Stock market live Friday: Dow gains 260, posts down week, Boeing falls 6%

Shares of Tyson Foods fell more than 1% in premarket trading on Friday following a downgrade to market-perform from outperform from AB Bernstein. The Wall Street firm said it has near-term uncertainty around Tyson’s ability to maintain production levels with closed production plants and absent workers. “There could be further downside as it is difficult to contain the spread of the virus in highly labor-intensive meat plants,” AB Bernstein analyst Alexia Howard told clients. Tyson closed its two largest pork plants in Iowa and Indianan this week after employees tested positive for the COVID-19. “While we continue to expect African Swine Fever-led upside over the medium term, we believe that it is prudent to downgrade the stock in the interim,” Howard added. — Fitzgerald 

Shares of the telecommunications company jumped nearly 1% in premarket trading after posting a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street’s estimates. Verizon reported earnings of $1.26 per share, 3 cents higher than expected, according to Refinitiv. Revenue came in short of expectations. Verizon slashed its full year earnings outlook to a range of -2% to 2% growth, compared to the 2% to 4% range they previously released. —Fitzgerald 

Oil rose again on Friday, extending recent strength that’s seen it rally more than 40% in the last two days, as traders hope that depressed prices will force additional production cuts. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, rose 2.6%, or 44 cents, to trade at $16.94, while international benchmark Brent crude was 3.1% higher at $21.99. WTI gained 19% in each of the last two sessions as prices rebounded from historic lows. But despite these gains, the contract is still set to post its eighth week of losses in nine. The coronavirus pandemic has led to unprecedented demand loss, and with storage around the world rapidly filling, traders are worried that there might soon be nowhere for oil to go. – Stevens

The House passed a $484 billion package Thursday to bolster small businesses and hospitals ravaged by the coronavirus crisis and expand testing desperately needed to start the return to normal life. The bill is now being sent to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. Donning face coverings and voting in alphabetical sets to cut the risk of infection, representatives approved the bill easily by a 388-5-1 vote. The law would add more funds to the Paycheck Protection Program, add to the Small Business Administration’s disaster loans and grants, give grants to hospitals and bolster coronavirus testing, a core piece of any plan to restart the U.S. economy. —Pramuk, Fitzgerald 

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration may extend its national social distancing guidelines until early in the summer or later. “We may, and we may go beyond that,”  Trump said at a White House press briefing when asked if the federal guidelines would need to be extended at least until the start of summer. “We’re going to have to see where it is,” Trump said. “I think people are going to know just out of common sense. At some point, we won’t have to do that. But until we feel safe, we’re going to be extending.” The federal guidelines, which were first shared in mid-March and had already been extended once, were set to expire at the end of April. — Breuninger, Macias 

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose in premarket trading, pointed to a gain of about 200 points at the opening bell on Friday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were also set to open in the green. Helping equities is the rebound in oil, which hit record lows earlier in the week. The commodity, which has seen an evaporation of demand due to the coronavirus, rose about 5% on Friday morning. 

Stocks ended Thursday’s volatile session little changed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a 0.17% gain, while the S&P 500 closed down about 0.05%. The Nasdaq Composite also fell 0.01%. However, U.S. equities are pointing to losses for the week after a sell-off earlier in the week due to oil’s dismal rout. The Dow is down 3% since Monday, on pace for its first negative week in three. The 500-stock index is down 2.67% this week, heading into Friday’s session. The Nasdaq is down 1.8% this week. — Fitzgerald 

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