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Obstacles facing oil and gas and why the lock downs are a big deal but may not change much longer term. It is friday, october 16, and this is Worldwide Exchange. If i have it right, i think that is the black key and the song is 10 00 a. M. But were playing it at 5 00 welcome from yfr wherever in th world you are watching stock futures right now are in the green but lets be carefully here, they are basically flat. Dow futures are up 9 points, so in the green, yes, nasdaq up 22, but got a long i way to go the big money question on this bring is whether today will mark a rare four day losing streak for the nasdaq were down previous three sessions, although amazingly were still higher on the week outside of stocks, the big winner this week has been bitcoin. Thats right, up 4. 5 . Climbed earlier back above 11,500 bitcoin has been the winning asset class coming into a friday lets go around the world and it is looking like a nice se ....
Some demonstrators across the u. S. Say that fed up with ongoing coronavirus restrictions. In some shops and schools reopened in germany one of several countries easing research. The grim economic fallout of the new coronavirus pandemic for 1st time in history u. S. Oil prices crashed below 0 dollars into negative territory on monday its just rebounded in asian markets to around 2. 00 a barrel but why did the crash happen in the 1st place well thats because theres more oil in the market because of low demand and produces a fast running out of storage lockdowns around the wall the response to the coronavirus have produced a massive slump in demand for energy u. S. President donald trump says the collapse in prices is short term and suggested that it could even be a positive thing for america. Based on the record low price of oil that youve been seeing. At a level thats very interesting to a lot of people were filling up our Nationa ....
Nobody wants a second wave. The market starts the week on the upside again. Investors like the get back to work trend and there are several forecasts of imminent recovery for the economy. Secretary mnuchin says there will be a rebound july, august and september. The dow is looking at a 200 point gain first thing this morning. Thats close to 1 . A nice gain for the s p, close to 1 . The nasdaq will be up over a half percentage point. Now, the reason the nasdaq is up, because of this. This week, many Big Tech Companies report their financial position. Strong results expected because the virus lockdown has a more limited effect on these companies. Premarket, most of them are up. But look at oil. No joy for the drillers. They are looking at 12 a barrel and the worldwide glut shows no sign of easing. Over the weekend, the price slump claimed another victim, diamond shamrock. The drillers declared bankruptcy. The price of gas still ....
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths ....
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