The week. Vix below 30. We have a stronger euro today. Europe definitely doing better on the coronavirus front. The 10year yield holding at those lows of 64 basis points. Kicking off this week. Investors awaiting report from the largest u. S. Banks. Lets get to brian levitt, invesco Advisors Global strategist. It seems there is more optimism than pessimism on the earnings front. Why should that be . Brian i think it is largely not investors view the Second Quarter as being priced in by the markets. 35 in 20 was down days, pricing in a bad secondquarter, and a big hit to earnings. From there, you assess whether things start to get better as the year progresses. Investors are largely looking out beyond the Second Quarter as there has been resumption in , as mobilityvity has improved, conditions have improved. It is largely a look at things getting better, rather than taking the Second Quarter will be anything but pretty ugly. Vonnie it seems investors will be cheered by anything. If you
Concord most of the east bay shoreline locations, a purse or lower 60s upper 50s 50s up to the north bay but napa on the bottle getting up to 6155 San Francisco by the way. You have the left over on shore drift right now keeping the fog in place, although that is starting to wane. And this weather alert that we still have is this a heat advisory covering Solano County off the Central Valley. The Contra Costa County still be looking at hot temperatures and frankly one of the things for why its not included is this is a different forecast office this is out of sacramento in the rest of its out of the San Francisco office and monterey sometimes that is why sometimes is a difference going on there. Although up to lake county. Theyre also involved in this too we should mention. 82 at high noon by 3 oclock at 90 in plenty of 90s will have on the board will take a look at that coming up little bit later on the broadcast robert. All right, thank you dave. Well our top story that were following
About the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people would get sick and then better again. Within a few years ago, i a ima reporter for the New York Times and i read an article about a miraculous discovery there was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was reporting in a technical journal of Science Magazine that he somehow managed to there were fragments of the virus that killed him and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in history. It affected us on many people te that have Something Like that came by today, it would kill more people than the top ten killers got together, 1. 5 million, something of that mortality rate. Had i just found out by looking at the papers for the centers for Disease Control that 99 of the people that i did the epidemic were under age 65, so it was an astonishing devastating epid
Rights movement. Some of these authors have appeared on book tv. And you can watch them online, abitibi. Org. And now on book tv, we would like to highlight some programs from our archives the focus on pandemics. All of the programs you are about to seek can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org and using the search function which you will find at the top of the page. First, and 2000 on cspans book notes program, science journalists gina talked about the history of influenza, specifically the 1980 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Really never thought about the flu. If something they came around every year and people get second and they get better again. Never really court interest in it at all. Im a reporter for the New York Times that i wrote an article for the times, about it really miraculous discovery. It was a guy and Army Medical Center and he said supporting and technical journal called silence magazine they somehow managed to get lung tiss
The United Nations Migration Agency is reporting what it calls a grim milestone regarding debts and migrants who tried to cross the mediterranean. Officials estimate 20,000 people have died since 2014. That includes the presumed drowning of more than 90 people after a small boat overturned after leaving libya last month. And the disappearance of a ship that set off from algeria. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, im vonnie quinn. Amanda live in toronto, im amanda lang. Welcome to bloomberg markets. We are now joined by our bloomberg and bnn bloomberg audiences. Here are the top stories we are following from around the world. Investors fear Major Economic fallout from the coronavirus. Worldwide of infections from the virus topping 100,000, putting more pressure on Global Leaders to respond. Youll