Earnings walmart going on a hiring spree. Home buyers are rushing for mortgages. Is the consumer stronger than you think . Power lunch starts now and welcome to power lunch, im Frank Holland in for Tyler Mathisen nike hitting an alltime high soaring 9 on a blowout Earnings Report Johnson Johnson also higher on its vaccine progress for more on whats driving the action, lets get over to bob pisani hey, bob frank, we are sitting at the lows for the day, 3,280 on the s p, about where we ended on friday and the problem is this seesaw in the megacaps and workfromhome names take a look at megacap, this is a down day yesterday was an up day. Monday was generally a down day. You get the idea hard time figuring out what the right values or prices this high same with the workfromhome stocks theres a theory out there that these will be beneficiaries of worsening coronavirus cases in the United States, maybe, but theyre starting to split. Theyre not always up on the stays when some start moving on
Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
We are also watching currency, the dollar has been the big story this week. The euro as well as its counterpart. We are taking a pause from the rally after the ecb, but if we see a gain today, that would take that streak for the longest in 16 years of nine days straight. So far it is flat. Flirting withlar . 70 for the first time this year. The dollar weakening across the board with the exception of the yen. Dollaryen, and offshore hovering. We are watching the bond markets as well. The mliv question is, the yields we are seeing, will they disrupt the equity rally . The u. S. 10 year after the u. S. Jobless numbers that fell again, treasuries ing the worst brent slipping after they did extend cuts after a breakthrough with iraq. Tom the European Central bank did put its money where its mouth is, announcing a bigger than expected increase in emergency bond buying, responding to what it calls the unprecedented contraction in the euro area economy. Kathleen hays has the story. What is dri
Front. Showing millions of jobs lost. Well see more with the jobless claim number and tomorrow with the number from the government dow looks to be up 260 s p up by 34 and nasdaq up by 118. We are getting competing views jobless numbers we know are bad. Then you see oil prices that tell you where things may be headed prices may be up again gain of 7. 3 this shows you maybe things are starting to pick up around the globe. Maybe that demand is coming back that may be something to hang your hat on. Andrew thank you we have a huge lineup of guests. Secretary of state mike pompeo will join us to discuss relations with china former ceo of Goldman Sachs about the outlook of the economy and the ceo of paypal and also talking to the ceo of hilton and aflac ceo will join us and our media guru from lion tree hard to think we are going to pack it all in in three tiny hours. That means no screwing around at all today is what i think go for it then. Three hours time for everything. With err going to
This as crude is also getting a lift. We were talking about the deal between the opec members cutting back supply. Take a look at the high yield etf, this as the fed says they will support the fallen angel market, those credits downgraded on march 22 from bbb to bb. Take a look at this curve. Yields on the front end falling after thesis points fed said that they would expand their facility program, buying shortterm notes from issuers as they engage in some deficit financing. I want to bring in our next guest. He has been talking about bears in hibernation as the fed is trying to increase that 2. 3 trillion stimulus program. Some of the small and midsized businesses. Some of the jobs numbers this morning. We got reaction from fed chair jay powell. He spoke earlier. Take a listen. We are deploying these lending powers to an unprecedented level, backed by the congress and treasury. We will continue to use these powers forcefully and aggressively until we are confident we are solidly on th