Weve gone from 18,000 on the dow to well above 24,000. Look at this. The dow is going to be up over 700 points this morning, firmly above 24,000. Thats a gain of over 3 . Weve got a 2. 5 gain on the s p and the nasdaq, 1. 7 . Now, that is a friday morning rally. Boeing sure helps. It is reopening plane production at a plant in Washington State. There are major gains all across the board, especially for big tech. We will have details on that in just a moment. But look at this. The price of oil, sinking. We were all the way down to 18 a barrel at one stage this morning and right now, we are back to 17. 77. Just as plans are being made to help the flat on its back energy industry. Gas prices, look at this, down again. 1. 82 is your nationwide average and its still coming down in wisconsin. Can you believe an average price in that state of 1. 25. I will say it again. 1. 25 in wisconsin. All right. Can you believe this. Speaker pelosi says no to more help for Small Business. The money has r
President. That was then. A lot of people think it is fundamentally different this time. All of this is really catalyst, via a virus. But again, one of the interesting things im also following is that we still have negative Interest Rates at the very, very front of the socalled yield curve. One month and threemonth bills are still in negative territory right now with the one month bill at negative. 117 , the three month bill at negative 0. 348 . I hate to add that. That is actually good news. People dont look at a prospect of negative rates as good news but what it means technically, when you give the bank your money, you have to pay them for a privilege. A lot of people look at that, say, what the i will take my chances in the stock market. At least with conservative investments and dividend yields north of 3 i could do better almost doing nothing. That is the view. It benefits stocks. The fact we think were over the worst of the potential Economic Impact of this. That might be premat
The governor of new jersey, phil murphy, held a briefing today. He and state medical the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, held a briefing today. He and state medical officials updated infection numbers and efforts to treat victims. The Governor Also Announced an 90 day Mortgage Relief Program for state residents. Gov. Murphy good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Especially those thousands from new jersey watching us every day life. Tomorrow we will communicate electronically with you unless we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally, along with members of our team, will be available and we will call an audible. Ectronically with you us we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally along with members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, it will be 2 00 monday. I believe right here at the war memorial. We have a vtc
Heres governor cuomo. Governor cuomo good morning. And sherryk right this morning. Its good to see. To my right, the head of empire college, our our Health Commissioner to my left, secretary to the governor to her left, budget director. Which noneituation of us have ever seen before. It manifested itself in many different ways. Theres economic anxiety, people are out of work. What does this mean . Unemployment will it cover the bills . The isolation, fear of the unknown, misinformation, put it altogether, it is very disorienting to say the least. If you are feeling disoriented, its not you. Its everyone and its everywhere, and it is with good cause. H good cause. Today is saturday. You know how i knew today was saturday . Because my alarm clock said saturday when i woke up. Around, itdrive doesnt seem like saturday. Saturdays a day people are off were except that people off work yesterday. Saturday is a day traffic is lighter, but traffic was lighter yesterday. So it is literally oneda
The Governor Also Announced an 90 day Mortgage Relief Program for state residents. Murphy good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Especially those thousands from new jersey watching us every day life. Tomorrow we will communicate electronically with you unless we deem theres a reason to do otherwise. If there is, you have my word that i personally along with members of our team will be available and we will call an audible. Monday, even though we said 1 00 for our briefings, it will be 2 00 monday. I believe right here at the war memorial. We have a vtc with the white house, which is typically mondays. In this case i think it is 1130. So 2 00 gives us enough time to attend to that and communicate with the white house. And we will be with you after that. Honored to be joined by an allstar team today including the woman on my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health, judy person kelly. To her right the department of camino bowl disease director t