Nasdaq futures higher by 310 after even worse than expected jobs number led to selloff on friday. We showed you the numbers friday, dow, nasdaq and s p 500 in the red for the week. Take a look. Markets were down 2 overall on each of the major indices on the week. Oil prices this morning falling after the opec meeting which was to include russia was actually delayed. It was supposed to be a Virtual Meeting happening. It was scheduled to take place today. We are waiting on any news in terms of where the meeting stands with crude at 27. 40 a barrel. Later this Morning Energy secretary dan briet will join me and take on war between saudi arabia and russia. Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to coronavirus, we will get the latest on Prime Minister johnson coming up this morning. We are answering your financial questions this morning. Later what you need to know about your 401 k during this crisis. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets
With plans to spend even more aggressively on a. I. Also, that Second Quarter guidance, perhaps, not that exciting on top of that, we got a massive earnings day comcast, five dow components also reporting, merck, honeywell, caterpillar, dow and ibm, one of the biggest laggards on the s p, by the way lets begin with the Market Reaction to the weaker than expected gdp, jim. 1. 6 looking for prior actually, it was about 2. 5 . Goldman was at 3. 1 . This is one where people were obviously the wrong way on both. Wrong on how slow it is and wrong on inflation so, the fed needs some help. These were numbers where you could say, you know what, they can cut. But david, you dont cut when you have this kind of inflation. So, the core price index, up 3. 7 when you were looking for 3. 4. What are you smirking about . These are awful numbers. Im not smirking. I was looking at you happily, happy to see you my gosh. What am i, your kid you bring me to work today listen to me gdp no. The worry now is s
Buck and goes lower. Thats what happened today, dow slipping 29 points, s p falling. 10 . Now, i know that individual stocks can transcend oil now and then, but oil is in control right now. We might as well go right into our game plan because the most important thing happening next week at the height of earning season is what depose on this weekend in doha. Thats when Oil Ministers from opec and russia are getting together to talk about freezing production. This meeting really isnt about freezing anything. There are way too many countries moved and opec itself is basically broken, its every country for itself in this oil market. Im not saying its irrelevant, especially given the endless rumors of having it were crucial in lifting the price of crude from 26 bucks to 40 now. I am saying, though, that what really matters is supply and demand. And right now supply is indeed being cut back in the u. S. , prices are too low. Maybe by as much as a Million Barrels while demand worldwide is pic
Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower. Caterpillar issues First Quarter estimates in the wake of lower Commodity Prices even though they stayed firm on their guidance for the year, jim. Yeah. I found that two surprising things was one how deep the cut was First Quarter. And two, how they believe that somehow things are going to get better quickly. I think that caterpillar is in a nutshell what fed did. Look these are Great American companies. Not doing well at all. That has to do a lot with oil and gas and mining. Not just all inter
We also have a packed agenda today. 8 30 eastern time. June cpi. Economists are looking for the headline number to rise by. 4. Among other reports to watch today, Industrial Production. Thats up at 9 15 a. M. The nationality association of Home Builders survey at 10 00 a. M. Our market newsmaker of the morning, squawk master Mohamed El Erian will join us. We have a lot to talk to him about. Beyond the data, the other big economic story of the week, fed chairman ben bernanke heading to capitol hill. Hell testify before the House Financial Services committee. Thats at 10 00 eastern tomorrow. Then repeating that performance in front of the Senate Banking committee on thursday. A lot to chew on there. Politicians are expected to grill him about the feds Bond Buying Program and plans for tapering and, of course, if widespread rumors that bernanke will step down in january true, this could be his last Monetary Policy report to congress. I bet he would miss that. We should also note that tomo