Lot of money when you die, youre doing it wrong according to the author of a new book. Power lunch starts right now we welcome you to power lunch. Stocks lower the dow is down less than 50 points right now 3m and mcdonalds are two of the biggest contributors to that decline. Both reported results this morning. Well have details a bit later in the meantime, bob gets us caught up on whats been happening on the market today. Robert hello, william. Good to see you. We have one third of the s p reporting. Two stories. One is the reopening story is not going that well. The other story is cheer up. The Second Quarter was the bottom which is it . Sherwin williams knocking the ball off everybody is painting their house. The Home Builders are billing it dr horton, great numbers orders were way above expectations then theres the other side, companies saying we are not providing any guidance xerox didnt either. Raytheon didnt give any Harley Davidson was way below expectations mcdonalds were light
Where people cannot really go to showrooms . What is the bigger problem, selling the car as you want to make, or making the cars that you are used to making . Biggest challenge early on was getting back so that we could make vehicles. We had a lot of work to do to make sure we took all the necessary precautions, learned lessons from china, korea, from our work in making ventilators and masks, and putting that to practice to bring people back to build vehicles. I am proud of how will the team adapted to working from home, and our dealers who have been great partners, going mostly online for the sales process, and developing a clean delivery system. Everyone adapted fairly well. Lifelongu were a General Motors person, you grew up in michigan, your father worked at pontiac. Stanford Business School and then came back to General Motors, worked her way up. Havee last six years, you been the ceo of the company. You worked through the Great Recession, also through 9 11. Compare this situation
Massive rally on the heels of the stunning may jobs report 2. 5 million jobs added last month and the biggest increase ever and economists were looking for payrolls to drop by more than 8 million and major indices were 50 above their march 23rd lows and four s p 500 sectors were now positive for the year and the Consumer Discretionary hitting an alltime high guy, does this make sense . Amazing not to me, it doesnt, clearly. And ive been saying this now and it seems like the last 300 or so s p points and its been steadfast and hes been in that camp, as well. Just on the terms of a backdrop on a lot of Different Things it doesnt make sense, but if you strip out everything that weve seen, you start doing the math on this thing and you look at the s p 500 market cap over gdp, youre talking about levels that are nosebleed and nosebleed i mean 150 and a lot of that talk about it as the buffett indicator and it typically is unsustainable and if you start to do the math on the multiple and i u
Futures and negative territory for the first time on record. Air travel is floundering with carriers slashing services and grounding planes. Richard branson says the virgin operation may not survive. Today was big story the crash in oil prices. We have the wti futures settling at 37. 63 per barrel. You are taking a look at june futures at the moment. This of course still at a volatile level, but the real question being is will it suffer the same fate . Today, we saw the technical auditing exacerbating the price plunge away from the may futures contract ahead of the Energy Companies running out of place to store oil. U. S. Futures jumping 3 10 of 1 after they pulled back from a six week high. Quibi stocks under pressure. Jim. Ng us now is what was interesting in todays session was it a virgins we saw in the market. We had the price of oil collapse but at the same time, really not a lot of movement when it comes to the u. S. Stock market for the treasury market. Why are we seeing such di
Dont have to accept the status quo. If you make difficult decisions , if you stick to our decisions, if you stick to our plan for the economy, thats seen inflation falling and growth starting to rise, we can bnng growth starting to rise, we can bring down the tax burden. Sir keir starmer, though, says that the conservatives are giving with one hand and taking with the other, and that , unlike with the other, and that, unlike the government, he says labours policies are fully funded. Policies are fully funded. Contrast that with the government, where yesterday, at the end of the budget, the chancellor made a staggering £46 billion unfunded commitment to aboush billion unfunded commitment to abolish National Insurance. Thats bigger than liz trusss commitment. So theyve learned absolutely nothing. We need absolutely nothing. We need change. Its time for change. Well, weve heard tonight that the uk has pledged a further £125 million of military support to ukraine in another major move ag