Facebook premarket, zooming after a big gain yesterday. Its Financial Report suggested some stability returning to the advertising market. Facebook getting 98 of its revenue from ads. This company is a truly global platform. Over 1. 7 billion daily users. Stocks up another 6 this morning after a gain yesterday. Look at microsoft. Big gain yesterday, modest gain this morning. Its close to its alltime high. It says the virus had little impact on its business. Up 1 , microsoft, this morning. Its true to say these trillion Dollar Tech Companies are again pulling in a big chunk of investors money. One more for you. Tesla. Yep, another big gain. Elon musk is furious at the california authorities for keeping his fremont plant closed. He calls them fascists. More on that in a moment. Look at tesla go, 854, up 54. Overall trn overall, its a down day. The dow is looking to be down 280 points. The s p down 33, and the nasdaq, despite the success of big tech companies, thats going to be down as we
Money away for loan loss reserves. Alison Williams Joins me now. What were some of your takeaways. [no audio] actually, we are still working on her audio, so lets go to Annmarie Hordern first. Part of what we heard was from fatih birol of the iea talking about how bad demand would be, despite any production deal. Annmarie some seriously drastic headlines out of the iea. The other part is what they are talking about what this means for storage. It is testing the logistic capacity to the limit. On the demand side, they see april serious demand destruction, down 29 Million Barrels a day. For the year, what that means is 9. 3 Million Barrels a day, the worst we have ever seen on record in terms of demand. What the opec cuts probably did was maybe pull us back a little bit from the brink, but not doing that much. You can see that with what is talking about in storage. They say that could be exhausted by the middle of the year. All of this putting downward pressure on the future prices. Wti
You see it in the markets where for the first time in ages, we have sort of got spaces across equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. The focus is on europe. It really pulled back toward the tendency of disinflation and deflation. The urgency of stimulus in europe is really front and center today. It certainly is and we will see if leaders agree on something. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump signed an executive order to curve immigration. Green cards are currently on hold. They allow foreigners to become permanent residents the president says that will limit competition for jobs. An exception is being made for medical professionals and researchers. The u. S. House is expected to approve today the 484 billion rescue plan. The bill adds more money to aid Small Businesses plus money for hospitals and coronavirus testing. U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her next priority, a major aid package for
Within the dow. Take them out of the picture, things wouldnt be as bad as they are now. Were well off the earlier lows, down 400 points, down about 165 points but also fueling this, offsetting this if you will is talk of progress on that stimulus front. You remember where they were looking for republicans, another 250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program . Well they ran into a buzzsaw of criticism from democrats that argued it was too tilted to business so they wanted to make assurances for health care workers, hospitals, that sort of thing. I stress that they have reached a broad parameters of a deal. It is not a deal until they both mutually agree. Were seeing progress on the front. That mitigated losses in the dow and offset the oil impact. Edward lawrence joins us now from washington with how this is all progressing. Hey, edward. Reporter neil, close, very close. That is how it is being described. As you said no deal, no ink to paper as it were for this deal. Republicans ini
The dow futures down 448 points. Down almost 2 . S p better than 2 , nasdaq lower by 225. 2 and a half percent there as well. Strong showing in april despite losses yesterday, the dow, s p 500 posting largest monthly gain in 33 years for month of april. Oil prices are still down this morning sliding again, take a look, this morning more on the impact, low prices and decline in demand are having on big energy. Oil now 39 cents, better than 2 . I will be speaking this morning exxon mobile and chevron will be reporting and we will speak with the ceo of chevy robe coming up. Amazon with jump in sales but seeing profits fall as cost of doing business of the pandemic rises. Could post First Quarterly loss in 25 years. More bombshells, more unsealed documents reveal the fbi was moving to close the investigation of Michael Flynn back in january of 17 before agent peter strzok stepped in to say keep the case open. Flynns Attorney Sidney Powell will join me powell at 8 10 a. M. Eastern on the ef