Faster Consumer Recovery and it is monday, june 1st youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching us i am Brian Sullivan. Thank you for joining us on an important day on cnbc. We begin our coverage this monday, as we always do, focusing on markets, economies and global business. That is our business here on cnbc and this morning, in a new month, we find those things are at the crossroads of four very important events number one, the planned reopening of the American Economy and whether that is now at risk. Two, both peaceful protests and riots in nearly every major city in the country three, rising tension between the United States and china. And, four, 40 million americans currently out of a job and hoping for a recovery that puts them back to work. Throughout this hour and the entire business day, you will hear commentary and analysis from investors, money managers, executives an
Firmly above 1. 7 . Andrew thank you. We have a crazy big show for you this morning lets just tell you about the lineup among the highlights, we have author ben measurer. Former of ceo of airlines. First Television Interview with the ceo wework in the midst of all of this big questions. Ceo of General Mills and then someone who never holds his tong, venture capitalist and investor coming up in the next three hours. We are going to do it. History in the making today. Central bank will begin buying etfs their Corporate Bond etfs but the First Time Ever. The idea is to be able to direct the money into the credit markets faster than by buying bonds. Reporting that the purchase about 250 billion of the feds 750 billion program inching closer and closer to stock etfs. Probably not a health of a buy on this buy owe tech etf we cant make that leap, right guys when you read this, werent you like, etfs it is not that favre a jump once i read it, instead of this bond, that bond, lets do it i unde
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 falling, albeit slowly, about one cent down a day. The avera
Away, can americans keep up social distancing . Leaders debate when and how to reopen their states. Heres what you need to know to start your week. Health officials are saying the number of new cases has reached a plateau. There are 972,000 americans infected and chose to 55,000 people have died the stay at home order was no match for the sweltering heat in southern california. Thousands of people packed then beaches in Orange County beaches are still closed officials there opened cooling center ises to beat the heat treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is offering optimism the stimulus will help spur gret he expects the economy to bounce back from july to september. A Community Comes together to honor a fallen soldier. 34yearold sergeant was killed in iraq. Coronavirus restrictions stopped his family from hold iing a funeral so they held a drive bifuneral instead. 6 million seniors are being assisted by launching a program that delivers three warm meals every day of the week. Participatin
Basis points. Lets get to our guest now. We have a very fascinating guest right now. Ed hyman, Institutional Investor economist of the year for decades. The surveys he carries out are unparalleled in the industry. We are going to talk about Central Banks, the ecb, and the fed meeting this week, and the bank of japan coming out with some decisions today. Chairman of evercore isi, is with us now. Small and mediumsized enterprises, and companies that do business is with china. Obviously, the data is falling off a cliff right now, but in your estimation, what will the severity of this recession be in comparison to, say, 2008 . Ed much worse. But this is a very interesting time for me. Ive probably been the most bearish person on the street with our gdp numbers down 50 , and like you say, things have been kind of freefall, Company Surveys included. I just wanted to share with you that for the past two weeks, our surveys have increased a little retailers and restaurants. The checks that were