Points hallelujah. S p soared 9. 38 . [ cheers and applause nasdaq pulled 1. 28 it feels like 2008 when the Congress Approved the bank bailout. On the for the stock market to start crashing not long after. Sell, sell, sell. The covid stimulus bill will pass and pass on the second vote heres the problem weve been in the worst bear market i have ever seen. We have been down endlessly. Proprietary s p oscillator i follow keeps registering a minus 20 reading making it the most deeply oversold moment in the history of the oscillator. When you get that level negativity, endless, endless, endless, you get a coyle spring of a market. Usually snap back with a vengeance. Typically based on short sellers ringing the register to close out their business remember if you owned a stock and it kept going up, up, up, you might want to take profits then it goes down, down, down, you might want to take profits if youre betting against it and, look, its very bullish that Congress Seems to be making progre
Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to berlin, to london, sao paulo, and new york. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. , china said it would sanction and american organizations close hong kongs port. Joining me from hong kong, and the current hong kong, enda curran. Give us the latest. Enda what they are doing is targeting a couple of groups, including Human Rights Watch and freedom house, for sanctions, and putting a stop on u. S. Navy ships coming to hong kong. But we dont really have many more details beyond that. We know that there are already some restrictions on ngos operating within china anyway, but the big take away is they steered clear of any economic issues, anything that would upset the trade talks, which are , by all accounts, still on track. There was better news on chinas economy today. But the official and private sector pmis pointing in the right directi
What, 263. Wow. Down from 3 not long ago. All right, europe looked pretty good at least last time i checked. That continues to be the case. Largely green, of course. You had the nikkei up after the 4. 2 drop the day previous. Kind of going back around the world the other way as in positively at least so far. Lets get to our roadmap this morning and it starts with those markets which are preparing for as you saw a decline at the open after private Sector Employment data comes in below forecast. Also weighing on investors s p downgrades puerto ricos general obligation yesterday they go to junk level status. Merck misses by a penny due to patent expirations and ralph rawrn beat lauren beats. And twitter set to report its First Quarter as a Public Company after the bell today. And big news from cvs caremark announcing it will stop selling cigarettes and other Tobacco Products at its 7,600 stores by october 1st of this year. Whoa. That is an interesting story. Futures extending their losses
Exchange. Go, guys, unbelievable. I was shocked. A couple months. Feels like a couple months. The story of my life these days, where does my time go these days . Its brilliant. Big day setting up today, janet yellen is on the hill and a ton of retail earnings. The premarket, tenyear yield durables came in ahead of expectations and europe is dragging a bit some say as the war games on the russian Ukraine Border look a little worrisome. The roadmap begins with retail, jcpenneys and best buy in rally mode as earnings top estimates despite flat to slowing sales. Janet yellen is back on capitol hill this time testifying in front of the senate. This is an appearance that was postponed because of a snowstorm a couple of weeks ago, so any chance shes changed her outlook since then . And an electric expansion, tesla says it plans to invest 2 billion in a brandnew battery factory somewhere in the southwest within the next three years. The question is which lucky state will tesla call its new hom
Ipo, insiders with a chance to sell after the lockup expires. The stock down almost 40 this year. Can we make a crossborder deal . Germanys buyer acquiring mercks consumer business. The president of france throws a wrench or tries to in ges plan to try to buy alstom. Can hollande convince ge to sweeten the offer . Apple trading above 600 since 2012, push for upgrades, new products incoming, are we in for a sweet spot for apple shares . A crucial morts for general moto motors. Another engineer exits. Jim says now is the time to buy. It has been a long road for shares of apple. The stock closele above the 600 mark since october of 2012, comes two weeks after apple announced the seven for one stock split, better than expected numbers and expansion of the Buyback Program from 60 billion to 90 billion. The low, 388. The high 702. Closer to the 702 at 600. I think that tim cook listed on to carl icahn, he listed on to a lot of things a lot of people were saying and distilled it and recognize