We will talk about in a next hour as well. We will be speaking about juneteenth and what companies should be doing to improve diversity and inclusion with vivian hunt from mckinsey. A big event here in the u. S. , lots of events participating in that in the holiday. We will break that down and what it means for renting for u. S. Companies as well. This could be the Third Largest none december exploration on record for Macro Risk Advisors founder. She will be joining us. We also have all this volatility into the squad winching dust into the cour quadruple winching. How does this play out . One of the trends we have seen in Options Market over the last several years that has is that folksated are vying incredibly short dated options, the shortest, as short as one day. Leaderboard is that it expires in one day. It is a unique way of trading. I would not say it is gambling, but it is not exactly investing either. A lot of the stuff rolling off was put on as late as this week. When we looke
This is. Semisurge, theyre leading us to new highs. Yeah, and its been pretty interesting, scott, because this has been a much broader rally than i think a lot of the folks have talked about over the last couple of weeks, and part of it is its the semiconductors, thats one of the areas everybody looks at the big 5 theyre not looking at some of these other names. When you look at the smh, and you see where its trading now and near all time highs, it gives you a little bit of a sense of how much activity there is there, and continues to be there. We have seen so much in the unusual options side of things its been incredible across just about every name that you can imagine. So it certainly does stand out to me that thats been performing, along with biotech to the upside, and both of those, oftentimes youre going to see most of those names in the nasdaq, and thats part of the reason youre seeing some of this outperformance from the nasdaq is this the week that growth took the market back,
Signaling that it may need to do more to the boe, signaling that it may need to do more to combat lower growth. Bloombergs Francine Lacqua spoke to andrew bailey, the bank of england governor, following that policy decision. Gov. Bailey we are keeping options open on that. Im very clear on that. Other members of the committee thought it was a sensible decision to take in our next meeting, when we may have more information. Francine are we any closer to negative rates, or is that not an option right now . Gov. Bailey we are not ruling anything out because it would be unwise of us to rule anything out in terms of responses. I dont want to say we are nearer to negative rates, but we are not ruling anything out. Francine under what circumstances will we get negative rates . Gov. Bailey its a complicated question. You have to view it in the context of the times, also in the context of the financial structure we have, and what are the consequences of it. I just want to caution, we are nowher
Hardpressed drillers . We will ask. Now we are quoting the next contract for june delivery. The price coming in at, where was it moments ago, what was it, 15, 16 a barrel. The president will fill the Strategic Petroleum reserve with up to 75 billion barrels. That helps storage capacity. But it makes no impression on collapsing demand which is at the heart of the oil price problem. A lot of people expect that that price, the one we see right now, what was it, 16, 15 a barrel, expect it to down from here. Well see. Stocks, theyre down in part because of the Oil Situation. Its another indicator of how badly the virus is affecting the economy. Investors not happy about the demise of Americas Energy industry. The dow will be down 500, s p, lets see, 54 points down and the nasdaq down about 82. A small loss in percentage terms compared to the dow and the s p. Well, the president s twitter account active last night, late last night. He called the virus the invisible enemy and said he would is
The answer is not for a long time even the greatest optimists think a mass vaccine in the middle of 2021 maybe something smaller this fall the idea of something that is just given to you in the hospital iv that makes it so it eliminates the lets say the odds of you dying, its something that makes us feel like maybe this is the tamiflu for this dreaded disease i think, of course that makes people feel more optimistic. Everybody wants the country open, but nobody wants to do its been that stark, that bipolar. How about we get it open versus getting really sick. Thats something that people will say open it up, thats why the market is flying its not the tamiflu, its for when you are already fairly sick its very important i dont want to discount it in any way, listening to Scott Gottlieb has been one of the more rational voices on this throughout. He frames it properly. We actually do still need those antivirals that would be taken earlier in the course of the disease to mitigate its effect