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Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 po...

Everything is in green across the screen right now joe, were talking this is basically the growth value trade conversation but it takes on a little bit of a different face because were talking about this recovery trade i want to go through some stocks with you i want you to decide whether these things have come too far, too fast whether its the airlines, american, delta, united delta, southwest. You know what the gains are over the last two weeks alone thats just a representation of what were ta...

But we have been inching higher this week. We were almost looking at 3000 for a while. The yuan has been weakening offshore, at 7. 1508. We will see how that progresses next week with the china hong potentialric, and protests, but we will see how that goes. The 10 year yield at 65 basis points, back into its cushion after a dire week of economic data, and crude oil at 32 at 32. 68. It has been pretty whippy today. Most stocks are lower, but you have stocks getting upgrades and so forth. This wee...

Negative after the dows 900point rally boost investor stocks Airline Stocks surge as the uk government signals cross border air bridges could make Summer Holidays a reality weve got european auto sales plunging 76 in april with fiat, chrysler and psa leading declines as the lockdowns cause supply and demand in the car sector a very warm well come everybody to street signs. Lets kick off some fresh commentary tensions really heating up between beijing and washington w. H. O. Is at the center of t...

Significance, that infection rates fall after lockdown orders are lifted. Repeat, thats jpmorgan saying that. Big deal. All right. Now listen to this. Scuffles between probeijing and prodemocracy hong kong legislators. Why are hethey doing that . Thats the wrong tape. Show me the legislators scuffling, please. China just moved to take control. Those freedoms promised to hong kong when the british left are being wiped out. U. S. china relations turning very sour. Initially, that didnt go down wel...

Agreed to reopen. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua. A lot going on in markets and the German Constitutional Court as we have reports why they came to that decision. First to your markets. On torkets are latching the gdp figure than the forecast, and people are expecting worse things to come. These are the markets we are looking at. There is a little bit of stabilization compared to what we saw on our ago, but the focus is from what we heard from dr. Soon. Cannot reopen too...

We will receive testimony from the secretary of the check treasury as required under title iv of the cares act congress has appropriated 3 trillion to protect to fight the pandemic and to stabilize the infrastructure of our economic system. A large portion of this funding is from the title iv of the cares act which has significant resources for loans and loan guarantees and other investments from the Federal Reserve with the emergency lending facilities in the states and municipalities and tribe...

Heard officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to happen, and they almost never do. Ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pit bull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt really the same as pushing to help statebased backers understand that this has real consequences. I am glad it is a topic for discussion, but i would just say ,n the Intelligence Community oversight in the legislature, this is an increas...

Basis and do coordinate. I would just comment that ive worked closely with ambassador lighthizer on the china agreements and forced Technology Transfer is a major issue that weve been combatting. Fair, but weve heard u. S. Government officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to have feet and they almost never do ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pitbull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt the same ...

Balance of opening our business, but they will only be as successful as the Customer Confidence that is there to patronize those businesses. That is not just for the hospitality. That is true for all business. Retail has been the hardest hit. My understanding is over 2 of businesses have closed permanently already. How are we to address this Consumer Health issue . I know this is something you have talked about. What should we be doing . Chairman powell it affects different sectors of the econom...