Even though some of might be different directions. Were monitoring that. Monitoring what is the second biggest point gain so far, for the dow jones industrials. All major averages are advancing pretty smartly, right now, amid talk that this deal will get done, timing is only issue here. Whether this stimulus measure. That is out there, will be enough. Including that lockdown in wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus, slowly by surely. Keep in mind that about 60 million chinese remain in this proverbial lockdown. But the biggest of all was instituted a few moments ago with indias Prime Minister, announced a lockdown not for a section of country, not for some in this country but for all. 1. 3 billion indians in his country. This will last for 21 days. Youre beginning to see a trend here that shows the frantic efforts we are taking to provide stimulus to sort of slow the Economic Impact or the a least the arrest the blows in this country. As other countries are sort of dramatically ackno
Goldman sachs restricting travel from south korea, northern italy. The president from india, looking much more reassuring tone than he is hearing elsewhere. Take a look. Looks like h theyre getting it under control, more and more under control. I think that is a problem that will go away. We lost almost 1000 points yesterday on the market. That is something, things like that happen. You have it in your business all the time. Had nothing to do with you. It is an outside source that nobody would have ever predicted. Neil continuing today. That disturbs a lot of market technicians who generally like to see a rebound after 1000 point hit. Just because were under water on some averages over the year, theyre up appreciably over the past year. Deirdre bolton what is driving the latest followup selloff from the New York Stock Exchange. At least if you judge by the sectors putting the most weight on the markets it seems to be the coronaviruss potential effect on the Global Economy. That is real
Well get into that as well. Deirdre bolton has all the fast moving developments from the big board. Neil what a week, what a week indeed. This is the worst week for the dow weve seen since 2018. Just the volatility alone today. As we can see down 470 points. We were down more than 900 points earlier. I want to highlight quickly some of the stocks that are limiting the losses on the dow. You have two pharmaceuticals, not a huge surprise in the backdrop of these fears about the coronavirus spreading and one staple which also does sell face masks. Merck and pfizer, we know merck has had a long history of developing vaccines. So you do have the stock moving higher limiting some of the losses. Pfizer as well, and 3m which does make the face masks. If you look at some drags on the average, part. Reason today, why were seeing so much weight you have apple, microsoft, two Huge Tech Companies that both have exposure to china. Apple in 2019 got 17 of revenue from china, microsoft about 10 . Both
Even, this was hovering a little north of 1200. Through crises and noncrises alike gold continued to steady climb you really cant ignore. What is interesting this is spread across a lot of the commodities. Look at silver front, up an additional 2 3s of a percent. Here is eyepopping. Palladium, so crucial in manufacturing processes, futures market close up to 5 . That is alltime high for palladium prices at 2442 an ounce. Well get into that in more detail. One thing for investors to hedge their bets, go into bonds and all, this Development Goes on regardless of crisis mentality of coronavirus virus. Particularly when it comes to gold. Now to pa late yum. Well get into that in a second. As we rifle through big numbers. Susan li on i latest trend producing them. Susan neil, shock across markets. Floodgates according to one analyst because of impact of coronavirus. Apple warning they will not meet sales targets because factories are closed in china because of the coronavirus. Workers are s
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