Oil, 41. 40 we talked for a long time about mike pences hawkish speech on china from a year or two ago but pompeo yesterday oneupped that and this consulate news from china is weighing on sentiment too. Yeah, he upped the ante jim did focus us at the time on Vice President pences speech because it was quite truck lant would be a word to describe it at the time but it continues to go up in terms of the tensions, carl weve talked about it pretty much every day, whether its a backandforth over huawei, whether it has to do with conversations about closing down the app tiktok in the United States, whether it is the closing of consulates here and the response from the chinese. This is not going in a direction that many, who at least are invested in the idea of global trade, certainly, mike, would wanting to see. For sure. On the one hand the market is not necessarily overly focused to this point on these relationships and not really counting on anything to come out of it. Its not quite like
That. Right i think that the shock value of that is maybe more, lets say, the bark versus the bite i think that theres a belief that we could get a lot a much better picture of what the Health Situation is going to be like in november so its a little premature to be able to say what the president is saying and its certainly contrary to what he was saying about the idea that we do have a vaccine very soon. If we have a vaccine very soon why do we have to delay the election and why does it have to be crooked i think you cant have it both ways you can have the vaccine come out and have a gd election or you must know that the vaccine is not going to come out and you will have what he just tweeted but whatever it sows chaos and chaos is bad for the stock market. We did get some promising vaccine news out of j j as they move to human trials in the u. S. And belgium the earnings which we will talk a lot about this morning are basically shaming the analysts, virtually surpassing the entire ran
As being totally disingenuous. The jd of what happidea of whatt week with the minus 37, theres a couple of Financial Instruments that are wrong they are broken. We dont regard things as broken because it seems almost impossible that something could break. But the future that you see and the actual prices are very different, particularly in the out years. And i think whats going to happen is this has to go to zero again, because we dont have more space i heard the ceo of the largest Tanker Company on friday saying theres no room. Why should this number not go to zero it should go to zero faster than it did last time any chance it will go to zero. Yeah. Any chance that it doesnt because we will begin opening u some of these states thats certainly a hope, but there are times in life where people know that theres an instrument that is faulty. And they can shoot against that instrument and bury these people there is this financial problem that people behind the uso, they are financial peopl
Points, we were down more than that nasdaq inched up have we already bottomed thats big question i heard all weekend. I was operating that might be temporary, would revisit the march lows, perhaps even taking out that level figured retest was virtually inevitable there was just too much weakness in the system. All through here, just knew things were going very awry. Now im feeling more confident about the future i said this morning im not going to be as negative. In part because the federal government has made unprecedented moves to prop up the economy. Very good things in that 2. 2 trillion rescue package, but fdic went nuclear, adopted a malcolm x approach to keep his economy alive by any means necessary. Fed chief has unlimited firepower. Sure its great that the government is providing forgivable loans to Small Business owners to keep employees on payroll and great we expanded Unemployment Insurance to be collected by gig employees too. Now we know fed wont let every retailer with m
Top producers consider even deeper output curves. Shinzo abes state of emergency now covers the whole of japan after critics said his initial virus response offered to little, too late too little, too late. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless rate coming in at 3. 8 . As expected, a rebound from the previous month of february. February was a 3. 3 . In the month of march coming in at 3. 8 . In line with estimates but still a rebound. Of course, we have seen weakness in retail and hospitality, employment, given this coronavirus pandemic. The government has tried to create jobs and that has helped the economy. They of course have already passed a 10 billion extra budget, but we are now seeing the jobless rate climbing to 3. 8 . This as president moon jaein has called for more aggressive measures on job creation. Of course, moons Ruling Democratic Party of korea just won the implementer elections. Take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. We are se