Been absolutely lights out. The best november since time began, and maybe that is what we have, whatever you view on the election. But with the bombshell from pfizer on a vaccine, the market goes straight up. The president radio salad for four days, and we get a tweet for fourdio silent days, and we get a tweet out this morning. In this moment, we continue to see i am going to call it a second surge of market performance. Jonathan this morning is not about the politics. It is about the science. You can take the narrative and put it in the shredder this morning. We hope at some point in the nottoodistant future, it is conclusive. That just brings the cyclicality back into this market in a huge way and breeds some life back into that rotation. The nasdaq still very much on top. It is very clear the nasdaq is not on top. The nasdaq is struggling versus the likes of the small caps. Tom we will do the data altogether this morning before we get to dr. Fazeli. The vix from 41 to 23, i have be
More positive. Barclays misses First Quarter estimate with 2. 1 million in credit impairments investors navigate unprecedented conditions caller what they are doing at the fed in terms of her majestys and the banks. Well watch two tsunamis hit at the same time. Investment banking provides a boost. Telling cnbc credit losses are manageable despite more pain to come this year will be more difficult than any of us anticipated. We are doing anything we can in anticipation of our risks and costs to preserve the capital that we can. Airbus blaming limited visibilityas 60 aircraft could not be delivered due to the outbreak not as bad as advertised shares of alphabet rally after the Google Parent Company said the slow down is easing, beating more pessimistic forecasts a very warm welcome to street signs this morning. Lets get a check on the european markets trading in the green. It has been a choppy session we saw the stoxx 600 slip below the flat line now. The ftse 100 up about 1 we have the
Verdict, all counts. Ignores what was pretty intriguing morning session on capitol hill, the Second Public impeachment hearing. Slugs shrugs it shoulders keeps buying. What do you think . If they dont beat expectations Interest Rates will fall enough to help the downside risk. Worldwide Economic Data is not all that great. The market is very confident that there is some sort of safety net out there, safety net taking form of lower Interest Rates if needed. Neil all right. So if we have the dow flirting with 28,000. Stuart pointing out through the presidency up 10,000 points, is it a rich market through your eyes . Whoever is the white house occupant, for time being is it rich in your eyes . A rich market, from the perspective i would have difficult time telling somebody to go ahead to move into the market. Neil jump in now . Jump in now. I said that a year ago, even before that, and i have been proven wrong. Tough remember, we have Unemployment Rate at 50year low. How much lower can it
Barbara duran from bd8 capital markets. Thank you for joining us today weve got a lot of forces at play again another kind of side waist market, but some Risk Appetite if you look at whats moving higher today i agree with that i think that the action has been very constructive. And i think whats going on is youve seen the earnings expectations come down you had just a little sample last week, but majority of Companies Beat earnings and the most important thing, i think, was jpmorgan and American Express talking about the strength of the consumer in loans and spending and thats really the underpinning to the economy. And so we also know the fed, they have a meeting coming up. Im not expecting them to cut rates, but they have made it clear they stand ready and i think that forms an underpinning for the market. And not to mention china we have a little truce there i think we were all expecting some more down babeat commentar from what weve heard so far but so far, its been okay maybe rest
I think its going to be significant, 46,000 or 48,000 but you have the supply chain for gm, all of the construction around gm, so youve got a lot of ancillary folks that have been out of work and manufacturing isnt necessarily what drives the economy, its the consumer primarily and we are a service economy, and even though the numbers might be good, its the manufacturing thats really going tamp down here. Neil john, one one of the thins that im hearing to daniels point, not just 48 to 50,000gm striking workers impacting this but up to 200,000 more in ancillary business suppliers and the rest. What do you think of that . I think the estimate that roughly 75,000 to 80,000 jobs being temporarily lost because of gm strike. Neil okay, so if thats the case and they factored that in, is this just a oneoff, what do you think . A lot of reasons it can be a oneoff, results of slowdown at boeing, census workers who were temporarily hired and maybe are coming off the rolls, a lot of noise in the n