About the impact later on in the show. Time now for bloomberg time now to dig a look at all the news you need to know, from d. C. To new york. We are joined by bloombergs michael mckee, taking a look at all of the Market Action and economic action out of europe. It was a tough day for services pmis. Michael absolutely, and the charts tell the stories. These were the worst numbers ever for france, germany, and the eurozone, showing the Service Industries worsen manufacturing, and in part due to a quirk in the data. The market, we get pmis at 9 45 this morning. The same sort of data are expected. We also get the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index, the most highfrequency Consumer Confidence data. That has been moved up two days. The crashing of the european economies has revived talk, or pushed, shall we say, talk of stimulus higher up the agenda. German chancellor Angela Merkel has already decided that she is going to establish a Stimulus Program to help revive the economy, and she has put
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Yeah. No doubt hopefully they can get this stuff done between the congress and the senate and it will be a lot more to do its a good start but given the dislocation to the marketplace, hopefully we can get this thing done in washington and well be good backstops for the market. Does it take a significant amount of stress off of the credit markets, which i know youve been concerned about and you watch so closely well, i mean, it takes a certain amount off it doesnt theres still a lot of stress in a lot of different places it takes a little bit of the stress off you really need the washington package. A package in washington just a lot bigger what they were talking about doing, seven times bigger. If i got my numbers right off the top of my head just to help support corporate small business, et cetera, what were going to need support and buy secondary stuff in the marketplace. Some of the other things they started to do today, so that we can have the economy function the right way. How c
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They were either showing symptoms or on the first leg of the trip. Three people from that leg tested positive for the coronavirus, one of them has died. We talk ed ed to a passenger on board the grand princess about how everyone is feeling is and holding up. Were all worrying about the worst case scenario, that this becomes another ship that is stuck for two weeks before we can get off. People are nervous about the futur future. The grand princess announced this is the last trip for now. They canceled the next cruise to hawaii that was set to leave for tomorrow. Theres no word on where this ship will go or when. It depends on the test results. Thats when official also make decisions about the ships next step. We hope to get those test results back this morning. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. As San Francisco waits to hear when the cruise ship might dock, the city is already dealing with two cases of coronavirus. A man in his 90s is in serious con