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Those projections come as Governor Newsom says california could begin reopening its economy by friday, retail and manufacturers will be first to enter into californias next phase of the stay at home order. The governor says flower shops clothing stores, toys books in Sporting Goods stores. Can all open by the end of the week with these new mandatory guidelines like curbside pickup. The state is set to release the new rules on thursday seated restaurant dining and shopping malls and office is still not included in this next phase. We need active Monitoring Surveillance to make sure that the disease is not spreading. It is one of the criteria is a trigger to re modify. Governor newsome said that phase 2 would also include reopening public spaces like parks and beaches. Were expecting more details on that coming up on thursday. According to Johns Hopkins university there are currently over 1 million cases of the coronavirus in the u. S. More than 56,000 of those cases are in california. W
Friend. Were watching that very closely. Were keeping close eye on washington. Were focused on capitol hill. The house taking up the stimulus measure, relief measure, whatever you want to call it, to the tune of 484 billion. Now the house physically there, in person, some Wearing Masks to make sure they get this done. Lets get the latest from chad pergram, how this will all sort of fan out. Chad . Reporter hey there, neil. This is the debate. They started 15 minutes ago on this bill, about 324 billion of this goes to Small Businesses. You might recall a couple weeks ago that fund ran dry. The cupboard is bare. The cost of this bill ballooned from 251 billion specifically to Small Business, to 484 billion as you say. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says democrats improved the bill. There is money in here for hospitals and testing. Listen to the speaker. Im very pleased that it was transformed from a bill two weeks ago on the floor where the leader in the senate said, this is it, 250. Were no
Largescale repos, as it has been doing it goes on to describe the impact of the coronavirus on the economy the way it sees it, causing tremendous human and economic hardship, the statement says and measures to protect health have been causing the sharp economic declines and the losses in unemployment and jobs on the inflation front, the Federal Reserve notes, muted inflation, says weak demand and Lower Oil Prices are holding down inflation disruptions to Economic Activity, it says, have impaired the flow of credit the Public Health crisis will weigh heavily, it says, on Economic Activity and unemployment and just a bit of analysis picking on something that was just said there, there is no forwardlooking aspect to this statement here generally, the Federal Reserve says, this policy will lead to x, continued, sustained expansion. Things like that there is nothing here where the fed says the policies we have now will lead to x in the future its all about the fed chronicling the damage to
Than a week. Here on cnbc. Good morning. Good afternoon, good evening welcome to wherever you may be watching here on cnbc. After two volatile, very fast moving days, you may be in for a third of volatility. This will be slightly different. Dow futures off the drop with a gain at the open at 340 points s p also on the upside after the dow lost 1,100 points on two trading days and is already down 5 on the week caused by the historic collapse of oil it went negative on monday and part of yesterday as well. That may contract caused so much stress and now june as the world watches. Still under 20 per barrel the real action you need to Pay Attention to is the International Benchmark known as brent crude. Now around the world more than just an american problem the price sagging to just 17. 05 a barrel is a 20year low. How some investors are trying to trade this to make some money. And some breaking news involving chevron and venezuela, that is coming up. Well head out for news around the wor