Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
On the stricter role of the border this weekend plus the Senate Working overtime on up to 2 trillion package ahead of mondays deadline for a final vote, florida senator marco rubio takes us up and we will break down the stimulus bill in u. S. History. Also today President Trump emergency war power to help, white house creating manufacturing advisor Peter Navarro is here to the response of coronavirus and impact on the economy. Also he has been studying the pandemic from a white house chief strategist steve bannon how the coronavirus is impacting the country and hospitals. Are they on the verge of breakdown . Plus hope for the future, innovation and science in america, the ceo of Johnson Johnson is here to discuss the vaccine and antiviral treatments of coronavirus. All that ahead. Maria now the latest on coronavirus today, there has been over 26000 cases in the u. S. More than 340 people are now dead. More than 311,000 cases and 13000 deaths worldwide. The state department has raised a
Thank you, guys. Okay. Alex gorsky from j j, appreciate it well be back tomorrow cnbcs special coverage continues right now. Good monday morning welcome to squawk on the street, im Carl Quintanilla with jim cramer and david faber. Coming to you live from separate locations even on set as we practice social distancing futures are stable to start the week as the president extends those social distancing guidelines to april 30th j j, as you just heard, announcing a lead candidate for a covid19 vaccine a lot of people were astonished that the futures, just at the moment when the president said, look, we have to extend things. Take away that april 12th deadline, it will go all april at the very moment we saw the futures start reversing. I think this is a day, dont know how much more, a day where science trumps the pain and the disaster frankly that is covid there have been many, many days weve come in and science has been playing catch up game today it sounds like science is on target. List
The nasdaq up 1. 3 , and the vix is at 52. Obviously it is going to be a volatile week. We have the 10 year yield at 61 basis points at the moment. Any number of things moving these markets. Guy i think in many ways, youre right. It is going to be a volatile week. We sibley dont know what is coming down the pike towards us. Is an ok opening. Considering the numbers we had over the weekend, considering what is going on, this is a very undramatic open. It is placid by comparison to what you couldve expected. A couple of exceptions, the. Obviously a couple of exceptions, though. Obviously, what is happening in the crude market is something to be paid attention to. Take a look at the contango in brent crude. It is terrifying. Take a look at btu at bdp yields in italy. There are problems still very much unresolved. Some of those problems exist here in europe. We are waiting to see what is going to happen with corona bonds, etc. , and whether europe is going to stick together. Youve also got
New expectations about how long the covid19 crisis may last given President Trumps comments yesterday along with anthony faucis. Well talk about that in a little bit take a look at treasury yields this morning lets show you where the tenyear note stands right about now. Youre looking at 0. 367. The story we probably tonight talk enough about these days, lets show you crude prices because they fell sharply overnight. Wti crude now trading at 20. 53 if that was the only story around, youd think that would have a huge impact on markets unto themselves. Meantime, an update on the outbreak cases confirmed in the u. S. Now topping 143,000, 2,500 deaths. New york is the epicenter right now with nearly 60,000 cases in the state. Another 13,000 cases in neighboring new jersey in new york city, construction is under way to build an Emergency Hospital this taking place inside central park right across the street from mt. Sinai workers from the organization samaritans purse has begun constructing