selling stock indexes in the u. S. Thank you. ,m looking at highyield debt a 2020 gains. Spreads on junk bonds are now the widest since august. The rally and can be seen by the fact that 2020 returns have almost evaporated. 500 is downhe s p more than 6 with an increas
And he will join us in the questions and answers. As power lunch begins right now. Welcome to power lunch, everybody. Im Contessa Brewer and just admit it you dont know which day it is either after the markets were closed yesterday, it feels like a monday weve got stocks falls from record highs today the dow down triple digits well, were off the lows of the day. Were at lows of the day right now. Breaking that fiveday winning streak take a look at boeing. That stock is moving lower as sources tell us the Aerospace Company does not expect regulators to sign off on the 737 max until june or july thats thats months later than anticipateded and with the markets at or near record highs seemingly every day, does it make stocks vulnerable to a pullback on any negative news . Bob b pisani at the New York Stock Exchange with more we have got a one two punch here today first late in the day, we have the nuews about boeings planes, the 737 max maybe not available until the summer that hit us then
Lets dive deeper into the Market Action as we review the close and check in with our reporters. I am taking a look at copper futures, which may have been down on the day, but they are headed for a fifth weekly rise. This is happening amid improving sentiment on Global Growth and as the trade outlook remains in focus. Tone inas found firmer recent weeks as the u. S. And china move closer to a trade deal. It also leads exchanges. Investors are watching copper closely after it paired some gains earlier. This is after reports that xi jinping will not attend januarys World Economic forum in davos, which would have been a perfect chance for he and u. S. President donald trump to meet facetoface. Interesting how todays rally has been somewhat led by the defensive industries. Health care, drugs, consumer staples. Children is poster utilities. They are very strong today. Stocks in of the 28 the s p that our utilities are up today. That is sending valuations backup to levels never seen before. O
Services and luxury retail. Love them or hate them, etfs are here to stay, and etf nerds get a read on the Broader Market trends. Eric balchunas is very comfortable being known as bloombergs head etf nerd. Eric every week we talk about flows going into etfs. And we talk about flows into active. If you add them together you get a negative number, 150 to 180 billion has flown out of the whole enchilada this year. Thats what this shows, the cumulative flows into u. S. Stock funds have been drifting down, and this year it has been 150 billion. That seems counterintuitive given the market is going up. People are wondering, are investors bailing on the stock market . The answer is no, heres why, lets look at the assets. This is the law of large numbers. 10 trillion are in ets, index funds that mutually invest in stocks. The market is up 25 thats a 2. 5 trillion asset gain. Thats a good year. Heres the outflow. 150 billion is put into scale by looking at this. Essentially investors have sold