Deputy editor of roll call newspaper. We found out this week and Speaker Pelosi once a fourth stimulus bill move any matter of weeks on capitol hill . How has that been received by the white house and Republican Leaders in the senate . So, they have been talking about a fourth stimulus package and trading bit, ideas about what might be in such a package. Even Mitch Mcconnell, who is typically one of Nancy Pelosis antagonists said before they even passed the third stimulus that they would need fourth one. , mccarthy and mcconnell have said, we want to thatow this third package they passed recently and the president signed late in march, see how it is being of lemonade. But right off the bat, we are been we have been hearing from Small Businesses that almost 350 billion in the last stimulus is not enough to keep them afloat. Anyone from restaurants to bookstores to anything like that, you know, blood difficulty making payroll and paying pipos insurance and so forth and paying Peoples Ins
Virus. A councillor that tested positive discusses his experience. And your text and tweets. Washington journal is next. Us coronavirus cases have jumped. Returns at noon as they return to push a response package totalling over 1 million. Good morning, welcome to washington journal, this friday morning. March 20th. Well open up the phone lines, hearing from you, and your experience, response to the federal effort on the coronavirus. Of you in the central time zone, the line is welcome to your input if you are a medical professional tell us your name and where you twitter, ing from on facebook posts. There is a reporter from the mike baker, mes, stationed in the northwest. Part ofg the northwest the us, mike baker tweeting on the numbers, more than he said on the 132. More than 4,000 new cases in the us. Youll see his number at the there 12,336. When we started the programme 9 4509,450. 9,450. Checking the map. 245,484. 10,000, th toll over with 86,000 confirmed recoveries. 14,250. Us i
Breaking news. U. S. Stock market futures are limit down even as the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stave off recession in the face of a global coronavirus threat. Life in america changing rapidly as governments at every level take drastic and unprecedented steps to try to slow the spread of the pandemic. Major retailers including nike and apple, shutting their doors for weeks. Well talk about the fallout for the u. S. Economy it is monday, march 16, 2020 squawk box begins right now. Good morning im becky quick at cnbc headquarters joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin u. S. Equity futures hitting limit down after dropping 5 that means they cant trade any lower this morning those are the curbs set up by the exchanges. You will continue to watch whats happening with the etfs, however, because they are not held to the same restrictions. Can you see the dow etf is down by 9 . The s p etf down by almost 9 . That gives you a better idea of where the major averages would open if we were open h
Volumesaining 4. 5 , higher than average. Thethe dow, about 76 above 20 day average. For the nasdaq, about 50 above. Romaine as far as some of your leaders, kind of a mixed bag. Scarlet cosco comedy that costco, the best performer in the s p 500. I am thinking about volatility. Extraordinary gain as you and romain were talking about. More big moves to the upside and probably the downside are ahead. The spring500 during and summer. When it broke, it broke into huge moves. Both the upside and downside. We are looking at the best day since then. Relatively small moves, especially in the last quarter of last year. These huge, with moves to the downside, volatility is back. Volatility breeds volatility. There is probably more ahead as investors try to figure out what this coronavirus will mean for the global economy. Like most sectors, financials did really well despite the fact that the outlook for Interest Rates is not great. Treasury yields, new lows again. Financials were among the hard
Rooney in as he left the baghdad airport. This is a tweet from the state news agency that shows a missile leaving a launchpad, the eye iranians say one of the targets was the all asad military base which houses military troops. What happens now is a question on everyones mind . Is this attack over and how will the u. S. Respond . Benjamin hall is live in amman jordan with the latest. Benjamin. Good evening kennedy and for five days now since that it that killed Qassem Soleimani we have been waiting to see how iran would retaliate for his death. And theyve been talking about ever since then. They have said very clearly that politically and militarily they will respond they will attack the u. S. Military. A number of them had also said that they wanted to shed american blood. These early reports do suggest that no americans have been killed today and that is a critical. Because President Trump always said that the red line would be the death of american soldiers. We saw that when he reac