Its on fire again. 3. 8 gain yesterday can something similar, up to and half percent again today. Why the big rally . Leader mcconnell says there will be a stimulus package probably this year and that helps. Divided government means no big tax hikes or green new deal, that helps. The fed will most certainly keep printing, so check your 4o1k and a smile. Lets deal with the election, the president ial winner still in doubt. It will come down to four battleground states, pennsylvania, North Carolina, georgia, nevada. Its close in all four states in the trunk team will go to court to make sure only valid votes votes are counted and we expect an update on the count in nevada. That state may be called today. Watch las vegas, 11 30 a. M. , but from campaign may be filing a legal challenge there also. This is the place to be if you follow money on politics. Varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart i wanted something more upbeat and lively with the market rally to die for. We will try next hour. Th
Coronavirus cases top 12 million. Vice president pence says schools should reopen. Raphael bostic warrants about the hit to Consumer Sentiment. Stock market frenzy pushes the shanghai composite to its highest level since 2008. Thats after mega cap tech took the nasdaq to another record overnight in the u. S. Recovervenue begins to from the pandemic fuel slowdown as your europes Technology Company sees a bounceback and Software Deals throughout asia. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at where futures are pointing us right now. Ftse futures up about. 6 . Take a look at u. S. Futures. They have been down though only slightly. Anna, what have you got . Anna lets have a look at breaking news. Numbers coming out from rollsroyce. The engineering business, the engine maker here in the u. K. Giving us details for Free Cash Flow and cost medication action. They themselves are taking it. One billion pounds for cost mitigation action for 202
Market. Three year and 10 year bond options coming in superstrong. Watch how that winds up performing. Time now for todays top market moving news from our new york team and washington team. We want to begin with economic the u. K. Economy shrinking on the 6 in march. Predicting what could be its deepest contraction in more than three centuries. Bloombergs Michael Mckee has more. Michael ask not for whom the bell tolls. It is the u. K. This time. Just one week under lockdown was still enough for a 2 contraction during the first quarter. As you mentioned, a 6 contraction during the month of march. Britain plunging into what may be its worst depression or recession, at least, since 300 years ago. Three centuries, according to those who have been figuring out. Tourism fell by 46 , air transport down 44 . Engine ofpending, the the economy, down 1. 7 in the first quarter, the largest drop since the financial crisis. We got data from the British Retail Consortium saying total sales down 19. 1
Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Week price premier will lead negotiations for china is telling dignitaries his offer to the u. S. Will not include commitments on reforming chinas industrial policy. These are some of the big demands the Trump Administration has been making in the trade talks. Update now on the crisis in hong kong. The city is struggling to recover after a night of violent clashes. Protesters defied government threats with Wearing Masks and were met with tear gas they were threatened with a year in prison for hiding their faces. Police arrested dozens of protesters and bussed them away under new emergency laws chinas military threatened to arrest protesters who aimed laser lights more protests planned for tonight. Some grocery stores, other businesses have reopened after closing early yesterday. The metro is only partially functioni ining hooch of serious and in the just dont tweet about anything anymore section of our news today, also making news the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the nba h