Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Kristin englund from the Cleveland Clinic and later, author Rick Atkinson joins us to iscuss the 75th anniversary of ve day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] host u. S. Workers continue to lose their jobs and file for Unemployment Benefits at a record rate. And in todays report on the overall jobs number for the month of april could be the worst since the great depression. It is friday, may 8, 2020. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend this first hour asking you how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Heres how to joins us. For those of you in the east and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain pacific time zones, thats 2027488001. You can also send us a text. That line, 2027488003. Include your name, where youre texting from. On twitter, were at twitter.
Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
We will bring you those numbers as soon as they get the hit. They may very well impact markets. We will look ahead to jobs number coming up. Job losses could hit 47 million and Unemployment Rate could surge to 32 . Jim bullard is here later this morning, more on jobs, action by the Federal Reserve and what if any rebound we can expect from the crisis. Interview coming up at 7 00. President Trump Pushes Congress to pass 2 trilliondollar infrastructure bill now to help boost the economy along the road to recovery. The president says the bill willing very big and bold. Meanwhile this, the death toll in new york city has surpassed 1,000, mayor bill de blasio joining the call for help as more makeshift hospitals are created. This as more states go on lockdown this morning, mornings with maria is live right now. We want to check Global Market s. Dax index in germany lower by 277. Factory activity in italy contracting at the fastest rate in 11 years. 40. 3 and french factory activity calling
Is david asman. Joining me on the panel gary, zachary liz. Attended christine on the Stock Exchange. Was it the Oil Price Crash that set this all . Reporter several factors, one has to revolve not necessarily the virus itself but the panic around the virus as well as oil, it is so difficult to price and the Economic Impact and what the virus is going to do to companies acrosstheboard which is why you sell the selloff today and we have a Circuit Breaker halt all markets when we saw it fall down 7 . That helped liquidity but using acrosstheboard everything over 7 lower for the day. Oil hitting a low we have not seen since 1991 and that really did hurt shale producers across the country across the globe and it shifted investors to move their money into safer bet like ten year treasury bond and thirtyyear treasury bonds. We saw the ten year drop to 31 basis points, that is 0. 319. Not even percentages anymore. And the same thing for the 30 year yield, it fell below 1 . These are numbers we
How he see businesses moving forward. What are you expecting on impact on growth and do you think theres going to be a different standard on jpmorgan than other banks . Youre not. A come of things there. When we get done after that, i dont know, i do think theres a little bit of decoupling between chinas Economic System and ours, china will continue to grow, i think they want jpmorgan to be there to set transparency and rules and if chinese, if they want to eliminate corruption, they need very good Financial Markets and therefore they can come in and set the standards, it should mean something when jpmorgan said we did Due Diligence, doesnt mean that we are always right but should mean something. Maria big deal for jamie dimon and jpmorgan, they just received their license, a bank 100 in china, spending 11 billion on Technology Every year, how is he going to protect that technology s he going to go to china and they will change things as how they will do things differently. Dagen part