Japans ruling party says the coronavirus will hit harder than the financial crisis. The global stocks rallied after the u. S. Opened the fiscal taps to the tune of a billion dollars. Thats on rate cuts for major Central Banks surge. St. Louis fed president tells bloomberg, dont assume that will be another cut in two weeks. Rate to thee policy right place for now. Given the information that we have now. We took out some insurance against the possibility that this will cause a growth slowdown in the u. S. Matt division in vienna. Agreement over output cuts proves elusive for opec plus delegates as they look to counter the impact of the coronavirus. We are live on the ground for a crucial meeting there. Lets take a look at futures, getting across europe right now. More than 0. 5 . Up 0. 75 . S are futures. In u. S. We finished up more than 1 yesterday across european forces. There was a major surge in u. S. Stocks as a result. You are seeing futures down for the west stocks. Risk on for e
Health crisis in a century. Good to have you with us welcome to aljazeera more and more countries are imposing restrictions and theyre getting more drastic in the fight against coronavirus austria has banned gatherings and ordered restaurants to close while kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency earlier on sunday the philippines began sealing off its capital 12000000 manila residents told to stay at home for a month schools closed and mass events banned irans Just Announced that 113 more people have died to the highest single day figure yet in one of the worlds worst affected countries more than 700 people have died so far and there are nearly 14000 confirmed cases australia has joined the countries ordering travelers into self quarantine and as of midnight sunday they have to isolate themselves for 14 days but despite concerns and a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people local actions are continuing in france. Below is live for us in the philippine capital manila and of cours
Guys, that interview with barry right now makes you feel better. Gives you hope i think its important to he hear, are stocks cheap yes. Is the system working . Yes. Is the opportunity going to be great if the countrys locked down no so whats important is to find out where the country is fiscally thats why its important to speak to the treasury secretary. Yeah. The concerns that we had yesterday continue to be the concerns we have today, which is about businesses forced to potentially suffer significant financial damage as a result of being closed or having no customers. And what that will mean. Liquidity is always an issue it does seem to be not in the treasuries where we have seen illliquidity that scared people moving into credit, which we need to focus on huge repricings. The cost of capital has gone up for corporate america. You can provide people money, but those people dont want to go out we are a service economy, twothirds of our country is service. What do we do when you get mo
Joint action. Saudi arabia wants producers to agree on additional cuts of one Million Barrels per day. Nejra what a wipe out on wall street. We will get to that in a moment, but first, breaking headlines coming through. We are still in earnings season. Basf sees significant first half Coronavirus Impacts on the Global Economy, and it sees 2020 point 2 ebit of four billion euros to 4. 8 billion euros versus 4. 5 billion euros in 2018. Those are the two red headlines. They are saying they do not expect the virus effect to be fully offset over the years, so some important headlines coming through on the impact of coronavirus. Elsewhere in the numbers, it is proposing a full year Dividend Per Share meeting the highest estimate, but it sees a significant first half Coronavirus Impact on the Global Economy, bracing for a possible profit drop on coronavirus but also the slump in autos. That is the main takeaway here, adding to industrial gloom by adding to the profit drop due to the impact of
Industrial average is up more than 760 points. Steve weiss, i go to you first is this how a bottom, at least a near term bottom, is made . Does it feel like we are trying to do that today right friday we started trying to do it, towards the last hour of trading powell came out and talked i dont think there is any surprise to what he said i put some exposure on then. Put more on this morning feeling good about the market. But i think it is going to be shortterm heres why the u. S. , as of friday, performed 500 covid19 tests right . Putting that in perspective, the uk performed 8,000, south korea performed 65,000 the point is that once we start ramping up those tests and pence said we would have 5,000, you are going to see in my view more major outbreak in the u. S. You think the numbers are going to go way up. Dramatic and that will put pressure on the market last week alone i spoke to five Tech Companies you hear them saying 50, 60 are back to work when you ask them to break down the n