It or go bankrupt. If you want to invest in airlines, im not with you but there is a trade prospect. There is every possibility this is the time to take the road less travels thats the point of this particular segment right now lets look at a few tables and charts we know this was the hardest hit area of the market you can see the decline in the s p, down 35 , restaurants down 45, airlines down 70 and hotels and cruise ships down 73 its the epicenter of the pandemic the issue is that despite all that, we really havent gotten there since march. Thats an important circumstance look at slide two. Heres the etf in question rather than taking the idiosyncratic risk to put American Airlines or delta or southwest, heres jets its the Global Airline industry in fact, its 39 stocks. Its not just u. S. Carriers. A total of 1. 5 trillion in market cap take a look at the first of two charts here is the plunge, of course. After bottoming in march with all equities, you get a nice ricochet and unlike
Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin weve been on a bit of a winning streak up four days in a row. Yesterday the dow was up this morning, you are seeing a little pull back dow down s p down and nasdaq off by 172 yesterday, Goldman Sachs helped. Good news from moderna godm goldman came out with much better numbers than anticipated. Also looking at the trezy yield. The 10year is sitting about 0. 622 good morning. As joe mentioned earlier the twitter shares are lower after the company showed dozens of users were part of a twitter hack targeting some employees who had access to systems and tools. Among those hacked joe biden, jeff bezos, bill gates, elon musk all telling users to send massive amounts of bit koip to an address they are diagnosing the problem and will share everything once the picture becomes more clear if they got in through employees with tools and access to accounts that raises questions about security procedures at tho
Or delayed their plan phase reopening. In texas reversing that saying it must force bars to close today and only remain open for takeout and delivery, that saying that restaurants with indoor capacity right now, lets cut it down from 75 they have been getting used to but the last couple of weeks to 50 and anything to do with rafting and tubing, that stops immediately. So those actions, reversing earlier actions, the first time we have seen it got the markets attention and the fear that other states that have seen a similar uptick in cases with the real test availability and we might do the same. We have gotten hints out of florida that maybe that could be the off thing but that is way too soon to tell. Again, the drill on wall street, you sell first and begin to ask questions and get clarification later. We are also waiting to hear from the president s Coronavirus Task force, we have not seen them in a public setting like this in almost two months, theyre gonna be speaking again were t
Lebeau a moment ago on the airlines and he is back with breaking news regarding american. Take a look at shares of american, the airline is announcing starting on july 1st, starting next wednesday, it will fill its planes completely remember until now it has capped its load factor or the percentage of seats that it would fill on a plane, it would cap it at 70 . Thats going to end as of next wednesday, also adding about 1,000 flights to its schedule in july so this is american saying weve got more people flying, weve got more demand and its time for us to fill these planes all the way. They stress people are still going to be required to wear masks, they will still be pushing the fact that theyre sanitizing planes in between every flight, but the time has come for them to sell every seat, fill every seat and no longer guarantee its capped at a 70 load factor. Guys, this is a day with a lot of airline news between this, the unions asking for another bayout and the airline ceos meeting wi