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Talking about what is happening with the coronavirus and appointing Vice President pence. As he was speaking, one of the cases of unknown origin that happened in europe as predicted if you look at the treasury now, you see the 10year is yielding 1. 297 . Not negative yet. President trump speaking about preparations last night. We are very, very ready for this whether it is going to be a break out of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way he has tasked Vice President mike pence he also addressed the market response i think the stock market will recover. The economy is strong, consumers are incredible thats why we are doing well and other countries are not even before the virus our consume rp is very, very strong very powerful economically. And the president put some of the response of the dow to the democratic convection. Are you suggesting Financial Markets are overreacting here . I think Financial Markets are very upset when they look at the democratic candidate looking at the stage making a fuel of themselves it is always a possibility it is an election. Who knows what happens well hear more from the president s comments at 7 00 a. M. Eastern part of the points was United Health care. Part of that may be the prospect the other need Bernie Sanders looked liked he had such a demanding lead his pack is raising money. Got the endorsement of the run to the senate or president sorry. I was very specific. I didnt want to trigger you i just mentioned United Health, not coronavirus. I got it reporting a new case of the coronavirus in Northern California but this cant be traced back to any travel to china, this indicates possible Community Spread of the disease. Showing where we are right now, the dow off. Looking to the european markets. You can see there everything is off about 2 across the board. Now 556 confirmed cases in europe denmark and estonia reported their first cases, italy above 450. Germany has cases that can no longer be traced to the original source in china as well. Hps bottom line will take a hit. Saying the impact will be felt most in the Manufacturing Business today, manufactures are open but not at 100 level. We saw a supply chain driven impact we have estimated in q2, this will be an impact. In a related story, microsoft does not expect to meet quarterly segment. Generating most winds owes revenue by selling licenses to device makers including hp shares of microsoft are off more than 2. 5 . Shares of nutanix cited coronavirus as one reason for lowering the 2020 outlook. Looking at asia pacific and japan region that stock off by 18 . It has been a fascinating, ugly week. What struck me driving in about this being the worst week since the global crisis. Speaking of that, i had a front row seat at leman brothers you almost caused it. I was hearing more discussion about central bank functions, if you recall, Household Debt were at the highest levels. Largely household financial. You couldnt do it there was no mortgage credit available. Because that mortgage credit channel was cloged even before we had this last leg lower in rates by the way, household obligations are at the alltime low. Household sector will be flush theyve been deleveraging through the cycle. It happened in the 60s as well you could get a confident shot to be sure it is likely to be temporary you talk about the Business Confidence channel going into the trade wars. That was at multidecade highs. The biggest impact was pretty profound now at the lowest level since 2016 i suspect this will be less disruptive than the great east japan tsunami quickly followed by the thai floods that shut down parts of Semiconductor Industry for months. Your interview with honeywell ceo setd we local source 11 was the Inflection Point for that i dont see the supply Chain Disruption this is going to have a hit. If you think about the knock on effects of the crisis, i dont expect to see them anything like that we are going to go to break you have made the point that ceos might sit on their hands. 100 . You would acknowledge, if Bernie Sanders were motting up, there could be a Market Impact based on that. You would acknowledge that i would acknowledge that. I dont believe that would have Significant Impact on markets. At this appointment i think in the middle of the crisis at this magnitude, hes turning this into a political story. We know about supply chain and business and gdp sure. Lets say this does get out of hand and that the response of the Trump Administration actually helps the democrats chances. Sure. You needed something to say about what he said yesterday it is a very highly correlated mark down tech going down the most there are two that stand out, Health Care Providers and oil and gas. There is a little element in there for sure i would not call that the primary catalyst not at all. United health care was downright after. More than would be justified in the price of oil. Coming up, the markets continue to drag down the market it is 6 10. The knowing glances trump talks to the country about the coronavirus and how to prepare and uses it as a political i dont think anybody should ever get used to that updates from employers to china and in italy where confirmed cases are growing rapidly. Travel related stocks this week. New comments from delta, marriott and booking holdings. Well be right back. Announcer this mornings big number 2. 22 million thats how many users, zoom has added in 2020. The stock is up 57 so far this year [ fastpaced drumming ] [ fastpaced drumming ] before the break, we told you about several Companies Reporting on supply. Looking to eunice yoon and progress in china. Good to see you. You too, becky. It depends on how large the company is the country put out some Interesting Data on small to Medium Enterprises the resumming of work topped 30 . If you look at the numbers for large companies. Over a week ago, 80 had already resumed work there is a question on the definition of resuming work. They are not getting the Assembly Lines up and running. It is not clear how far along the a semibly line getting up and running. The communities here put out surveys as of today. The American Chamber of commerce said 48 polled see a drop in revenue for this year if business continues to stay abnormal al april 30 48 see a decline in revenue 46 expect to lower the business target for the year. The central bank has been trying to reassure businesses here with several different measures but today specifically said that bank would go as far as possible to reduce the impact and ensure that china receives for a year that sentiment has been raised for how long, the government will try to avoid large scale stimulus theyve been talking about targeted with unemployment here, that is a big question mark. We had a little projection here that gave a briefing today saying that he believed the outbreak in china would be contained by the end of april. Well see whether or not that pans out im not sure if he included the surge that you are seeing overseas the concern here that it will be a reinter duroduction in china going to italy this morning. To cnbc italy joining us now on the news line. Good morning caller good morning, andrew. Tell us the feeling there, the reaction weve had these conversations now for several weeks. Thats right. Mentioning shes been on the ground for several weeks it is interesting to hear all the information shes gathered it is all new to us here we dont have much information we know the numbers. 400 have been reported 12 deaths. The areas in lockdown continue to be the same the cases in the rest of italy have been linked to the epicenter. We dont know who patient zero was but we know where all the new cases go back to they are keeping that area very much locked off. Day to day, just you go outside right now. You go outside. The treats are very empty. All offices have found a way to allow employees to work from home if they are in any way not even if they are linked to the area in complete lockdown. It is just trying to avoid people going to the street. From 6 00 in the evening to 6 00 in the morning can now stay open citizens are beg urged to not gather and being told to lean away a bit even though the numbers are increasing without having to put everyone in lockdown, they are realizing they can contain it. You have started to see in the United States, that is being put in many other countries and regions that it is pretty inevitable that this virus will go around. We have to ra just and try and not stop the World Economy while we deal with something very serious. In italy now, it is the beginning of that. Today and tomorrow, very crucial, the days in which well see whether this is a short term or leading to a medium term. I know the gdp comes from the areas that were affected they cannot they can handle for a short while, a stop. But if this does last longer, it could have a big impact on an economy that is very, very slow. This is really important to try and understand the length in time the low number of cases in the coronavirus is hard to believe the outbreak is increasingly likely. Global head of Dramatic Research the main question isnt true and we dont know the nomination we know the epicenter was wuhan and the total number of cases in china is a big number but compared to over a billion people, they have managed to at least on the surface, con continue it fairly well. Do you think wed be able to do the same thing in the United States because of more personal freedom . Why do you think that would be so much worse . Good morning. I think there is a couple of things to note here. One, weve seen si significant amount of social distancing in china and the rest of asia a pretty client population allowed themselves sto be locked down once they found they had a problem, they received some criticism that it took too long to put their hands up. The repeatability from a higher flub to a lower number the rate of growth going to some time in april. A number of things, one, you may already have far more cases than you know about there has been very little testing done in north america. I find it quite interesting, you cant perform that much testing. You can other test in three states and five cities when you test for this thing, you might actually find it when we are talking about outside of asia, italy being the big number, yes. Im suspicious about iran. I think the number of cases in iran is far more than being reported this goess to the number of cases in iran. You cant have 998 cases and eight countries magically getting the number. The number of deaths there much higher. It is kind of a half empty, half full view point if there are more cases, you are not seeing Emergency Rooms flooded or a high mortality rate, then we start thinking the mortality rate isnt taking the advantage. Then it is a weaker strain or either way can you find good or bad in either scenario potentially there is one point we think about. We see this from the diamond princess it took a long time, even though they knew they had that virus on that ship. This may be what we are seeing in iran. They may have known they had this thing in the middle of january. And now it is sharting to she up the number of patients who show an acute response, about 5 to 10 , you talked about those showing up in Emergency Rooms, that could be a big issue in the u. S. Goifen that there is not a large amount of social health care that could keep people from seeking health care and result in higher cases in the u. S thats the point id like to make the main thing you brought up is we may not be capable of the same type of social distance that where there are billions, they are could be more effective at keeping their distance. If we were to say, b the biggest fear is what we dont know, we could get really hysterical. If it is a huge amount of cases here that we dont know about. We need to do the testing, which is what dr. Scott would say. Absolutely, yes you do need to do more testing some of these drugs seem like they may of therapy value they are more than a year away from a vaccine thank you. Coming up, this week has been brutal for tech stocks. Look at some of the names at or near correction levels now after the break take a look at share winners. Merchandize rose 33 to 1. 7 billion. We are back after this taxes . Sales tax, real estate credits, solar incentives. And we have no way to integrate all that . No. But bdo does. announcer people who know, know bdo. We were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. 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Com we are live from the Nasdaq Marketsite we could be in for another big down day thursday last week, down 128 points, friday, down 227 monday, the dow was down over 1,000 points add another 879 on tuesday, another 123 today and indicates another 290 points this morning. This morning, when you take a look at the concerns and writing down across the board. If it is 300 today, in 10 would be 10. Pull back are what we just showed, well see what happens today but the losses team to be getting less but it is dependent on every piece of news that hits. Add that up, 128, 227 this is just the dow the equities might not about where you focus. The 10year is even scarier we are talking historic lows down 1. 38 getting to the guy with the thick green tie. Air b b out with a statement saying its policy allows guests and hosts to cancel reservations with no penalties. Working to support the host and believe the travel industry will bounce back. Jetblue became the first u. S. Carrier to cut fees for changing or canceling flights i have a question when air b b says we have no fees, it would be the homeowners that take that on. If you cancel, the fees can get partially shared im also hearing, the homeowners can also cancel too can the fee then go to the guest . They are really not the ones getting impacted any of this if you cancel your flight but jetblue is selling you the seat the air b b model, they dont own any of these the big loss goes to the homeowner who was going to get the majority of that money, i assume in this case, it is all of air b bs business so the beldelta there is significant. It is the same to me as air b b getting rid of the fees. I mentioned you, is it a house tie. Dont say it is guy you hate it and are embarrassed. That is not your case this is the case, i forgot my tie. I usually grab my tie on the way out. 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President Trump Holding a News Conference late yesterday to calm americans fears about the risk of coronavirus hitting the United States. I dont think its inevitable i think thatwere doing a really good job in terms of maintaining borders in terms of letting people in, in terms of checking people. And also, thats one of the reasons im here today, getting the word out, so people will know, theyre going to know. No, i dont think its inevitable i think theres a chance it could get worse. Theres a chance it could get fairly substantially worse, but nothing is inevitable. For more on the president s response to coronavirus fears, lets bring in our guest, dr. Scott god loeb, the former fda commissioner and cnbc commissioner and serves on pfizer and ill lum nus boards. Good to have you here today. Scott, thank you how are you looking at this, how should we be looking at this i think were entering in a new phase. Theres cases in major cities, dozens maybe hundreds, certainly not thousands at this point or we would be seeing that. Epidemic isnt inevitable, but we need to take conservative actions right now. We need crash development of therapeutics and vaccine and dramatically broaden screening simple changes in behavior can have a very big impact when distributed over a Large Population, hand washing, staying home when youre sick, workplaces changing practices and broader mitigation steps to engage in social distancing and other things like that. Workplaces changing what do they need to do well, i think you need to think about flexibility for employees. Employees are sick, how they can stay home, how you can support employees with things like day care and other things that can keep them out of the workplace if theyre sick. We need to start thinking about if were going to have to change practices to limit social contact, cancel large meetings, limit travel were not there yet, but those are the kinds of things you need to do to prevent an epidemic spread we will have outbreaks here in the United States. Its inevitable, but we do not need to have an epidemic. When you sat down at the table you did purell and did this to your hands. I think a lot of the transfer people worry about aerosol, but theres a certain amount of things we can do to prevent that a lot of the transfer is probably touching and in touching your face so, if youre on a plane, its not the air on the plane its someone passing out cups on the plane to all the airline passengers. But i thought that purell didnt kill viruses. It kills the virus. This is a coronavirus. It appears that this virus lives on surfaces for a period of time but its not a hardy virus so alcohol wipes, lysol. Shaking hands is a barbaric thing to do. Yeah. Are you shaking hands with anybody . Ive been trying to avoid it. Me, too. I think simple changes in behavior and you distribute them over Large Population can have a very big impact. We need to think about implementing those behavior changes now. Also good Infection Control in hospital doctors practice good Infection Control but we need to step it up. You dont agree i dont agree with using th word barbaric. At a point like this its a good idea not to, but i think if you werent worried about it, its a human thing to do to look someone in the eye and shake their hand i dont think its barbaric. Thats all im saying. Barbaric, what is that theres a study that showed a fist bump could cut transfer by 90 . What about the fist bump, then 90 cuts by 90 . Because theres no germs here. In all seriousness, i think the backstop we have to prepare this is not something thats going to start and stop this could become something that could live with and backstop against it will be a therapeutic or vaccine we need to invest very heavily in that. We might have a therapeutic already. We wont have a vaccine for a year and a half. Why not focus on something that lessens the severity. It does look promising and it could be here is that gilead drug like what regeneron we could have in the late fall or early winter. What about a inhibitor, stuff that might those look less efficacious. What do we need to do to make sure you dont immediately prescribe a steroid, predniso prednisone it looks like a storm and it looks like its more respiratory acute syndrome and steroids are ineffective. It looks to be not effective in china. It could be counterproductive. Would make it worse. It potentially could. The problem is that once you once that process ensues and you have a very high viral load, simply killing the virus may not provide therapeutic impact and may worsen i think we need a moon shot approach right now we have the ability to conquer this with science. The science is there its available they were able to develop profill ak tick antibiotics to ebola and have one in the lab for mers thats a year and a half . Its not a year and a half. In 2009, the first case was identified april 15th, 2009, by september we had a vaccine this is ossible. How much money . I think we should put billions of dollars. This is not a time to be a fiscal conservative. Where are you on the weather the time of year, whether this dies out this summer should be a backstop, but it might not stop transfer entirely because this is a novel virus we dont have cross immunity it should be a backstop. You could see it dissipate in the summer and come back by the fall ive seen lots of questions on the other side. 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Dow looks like it would open down about 290 points right about now. Nasdaq off 116 points. Looking at the s p 500 off about 36 points. Joe . President trump, as you probably heard by now, held a News Conference to reassure the American Public and wall street that the u. S. Government is prepared to respond to an outbreak of the virus. He is appointing Vice President mike pence as a point person for the u. S. Response and eamon javers joins us now with more. We were playing your question earlier today. Im sure and i think you even were on worldwide exchange. Yes, Early Morning this morning. Youre in demand. What do you got . This appointment of mike pence by the president of the United States, the white house had gone back and forth they were going to point a czar the president insists this is not a czar position. This does elevate the administrations response. The president was in a delicate position yesterday he was trying to reassure the public that the United States government is fully prepared for this but even as his health and medical advisers were suggesting to americans they better brace for more cases of coronavirus inside the United States, the president had this to say about whether or not the virus is going to spread i dont think its inevitable i think were doing a really good job in terms of maintaining borders, in terms of letting people in, in terms of checking people and also, thats one of the reasons im here today, getting the word out so people can theyll know theyre going to know. No, i dont think its inevitable i think theres a chance it could get worse. Theres a chance it could get fairly substantially worse but, nothing is inevitable and joe, the president also reached for other explanations for that 2,000 plus point dow jones drop we have seen in the market this week here is my exchange with him this week. To be clear, the dow jones dropped more than 2,000 points this week. Are you suggesting that it was overblown or Financial Markets overreacting here . I think the Financial Markets are very upset when they look at the democrat candidate standing on that stage making fools out of themselves and they say, we ever have a president like this and theres always a possibility. Its an election who knows what happens now, joe, when i pressed the president , he did acknowledge that the virus played some role in the 2,000 point selloff that we have seen here, but this is a president who clearly is looking for other explanations for that stock market selloff not happy with what he has seen in the stock market and in terms of the response by some of the people on his own medical and health team. The president sort of walking that fine line here between reassuring the public that everything is under control and trying not to really set off any kind of panic either in the public generally or in Financial Markets, joe. Yep and you heard all the scuttlebutt and media sort of even before the president spoke about there are times in a president s tenure with defining moments. We dont need to go over the list now. Sure. And the reaction of the administration to those defining moments can mean a lot for the lookback at the tenure of a president. So im sure theres a lot of sensitivity to that as well. And yeah. It is a fine line even if it love trump, hate trump, any president put in that position yesterday probably would have been straining to walk that same fine line between trying to reassure the country but not trying to sugar coat it too much tough position to be in. Yeah. You talk about the lookback to the president s tenure, but these kinds of events can affect tlent of the president s tenure. He has reelection coming up it is not lost on him and his aides in the white house that this if it sparks any kind of economic ripple effect, accusations they dropped the ball or mishandled this and allowed americans to get sicker than they otherwise would or just a recession. Yes, just a recession. Global slow down and recession and stock market break that its worse than your garden variety correction theres a lot of absolutely. Scenarios. Enormous amount at stake for the white house, and you can see them sort of straining to deal with all of that as the president announced mike pence was going to be in charge. Strange moment at the end, the hhs secretary, who has been in charge beforehand sort of rejected the idea that he had been superseded. No, no, no, im still in charge of this Task Force Even though the president was putting mike pence in place it was awkward sort of turf stuff going on at the end of that press conference. I could see that, yeah. The president sort of threw up his hands and walked out at the end and said he doesnt look like he has any patience for that sort of thing. All right were going to get to phil orlando. Phil phil conners, the market the markets tried and failed to rebound from recent lows for some perspective were joined not just by phil but also Katherine Rooney vera, chief investment strategist and as i said here on set, phil orlando. Chief equity Market Strategist and head of client Portfolio Management at fed rated. When you told us about some protection with puts, katherine, we knew about the coronavirus at that point but that wasnt the only reason you thought you might hedge, was it, that you were suggesting back then, market had run up quite a bit . Absolutely. And i recommended the put option at 325, 330 coming into this year i noted high levels of complacency. And i would go against what eamon mentioned and a couple other things i think its a curious timing that over the past week you have both the coronavirus and you have Bernie Sanders the frontrunner and i think that, as i said to you a couple months ago or over the course of the past couple months, joe, i think that complacency had an Expiration Date what portion of the correction was because of that frontrunner status, you know, its hard to stay, but what you can say is that health care fail, energy fell disproportionately and can be attribute to believe the rise of sanders. Points been made, we didnt make it on the air but off camera, that supposedly bernie is the candidate that trump wants to run against if you dont believe bernie can win, why would you think that bernie being the nominee would be a bad thing for trumps election. Yeah. All bets are off you dont know nobody knows whether sanders could win or not. Yeah. But thats why the put option is really in the money right now. And im telling my clients, joe, to hold that sucker. Hold that thing until expiration march 31 if the market doesnt care when bernie does a sanders sweep on march 3rd, if thats the case, then buy more. Buy the november 20, 2020 put option because there is a chance what are you doing, phil . So, obviously the loss of life is tragic here. Right. And we came into the year bracing for the potential of a 5 to 8 air pocket during the first half of the year, and were basically there. So, monday after we were down 5 from the top we put 1 to work we took our equity over weight up from 5 to 6 we elevated domestic large cap growth which had been neutral. We took that to overweight those stocks are down 15 to 20 here over the last couple of weeks. The next move down we think is the 200day moving average, about 2 below where we are here were prepared to probably put another percent to work there. So were going to keep scaling in, i think, lower because our view is that as we look at the trajectory of this, as tragic as it is, we look at what happened with sars, the bird flu, et cetera if youre right, why isnt the market discounting this more because the market doesnt know we dont know. Theres absolute uncertainty here one of the things that gives us a little bit of confident here, joe, im going to bring you in, gilead and moderna, theyre in clinicals in terms of compounds theyre working on we hear we may have good news in a couple months. Their putical icallicall icio do something quicker than a vaccine. We were just talking about whether we would even i mean, to try to figure out the economic effects of even a small outbreak is hard to do. Right. You dont have to assume we have it you dont have to assume we have a huge Outbreak Health clubs what do you do with health clubs . I would stop going probably. Movie theaters. Thats why you saw ymc selloffs. Think about it, it doesnt matter as far as the death goes, we know what the influenza president made that point last night, people die from that and were nowhere near that globally yet. If youre going to hold those puts, kevin, its nice to have protection but you dont want to be nice to take profits, too or else they didnt do you any good on the way down. You never cover. I would cover the puts if theres noteworthy drop on march 4th, for example but well have to look at the magnitude of that drop. Youre doing the election thing again. Its not coronavirus related. Yeah, look, i think if were talking exclusively about the coronavirus, joe, i think its time to start stepping in. I agree with your other guest. I think, however, thatting a aggravating due to the coronavirus could be this political component of a market that really has been utterly complacent about the risk of a candidate that is going to aggressively go after technology, energy, health care and banks. Okay. Excellent, kevin phil, Pretty Simple what youre saying, ease in as it goes down. Were struggling as we know more and try to monitor the trajectory of this as we go down. Down almost 10 if the futures were to open, less than 100 points more down 10 . I think 200moving day is around 30 or 40 on the s p we could be there in the next day or so. Phil, thanks. Earning just out from best buy the electronics earning 2. 90 share for Fourth Quarter, 15 cents better than expected. Revenue and Comparable Store sales beating forecast and its notable in another down market this morning that stock is up by 2. 2 when we come back, esg investing is a complete fraud. The Virgin Galactic chairman says its great marketing with a lot of sizzle but no stake is he right . Well debate this issue after the break. Before we head to that break, lets get a check on the markets again this morning dow futures at this point indicated down by 280 points take a decline of about 360 here to get us to down 2 s p futures indicated down 33. Quk x0. Aq off by 11 sawbo will be right back. Couple stocks to watch this morning, microsoft said it did not expect to meet Prior Guidance for its personal computing segment due to disruption in supply chain due to the coronavirus they will begin their own study of potential treatment for the coronavirus next month trying to become the first drug company to sell a medicine specifically designed to treat the virus. Stock has been strong for gilead on that prospect you know thats the tamaflu company. Its a pretty incredible i try to keep that in the house. I take it for everything gives you weird dreams, right . You hallucinate a little. Brings me back to college. Adjusted quarterly profit, 10 cents above consensus, for marriott, the chain revenue fell marriott said cannot fully estimate the impact at this point of the virus outbreak. Esg of course has become a buzz word on the street as Companies Face pressures from investors to be more transparent. On squawk box yesterday, though, Virgin Galactic chairman and social capital ceo Chamath Palihapitiya sounded off on the movement here is what he had to say. Egs, real or marketing . Its a complete proud. Complete fraud . Governance has been addressed. Thats useful, but this idea that youre going to get a stamp, listen, my supplier ive offset their carbon credits and now i understand mine. Its a joke. Its jargon. Joining us to discuss all of this is hal lambert and Christian Mccormick esg strategist im going to start with the esg strategist since its in your title and chamath called what youre doing, christian, a fraud. Well, it was certainly an interesting choice of words. And obviously Global Investors we would strongly disagree with that we think its a bit of a broadness mischaracterization and simplified antiquated view of what esg is take a step back, Global Investors like any asset manager, we have a fiduciary duty to our client our goal is to generate competitive returns for our clients. Esg has to play an Important Role or otherwise we wouldnt incorporate that for us, when you take a step back and ask, what exactly is esg . Esg is a set of data and a set of factors how are you researching those factors and applying those factors to different investment processes. When you look at what a modern company has become the growth of intangible assets, growth of intellectual plays, it begins to make more sense of why esg is important there and so we actually christian, i want hal to jump in i get the governance piece which is exactly what chamath is talking about. I applaud and get the leadership piece that so Many Companies are pursuing when it comes to climate and the other issues however, on their own, acting almost id owe sin catticly if you will its unclear whether they can make a genuine dent in the system so then the question becomes the cost to the company for that leadership and i just ask you whether its worth it it absolutely is worth it from the standpoint of generating those competitive returns. Again, when we engage with these companies, its not about bringing carrots were not meeting with Company Management we had about 448 different esgrelated Company Engagements with boards and executive management last year its about speaking their language its about here esg factors. Lets look at the isk reward characteristics of each of these factors and understands what play ascii role for your company as it pertains to the stock price. Positive benefit for our sustainability driven clients thats very important, but for us its much more of a Risk Mitigation tool. Hal what do you make obviously a number of companies in the past two months that have come out with very ambitious plans around climate, some have some are about investing in all sorts of new technologies, others about buying carbon offsets. Is that in your mind marketing or do you think that this is genuinely a financially important step well, no, i dont think its a financially important step in fact, i would say that esg is a fraud, but probably for different reason than what you heard yesterday. Its a fraud because its not better for shareholders. Its not better for stockholders look, jp morgan and Goldman Sachs both announced theyre not going to do lending in the arctic for drilling. How is that better for shareholders of jp morgan . It cant be. I was talking to the alaskan governor, he is upset. He recommendation they cut off to no longer do business with j. B. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Flip it around. I believe there are Pension Funds and other large investors who might not do business with jp morgan if they continued to operate and to continue to make loans for some of those similar projects, no well, i dont see that. Both ends of it. Well, they just did the ipo for aramco for saudi arabia. Doing one of the largest ipo ever in oil and gas. Oil and gas is the most important sector of the economy period you think the coronavirus is disrupting things imagine if the left got what they wanted, which is to cut off all funding for oil and gas and shut down fossil fuels, imagine what would happen to this country . You could walk in tomorrow if your Facebook Page isnt working. Thats fine. You walk in and your power doesnt work, you cant get gas at your car, the economy is going to shut down whats your reaction to that, christian . Its absolutely not about punishing a company for say what their Carbon Footprint is. I think hal raises interesting points were an asset manager we have to meet the needs of our clients from a fiduciary standpoint look at the announcement of black rock or the examples mentioned with jp morgan or Goldman Sachs they have to answer to their own shareholders as firms we have to answer to our clients. We think looking at esg factors for short, medium and long term Risk Assessment of a company is extremely important. And we have a lot of data. Thats fine i agree with what you can do what you want but jp morgan have a duty, its by law. I wouldnt be surprised if you dont see lawsuits happening now with shareholders on this stuff because, look, they have by law the duty to stockholders it was put into place in 1919. It was reaffirmed in 2010. The case law is very clear on this stockholders are who their primary responsibility is to not this global community. Hal, we have to invite you and christian back to continue this debate. The world does seem to be moving in all sorts of different drerkss including now moving more towards stake holders you have an interesting point about the legality of this very issue and i do imagine it will end up in courts at some point and see how that gets litigated. Thank you, both. Appreciate it. When we return, the cdc confirming the first possible Community Spread of the coronavirus in the United States we will talk about how the u. S. Will contain this outbreak the virus putting pressure on the travel business. Airlines are stepping up their response delta saying yesterday it will temporarily cut flights to and from south korea cut those flights by half. Hawaii airlines saying it will suspend its fivetimes Weekly Service between honolulu and seoul, south korea on monday Jetblue Airways says it will suspend cancel fees. 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The Company Warning it will miss revenue guidance for its personal Computing Unit that includes windows that was before the warning. Now the stock is down 10 lower just for the week and joining us right now is griffin Securities Software analyst and our guest host barry knapp. Just read whats there. Just read whats there were going to miss him but youre here. Hes gone. Nice to see you. You, too. Was this expected i imagine it must have been. They were prudent to say something. They have direct exposure through their Service Product they sell themselves and more so with their customers with windows pcs. They were prudent to not put a range on it because we cant know but we at least from our model can size the envelope of risk we know the size of the windows exposure its about 9 of revenue thats number one. Number two, we know that asia, if thats where the demand and production effects are concentrated is about a third of global pc demand so, we calculated that of the 3 billion quarterly revenues for windows oem, every 100 million hit to revenue if thats what happens would be a penny a share. Right. For surface, its a much lower margin product and smaller any way, it would be even less of an earnings impact per dollar of revenue impact. Are those sales that get put off or disappear well, they said in a release last night that they dont believe, and i spoke to them afterwards, this is a demand issue. Which seems intuitively right when you think about the demand for windows 7 refresh cycle. That is not going to go away given customers technological needs. So, when the pent up demand is met, thats the question but, right now, at least with this quarter, we can size what the deltas might be. We have the adobe ceo on yesterday. It doesnt matter for the china sales. Theyre getting ripped off adobe is really interesting we cover adobe. You raised your price coverage. That was a while ago. They were right because adobe has very little direct exposure to china remarkably small amount of revenue pay for. They have employees in china but given their size, they are not overly exposed to that market. And none of my companies has more than single digit percent exposure to china, even microsoft. You have done the models such that youre focussed mostly on asia what do your models look like if this really becomes global well, the stat that i gave before is from gardener, the Industry Research firm which published their 2019 pc shipment data from that we can see that a third of 201 shipments went to asia youre focussed on asia im saying of course but if it spreads its the same math for every 100 million of revenue delta of windows shipments, wherever it occurs, we can still figure out what the earnings per share impact would be i just highlighted asia because presumably thats where the center of gravity is for the time being. Thank you for coming. You bet. A lot more on squawk box this morning when we come back the feds new challenge, how coronavirus and low Interest Rates could force the fed to rethink its policy. Then a report on the first u. S. 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S p 500 would open off about 42 points and the nasdaq would open off about 143 points meantime, fed chairman jay powell is once again under pressure from the markets to take action. Just a few months after putting the fed on hold. Steve liesman joins us with his take on whats going on inside powells head. Good morning, andrew. Pressure is growing on the fed chairman to react to the mounting threat of the coronavirus for markets from former fed officials and of course from the president. This morning in the wall street journal, former fed governor kevin warsh writing, quote, the Federal Reserve should lead the Central Banks in taking immediate action the window to contain the virus inside china has long since closed the window to mitigate its effects on the Global Company remain open but not for long recalled for quarter rate cut and announcing it will do more if needed the fed that is. The president in his News Conference yesterday once again urging his fed chairman to reduce Interest Rates to negative territory. We should be paying the lowest Interest Rates. And when germany and other countries are paying negative rates, literally getting paid when they put out money, i mean, they borrow money and they get paid when it gets paid back. Who ever heard of this before, its the first i disagree with the fed. I think our fed made a terrible mistake. Powell also getting pressure from markets look at where they are pricing the fed funds today. March now you remember i have not been talking about march at all. It has been a low percentage probability. This morning, it is up to 49 . What was it before . 38, 32, 31, it was in the low 30s. I didnt have it on the screen before this is the first morning i had sort of march in play. Watching if that gets over the 50 line april, 78 for that first cut and now june, 58 for a second cut november, 52 for a third cut this year. The fed said its monitoring the virus and will make a change if there is a, quote, material reassessment of the outlook. With only a few rate cuts in his arsenal, powell faces a series of daunting questions. When to act and how much and whether cuts would even do much good in the face of a problem that at the moment, andrew, looks to be a supply problem from china hm. Thats all you got what is that i want to point out very quickly look at the dow futures right now, this decline of 373 points would put us in correction territory if we were to add this to the losses we have seen on the dow. Have you checked the s p im not sure what the numbers need to be but for the dow its 361 down and right now the dow is indicated by 367 points. S p future is off by 44. The nasdaq down by 50. Closing off hope springs eternal maybe jim brant is going to wonderful you bring him up. Jim grant is sitting with us here on set. Well talk more about what this all means. Jim, lets start with what steve was just talking about, kevin warshs oped suggesting the Central Banks need to coordinate and step in and cut rates. What do you think . We have the lowest rates the longest business expansion, the most leverage and the weakest Corporate Credit profile perhaps ever and im not certain what leverage would do to improve things would it hurt things in your estimation the trouble with all of this is we go from cycle to cycle with more intervention, more credit, more infusion of credit, more fragility corporate as long as were all doctors, the corporate immune system has been degraded through ten years of fabulous bull market but increasingly weak Balance Sheets so, im not sure what the cure for this is, but i think that a quarter point down the fed funds rate will not be material. What do you think the solution is . Or is there anything that can be done i think that solution is price discovery. One way of looking at the action today and yesterday and the day before is that we are on the value restoration project. Not all bad. Where are we in that process as far as youre concerned f were down 10 well, its a start. People wanted price discovery for ten years now, jim maybe one cut wouldnt help but you would acknowledge that the fed finally easing after the december route a couple years ago, two or three cuts did help at that point, did it not . It helped what . The stock market. I dont know. I dont know whether you might think its a illusory the market is at a set of new highs the economy didnt go into recession. How about this, kevin jay and President Trump, how about this that the fed offers to accommodate people who present collateral it will lend at a market rate of interest it will not force credit down the throat of the market it will activate the discount window that was the original plan for the fed. The fed was to provide seasonal accommodation for a conference as the market requested that through a discount window. Now we have for years and years been building this but we have an all season infusion of credit among other things to sustain the market in financing the eternally growing federal budget deficit. This whole repo business seeming so long ago was about prepping the markets to absorb more and more of this debt. Where does it stop can we is there anything to the case that you can make with inflation not really on the horizon that whats wrong with keeping the pedal to the medal and trying to grow as quick as you can. Well, whats wrong with keeping the credit pedal to the metal is it distorts judgment. The Financial Times had the headline, bunds are greek and italian debt theyre the bunds on steroids. From davos we heard davos is very esteemed chat, bald faced names say the Business Cycle is over i think that attitude has been building over the course of the long boom as it has been over the course of long bunds were extended in time and certainly in leverage and we are degraded in Corporate Credit quality. Were going to have to have some difficulties and so, this is part of life cycle of capitalism. Things go up things go down we correct what do corrections correct . They correct among other things the misallocation of resources that follows hard upon jim suppression of Interest Rates. Can you talk about this particular case here from people who normally would support a fed rate cut in the face of gathering weakness, im hearing an awful lot of resistance because of the particularity of this issue here, which is at the moment its a supply problem in china. And its hard for them to see through the normal channels the way a rate cut in the United States would bring additional supply over from china whats your take on that i think that this preoccupation with the fed, the reactive demand for the fed to do something is a species of magical thinking youre right the fed is not going to create the supply that is now missing from the chinese Manufacturing Sector its the plunge protection team, right . Well, its joe, i think theres a lot of smarts to that because theres a psychological impact. Thats what i was talking about. You would never do the wealth effect if you stabilize the stock market and you dont youre not down 2 trillion you feel better about it maybe. The tension between joe and jim right now i love what he says intellectually. You say its growing over ten years. Your point, joe, is why stop now . Now is not the time to price discovery. It might be one giant tenyear built on balsa wood. There are 14 trillion of securities priced to yield less than nothing. I know. And so as the president said, whats that about . But he wants more of it. I think that on reconsideration well look back and say those 14 trillion should not have been priced less than yield to nothing something funtd mentally distorted, degraded about credit and particular about sovereign debt but not only about sovereign debt. Powell, my take on him when he came into office is i think he wanted to break this. I think he did, too. I think powell is a conservative guy who wanted to go back to a day when the fed was less involved, less central and i think his you and him are in great agreement about how the markets provide this critical price discovery this is like a game 7 of the world series when all the people want to know the names of umpires. Tell us guy behind home plate, what is he like . Whats he thinking about so we have transferred our anxieties from the marketplace where they ought to be to the referees and to the rules makers please change the rules. Please infuse more credit so that we can get more leveraged i dont think it makes sense jim, i want to thank you for being here well have to have you back more to talk about this because the market, at least s betting that you are going to see some rate cuts. I dont doubt it. You dont doubt it. Jim, thank you. Jim grant, steve great to see you. Look at the s p 500, the dow and futures again this morning youll see that right now the dow is indicated to open down by 386 points if thats the case and if you add that to the losses we have seen over the last five sessions or so and the stock market, youll see that we would be down by about 10 we will be down by over 10 if we close at the levels that are indicated right now. 10 off the highs. S p is not quite at that level yet. You need to see down 69 points for the s p to officially be down 10 right now its indicated down by 47 points. Nasdaq is indicated down by 165 points watching this very closely, right now its time for a look at some of this mornings Market Movers for that we get to dom chu i want to point out we talked about Goldman Sachs saying u. S. Companies will generate no Earnings Growth in 2020 if the coronavirus becomes widespread i want to point out, thats not their base case. Goldman sachs says theyre reviseding their baseline earns per share estimates for u. S. Companies to 165 in 2020. Thats down from 174 so thats their base case. I dont think anybody would be. That is not the base case. The comparisons year over year are tough. Theyre still growing. You throw the coronavirus in there, it becomes uncertain. Thats probably the reason why you have seen the markets swing the way they have. And even today, so far in the premarket, theres been a 509 point trading range for the dow futures themselves so you can see as indicated down 400 points this has been the norm in premarket and regular trading over the past, maybe few days a in the point. So that volatility may be foreshadowed a bit even more with that futures picture. Of course that, of course, is just one of the big story lines were watching here. There are company stories that are still driving some of the action today and they are perhaps id owe sin cattic but still maybe caught up in the sell off as well well start with the big Earnings Report so far today we have best buy down. 5 or so, roughly 35,000 shares of volume. The company out with better than expected profits and sales it was even better with Comparable Store sales that that sales growth at preexisting store locations. It does see a Business Impact from the coronavirus but that it should be relatively shortterm. I should note by the way best buy was positive earlier on and just swung to a loss next up you have shares of gilead up 6 premarket there roughly 500,000 shares of volume the drug maker said it started two later stage studies of one of the antiviral drugs and its effects on patients with the coronavirus. That drug in Clinical Trials in china. That news driving shares higher. End on shares of Virgin Galactic, down about 14 right now, roughly 260,000 shares of premarket volume the Space Travel Company not being helped by analysts including those at Credit Suisse both Companies Moving to the equivalent of a neutral rating siting among other things the recent runup in the stock. Its well off the highs from just last week but still up 150 Virgin Galactic stocks to watch there. Best buy the big earnings story. Back over to you. Virgin galactica. 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That mean, of course, it could be the first instance of socalled Community Transmission in the United States Health Authorities have begun tracing that persons contacts the university of california Davis Medical Center in sacramento saying its treating the patient who was transferred from another Northern California hospital the news came the same day Germanys Health minister said that country was at the beginning of an epidemic with chains of transmission that could no longer be traced. The virus spread to 47 other countries. Saying new cases the world is reacting in japan, all schools will be closed through march as case numbers approach 200 in iran, with 245 infected and 26 dead, friday prayers cancelled. South korea, case numbers soaring to more than 1700. Joe . Meg, thanks for more on preparing for the coronavirus, were joined by michael, director of the university of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease research and policy and chris meekens, former hhs Deputy Assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Trump Administration he is now Washington Health policy director with raymond james. Thanks for joining us. Michael, let me start with you so we have seen these breakouts that you cant immediately point to, to where it came from a lot of places in south korea and in europe and iran and elsewhere and maybe here now so, its not a huge jump to say that it will be here at some point. Is it . Should we be surprised at that or should the probability is what 90 at least, more than that yeah. First of all the world just has to wake up to the fact that were the middle of a coronavirus pandemic this is a worldwide epidemic of this virus even here in the United States, we have this one case that even is focussing on, but we failed to miss is the fact that the cdc because of a problem in getting their test reagents out to the local labs we hardly tested anyone and so here the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I think we have much more robust transmission going on in this country right now that we just havent picked up. This is happening in countries around the world as you heard from meg, its already now in 47 countries confirmed. And i suspect its in many, many more than that that will be confirmed in the days ahead. What china has been able to do, a, do you believe that they slowed the spread and its down in the less than 100,000 or do you believe you dont believe those numbers at this point . And is it possible oh no sit possible for other countries to slow the spread to the point where by maybe summer it peters out . Or thats too much to hope for well, first of all, again, you have to interpret whats happened in china. Remember, they just put in place the most extreme limitations on Human Movement we cant do that. Any modern government has done its not only that, but once those are released and people go back to work, subways again are filled, trains are filled, public spaces are filled, im certain were going to see a major resurgence in china. Please dont interpret whats happened today as meaning that the kind of stopping of cases as we have seen them will continue once the Population Movement restrictions are removed its going to come back. Chris, is there a reason to think that if it does become a pandemic it would be a log rhythmically worse than a flu season or similar to a nasty flu season are we sure it would be much, much worse, chris . I mean, i dont think we can be sure it will be much, much worse because the response from the u. S. Government is going to be much, much different. And in an Election Year which is where we are, youre going to have a president and local elected officials that are going to try to probably shut things down so, as was just reported, you have japan saying were going to basically not have school for the month of march it sounds like and the widespread outbreaks in cities and regions, the u. S. People are going to self quarantine and take steps to make sure you dont see the spread you would see from the normal seasonal flu. And however, this virus is more deadly than the normal seasonal flu, probably ten times more deadly and hospitalizations are likely to get higher i agree with everything your other guests said and this will get worse before it gets better. How do you get ten times more deadly so right now seasonal flu is 0. 1 fatality rate and we believe personally base on my conversations with government officials and other consultants who have done work in china is that the fatality rate is probably around 1 for the coronavirus. Thats ten times. We dont know that because we dont know how many people have mild cases that was my point. You said you personally feel but personally feel is not necessarily that its absolutely 1 . Well, yeah, joe thats not true why is that not true, michael . Let me jump in here theres actually been some very good work done in china. And i have to give the chinese cdc credit for that. And as your other guest is stating here, this is exactly right. About 80 of the cases are mild to asymptomatic, but the problem is the 20 that actually have severe illness and fatal illness up to 2 is very, very different than what we would see with flu. Dont forget in 1918 with the severe influenza pandemic then the case of fatality was 3. 35 so were somewhere between that and a really bad flu year. Right. But the only point i was making, at the same time youre saying that the number of cases is much greater than we know about, youre still using the number of cases as the denominator for mortality. Thats my point. No, not in china. Not in china they havent tested not in china. You think in china its exactly 80,000 people have it . No, no. The study is looking at the hospitals, the severity of cases the Population Based studies 08 have mild and 20 have bad illness. Theres not a big deviation all right. Thats pretty scary. Obviously. Thank you both for being with us isorng. Dow futures down 400 points. Well be back talking more about that in just a moment. We cant calculate our total taxes . Do you realize how many otal different taxes we pay . Sales tax, different pos systems in all seven countries. And online sales . 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Futures under pressure once again on fears of coronavirus. President trump calling for calm but so far wall street not getting the message. U. S. Companies starting to fill in some of the blanks on how the virus will affect their business microsoft, booking holdings and marriott the latest firms to update investors. And the evolving impact to one of the First Industries to fill the virus impact, the airlines what you need to know for your portfolio is coming up the final hour of squawk box begins right now good morning and welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Live from the Nasdaq Market site in times square im joe kernen along with becky quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin the futures are down more than 400 on the dow, some of the worst levels we have seen. Goldman sachs making some comments about what the earnings will look like if it does become a much more serious in the United States saying 0 Earnings Growth. If it spreads but thats not the base case. We should emphasize that is not the base case. Theyre wear earning to 165 from 174. Right the s p indicated down about 46 and the nasdaq indicated down 168. We have been checking the treasury yield curve as well the tenyear was at some new low, thats even lower, the yield. 1. 276 ive never seen numbers like that before and put your money away for 30 years and get 1. 75 but its positive. We have that going for us in this country which is nice. Meantime, were going to start this hour with an update on the coronavirus south korean media now saying there are more than 500 new cases confirmed cases in the country just today thats the sharpest daily spike there yet and higher than the number of new cases in china more than 400 people have been sick in italy. French president Emmanuel Macron called the virus an epidemic on the way. New cases in denmark and estonia saw their first case in america, the cdc says theyre not sure how an individual in california got the virus the person didnt have a relevant travel history or expo sure to a patient. The virus is spreading in the United States community could be a sign President Trump updated the nation and took questions on the coronavirus and eamon javers was there and asked one of them. We join him now in washington. Good morning, andrew. The news out of that press conference last night was that the president is appointing the Vice President , mike pence, to be the head of virus response in the United States. That escalates the administrations response from the task force that had been in place for the previous several weeks. The president also said hell go along with democrats on capitol hill who proposed billions of dollars in more additional funding than the president has even requested in terms of virus response here is what he said weve been working with the hill very, very carefully, very strongly and i think we have very good bipartisan spirit for money. We were asking for 2. 5 billion and we think thats a lot. But the democrats and, i guess, senator schumer wants us to have much more than that. And normally in life i would say well take it. Well take it. If they want to give more, well do more. Were going to spend whatever is appropriate. And as the president took to the Briefing Room podium last night, the dow was down more than 2,000 points for the week the president sought to offer an optimistic take on the Market Action that we have seen in response to the virus as well. I think the stock market will recover. The economy is very strong the consumer is the strongest its ever been our consumers are incredible thats why were doing well and other countries have not, even before the virus, were doing great. Other countries have not been doing great. Our consumer is very, very strong and very powerful economically and andrew, when i asked the president about that 2,000 point slump in the dow and whether markets are overreacting to the virus, the president suggested that a big part of the reason in his view for this market slump is actually the democratic debates that have been going on around the country over the past week or so the president suggesting thats a big factor here. I pressed him on that and he did acknowledge that the virus plays a role here, but this is clearly a president who is looking for other reasons for this dow slump we have seen this week, andrew. Okay. Eamon javers, thank you so much for that report. You bet. Meantime, were going to talk more about the impact of the virus on companies and particular on investors and note just this morning david costen of Goldman Sachs updating his earnings model to incorporate the likelihood that the virus becomes widespread and says u. S. Companies will generate no Earnings Growth in 2020. Earlier this week the wall street journal had its own article titled fear of coronavirus rather than virus itself hits economies and greg joins us right now were also joined on the set by cnbc senior markets commentator mike santoli great to see you help us understand i dont know if you got a chance to look at what Goldman Sachs has out this morning does that make sense to you . You know the numbers sound about right. I think at the end of the day what were still talking about, andrew s not a demand chalk, typical recession. Its a supply shock. We have seen this before albee it this is large we have seen it with 9 11 and katrina. The Way Investors have to think about this is at some point the epidemic will be contained and life will go back to normal. I would argue whatever the world looked like before it began will be very similar. So thats the kind of scenario you have to build into your assumptions about whats the appropriate level for stocks and so on. But right now what people are responding to is a sheer uncertainty. We dont know how far it will spread and even more so we dont know what the Authority Response will be the public authorities and the public theres always a tendency to take to ere on the side of caution on these kinds of events and economic harm is considerably out of proportion to the scale of what we know about the disease. Thats not much comfort right now. But eventually it will pass. Okay. So mike, play up the numbers were down by 10 . Were now genuine recession territory, right the markets in a correction you would not say the market is pricing recession. Correction territory. Not recession. Correction territory. Were basically look, the dow is back to january 2018 levels right . You have gone i think the issue is that the market was priced before all this hit to perfection. Something close to a very good scenario and you needed the Earnings Growth and you needed the consumer to reaccelerate or companies to reaccelerate spending in order to really support where the broad market stood. So thats the adjustment thats going on i dont think that this is the kind of market episode where were going to say, theres a particular headline or particular policy that gets imposed or particular bill that gets passed or some cresting of new cases that thats what were looking for. Were looking for the market to finish the panic phase and get so out of whack and discount dire scenario in the shortterm to the point where it all of a sudden finds what duds that look like . It might look like what were seeing right now i want to talk about whether we should start to think that Business Activity is going to be dampened globally to the extent where we have zero growth and that would qualify as a recession. Theres some people that you can assume that at this point. This is a recessionary event potentially. I think what we people call a nominal recession. When the world grows below 3 , that, the world, not the u. S. You think we could see 0 we talked about movies, restaurant, travel, planes, health clubs. Thats a radical, many economies going. China is in this weird position. Were not priced for anything like that, put it that way. Xi is saying go back to work and doesnt look like a great idea for people to go back to work they are walking this weird line where theyre starting to look at Economic Activity and be very disturbed by it and starting to potentially send people back to work before you should. I think the market is right now and where the Economic Outlook is moving toward is that the first half of this year is messy and theres probably not a lot of Earnings Growth, if any and we have were going to probably see a lot of curtailing first half. First half i think. We had some say 0 in china and 15 next quarter people saying that the snapback you could get back everything you lost. Gregs point, even if you have relatively decent containmenttype dynamics in the shortterm, theeconomic response in advance of that or to try to bring that about is what we have to think about. If i could point out the economic response is unprecedented. China shut down one of its busiest industrial provinces 60 Million People completely. I dont know if theres any precedent for that i mean, they had an earthquake that killed 70,000 people. Thats 35 times as many have died of this virus right now it didnt have that kind of growth effect. I dont think the United States has ever shut down all travel to another country the way its done with china. Im not saying these are excessive responses. All im saying is we are watching both the public and the authorities respond, you know, very much on the side of excessive caution. That just means to say you have to sort of keep things in perspective. At some point the measures will work theyve worked in china. Were still bracing for the bad news one of your guests said, absence of evidence isnt evidence of absence. The diagnostic evidence is still catching up with the presence of the disease out there will create a lot of headlines. Thats going to be very rough on investors nerves. But actually tuv this into a recession two negative quarters of gdp growth, you need effects quite a bit larger than what were forecasting now. Earnings will be roughed up, no question greg, very quickly, what do you think of the ten year and where its trading right now 1. 2 and change. Its kind of weird. People are expecting action from the Federal Reserve. I wouldnt be surprised if that comes. I think the thing i need to point out to people now is the fed is not going to save you from this. The fed knows that this is a supply shock the fed cant cure or this reminds me a lot of 9 11 the market sold off way more than people just stopped going shopping the airlines were all shut down. This was the fed did cut rates but nobody kidded themselves for a minute that the solution to the problem was the fed cutting rates. It was for the authorities to assure us there would not be another terrorist attack the same story here. The fed can attenewuate but this in turns around once the authorities convinced the public that the problem is containable. How much was the market down after 9 11 the marktd was in a bear market, it went down 7 on the first opening, reopening of the market it bottomed a few days later and went up 20 . Now, it wasnt the end of the ultimate bear market but i think the key to that and to gregs point is that didnt happen when we solved terrorism or won the war the market tries to basically say, okay, we priced in enough change of behavior we can move on from there. One last thing, there was a weakening trend in the economy before that and there has been a weakening trend in some things look, were heading into a recordlength bull market. So this thing is hitting at a time when you could have made the argument that some kind of pullback was in the works any way. Thanks, guys. Good to see you. All right. Coming up, prepping in response to the coronavirus from one of the front line industries, the Airline Industry a conversation for investors travel is next bring your purell. Leave the seat back up dont touch anything head to break, take a look at shares of microsoft. Dont keep punching if the person puts it back. Actually maybe you should. Get that away. The company said it didnt expect to meet Prior Guidance for its personal computing segment, the one that makes windows due to supply Chain Disruptions related to the coronavirus. Stay tuned youre watching squawk box on cnbc i see awardwinning service, and a trade desk full of experts, available to answer your toughest questions. And i see it with zero commissions on online trades. I like what youre seeing. Its beautiful, isnt it . Yeah. Td ameritrade now offers zero commissions on online trades. We sunleashing the promisegas of clean energy. At emerson, when issues become inspiration, creating a better world isnt just a result, its a responsibility. Emerson. Consider it solved. Welcome back to squawk box. Take a look at futures this morning. We are in the red. Youre looking at the dow looking like it would open down 390 points right about now s p 500 off about 45 points and the nasdaq looking to open down about 162 points joe . Coronavirus fears already taking a big toll on the Airline Industry, as you can imagine, both foreign and domestic. The nysc index is down more than 15 just this week on pace for its worst week since march of 2009. Just this morning, analysts at bucking ham downgraded united airlines, jet blue, Spirit Airlines and american. President trump, in fact, commented directly on the impact on the travel industry in the News Conference last night in the process making a pitch for local vacations by american citizens. Right now i think probably not going to be going to china theyre not going to be going to certain countries where the problem is far greater than it is in the United States. What its going to do is keep people home. And theyre going to travel to places that we have. We have the greatest its the greatest tourism country in the world. Instead of leaving our country, leaving our shores, theyll stay here get to phil lebeau right now with more on the impact on global air carriers. I didnt think about boeing. Insult to injury, right, phil . Yeah. And joe, were going to start first off with the European Airlines and then were going to transition to the u. S. Airlines as you mentioned how bucking ham today downgrading the seven carriers all down to neutral but in terms of European Airlines theyre getting whack and that might be a sign of whats to come in terms of the u. S. Carriers and how theyre handling the coronavirus if it spreads. First off, lufthansa, theyre seeing if they can move some of the workers to parttime status, all in an effort to cut their costs. Also, klm, another one, the Parent Airline of air france and if you look at what these guys are doing here, same thing reducing hiring due to slower business in terms of the u. S. Carriers and their exposure to europe, strictly in terms of seats in the Second Quarter, this is the estimate according to raymond james. American and united 17 of their seats worldwide going over to europe in the Second Quarter delta at 20 speaking of delta, it has issued waivers for flights to certain areas in northern italy. In other words, if youre scheduled to go to milan, you wanted to cancel it or have to cancel it because some event is no longer happening, theyre going to accommodate that. Take a look at shares of american all the way back to the ipo back in 2013 when it came out of bankruptcy its now well below that, down at 2050 premarket, could go below 20 a share. It opened up at 23 ipo back in 2013 finally jetblue, i think well see more of this here, guys, jetblue is waiving change fees or cancellation fees for all flights here in the United States through march 11th. Guys, thats an indication of where i think the industry is headed dont be surprised if we see this from other carriers as well because increasingly people are saying, i dont know i dont know if my family wants to go somewhere given the coronavirus or im a Corporate Customer and a particular event has been cancelled phil, thank you stick around for this. Lets bring in an airline voice. Joining us now for that is dennis taser, Communications Committee chairman of the allied Pilots Association hes also a pilot himself. Dennis, you just heard what phil said about what American Consumers are thinking what are your pilots think about whether they want to be flying well, theyre very concerned. We have pilots right now looking at carekorea, some pilots said theyre not comfortable flying there and engaged with our Company Getting our latest information from there its not lost just like in china and hong kong, cdc has it at its highest level, restricting nonessential travel be reconsidered and also, even the military has ceased its joint exercises with the south koreans. So, its all of these bits of energy that remind us of the path we had with china to include hong kong. So, whats unique is theyre asking questions whether or not its safe. And theyre going further because if something happens with them, pilots are unique, we can lose our license if we have a medical condition and others may work through at american, we dont have a safety net like they do at delta. And, thats a call for concern for our pilots beyond just our passengers safety what do you mean the safety net that delta has that american does not well, basically if a pilot loses his license, say a respiratory issue from this, youre going to lose your license. Youre going to lose most of your income, its going to be offset at delta, they keep you at a very high level. Youre not going to have to sell your house, pull your kids out of college these are more parochial interests for our pie lots but the number one interest the the safety of our passengers and containing this virus. That is the key component of this so even if you get sick on the job, they wouldnt cover you we have a very, very anemic plan its from the bankruptcy so, these were all features that add up to do you have my back . And if you dont, its going to cause me to hesitate my decision for our families this is all after we determine whether or not its safe in general for our passengers dennis, can i just go back on that if you get injure od or sick on the job, normally Workers Compensation would take care of that you dont have that american we do its a very thin program you can get into a situation where youre down 75 off of what you expect to be your income it has a dramatic life shifting event for our pilots whether its this virus or anything thats more of an internal issue, but its very important when you come to the conclusion whether your company has your back or not. Thats a huge concern. Delta made an interesting announcement for Health Concerns were reducing our flights to korea. Doesnt mean theyre stopping. If theres Health Concerns thats the same thing i thought when i heard that. If its a concern, you stop. You dont cut the frequency. Absolutely. So were and we made this decision in hong kong and china. We dont feel its safe, well make an aggregate decision to not fly there. Were not there yet, but were challenging all the information streaming on your program you talk about the conflicting information. Even our own ceo just in the beginning of february had a doctor on saying this doesnt spread easily. We know a lot about it no, you dont. And thats why were going to call into question just like with do with the max and boeing, just show us and well make a decision based on the information we have. Thats sound. What do you think when you hear about the first case that is not travel related being a community issued situation in california, do you think that youre going to get to the point where you wont want to fly in the United States no. Absolutely not this is a very serious issue, but weve been through challenges like this and President Trump made a Bold Decision to help contain this. Were looking for that same kind of leadership in other areas so, we dont want to be the vessel for this virus. We want to be the industry that assists in containing it and sometimes i hate to reference the green tie but sometimes you have to put on a green tie and do the right thing and contain this so, thats are you talking about andrews green tie what green tie are you talking about . Yeah, i am. Sorry. I am dennis, you have been watching since early this morning. Thank you thank you so very much [ laughter ]. I feel fashionable. I like that tie. Do you . I do. Its a mistake those viewers not with us earlier, its not my regular m. O. It doesnt look like andrew we oftentimes have ties lying around. How did you forget your tie youre a professional. I wish i was a professional dennis, thanks for your time. Thanks for watching, too. Thats nice. Give us an update soon. 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As president , hell build on obamacare, cap medical costs, and will always protect a womans right to choose. Mike bloomberg a record on Health Care Nobody can argue about. Mike im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Welcome back to squawk box. Rick santelli here live on the floor of the cme group with breaking news. Our second look at Fourth Quarter gdp. Last look was up 2. 1 same as new look 2. 1. So our Second Time Around unchanged. On consumption, 1. 7. We lost a tenth but we expected that from last look 1. 8. Price index, 1. 3, also a tenth cooler personal Consumption Expenditure but this is a core quarter over quarter up 1. 2 durable goods orders january, preliminary read which means it disappears at the end of the month is better than expected. But still couldnt lose the negative sign. Were expecting down 1. 5 . It is now down. 2 of 1 . And here is some good news, our final read on last month upgraded by half a percent from 2. 4 to 2. 9 extransportation headline is up. Solid number look at capital goods numbers, proxy for Capital Investment and spending, we always like that number to be as positive as possible its up 1. 1. And last look at down. 8 revised to only down. 5. All very good news if we look at shipments instead of orders, thats up 1. 9 were looking for unchanged. Also solid with a positive revision finally, initial jobless claims are up excuse me, up 8,211 was the refused look from last week which was up 1,000 from 2010 we move from 2011 and 8 equal 219,000 and continuing claims move down just a smidge from 1. 733 million to 1. 72. 5 million. And we see 127 on tenyear note yields, psychologically 1 1 4 will have some significance but not nearly that we continue to stay guns hot along the treasury yield, short maturities are guns hot with lower yields for the cycle. We now currently see under 110 and 2year note yields 10s and 20s steepen because the ice is thinner on the long end and of course we still have pending home sales listen, im not a doctor cant tell you all the specifics of coronavirus but i can tell you this, the markets overcompensating im not mdismissing it. At some point well turn it into a v on the right side. At least my opinion. Becky, back to you. Rick, thank you very much. Steve liesman joins us right now. What do you think, steve you know, becky, i know you wanted to kill the ratings by saying none of this data matters because its all old. Truth in advertising. I know. I know and you are always accurate in your comments. But ill say this, its good to know going into what were going to go through which is all of this girations in the data i think ultimately it stands in a pretty decent place. Claims up a little bit but still at a low level the durables bounce back im watching yet but not ready to declare, remember, we have the resolution of some of the trade tensions in december, i think its early for january to show that bounceback in the investment spending, but its something i want to watch over time. Especially whats happening with coronavirus but its good to know. I will concede the point that you want to know how far we have fallen so you need to know the accurate numbers going into it. I am very confused and i dont think im going to resolve this on set here we have the surge in nondefense aircraft and parts thats the thing i would think would be falling pretty precipitously because of the shutdown of the boeing 737 max it could be some kind of strange timing think of when it was counted in the last month, but thats a part of the thats a reason for i think the overperformance in the top line number its something thats going to go down. Were going to face lets count it up, several things in the next couple months we have boeing impact on the economy. Estimated to be half a point thats going to add to that v if and when boeing starts shipping that 737 max and now we have the coronavirus. Which we know is going to be some form already of a supply hit from china and thats going to have some impact at the moment estimated in tenths of a point its a First Quarter phenomenon with a rebound in the Second Quarter the question as to when. I had not thought of boeing and putting it into this context but probably much less urgent they get those planes back ready to go for the airlines that are watching collapses. Ago that led me to do the story. Forget that. Forget that. Forget that. Look at this number down here. Right. And thats, by the way, when we talked about the issues for the Federal Reserve, its a huge issue for them how much do they look through and see these are temporary items and how much do they say these are permanent. By the way, one more factoid is that i had the march number, remember i came in an hour ago, at 48 for probability it was now for rate cut. For rate cut at 58 in just that hour. As the ten year has come down, sympathetic move is that they go in and buy these fed fund futures. Where is the ten year right now, 1. 277. 1. 277 was the last i saw. I can call that up. But im more interested in seeing the probabilities again here we go. On the screen for us 1. 277. 63 the importance here is the market is forcing the feds hands. Theyre now going into this meeting expecting a cut. With just a couple weeks away expecting a cut and now we have to hear from the fed chairman before the blackout window to set those expectations rightly or wrongly. Excellent point, steve. Thank you. Thank you, steve. Stick around want to bring another voice to talk about u. S. Growth and the potential impact of the coronavirus. Joining us is Allison Schrager we can talk about these numbers or we can say these numbers are out of date. What do you think . I dont think theyre totally out of date. I think steve brings up a good point in that you have a supply shock. You dont know how its going to play out but you want to look at how resilient are you to handling that shock. And the fact that, you know, were going into it fairly strong is a good sign. Goldman sachs also out with a report this morning suggesting there could be zero growth this year for the whole year. Thats their expectation. In corporate earnings. In corporate earnings not in gdp. If, if, if it were to spread widely that by the way is not their baseline scenario. I think everything is on the table when youre looking at how a shock plays out, theres a whole range of things that could happen thats possible i dont know if its probable. What is probable in your mind i think definitely gdp will be a lot lower this quarter. Right like what . I dont know if its going to be the full bases points drop they have expected but probably definitely going to be lower, maybe definitely less than 2 . But it depends on how its unknowable how long this will play out for and how deep its going to be. A lot of people are expecting the vshaped recovery afterwards, that could be second part of the year we dont know. If youre jay powell, what do you think he should do well, i dont know what he should do but hes most likely going to cut rates he tends to be risk averse steve, do you think thats is there something he could say before doing anything . I think meaning i think jay powell does not want to cut rates here. Right especially in response to the market i think he doesnt want to have his hand forced by the market. Right. I think he felt like he was perhaps in control for a bit because he had engineered this hold from the rate cuts. Right. And i thought he thinks hes in a good place both the economy and Monetary Policy relative to the economy. I think he would like to see before he moved some real data that backed up the idea for a move that didnt seem like he was reacting now, the idea of acting preemptively when you have when youre close to the zero rate number is pretty well established, i think, allison, in current post financial crisis Monetary Policy thinking when you aint got a lot of bullets use them early and i think powell probably subscribes to that idea. There is this outstanding question in my mind which is beyond i would call it a placebo effect, but its a little understated of a fed rate cut. How do fed rate cuts, maybe allison, you want to take on this question, solve the supply problem coming from china. They dont. I think the way to think about it again is recessions are low growth comes from external shocks. Right. All the fed can do is take the edge off of that the concern is i think one thing theyre probably going to debate is if we cut rates now and this thing gets a lot worse, will we have less ammunition to deal with that. What do you think the answer is i think its tough. They dont cut rate and the markets fall, where is the fed here it could get worse. Whats the breaking point i think it depends on how markets play out were going to know a lot more couple weeks how infectious this is with the mortality rates are and how well governments are containing it. Well know before then. Allison, you have written a book, an economist walks into a brothel. What happens thats the name of the book. What . Way to catch attention what happens . Well, its the same thing how do different markets price risk and whats the risk premium on sex or risk premium now the whole premise of the book is how Financial Markets price risk is the same everywhere the risk premium with the coronavirus can we get an up close shot of joes face right now . The smirk of all smirks. No. Im just weighing the upside to a comment and the downside whats the risk i do a lot. Whats the risk of the comment . The coronavirus walk into a brothel just went up yes, that would be true that would be true but, joe, i think your comment was maybe go ahead. No, no im thinking. Hes learned. Allison, we appreciate you being here ill tweet it out. Thank you you know what, we would accept twitter answers if theyre funny, i think thats a good one you can read them later. An economist walks into a brothel and then do you have any type of joke or anything for that no. Well get some. Well get some. That would be great hey, its your book any way, thank you my pleasure. You knew that about that. About the book . Thats why he sat down we have to talk about your book. I have known from the americc Association Annual conference and we have been talking about issues like this for a while. Thats a good title for an economics book. Three economists walk into a brothel. One does xy and z. Exactly. Do you know what theyre saying in our ear right now, move on. Please, move on. Thanks for coming in, allison. We appreciate it. In the meantime, research out with an upgrade of dow component 3m, calling it a coronavirus hedge. 3m, of course is the largest u. S. Supplier of n 95 respirator masks recommended for use in protection against the coronavirus. Joining us right now on the squawk nudesline is scott davis the chairman upgrading 3m with 205 price target scott, i get your logic on this. But when i go online and try to buy any of these things or look on any of the stores, walmart. Com or anywhere else, you cant find that he has how will 3m capitalize on this i think theyll sell for a long time. It will take years, certainly quarters, but i would say years to really catch up to the supply thats needed. And you know in the meantime youre making a lot of money on these things i just saw them on walmart. Com at 60 a piece. I see it on amazon 120 bucks for these things those are from third party sellers. I dont think theyre going to price gouge people to that extent, no but i think theyre going to make money on these things for a long time. I dont think this is just one week, one month issue. I mean, you need to restock supplies for it will take quite some time. We need 300 Million Masks in american alone just in the hospitals let alone personal use. How big of a part of the revenue or their earnings is masks for a company like 3m that has so many different products. Its probably bigger than you think. The category itself is probably close to a billion dollars if you look at n95 its probably smaller, couple money million but that could go up 10x easily. Your compare is back to 2002 with sars. 3m outperformed by a massive amount from 2003 to 2004 so, theres some precedence. You know, you start breaking down trying to figure out how long it will take them to make more where do they manufacture these things and can they actually ramp up production well, they make them everywhere you can ramp up production it takes time. But you go from making, you know, lesser filtration mask to higher filtration mask and over time youll be able to ramp up same with honeywell. You have a supply of these things i have none i dont have any, becky, i wish i had some. Lets talk very seriously your upgrade gets you to what . Do you have a price target youre also putting out with this stock is at 150. 250 stock, not long ago. But you think thats solely because of the masks or other things the company is doing, too . Its other. Its macro things are going to get better this isnt going to last forever, i hope. Does it seem kind of weird like if things are going to get better on a macro level, that seems like the demand for the masks might die off more rapidly. Its like a catch 22, right . Maybe you got to restock supply. Okay. Scott, i want to thank you for your time today. Good talking to you. You too, becky. None of this is funny any way, coming up, im waiting. Coming up, the technical signals investors need to watch as we approach the opening bell on wall street. Two sectors bookending u. S. Market performance and two health care names to keep an eye on as we head to break, take a look at the shares of Bio Tech Company moderna. 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We have been watching the futures this morning and thats been fairly ominous. The dow futures indicated down by 356 points. If you were to add those potential declines to the losses we have seen racked up over the last five to six sessions, that gets you down to 10 you are talking about correction 361 is what you need. Were almost there s p futures a few points off, i think you down 64 to be down by 10 . Nasdaq is down by 158 points or indicated down by 159 points this morning thats after the nasdaq has been down 8. 5 over off of its alltime high that was hit back on february 19th, i think. Youre almost a correction territory for both the dow and the s p 500 if they were to close at the levels they were just about indicated now not quite for the nasdaq, but again, long time to go before the opening bell and then the closing bell after that. Just under an hour until the opening bell on wall street. Dominic chu has a look at the big call Goldman Sachs put out this morning hey, dom. We were talking about the call earlier this last hour with regard to gold maps call 0 potential earning growth lets put the s p 500 up here first. One of the things we want to know is that goldman, and this is david costa the chief strategist and his team at goldman are now forecasting a yearend target of around 3,400 for the s p 500, factoring in a number of things like bond yields, earnings yields, that sort of thing. By the way, thats important because that pretty much puts us at year end just around where the record highs were that we saw earlier this year. However, they said in the nearterm, in the next few mont down to around the 2,900 area, which is where we were bumping around last fall to last summer. So again, some volatility there. Now, whats driving that particular call, they made some observations with regard to what theyre thinking you take a look at the Earnings Growth picture that was the real headline we took away from this. We have a scenario where earnings model has been updated to reflect the widespread coronavirus. The earnings per share for the s p goes to 165 in 2020 it was 174 before the reason why thats important is because that does then represent 0 Earnings Growth over the same time last year the other thing you want to watch is the 2021 estimate goes to 175, it was 183 thats a 6 growth rate. As for the playbook, guys, this is what theyre saying theyre saying real estate gets upgraded to overweight it was neutral utilities gets upgraded to a neutral, it was a sell or underweight. Also cyclicals downgraded to neutral. Financials downgraded to an outright underweight the reason why, that slowing Economic Situation there if you talk about the earnings picture, this is the playbook. Thats the reason that goldman call is getting a lot of attention this morning, joe. Ill send things back over to you. But as you point out, its if it gets bad, i guess, or worse. Obviously its assumptions driven i would say this, in the note they do with their target forecasts assume the 10year goes to 1 and drives the market down to 2,900 and it rebounds to 1. 5 by the end of the year. Okay. Not that far, are we it used to be 30 basis points was nothing but now its like a third of the entire of the total. Thanks, dom. The dow is now down close to 9 from its record high set earlier this month im not sure if that includes todays move or not. Those are the declines just in the last week. The dow dropping more than 2,000 points in the last three sessions lets ask what could be ahead, taking a look at the technical aspects of things with robert slammer, managing director at fundstrat Global Advisor short term lets look at the daily chart on the s p weve done a lot of damage on a lot of charts across the board if we take a look at the s p on a daily basis, were coming right into that 200day moving average which i think a lot of people are focused on. Thats roughly at the upper ending of that trading range that we saw back in q3 and q4 n theory theres a lot of support 3060. 3060, 3000. I think 60 points isnt that much actually. Weve actually retraced, if you look from the q4 lows here, were right in that 62 retracement level. That tends to be a level markets bounce from. We dont see the evidence theres an actual low but theres a long list of stats that suggest were deeply oversold from a shortterm standpoint so a bounce wouldnt be surprising. But i think this is whats really important we want to put some perspective on this. The intermediate term background that tends to track one to two quarter shifts suggests theres more time to play out before we get a sustainable bottom in the market. So as a technician do you have any trepidation about the notion that a coronavirus just throws all everything that we know off kilter . And you cant just use Technical Analysis when you have something thats an outlier. I understand what youre saying. Or will it really work . I dont know if this purple line you know what i mean. Can you still gauge things technically ignoring a fundamental like coronavirus. We have an unknown event we have no idea how nobody seems to know whats going to go on but the market is probably our best gauge of whats going to go on the market actually started to peak. Thats interesting. So you can look at the market that could be signaling what happens with coronavirus. I think so. Look at where yields peak. All the cyclicals began to peak back in january. Lets do your bookends. Youve got tech and energy are those the two . The weekly momentum data tracks one to two quarter shifts its not going to bottom until we get well into q2 and that makes a lot of sense. Durationwise. Okay lets take a look at the energy a very longterm peak. Relative strength continues to decay. If were going to get a snap back and this still looks like a big bounce or big top developing, we could easily get a bounce back. What about tech because then weve got to go. Tech really quickly, look, that longterm if we look at these longterm trending lines, its got more room to go microsoft, apple, all those names need to spend more time. A couple stocks to look at are up a little bit today but a name like gilead, we want to buy that. All right, weve got to go. And regeneron as well. Great, robert, thank you. Lets get down to jim cramer at the New York Stock Exchange what do you think as were looking at futures down 400 points now i think you have to let it happen i know that we are oversold. I also know i think that a microsoft and apple, theyre the beginning. Almost every company has to cut numbers except for the two that the gentleman just talked about, gilead and regeneron and some of the stayathome companies will keep their numbers up. I watched squares numbers today. But yeah, it makes sense that it goes down and i think the golden piece is self evident of a nonhysterical way to look at whats going to happen. I saw what you tweeted earlier. Youve been talking about m moderna. Theyre the ones that most likely have a vaccine. During the press conference last night, they were the ones that i think stood out as what people are hoping for at a certain point. How much money can moderna make on it, i dont know. Its like 3m if somebody has businesses that arent doing well, maybe its entirely possible that the mask could mask the rest of the decline. But i dont really want to you pay it up five, good luck. You cant even get it takes on amazon youve got to buy from a third party and arrives march 3. And 90 and thats assuming that these are really not counterfeit too. Someone got ahead and bought a lot of them. I know im buying from a third party, not effective. Jim, thank you. Weve got to run so c gweanet to you in just a couple of minutes. 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Final check on the markets we are now half an hour before the opening bell will ring if it rung right this moment the dow would open down about 411 points down, the s p would open down 52 points and the nasdaq would open down 189 points lets also take a quick look at the 10year right now. Thats at its lowest level, 1. 277 in quite some time join us tomorrow squawk on the street starts right now. Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk on the street. The selloff is set to continue today as the u. S. Confirms its first coronavirus case of unknown origin, as the corporate mornings mount and analysts start cutting their numbers. Europe is down about 3 . 10year yield a record low, 1. 27 and oil is below 47. We begin with correction watch as coronavirus fears grip global markets. Stocks are set t