Announced, but the big story is surrounding big tech earnings like microsoft, facebook, and even comcast and qualcomm. It look like some of these companies were basically created for this moment if you didnt know, the microsoft quarter was just a thing of beauty a lot of that is because theyll have a product like teams or like azure that are incredibly strong linkedin doing very well facebook quarter was good, and boom, they say april is stabilization. One of the themes were seeing in tech, or you have service now, well have Bill Mcdermott later today. They have an unbelievable quarter. Maybe the best in the history of the company. So youre seeing companies that frankly not only do not have to make any excuses but are saying good things. You know, qualcomm, ill say, secular trend, 5g, and then highspeed internet is one of the most lucrative parts of comcast. Yes, of course, theme parks not going to happen, but theyll open up again. But high speed, it will never go back you dont switch
Every direction. The s p saw an even bigger gain. The nasdaq up by almost 3. 6 the dow futures also up. Keeping an eye on the Treasury Department seeing how the fed news will play out there the fed news is back about 0. 6 . Sitting at 0. 612 . If you watch oil prices, which has been a big indicator of demand around the globe and what is happening, this morning, wti is up about 16 . All the way back up to 17. 49. Wow, all the way back up. 17 unbelievable lets get an update on the pandemic the number of global cases that we talk about nearing 3. 2 million. I dont know how good that enough is for anything we have more than a million in the United States. New york state cases near 300,000. I dont know of the reliability that state prisons near 7 testing positive breaking overnight, california governor plans to order all beaches and state parks to close tomorrow to avoid repeating last weekends violations hot weather, the police memo leaked to several Media Outlets yesterday. Andrew to put
They come. Checking out the 10year, weve been around the same level yesterday we were at 0. 75 this morning, it looks like the 10year is yielding. 69 saying the Global Oil Demand will fall by 9. 3 billion a day erasing almost a decade of growth down about 2. 25 baushing it back to 19. 65 a barrel dr. Scott gottlieb, chairman of cbs health, fanatics executive chair. Chief Investment Officer and more coming up in the next three hours. Joe . Becky, you remember United Health care is a dow component we always say, thats right. Thats right you notice the dow is down around 370 or so maybe repairing partly due to United Health care the Company Reported an adjusted 3. 72 for the First Quarter. Nine cents above estimates the company said it is keeping its prior 2020 full year guidance said it would continue to evaluate the ongoing impact. You can see up about five points or so. Ee quaids to the improvements we see. Well hear from bank america and other companies. We are in earnings season now.
It took a tumble in less than six weeks and then rebounded 36 of the lows from april yesterday. The s p down 34 from february 19 to march 23, less than five weeks. Crazy to think about how quickly that fall came then we were back up 30 off the low for april. Joe . If you used april then i could get to 82 years i dont think sorkin was listening to me. I was i said, no, i dont remember. You are always saying maybe i wasnt around for that here is my proposition for you, andrew sell in may is a common expression go away ive never felt more like selling in may than i do right now. I have to be honest. It is not just you. Look at the dow this morning down 454 points. Just to test whether this kind of thing works. It would be impossible for me to go long with money what was he, 163 or something. I saw another guy say it is going to be so hard over the next year that we are looking at another 40 drop others that say the average recession that the market doesnt bottom for 11 months although jim
The nasdaq down by 25 points this morning, youll see futures are lower again. These are modest declines. The types of numbers we used to see all the time in the morning just over a month ago. Right now, the dow looks like it would open about 42 points nasdaq around 18 points. Keeping track of treasury yields we find ourselves this morning again with the yield indicated around those levels. 0. 7 and change andrew lets bring you an update on the pandemic and some of the numbers. The number of confirmed u. S. Cases rising to 400,000. More than 12,000 have died in america. New york is the epicenter with 140,000 confirmed cases. New york, new jersey and l. A. Reporting the deadliest day. And los angeles mandates masks as essential sharing this responsibility to keep workers and everybody safe which is why we are requiring customers to wear face coverings. Shopping for groceries, picking up a precipitation or any other business, you will need to cover your face. If you are not covering your