Measured by the pboc. Rate cut by 10. All helping to cushion the Economic Impact of the virus. Down almost 1 . Bucking the trend. But stake a look at where we are in terms of asian stocks. They say this is not a reflection. Rishaad 15 down for new york crude. Nevertheless, we have seen that severe weakness. Gold not much of a haven. Lets have a look at what we can expect from indian markets. The rupee strengthening by 6 10 of 1 . Haslinda the r. B. I. Laying the ground for more rate cuts. President trump has suggested china may have deliberately caused the pandemic. China hit back, accusing washington of trying to shirk responsibility of its own failures. Another ratcheting up of tension over the handling of the virus. That is right. To accuse china of deliberately starting the coronavirus is remarkable. Many would describe as a borderline conspiracy theory. The in the views of minority of people. Now he is saying that maybe china started it. Being knowingly responsible. He said there
Here are your top headlines. Blame game. President trump raised the prospect that china deliberately caused the coronavirus outbreak. This as the u. S. Pauses some tariffs for 90 days but not those on chinese steel or aluminum. Crude collapse. Wti sags to its lowest level in the 21stcentury on concerns that Storage Space is running low. The demand outlook remains gloomy. Signs of easing. Germany begins to reopen its economy as spain, france, and the u. K. Report the fewest coronavirus fatalities in weeks. Just under one hour away from the start of cash trading. Lets take a look at where futures are headed in europe. Futures are higher, whereas u. S. Futures are down. You can see the ftse 100 futures up more than 1 , as are the dax futures. S p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures, red arrows. Further away from the start of trade on wall street. It looks like we will kick off the week in europe higher. That divide between europe and u. S. Futures is interesting. We will watch that as we go th
We have three markets. Maybe even more. After a day where the dow advanced 39 points, s p declined. 05 , nasdaq did one point, i want you to forget about the averages for a second or a week or a year or until the end of the pandemic. Thanks to the onslaught of the coronavirus, something that no ones ever seen, were seeing Something Else thats incredible not just the complete untethering of main street from wall street, but the disentangling of even small publicly traded companies and medium size ones from the big dogs that have it easy and can handle this hellatious moment. We all know main street isnt wall street. When we get another hideous jobs loss claims number like we did this morning, now were seeing more separation, that is its stunning. In my 40 years of investing, i have never seen anything like what im about to talk about so im going to walk you through what could amount to a destruction of a fair share of American Business that incredibly might not impact much of the stock
Chairman. Lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures continuing to add to gains after u. S. Stocks rallied in the regular session. Vaped tech shares leading the gains. Alphabet optimism about the experiment of drug coming from Gilead Sciences. U. S. Futures gaining ground at the moment. This after the s p 500 rose in the regular session. We have some negative data when it comes to u. S. Fourthquarter gdp seeing the biggest fall since 2008. We did get the fed decision. We have policymakers holding rates steady. Wti also continued to add to gains after we rose in the regular session, rebounding from almost 30 of declines in the last two sessions. Haidi of course one of the big headlines, the Trump Administration putting together this Manhattan Project style effort to drastically cut the time it takes to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Operation work speed hopes to have enough warp speed hopes to have enough doses available by the end of the year as g
Virus could soon peak in new york city. Weve already seen the apex in madrid italy is clearly over the hump that means buy storks. Cover your shorts. The bull is backs todays run d 1627 points marking its best day in two weeks s p soaring 7. 03 . Nasdaq 7. 3 . Can it really be this easy or does this represent too much optimism i think its a bit of the latter wall street is a group of index buyers and traders when we care about the new number of coronavirus cases, number of hospitalizations and mortality rate index buying was so intense it moved stocks like they were play things now, does that mean we should buy the nasdaq when we have more ventilators, sell it if we dont have enough personal protective equipment . Do we buy the s p retail etf when we get a decent number from, i dont know, Governor Cuomo . No, its kind of ridiculous. Were simply seeing, though, the flip side of what happens when people were downbeat as they were last week when the president s team told us some pretty ho