Unemployment and he did not talk about a payroll tax cut. We know many top gop senators are not big fans but lindsey graham, a republican close to the president said he had dinner with the president last night where they discussed the tax cut and that he will be fully supporting it. He did not make those top line priorities that mcconnell laid out this morning is it fair at this early stage to argue that for mcconnell the red line is liabilities protections . That is right, i should have mentioned that as well, carl he said that is essential that businesses and schools can open up safely and any gains that the economy sees is not eaten up by trial lawyers putting ft. Worth frivolous lawsuits that remains critical to republicans as well even as they start those conversations. Both among themselves and with democrats about what should be in the next round. Thank you our next guest has been busy in the last couple days not the least of which was his call on amazon the lead internet analys
This astrazeneca oxford. I do say at this point, carl, you get the pfizer news about germ germany. What you have to watch is the crawl underneath there will be endless buying and things like vaccine inc. And im seeing buying of glaxo i think people want to calm down i have sorrento tonight. Not all news are good. 100 companies doing vaccines and lets take a breath because other things including a stimulus which is needed if the vaccines fail. The analysts are not discouraging traders or investors from trying to play the vaccine race jpm cuts moderna run and no one is preaching a message of slow and steady wins the race here. Nova just continually up. People who love these. Mark cuban had some great comments, carl people who come to this market, initially were in the early phase of this, but people who cannot resist. When i get up at 4 00, 3 30, theyre in there buying these stocks i dont know who these people are, but theyre having the time of their life and i just hope they take someth
Something positive, right, with that rising case count hitting new records, it seems virtually every day, and deaths also starting to move up in knows hardhit states as well with hospitalizations thats certainly been a focus for Market Participants as you guys well know Scott Gottlieb who we follow closely tweeting about the remdesivir news, very encouraged but needs to be confirmed in a prospective trial, appears to be a receipt peck testify analysis of the face three data suggesting a survival benefit in severe Covid Patients. We have made the point many times it is only good news on remdesivir, but lets remember its an infused therapy in the hospital typically for people who are severely ill what we are hoping for and waiting for are significant antivirals that will have an affect on the virus far earlier in its course so that people will feel much more comfortable in resuming behavior because if they were to get it and these were to be available they could immediately take an oral
Jobless claims, though, 4. 4 million, bringing the total to 26 million over the past five weeks. Oil bounces, and the european pmis remain historically low 16 in france no, 10 in france 16 in germany. Jim, though, your tone this morning is relatively hopeful. Look, i am a creature of who reports and what they say. And i can literally i find it hard to remember as Many Companies as saying good things, even as obviously were in nidest of a pandemic, and i dont think theyre all clockeyed optimists. These are large cap companies. These are not the companies that the government is trying to protect. These are arguably the winners the companies that are going to get stronger i listened to lee, and Lee Cooperman was talking about what its going to look like on the other side i look at my desk. I have reports everywhere here these are all companies that are going to come through with fewer competitors. And that may be bad for the u. S. Consumer, but its good for the stock market david, would y
Week yeah. This is the expiration day so what happens is you actually its tomorrow, but people are trying to prep it what happens is rusty braziel explains to me, the rollover from the may contract to june occurs tomorrow. The reason that happens is because the may futures price converges with cash and expiration so in other words, youre looking at what the real price is its not the futures price so what happens is that imagine if youre producing at 32 a barrel, 33 a barrel like occidental, thats just youre hurting nobody can make any money at these prices rusty points out that after seeing this, the next month, it might go to zero and thats i think a lot of it is because where will you put it maybe keep it in the ground. It is extraordinary and jarring. And i think its causing the decline. Carl, whats so amazing, it was completely predictable thats why maybe the decline isis really overdone if its based on oil if its based on other factors, i dont know it looks like oil is bringing th