The bottom of the hour. He is traveling today in wisconsin, talking about the economy and jobs. For now, the Postal Service in the spotlight as we inch toward an election where voters where a significant number of voters will be mailing in their balance. Joining us, abigail doolittle, who has been watching the backandforth of the day. No records today. But what were the main drivers . Abigail everybody waiting for that potential record for the s p 500. Stocks really climbing this wall of worry. The s p 500 hitting this area of resistance. The polls fallen short of being able to take out those old levels. S p 500 up about euro. 3 . Nasdaq once again closing at a record high, up 1. 1 , really being helped out by some of those mega cap tech stocks. China, so muchs, for investors to worry about. They are going again toward this years defense of technology. The vix down a little bit today but still relatively elevated. Couldxperts say that we see some sort of pullback after this huge rally
And this is the one bit to show you cant afford to miss more in washington coming up also the ongoing global unrest and provirus has been the Oil Price War between opec member we catch up on the moves in the oil sector where demand stands amid the drop in travel plus i. G. M. Has announced that the company is stepping out of the facial recognition game after growing outrage surrounding the practice we take a dive into the Controversial Technology and how the firms stock is reacting we have a fact show today so lets dive right in. And the United States has officially entered a recession in february of this year ending 128 months of economic expansion which was the longest run in more than 150 years. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research now the announcement from this organization comes much earlier in a recession than they generally like the any b r wrote about the situation saying the unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production and its broad reac
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A recession than they generally like the any b r wrote about the situation saying the unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production and its broad reach across the entire economy warrants the designation of this episode as a recession even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions now economists generally define a recession as 2 consecutive quarter months of 2 consecutive quarters of Economic Contraction g. D. P. In the us has already fell by 5 percent in the 1st quarter of this year and the economy is expected to climb by a steeper margin in q 2 of 2020 lets get some expert analysis on this and and the state of the economy with todd morris chief strategist at bubba trading and cohost christiane who joins us from los angeles thank you both for being here today but i want to start with you now the end declared that the u. S. Recession began officially in february now this marks the fastest and b r has actually declared any recession. Is this a good thi
Thanks for having me back listen i put very little stock into what any account is really said because theyre not calling it until its already over and theyre sure on your show with you i said that were going into a recession back at the end of january it was easy to see that the years are to break down and of course then the buyers really kicked in and we saw the country shut down which is automatically by itself going to create some major problems creating a recession again this steve this is how fast they bond nobody really knows the answer to that and well see where we go from here but at the end of the day were going to start to see the country start to open again were seeing more action in the market and were seeing the actually people start to go to work so again if the virus stays away and we can continue to open and get the country fully open then the recession will be over however there are always the chances that we could have a rebuild this virus and they asked again and we