Two hours, make it 3. 5 hours from now, without question the most anticipated jobs number in the history of the nation. This is the weekly jobless claims. It is expected to surge out. I put a chart out on twitter and linked and linkedin. It is just ordinary what we could see. David folkertslandau coming up. In a moment. Let me go to the tape right now, equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. Not all that much going on. A bit of a pullback, the dow two days in a row elevated off where we were in the grimness of friday, of monday as well. Also oil with a little bit of a lift off about it, francine. European stocks retreating with equities, government bonds advancing. I am looking overall at european sovereign debt. We are seeing a little bit of a move after the ecb scraps limits , a landmarkhases decision that gives an almost unlimited firepower to fight the economic fallout from the pandemic. You can see euro strengthening, tom. Tom it is an extraordinary time. Francine and i are tryi
, guy . S going on Europe Vincent we are seeing stocks guy we are seeing stocks turning around. Makes you wonder how bad they whisper number must have been for everybody to react positively to a 3. 2 number. Stoxx 600 in positive territory. Travel stocks leading the move. The big move in many ways has come from the ecb, announcing , theetails of its pepp pandemic emergency purchase program, which is it is using to buy bonds. It is basically tearing up all of the old rules that use to apply to ecb emergency purchases. As a result, we are seeing a big move on the italian 10 year, and massive move on the spanish tenure. Downw the bank of england today, and some really interesting comments out of the bank of england. Brent crude a little softer today, 27. 13. What a week it has been for stocks. There does seem to be much more positive sentiment towards the equity market. The question is how long can it last. Guy exactly. Vonnie exactly. Those jobless claims did serve four times the previou
But is quite rapid the last few days and it tells us more and more, volatility it is going to be here to stay. Patient capital, as it always has, will win. You have got to look at where the secular plays are going to take place in what is a Game Changing event, whether number one or number two or number three in my investment career. These are Game Changing events. Where is the secular story going to the cute the banking area . Names like ally. More online pension purchases, as i talked about with nike. You have got to think about where is the secular story going to be we will get a cyclical rebound. That is going to be beneficial for investors. Joe i know you want to keep talking micro. You mentioned we shouldnt get too excited about hopes for the second half. We dont really know if the threedate bounce, volatile as it is, is sustainable. You mentioned a couple names. Big picture, where do you see investors have the safest cushion, the biggest margin for error, or even if they are buy
Could you suggest which specific areas of the country could have guidelines relaxed . Trump i think there will all Start Talking about that in a few minutes, tony will talk about it, but cant say lets close. People dont want to close. I say it again and again. The reason i do is that i want you to report it eventually. Reporter when you talk to president xi tonight, what do you want to talk to him about . President trump it is his call. I think we will have a beautiful call. It is tonight at 9 00. We will be talking about the virus. Reporter the market rally again, up over 4000 points in the last three days, largest increase since 1931. The Economic Activity has passed . President trump no, it has not passed but it has come along way. They think we are doing a really good job in terms of running this whole situation in terms of the virus. I think they feel that the administration, myself and the administration, are doing a good being very important in keeping people informed, because t
Just a few minutes ago we hit another record low. The nasdaq of course is obviously under stress as well, down triple digits. Then of course, the Dow Jones Industrials completely lower by 1,862 points, although i would point out the low of the session is a loss of 2,096. Let me take you back to four minutes after the open. Stocks fell so aggressively that the First Circuit breaker as its called, the level, level 1, to halt trading kicked in and that exact trigger would be the s p 500 hitting level 1, a loss of about 7 at that time. Now, after 15 minutes, this is what the dow was doing earlier on the new york Stock Exchange, after 15 minutes of the halt, stocks then reopened and thats when the dow promptly fell 2,046 points. At its low, 9 50 a. M. Eastern time exactly, coming within 200 points of a bear market level. In the last 15 minutes, the dow hit another new intraday low so we can change that 2,158, 2,158. Lets talk about oils response to this deadly Coronavirus Impact on the glob