780 points s p also up 3. 4 the nasdaq up by 2. 5 . This morning, you do see some red arrows right now, the dow is down by 111 points the nasdaq down by 65 points jobless claims number that people will be watching so closely. Keeping an eye on trezy yields, it looked like the yell was trading at 3. 7 . Thank you, we have an update now and numbers. Confirmed cases in the United States is now more than 432,000. More than infections in italy, spain and germany combined new york state has 151,000 and 6,200 deaths Trump Administration is saying they are seeing real evidence that the measures being taken are working. A battle is brewing on capitol hill over new outbreak funding demanding 250 billion in new funding. House speaker and Senate Minority leader saying any new package would need to include more for additional money for hospitals, state and local governments. The senate is expected to bring competing measures to the floor today. Neither are expected to pass fed chair jay powell is s
Breaking news. U. S. Stock market futures are limit down even as the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stave off recession in the face of a global coronavirus threat. Life in america changing rapidly as governments at every level take drastic and unprecedented steps to try to slow the spread of the pandemic. Major retailers including nike and apple, shutting their doors for weeks. Well talk about the fallout for the u. S. Economy it is monday, march 16, 2020 squawk box begins right now. Good morning im becky quick at cnbc headquarters joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin u. S. Equity futures hitting limit down after dropping 5 that means they cant trade any lower this morning those are the curbs set up by the exchanges. You will continue to watch whats happening with the etfs, however, because they are not held to the same restrictions. Can you see the dow etf is down by 9 . The s p etf down by almost 9 . That gives you a better idea of where the major averages would open if we were open h
Points at the s p. The dow up 72 points the nasdaq looking to be higher by 32 points in asia we saw a pull back from yesterdays gains off the china u. S. Trade truce hang seng is off just a fraction over in europe, european equities are mostly higher the dax is up by 0. 8 . Perhaps europe is still digesting the news that Christine Lagarde will head the ecb. The first woman to do so treasury yields fell back below 2 yesterday and remains there right now. 1. 895 the global story here, the benchmark german bund yield has fallen to a new record low, negative 0. 385 right now. It was negative 0. 4 earlier. The italian tenyear has gone from 2. 8 to 1. 7 in the space of about three weeks. Lagardes appointment seen not just in the german bund yield as not potential hawk, she will be more dovish, but someone who can operate politically and avoid a clash on the italian budget. Both appointments being European Commission president and ecb president being german and french shows the power brokers,
In europe, also eagerly anticipating the jobs report fractional losses across the board with the dax down 0. 2 a check on treasury yields, we have yields, the tenyear specifically, the lowest level since november of 2016 1. 96 on the tenyear. The 30year at 2. 47. The countdown to the employment report is on. Forecasters polled say the u. S. Likely added 165,000 nonfarm jobs in june the Unemployment Rate is expected to hold steady at 3. 6 . If those predictions are right, it wont likely be enough to discourage the fed from cutting Interest Rates later this month. Well have a lot of predictions about all of this. A developing story off the coast of gibraltar British Royal marines interce interceptintercep intercepted a super tanker they believed the super tachktar was heading to a syrian oil rig. Iran has demanded the tankers release. U. S. National security adviser john bolton praised the move calling it excellent news. Wti is down a percent. And samsung saying its Second Quarter profit
4. 651 . Taking a look at crude prices and how they are digesting in the middle east. Wti is down. 50 . 85 a barrel. Brent is tame this morning at 89. 75. A check on bitcoin days ahead of the halving. We are down fractionally. 63,352. New data from china overnight. First quarter gdp grew 5. 3 year on year beating the estimate of 4 growth. Export volumes rose 14 from a year ago. Back here at home, United Health is out with Quarterly Results. Bertha coombs is here with more. Everybody is looking at the medical loss ratio from the cyber attack there. The change cyber attack is being looked at or accounted for in two buckets. United Health Revenue coming in at 99. 8 billion. Beating estimates. It is unclear if the adjusted 6. 91 per share is comparable to the consensus number. It includes 25 Cents Per Share impact for business disruption costs from the change cyber attack in february. It excludes the costs of advanced payments and interestfree loans due to the o outage which amounts to 6 b