Rooms have been converted into makeshift hospitals. Oil producing countries trying to negotiate a truce save a market share through global collapse to demand. A 2 week a ceasefire comes into effect in yemen say they wont stop fighting other countries still in the sea. And hundreds of millions of children desperately needing food you look at the difficulties for aid during the pandemic. So the damage to the worlds biggest economy from the coronavirus shutdown is really hitting home in the past week another 6600000 americans have joined the jobless queue and that means nearly 17000000 americans have now filed for Unemployment Benefits in just 3 weeks thats one in 10 workers and the affairs of figures could be even worse lets bring in our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett in washington d. C. And kimberly in just a matter of weeks 17000000 people out of work and its probably more. Yeah youre absolutely right nothing like this seen in modern history and it is expected to be more be
The backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optimism lately with the resolutio
Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim
Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim
Are in terms of the economy, the backdrop in this market. We had down week but we had record highs going into this week because the economy seems okay what he think . I think the expectations for the worldwide economy are coming down a little bit with the virus scares. Its not so much the people, investors thinking were headed for some terrible Global Pandemic but business disruption in china. People from other countries running parts from china, that has been a damper on things so thats gonna cut into earnings you expect . Take china out for the First Quarter, no flights going inandout, shortages, look what apple just did in terms of what they are expecting, thats going to hit the u. S. Thats going to hit u. S. Companies in the First Quarter and for the year. So keep in mind, we are now paying, investors in u. S. Stocks we are paying quite a bit more for a dollar of earnings than we did year ago. So that has to be based on some optimism about the future i think weve got a lot of optim