Market, that is the title. Retail earnings rolling out this morning. Economic data showing customers are slowing their spending. October retail sales data shows the slowest growth in about six month. Joining us to break it down is michael mckee, Bloomberg Economic and policy correspondent. Michael we call it getting whacked upside the head here in the colonies. In april, just a 0. 3 gain for the month of october, down from 1. 6 in the month of october, with the pendant was at its worst in april. Only five of 13 categories rose last month, compared with 11 of 13 in the prior month. October andm november seems to be getting worse. Jp morgan economists report that chase card spending has fallen notably in the first part of this month. It is, as they say, really dropping off,. That suggests a weaker month ahead. Who knows what will happen with black friday, if anybody cares about that anymore, but it is a clear americans are cutting back. The actual results come a much less meaningful than
Jonathan ferro and Lisa Abramovitz are off today. Joining us today is anna edwards from a simulcast. Dow futures up 62. All the politics in america. Milwaukee in a virtual convention. David westin leading our coverage on that. What i find absolutely interesting and i think london has done a better job of this is the shutting down of our economies. Our coverage of the tourism in , all the beaches in the summer, how shutdown is london . Anymore, all that much it has opened up, in theory. This is a services economy, and plenty of people, including myself, are working from home. In terms of the shut down, we have lifted a lot of the lockdown measures that had been in place. What is on my mind from a market nightclubs and aviation. Those are really driving sentiment across the european continent when it comes to our freedom of movement. It is being eroded, perhaps rightly, because of the virus. That is not good for nightlife or the aviation stocks we see under pressure. Tom we have been wat
Positive impact on very sicko individual patients. And of course, jim, we had the announcement today that the fed will begin buying individual Corporate Bonds, not just the etfs that hold those bonds but the actual bonds themselves. That certainly helped. Whats your take this morning . Well, look, i think each one of these can be debunked took this drug for two months. It was okay. I switched to prednisone suddenly we discovered this was a big breakthrough what were the doctors doing . Did all of the doctors get it wrong . Did they realize it was not swelling around the body and just focused on the lungs. Its like, okay, idiots honestly, i love the doctors, theyre great. But come on, how did they miss this and look, david, the gunners all want the stocks to go higher, right . And the fed is buying bonds that we would normally i mean, maybe the fed buys hertz bonds and takes them up to the point where maybe hertz is good. I dont know, david. Theres a lot of people saying talk pony. The
Comes with some of these medical breakthroughs that could yield perhaps advances that lead to people moving around, feeling more comfortable, boosting a little bit those stocks that have been most beaten down, morgan absolutely. When youre talking about reopening, you have names like disney that are moving forward with plans or some plans in florida, you have names like apple beginning to open more Retail Stores in the u. S. As well also crude is one to watch and carl just mentioned it, the fact that were seeing a bid for crude. Wti the june contract expires tomorrow and what a difference a month has made as you have seen production numbers start to come in and started to see some of the driving demand return as well gas prices at the pump up by a couple cents in the last couple weeks as more and more people are starting to come out as we start to see more of these reopenings, but, of course, longer term, as we continue to talk about over and over again, its going to be what does the t
Stocks will surge when this is over. Now look at this. An overnight tweet from the president. Quote, the United States will be powerfully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others that are particularly affected by the chinese virus. Big bucks coming. The president is clearly on board with the rescue plans that deliver trillions of dollars to industries and individuals. Who gets help and how its delivered, thats going to be hotly debated but there is a new sense of urgency to push that money out there. Here are the latest virus developments. Todays primary in ohio has been canceled by order of the governor. Primaries in florida, arizona and illinois will go ahead but the results are likely to be skewed by what may be a low turnout. Mcdonalds will close its dining rooms. Takeout and drivethrough okay, but no eating in. Chickfila, starbucks, they are encouraging takeout. The Kentucky Derby has been postponed. Very tight restrictions around the San Francisco bay area. Residents