And oil is up to the tune of 25 . The jobless claims rocked the street. We were expecting them to be bad. We were not expecting them to be 6. 6 million bad. Jackie deangelis, jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Lets go ahead to start with the tweet from the president that had the dow jones up more than 300 points now. The president said, i spoke to my friend, mbs, crown prince of saudi arabia who spoke with president putin of russia and i expect and hope they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels and maybe substantially more, which if it happens will be great for the oil and gas industry. The markets are rallying on this, because low oil prices are good for consumers and businesses that use oil. Statement, you dont want the price to be so low that the shale producers go out of business. That the Oil Producers have a hard time, staying, conducting, keeping things going. So prices spiking today, more than 20 is a positive sign that it is all moving in the right
All rolled into one and a quick 7 fall and a trading haul the dow down more than 2,000 points and then right around 1 00 p. M. Eastern time the stocks tried to stage a comeback on the back of the news that the fed will inject 1. 5 trillion back into the market and prevent a fullblown credit crash. The stocks kept falling and we ended the day on the lows and we have a huge show for you tonight. For the host of big names with guggenheims Scott Maynard and john hess. Well get to those in moments, but first, lets get more now on exactly what the fed did and tried to do today with their trillion and a half dollar injection. We are joined by phone by Steve Liesman. Im not on the phone here, brian. I am joined by the Federal Reserve. In the first instance, it extended its purchases to 60 billion across the range of maturity and the fed was buying on the short end and it was going to buy a whole way of maturity and the reason for that is because there was a lot of dislocation and well talk abo
Futures trading was halted yo ed overnight. If were down 7 , you halt for 15 minutes down 13 , you halt for another 15 minutes if down 20 , you halt the remainder of the day some people wonder how long we will be trading at the open. Yeah. Look, i think the problem is twofold no one thought oil was coming. Theres a very, very different approach by some to whats happening with the virus some people are saying not enough others are saying, listen, were making too much of it. Im in the distinct not enough camp i come back and i keep thinking about david tepper and what he said to me at the super bowl i dont know if we have that i think we do is the booth ready on that going back to midfebruary early february day before the super bowl i came back and have never been the same i know people have accused me of being fear mongering for weeks now. No, i think im realest mongering. Were trying to back into it, you have to try to figure it out. Ruined the environment of the setup right now. Whats
About 800 points on the dow. Youre still looking at a loss of greater than 5 a huge story today the crude oil crush as the saudis initiate a price war. We should think about it in terms of the speed and velocity of decline the s p the is down about 17 . We hear about the news with are the russians and saudi arabia. The problem i have is you have a very healthy patient being the market now it appears to be in intensive care we dont seem to have any doctors around to treat them in intense iive care negative rates are present in the uk, first time ever. We are battling here in the United States with the potential for negative rates the missing link in all of this which is what we saw in 2008 was a global coordinated effort. There does not seem to be a globally coordinating effort to address that i think thats what the market is riding against. Liz young, what do you see . Lets start with the globally coordinated effort i think theres been an effort from Central Banks thats been reasonably
Looked like both the house and senate would be out next week and it would be difficult to get anything done fiscally in terms of legislation before next week. The timeline is getting pushed out. Because of that we lost all of our gains. 3 gains in some cases. Then we had some mike pence strategy from the meeting with insurers. At that meeting mike pence said there would be no surprises, there would be 4 million test sent out and there would be no copay. Insurers would waive copays. That gives the markets the idea we are going to get an accurate and quick assessment of those infected and those passing it on. We also heard President Trump Pay Lip Service to the fact that they were looking at the cruise industry and Airline Industry and that has stocks bouncing. The s p 500 up almost 1 . The 10 year yield, 60 basis points. Jim vogel out with some good levels saying there was a cluster around 55 and buying is concentrated in certain areas. It is trading within a 21 basis point range. The y