Home, stay healthy, stay connected. Our rules are, stay home. No nonessential trips outside the household. We want people to work. Work from home if you can and if youre going to the workplace, practice all those good social, physical distancing guidelines we talked about like six feet distance between people and so forth. Avoid no groups above number of 10 people. That sort of thing. We want number three. We want to make sure people shop alone. So when you go out, go once a week, have a list, be efficient, get in the store, get out of the store. Stores are in an opportunity to catch the virus so be efficient when you go to the store, do not take your entire family to the store. One person goes shopping for everybody. And then of course we want to make sure we help kids socially distance by keeping them at home to play, avoiding playgrounds, dont do group sports. Help seniors, help them stay in by running err ands for them or shopping for them. So that they can avoid those crowds. And
We are under 30 minutes until the end of the session. Have a look at gmm go. Stocks are rising across europe, boosting in part by mario draghi. The euro is higher now against the dollar rising. But we are seeing is yields against commodities. Lots of corporate stories to tell you about. Start with shelter and will so almost all of its assets. The anglo dutch share is up partway through this program. Whichllion reduced debt acquisition of bg last year. Crude is falling. By 6 . Er today, up earnings in its Life Insurance the executive of aviva. Asset sales and acquisitions. He certainly changed of eva and his purchase of life crude. Shares of by 20 . Beating estimates by one measure as his guest supply raise his dividends after the first attempt of the accommodation failed in september. Question guarantees for workers and benefits. Roughly a fifth of 1 . Julie a little bit of a bounceback, but it is a modest one with all three averages up about a 10th of 1 . Economic data continues to co
Roadmap, eight years since the haines bottom. And aig ceo is out, what is next for the giant insurer . Ceos headed back to the white house. We dig into the return on a west wing meeting. The s p and dow looking to snap three session losing streaks which hasnt happened since january. We got that pull back in energy yesterday resulting in those losses. And as we said its been eight years since the stock market had bottomed. That of course was when mark haines made a very big call right here on this show. However, im going to step out on a limb here. This is the big hold on everyone. Weve been waiting for this. I think were at a bottom. I really do. Ever since what we call the haines bottom, the s p has surged more than 250 , the dow also more than tripling its gains. The nasdaq outperforming both indices up 360 . On that morning, which is actually the tenth when mark made that call, dow and s p closed up 6 that day. Well, mark was someone we all work with mark. I used to talk with mark a
Squawk alley. Morgan, thank you very much. Good morning. It is 8 00 a. M. At snap headquarters in venice beach, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Starting from the bottom, now were here starting from the bottom, now my whole team here startied from the bottom, now were here started from the bottom, now the whole team here good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt, sara eisen with me here at post 9 along with Business Insider ceo henry blodget. Good to see you this morning. Good to see you. Eight years in and still going strong. The s p rallying nearly 250 since hitting that closing low of just over 676 on this day in 2009. This is the second longest bull market ever. Oil, on the other hand, falling below 50 for the first time this year. Of course, had the worst day yesterday in about 11 months. Just to put the rally into perspective, henry, would you have been skeptical of for a long time, more now than ever . Yes. The higher we go on valuation basis
The 8th and gained momentum. Its been ignored, passed over by the antitrump media. But, its happening now. Other head liens out this morning the negotiator in chief steps into the obamacare debate and will take conservative critics out for bowling and pizza. Talking about President Trump, hes got a lot more leverage than bowling and pizza. Gas average 2. 30 nationwide, watch for it to come down very soon. The price of crude oil is tumbling. Gas will follow. Despite it all, the dow is holding up. No big selloff since the trump rally began. We will open ever so slightly open down today and please remember, eight years ago today, the dow hit bottom around 6,500. Its been quite a ride since then. Varney company is about to begin. Well, start with this breaking news, this is going to be a headline today. U. S. Led Coalition Forces ramping up air strikes on syria. The marines have arrived in syria and carrying with them heavy artillery. What else do we have. Howitzers, 500 marines and theyre