Were happy about. Congratulations for that lets go to the wall and check out where we stand as we set the table for our friday conversation 29,367 for the dow thats 1 . 2 8. S p is just shy of that and the nasdaq is having a pretty good day as are the small caps. Liz young, lets set the investing landscape if we could for our debate youve got virus cases soaring but very promising vaccine news on a number of different front you got the president not conceding but you got biden winning arizona, which gives some more certainty to the transition period, despite the noise and the noise makers, if you will youve got so much pentup demand on the other side of the virus. You know thats going to be the case then you have this battle between value and growth as you all try and figure out where to place your bets for the months ahead. What do we do with all of that what do we do with all that we start with thinking about the time frame its true that through the end of the year, maybe into januar
Vaccine. And we start out with breaking news on disney, putting distribution in the center part of its business. Julia. Thats right. Disneys reorganizing its Media Entertainment business to accelerate its direct to consumer strategy. It says this is in light of the success of disney plus the move divides content and creation and content distribution, creating a new median entertainment distribution group, this group will be responsible for monetizing all content including ad sales and digital platforms liking disney plus the new division will also oversover see operations of the streaming service. I would not characterize it as a response to covid i might say that covid accelerated the rate at which we made this transition, but this transition was going to happen anyway because essentially what we want to do is separate out the folks who make our wonderful content based on tremendous franchises from the Decision Making in terms of where the prioritization is in terms of how it gets com
It is april 24, 2020, this is Worldwide Exchange on cnbc good morning. Welcome wherever you may be watching i am brian sullivan. I think i speak for everybody when i say tgif. It has been a rough and wild week indicating we may not get another break today. Lower now off about 100 points the index lower on the week with the dow, s p losing between 2 and 3 that looks now to continue those losses today crude oil is down 30 since monday prices are lower now if we extend physical guidelines to summer, that could keep gasoline and jet fuels low. One of the biggest World Storage producers will give us the story. That has certainly been a market mover. In asia, plenty of red across the board. Japan down nearly 1 shanghai and kospi also down more than 1 to close out their week stocks in asia declining largely on report of doubts from treatment from Gilead Sciences to the trade in europe, early following the foot steps of asia markets there are sharply lower with major indices all down 1 or more
Coronavirus cases continue to rise as the fallout cripples the Global Economy. China may be forced to abandon growth targets for the year. We are just getting some news crossing the bloomberg when it comes to expectations for summer earnings out of we are expecting a pretty down quarterly in terms of the impact for the asiapacific. We will be bringing those to you shortly but in the meantime, we have data out of south korea. Shery we are getting the current account numbers for south korea for the month of march. Current account surplus coming in at 6. 2 3,000,000,000 fine 6. 23 billion dollars. The current account surplus narrowing a little bit from the previous month of february. Also, the month of february being revised lower to 6. 4 billion. The goods trade balance coming in at 7 billion. The surplus was a little larger than the previous month. Given that we do have the coronavirus pandemic and april export numbers really taking a hit, the march current account numbers not looking t
555 dow points. Ahead on todays show, were going to dive into this plunge in oil prices, what it means for the u. S. Economy and jobs to the financial losses reverberating through the market right now plus we will speak with illinois governor j. B. Pritzker and former commerce secretary Penny Pritzker, his sister, about illinoiss battle against the coronavirus and the race for more protective gear and testing. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching with 58 minutes left of trading. Brian sul vab focusing on crude oil collapse, mike santoli will tie that in with broad movements were seeing today latest on the snag on government funding. Brian, first to you on this unprecedented move in oil. A day for the history books. It is a day for the history books. Ending a futures contract in negative 30 or what it was. Sara and wolf, it doesnt make sense as i talked about in power lunch as well. We started the day around 10. We continued to fall now negative 30 these are contracts. Negativ