Is good but the one business show you cant afford to miss im going to bore in washington coming up the fed is decided to keep rates steady in the midst of the coronavirus devastation we bring you inside or inside on the decision and what lies ahead for the u. S. Central bank clutched at the Federal Reserve has propped up markets in the u. S. It is posed an interesting issue for a major debt holder china and later the race is on for the head of the World Trade Organization and the European Union is weighing in we bring you the latest on the run with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the latest policy update from the Federal Reserves federal open Market Committee as expected fed chair Jerome Powell and now its Interest Rates will hold near 0 through 2022 but the real question has been what action will the fed take moving forward. Since march weve been purchasing sizable quantities of treasury and Agency Mortgage backed securities you know to support
Virgin australia tracks interest from indias largest by just budget carrier. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under pressure, this after the regular session ended mixed. Markets pretty optimistic about reopening some parts of the u. S. Economy, but also a bit more cautious given that we have seen flareups around the world. The s p 500 finished unchanged. Health care led the gains, but financials weighed on the index. The nasdaq composite getting for the sixth consecutive session, outperforming again. The longest winning streak this year. Take a look at what oil is doing. Wti gaining ground, above 24 a barrel. This after it fell and erased earlier gains in the new york session. Tohave saudi arabias plan output, providing a boost but that was not sustained. We have opec given its Monthly Oil Market report on wednesday. Haidi in the u. S. , President Trump has responded to reports china is considering scrapping the p
To back the bell and set to publish their own support program. Force johnson orders the u. K. Into a three weeks lockdown, sweeping new laws to breakup gatherings and fine any dissenters. Taylor meantime, i want to bring you some breaking news coming out of china. Their companies are having the worst quarter on record, according to china. The headline as it catches my eye, the economy has not gotten better as much as we thought they would be returning to work. It looks for the first three months of this year, a Quarterly Survey of all the firms, it looks like every individual sector was reporting worse results than originally thought. Saleswas a widespread in amid the harder hit retail sectors. The collapse in revenue and profit. Again, Economic Activity collapsed in february. This is as we knew that there was the massive virus spread that was going on. I think the key headline is Chinese Companies continuing to have the worst quarter on record. Every individual sector reporting worst
Youre in the low 50s currently later today, its 60s whether youre at the coast or further inland were all the same boat on that one talking more about any chances of rain we do have in your forecast. Still ahead rob just a minor wait at the bay bridge toll plaza most of the folks heading into San Francisco got in early. So were getting some early clearing here at the pay gates, a minor way for some of the cash buyers and fast trackers but this is great. Compared to what we saw earlier when traffic was jammed from the bottom of so thats no longer the case, heres a look at one of your approach is going to be busy leaving the El Sobrante Richmond area on down to oakland, but your drive time has decreased were down to 28 minutes now for the east shore freeway from crockett to the maze will check more coming up. Thats the message. The passengers got and the message we just got this morning as of the ship that is infected with coronavirus will be arriving at noon today at the port of oakland
Good morning welcome, im Courtney Reagan in for Brian Sullivan what a day it is shaping up to be again today, but looking different than what we saw on monday well kick off this morning with a tuesday turnaround dow futures are pointing higher indicated higher by more than 900 points 920 points at this moment. The s p 500 indicated higher by more than 104 points and the nasdaq up by 323 points. We have a lot of hours left until the opening bell sounds but this is come after the worst day for stocks with the dow falling more than 2,000 points in a single day. The selloff triggering the first halt to u. S. Trading in 20 years. As it stands right now, all the major averages are in correction the dow transports and the russell are in bear market territory down more than 20 from recent 52 week highs. Same thing goes for energy financials, industrials, materials and tech all those sectors also in that same boat bonds are hovering off the low, ten year is back above energy pouncing back after