I know youre loathe to lay into fiscal policy but given forecast for Unemployment Rates, do you think its important that congress extend the extra unemployment benefits. I think were trying to keep our comments on fiscal policy at a high level ill come to your specific question let me just say this, this is the biggest economic shock in the u. S. And in the world really in living memory we went from the lowest level of unemployment in 50 years to the highest level in close to 90 years and we did it in two months extraordinary. Appropriately the response there fiscal authorities has been large, forceful, and very quick by the standards of these things roughly 3 trillion congress has authorized, and thats benefiting households, laid off workers, small and medium businesses, hospitals, state and local governments, 14 of gdp, its in a class by itself in terms of both the size and the speed of it. Its also pretty innovative. Both the ppp and Unemployment Insurance are quite innovative in th
Coronavirus confirmed in the u. S. New york, new jersey and connecticut are banning all gathering over 50 people and closing dine in restaurants and bars following that recommendation from the cdc. U. S. Airlines are seeking 50 billion dollar in government assistance and if approved, it would be the industrys first broad bail out since after the september 11th attacks we have full Team Coverage this afternoon. Bob is monitoring conditions at the new york stock exchange. Rick is out at the cme watching the bond market. Bob, well begin with you. Third trading halt in the last six trading sessions. Thats this morning after the open 9 30 or so. 15 minutes the s p down 7 these trading halts have, at least, served to slow the markets down a little bit and do bit put a bit of a break on things well keep an eye on that. Were continuing to see this bifercation in the market. Health care and staples are out performing this has been the trend since thursday here. Market gainers, if you look at so
It really is a mixed picture here the dow is up 49 points, so well off the highs of the session the s p is down fractionally right now, but keep in mind, we are still in striking distance of a potential record close. So the next hour is going to be one to watch closely joining us for that hour is Michelle Mckinnon from Payne Capital management here at post 9. Welcome. Thank you what do you think of this market here . Were poised for gains for the week for all the major averages, but the russell 2000 and the transportation average are both up 5 , week to date. And so are the banks, like you mentioned. What im really looking at is the bond market. We started the tenyear treasury at 1. 55 for the week and now were up to 1. 88 and the longterm treasury are down 5 for the week thats basically two years worth of coupon that you lost. Wow do you think thats going to speak bond holders, that it could go worse than that or not . You know, i absolutely think rates look like theyre going higher h
In focus as we are dropping below or have dropped below 4 we want to Pay Attention to that the vix moving around 18 some Movement Something we havent seen in a while. When looking at the sectors, tech and financials which really the biggest laggards of course we have the big cut from moodys today we want to dig into the financials red across the board after the firm cut Credit Ratings for a number of these banks. 10 small and mid sized banks also put a number of others on watch. Im going to start, i believe you own u. S. Bank corp, one of the names on the watch, why are we seeing so much bloodshed today . Of all the concerns that moodys list none of these are particularly new this is old news. They should have come out in the First Quarter when we had the debacle with the banks youre seeing a shortterm reaction where you probably have a bunch of the you know, the computer funds thats what i was going to ask. Selling short on the financials you get the regionals. But all this was mentio
Welcome to daybreak australia. I am how he stroudwatts haidi stroudwatts. I am animal jewelers in tokyo. Annabelle droulers in tokyo. Jay powell again signaling rate cuts will happen this year. The fed chair suggesting significant changes to the capital plans fiercely opposed by wall street banks. Haidi struggling lender n. Y. C. B. Getting a vote of confidence. Annabelle chinas top economic officials defend their ambitious target and hint at a liquidity boost to help get there. Haidi lets get you straight to the markets. A pretty reasonable set up in asia and we have a bit of downside as we get into the first part of the staggered trading session here in sydney, about. 2 author straight into the middle of trade. We are expecting a rise across the region. Interest rates will likely fall this year. Theres been so much managing of excitation 10 excitations in terms of the timing and the extent of easing we can expect from the fed and we have seen some of that drastic repositioning within