The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena
Americas grim reality, new virus cases hit daily records in florida, california, and texas. The imf sees a deeper global recession than it predicted two months ago. Lufthansa biggest shareholder says he will back a 9 billion euro government bailout, getting the rescue plan a shot of momentum ahead of a crunch about later today. A bid for closure, the chemical giant spent more than 12 billion to settle thousands of roundup cases and other u. S. Losses. A significant number of cancer cases claims remains unresolved. Just enter an hour from cash equity trading in europe, and we have a mixed picture. But the futures are trading 0. 2 . Down dax futures are trading higher in frankfurt. We are looking at Different Directions depending on the regional indexes. What you see on the gmm . Anna i will get to that in a moment. Picture around the spread of the virus in the United States, capturing the markets attention, and sending Risk Appetite lower. Getting numbers at of royal mail, this is inter
Money away for loan loss reserves. Alison Williams Joins me now. What were some of your takeaways. [no audio] actually, we are still working on her audio, so lets go to Annmarie Hordern first. Part of what we heard was from fatih birol of the iea talking about how bad demand would be, despite any production deal. Annmarie some seriously drastic headlines out of the iea. The other part is what they are talking about what this means for storage. It is testing the logistic capacity to the limit. On the demand side, they see april serious demand destruction, down 29 Million Barrels a day. For the year, what that means is 9. 3 Million Barrels a day, the worst we have ever seen on record in terms of demand. What the opec cuts probably did was maybe pull us back a little bit from the brink, but not doing that much. You can see that with what is talking about in storage. They say that could be exhausted by the middle of the year. All of this putting downward pressure on the future prices. Wti
Quarter. The Second Quarter is probably going to be weak. In fact, in the view of many, output declining output lower in the Second Quarter than in the First Quarter. After that, its very hard to say how big the effects will be or how long they will last thats going to depend, of course, on how widely the virus spreads, which is something that is highly uncertain and i would say in fact unknowable jim, so its just you and me today. Lets start broad. Get your thoughts on the last 72 hours. What are you thinking right now . I think that the one thing i was very worried about in the 2007 and the 2009 issue, could i take out 50,000 from Jpmorgan Bank because i was concerned. And i took it out. I took money out of a lot of Different Bank accounts. This time im not. What was the purpose of last night . Theres a lot of things. The purpose of last night was to make sure you didnt take money out of the bank because you didnt trust the system. You dont have to bury it. That was important now the
Corp. Downgraded we will debate on call of the day. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. And it is good to have you with us today. Our Investment Committee here, jim lavin all this, jon fortt. Dave wise, jen, liz young is back also with us on set today is ed. Lets begin with the rally stocks hitting record highs today. The dow closing above 29,000 is it time to buy or is it time to worry, liz . I am an incurable optimist. Not really ever time to worry that much. I say this all the time. You must be present to win i always believe you should be in the market. I still think there are places you can buy stocks josh brown, big friend of the show, i think he posted on twitter yesterday the market isnt even due for anything. We shouldnt pay so much attention to the calendar or the fact that it has been a long time or things have gone on to a long time. You have got Pay Attention to valuation right . Not as much as we used to i dont even know. With Mo