Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
Data, the u. S. Saying that beijing underplayed the number of cases and deaths. And we work may take legal action that softbank wants better terms on theirh rescue plan. Haidi . Inflationary pressures or lack thereof from south korea coming through the cps for the month of march. We are seeing a contraction of 0. 2 , better than the contraction we were expecting of 0. 4 . That is a month on month figure for Consumer Price pressures and south korea for the month of march. In atmber on year coming 1 , so a little better than 0. 8 expected, a little softer from the 1 reading in february. Expectingse have been some demand as well as the impact of lower energy costs, lower oil costs, the plunge in oil prices, down an average of almost 50 year on year so far this month. Debtor february february data carried through, and you would expect that to carry through to april as well. That is the south korean numbers. We have been looking at a lower open going into the trading in seoul and tokyo. Let
Contain it. Welcome to the program malaysia is racing to track down potential coronavirus carriers confirmed cases spiked to 673. 00 nearly 2 thirds of those are linked to a mass gathering of muslims have late last month now thousands of attendees still havent been tested across the globe restrictions are becoming more severe as the number of infections worldwide approaches 200000 australias Prime Minister is calling on citizens to avoid any International Travel and theres now a ban on indoor gatherings of more than 100. 00 people in the United States the trumpet ministration has announced a one trillion dollars stimulus package in a bid to lessen the economic fallout but oil prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2003 with wall street due to open very soon. In italy coronavirus patients are being moved to a new Treatment Center in rome more than 2500 people have died there and more than 30000 are infected and spains Prime Minister has been delivering updates on the situation
Division. At 114 per pound. Not much really you can say. Euro sox reversing. Euro stocks reversing stop euro stocks reversing. Won, ok as far as these are concerned. Korea, crash landing on you. It is amazing how the 10 year right now. Years. Level in 18 7 . T crude down 23 . About rakinglking below 60. Mark, help us put sense into what is happening. Things we were talking about is the process of exposure. N reducing the have been looking at some hard numbers and just in the last three days, bonds and equities are out. Open interest has fallen to the equivalent of 150 billion in the futures market only gives you a snapshot. Withve derivative market 150 billion multiplied several times. That gives you an idea of how much had been going on just in the last few days. That is partly why we are seeing this incredible movement. These movements will add to that picture as well so you can see the move towards cash is really ever. As a Silver Lining here . When i look at crazy price action, alm
Activist investors to push out jack dorsey from twitter. An interview with the impossible foods cfo on plans to enter china despite the spread of the coronavirus. The Global Smartphone market has been slowing down for some time. The coronavirus will only make it worse. Smartphone shipments will drop 2. 3 to around 1. 3 billion units. Paul allen and emily chang spoke with the ibc president on wednesday. We have a number of analysts looking at this. We would say the tightest ingredient in this is the people. People are not fully back to work. With think the manufacturers in china are mainly 30, 30 5 35 of capacity. They are slowly starting to ramp back up. China also has been a place where many components are manufactured. From that standpoint, what we have now is we believe the tightest components will be pc base and screens. That would fit with the story we have today, that if you are having trouble with replacement parts, what is one of the biggest parts . You drop your phone and you