Virus could soon peak in new york city. Weve already seen the apex in madrid italy is clearly over the hump that means buy storks. Cover your shorts. The bull is backs todays run d 1627 points marking its best day in two weeks s p soaring 7. 03 . Nasdaq 7. 3 . Can it really be this easy or does this represent too much optimism i think its a bit of the latter wall street is a group of index buyers and traders when we care about the new number of coronavirus cases, number of hospitalizations and mortality rate index buying was so intense it moved stocks like they were play things now, does that mean we should buy the nasdaq when we have more ventilators, sell it if we dont have enough personal protective equipment . Do we buy the s p retail etf when we get a decent number from, i dont know, Governor Cuomo . No, its kind of ridiculous. Were simply seeing, though, the flip side of what happens when people were downbeat as they were last week when the president s team told us some pretty ho
This of course, the saudis are flooding the world with oil right now. The russians, its not clear where the heck they are because theyre very secretive, but i know who is not there, the drivers. Theres very little demand david and i talk about this with you all the time, carl theres this overall sense, you know what, if we just get things moving, things will come back again. We need customers. We need customers to get their hair cut, to go to the dry cleaner, the restaurants, and we need customers on the road without them, i really dont care what president calls who, you need a tariff to keep the to keep the saudi oil from coming here, and you need the chinese to restockpile, and frankly, thats still not going to be enough to be able to make it so oil real demand goes higher good point yeah. Sorry, carl. 6 Million Barrels a day, jim, is what im hearing right now as we still try to adjust. Even know we know each others cadences so well 6 Million Barrels a day here and its not just not j
Thinnest of reeds which is why the averages were able to war today. The dow which gained 470 points, s p advancing 2. 28 . Its hard to find a positive button house of pleasure the nasdaq gaining 1. 72 . All right, what happened okay, this morning President Trump told us hes brokering a deal between russia and saudi arabia so theyll stop flooding the world with oil that will help the price of crude to rebound back to the 20s and trigger a short rally in the stock market. One that couldnt be taken down by the shroud of gloom even as the shroud kept trying to take it down. Intermittently until being ripped from the markets rarely bullish face buy, buy, buy yep, we live in a bizarre world where wall street can momentarily overlook the fact that 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Insurance last week a mindblowingly horrible record breaking number. Instead, we briefly able to accentuate the positive. It might not collapse, saving billions of bad loans and preserving Energy Indepen
At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
Jobs since 2009. The Unemployment Rate rose to 4. 4 . However, on mornings with maria this week, i spoke with the former president of the atlanta federal reserve, and he told me that the Unemployment Rate is much closer to 10 than 3. 8 given we did see. 6 million Unemployment Benefits this past week. Joining me now to discuss the backdrop and the markets and investing around it is the alpha one Capital Partners Founding Partner dan nice. And, dan niles, and it is good to see you. Were going to get into the health part of this and, of course, what corporations are doing, including 3m, but i want to ask you about these markets. How would you look at the jobs numbers and your expectation in terms of when things might come back . Sure. I mean, i think thats really the key to the market, is jobs. As you pointed out earlier, you lost 3. 3 million jobs two weeks ago, then the most recent week you had 6. 6 million. And the funny thing is that as you get into april and may, thats when corporati