Talking with andrew about what exactly got washed out yesterday. Hard to say a lot when hertz is up 50 premarket. I mean, look, it is kind of a comedy of errors, no insult to the board. Really there is a Bankruptcy Code and maybe hertz management got permission in the old days when you went bankrupt there would be a little bit of a stump of stock so that you could go and sell it and show the irs that you had taken the full loss carl icahn sold a ton of the stock in the 70s, he sold 38 . I think if he had known that there would suddenly be a new stock he would have hit that bid. If i were him id sue. Id sue right now. I would just hire a lawyer and sue because he sold at what the company was advertising as a bankrupt price where the common stock was and he has i think a right to be able to claim 38 of this money and i urge him to do so, to hire a lawyer and get the money because this is just ludicrous. Well see what the court says i think theyve got to get to 4, right, to get to a billi
Midmarch. Well get to macys and more and oil above 34 as the reopening drives demand. Jim, you just said to joe the reopening is working and Even Companies like ford that might have to send a few workers home on a given day are finding ways to adapt look, things are a little better his is the depression taking off the table. A lot of people seem surprised when you get an expedia number where they say theres a little more travel, and best buy is able to do a good job doing curbside pickup. People turned out to be more inventive. We heard that from Brian Cornell yesterday, and hell be on the show today facebook being inventive a lot of people have figured out a new way to do business in a pandemic and i think its vising because we didnt think it could occur im not predicting some sort of gdp revival, but i think that ingenuity is playing a big role in this particular moment when it comes to the pandemic i do want to get quick to some Home Building because theres some numbers out that 41
Encouraging news in the development of two experimental vaccines for covid19. Both hitting important milestones. And delivering conflict. As we rely even more on delivery apps like grubhub and doordash, what was once a love affair is now a war with restaurants and the cities they serve. Well go inside the booming business that some call a financial bust. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We cant stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences. Reporter this memorial day weekend will look very different, and officials want it that way. New restrictions at beaches and restaurants are in place with the hopes of preventing the additional spread of the coronavirus. Were not bothering anybody else. Were not going to be around anybody else. Its just us. Reporter President Trump declared places of worship essential places saying he wants them to open immediately.
Ideally, we keep everything closed until the federal government massively ramps up its testing and Contact Tracing capacity that would be my preferred outcome. But what if were waiting for nothing . Ive got to tell you without more aggressive action from the federal government, we may have no choice but to reopen as the economy spirals into a depression what does reopening the economy even mean, though . The market is one reason the dow slipped 457 points today nasdaq was down 2. 6 theyre waiting for any direction from the government, the federal government aside from a handful of people who have the situation figured out. I have been pounding the table its mad money, not mad depression ive been pounding the table on amazon for months because it has convenience, scale and low price to take over the market. I think walmart stock, too cheap. Given that its got a big Digital Business with 4,769 warehouses along with the brick and Mortar Stores that serve as warehouses, of course. Fabulous
Losses early in the session after the ceo of russias Sovereign Wealth Fund told cnbc and moscow and saudi arabia are very close to an oil deal. Wti and brent are both coming off their best week on record. Not recent records on records ever all the way back to 1983 when they started tracking wti last week wti was up by 31. 7 . Up by 12 on friday alone. A meeting of Major Oil Producing Countries was delayed but still expected later this week that news just being told to cnbc that it looks like they are close to a deal. Andrew, ill send it over to you. Meantime, the latest on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases worldwide now totaling more than 1. 2 million. More than 330,000 of those are right here in the United States and more than a third of the u. S. Cases are in new york state. The death toll in america standing at more than 9600 overseas, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests a spokesman called it a precautionary test the Prime Minister test