Action, a really important interview coming up. Seth carpenter will join jon ferro and me on Bloomberg Radio on the negative Interest Rates in the u. S. It is about this pandemic. What do you see in london . What is new with Prime Minister johnson and how he treats this viral crisis . Francine first of all, it is friday. A lot of people will be happy it is friday. Focus on the markets and the numbers and try not to be overtaken. Two fed president s coming onto bloomberg tv later with Michael Mckee, and also Catherine Mccain Catherine Mann. London is similar to new york. I was taken aback by the jobless claims yesterday. That number may have been much bigger. You are looking at negative Interest Rates, but if you look at the human tragedy unfolding in italy, they talk about a humanitarian crisis. In london and new york, the numbers keep going up. We will see what impact this has. Tom across bloomberg, a great focus on the louisiana. Ofwill bring you mr. Bostic atlanta and mr. Kaplan of
Microsoft was up by about 7 if you watch this morning, dow futures are indicated up s p up by 11 and up by 55 points the treasury yield looking below where we are now the yield on the 10year last i checked weve gotten used to that 0. 8 range. 0. 7 in that area now. Andrew becky, it appears weve found a bottom we have an update on the numbers to bring to you. New york has more thans the epih more than 61,000 of those cases. New york governor made this appeal for Health Care Workers across the county to come help new york as governor of new york, i am asking Health Care Professionals across the country if you dont have a Health Care Crisis in your community, please come help us in new york now we need relief Governor Cuomo said new yorkers havent been doing well with social distancing and he implored the public to be responsible and stay home. A hospital built in central park will officially open today located in front of mount sinai hospital up in the 90s there on the east side. It hold
Maria and we kick it off with Global Markets lets taken a look at european indices a selloff there as well. S p 200 down 250 points right now and paris down 165 and dax index in germany lower by 362. The European Union announcing the closing of its borders for 30 days to slow spread of coronavirus. In asia is overnight markets started with early rally on heels of wall street rally but then reverse course to finish in the red. Take a look at these numbers you have all of the major down better than 4 as you can see, the nikkei and japan and shanghai and composite 1. 8 and then theres oil. Oil prices tumbling touches levels not seen since 2003. As price of oil between russia and saudi arabia wages on demand is dropping oil prices right now at 25. 40 a barrel havent seen those numbs in quite some time. Check treasuries and yields right now on tenure treasury rising this morning once again, it is back above 1 . Tenure now sitting at 1. 8 that is up ten and a half basis points. The coronavir
Billion. That is the rumor promising 850 billion. That is the rumor from secretary of the treasury Steven Mnuchin. Crude also recovering. We still have a two handle, all after the vix hit a record monday. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From new york to brussels, washington, and berlin, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Futures trimming early gains this morning, then rallying. Here was more in new york is bloombergs annmarie hordern. Walk us through some of the action so far. Annmarie as you said, we hit limit up on those futures. We then went lower into negative territory, but now back in positive territory. It does look like the bears are in control of this market. The biggest plunge on markets since 1987. In europe, similar story. We were seeing a lot of gains, then went negative. Right now on the stoxx 600, we are about flat. We are seeing some Massive Gains on the lose
The fed says theyre going to help but it doesnt help the market for them but the one to show you cant afford to mess im good at ive been sworn in washington. Doesnt know theres a rate cut but it doesnt stop markets from dropping your lead a 1000 points will investigate why the fed in the region is not helping us and want somebody of billions into the tech in the little box were going to tell you about at least one huge acquisition. To pay 500000000. 00 for throttling i phone users in order to force them to purchase new phones and batteries but its 500000000. 00 a year were not we have a live report so much to get you on this very busy day so lets get started. The Federal Reserve decided to pull the trigger Tuesday Morning and announced an emergency rate cut of 50 bits in response to the growing economic threat from the fallout of the quantum virus this is the 1st time this has been deployed since december of 2008 during the financial crisis as chairman powell said the coronavirus was h