Seeing whippy action. Lots of movement happening all over the place. We are going to take you through all the news with global exchange, the market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to new york to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. Announced newj measures to pump liquidity into the markets to ensure financial stability. Joining bs enda curran. What do we see joining me is in the current joining me is enda curran. What do we see . They bought around 100 billion worth of stock funds and came out with an emergency statement making it clear that they will do whatever it takes liquidity ande is stability in the markets. The boj actions are flecked growing concern about dollar reflect actions growing concern about dollar shortage. We have seen australia pump in a lot of money, and china centralbank top off today with the rrr rate cut. That is all about freeing up funds for banks to lend more to companies that need it
Commentatoentary the last 24 hos whether its acumen and dalio on one side you point is, no revelation 6 8. Why are we not believing in science . You have been pretty consistent on that. What happens today if the fda approved a drug . What happens if they do that do we then start thinking about, geez, how much pain it will be if we print all these dollars. How about if it is approved and we say, you know what, im really worried about boeing. I mentioned that because its front and center, but im looking at the fda and not at the fed, and i think a lot of people who came on this morning oh, damn, i lived in my car and was not doing so well its not all done in fair weather. I listened to a lot of really rich people, some crying yesterday, today, talking about the end of days, i think the American Worker is a little tougher and i think if we get the drug, we get approval, i think well all say, geez, maybe this thing isnt going to last forever and we can tide workers over, and we can help th
Lighten up in a bid to get people back to work. The concern here and why these indices are in the red is what if that brings about a surge in the case count. Lets look at what is happening in the broader asian markets outside of china. You can see the asiapacific index excluding japan. Japan is on hold today. Also in the red. S p, futures looking ahead. Under pressure on worries about what suppliers will be doing to supply chains. A lot of them are in south korea and that is now the focal point for the coronavirus outside of china. I want to bring to your attention at the top of the screen, the malaysia stock index. Some political turmoil, news coming out of the Prime Ministers office. Really weighing on malaysian equities, down to the lowest point since 2015. I want to bring your attention to the currency markets. Also want to point attention to the aussie dollar versus the yen. That is not just the currency to watch in asia, but the broader risk barometer. The aussie dollar can be a
Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Its good to have you with us on our wednesday. Jim lebenthal, Pete Najarian and from naples, florida, lizann sonders. Highs of the day, approaching big numbers, dow 30,000, nasdaq 10k, not that far away and cooperman weighing in on the state of stocks, telling us its not time to worry, yet. I would say were in the early stages of knocking on the door of euphoria but not quite euphoria certain parts of the market, like tesla, are in euphoria. Other parts, like energy, are in pessimism. These big numbers not all that far away, pete. All good, the market depends on what were focusing on. Are we focused on the coronavirus . If so, we go down. Generally were focused on earnings and we go higher. Thats where the market has been trading. Yesterday was interesting because apples with a little bit of both, right you look at apple. It was getting pushed down because of their guidance about what they were facing right now, what they were seeing Going For
The Global Supply chain factor. Early facebook investor Roger Mcnamee joins us for what the virus means longterm for Companies Like apple and tesla. Paul, dramatic day for the markets and elsewhere. Why are you following . Paul tuesday trading day in asia, i guess the question is, to far is this stone going think . A drop asoking for well, about 2. 5 . Nikkei futures, big hit, 4 . South korea had one of its worst days and 17 years on monday. Japan of course playing catchup because monday was a Public Holiday. Take a look at currencies. The aussie dollar hit the yard over the past 24 hours. Currently just hanging on above . 66. The aussie 10 year continuing to slump toward historic lows. Of red. Uyh a lot in the u. S. , stocks tumbled. Three benchmarks slumped. Good to Abigail Doolittle lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. Abigail the markets selling off in a big way. Here in the u. S. , a three day slide. This is the worst of those three days. Friday, the disappointing pmi number