Concerns about jobs and especially about the coronavirus. Well talk about it all. Im connell shane, welcome to after the bell on a friday, and its time for the news thats happening at this hour. Our fox Business Team coverage, blake burman at the white house, Edward Lawrence is in washington, jer true willis in new york. Edward, we kick it off with you and the details on the jobs report. Reporter theres still some growth, plus looking forward to stimulus. Thats what the markets like. In november the economy added 245,000 jobs, almost half as much as the the experts thought. The unemployment rate, though, dropped to 6. 7 , well below what the federal are serve estimated from last summer. Now, the administration saying this is a fundamentally strong economy, and were moving very quickly in the right direction. Listen. President trump has always add slow e candidated keeping advocated keeping businesses open and keeping schools open. Thats very important. All right, thats a good point. So
We have fox Business Team coverage. Phil flynn is at the cme. Edward lawrence is on capitol hill, blake burman is live at the white house but first, lets go to Kristina Partsinevelos on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Do we have kristina . Kristina Circuit Breaker halted all markets for 15 minutes. The new york fed came out injecting 1. 5 trillion today and tomorrow in the repurchasing market. A lot of movement. Yet we still finished the day down, almost 10 lower at the dow, 2321 points. S p almost 10 as well. 9. 5 lower. Same thing for the nasdaq. Complete negative territory. You guys talked about it, this is a historical day, the biggest drop since the crash in 1987. I was only two years old at that point. Look at dow losers for the day. The dow has been down the entire day. Boeing, boeing taking a major beating. The stock was halted earlier today. Walt disney on there, ibm, american express. I want to switch over to travel stocks weve been paying attention to today, more s
2,255 points. Right now we are down 2,003 points. At 1 00 p. M. , money started fluttering down, the Federal Reserve making a move to support the bond market amid the coronavirus collapse. The s p 500, by the way, had been down 240 points and of course, we had 689 points getting slashed off the nasdaq. Right now the s p is down 219 and as we look at the nasdaq its down 619. Despite the feds move, the s p and nasdaq joined the Dow Jones Industrials in a bear market. This as the 11year bull market is officially about to come to an end. The selloff kicked in pretty much right at the open and five minutes in, triggered once again for the second time this week the Circuit Breakers that halted trading for 15 minutes. Lets show you some metrics here. The oil patch. Take a look at this. It is playing a huge role in this selloff once again. Oil is crashing, folks. We do have it down to 31. 32. Thats a loss of 5 today. Much of this comes after President Trump announced a travel ban on flights fr
Listen to what ted cruz said about getting to yes. If premiums continue to rise after we hold a press conference claiming to have repealed obamacare, that is a disaster. It is a disaster politically. Its a disaster substantiallily. It would be a failure of the mandate weve been given by the voters. Reporter take a look at three senators who are not a no, but theyre not yeses, theyre somewhat unclear. That obviously would be Susan Collins of maine, Lisa Murkowski from alaska, and rob portman from ohio. Neil as you do the math, it is simple, 48 democrats will vote no. Mitch mcconnell needs at least 50 republicans to say yes. Then he can get this through with the Vice President voting in favor as well. If he loses just one more, because if he loses more than the two, if it is three, this thing doesnt go forward. Negotiations are underway. Everybody has different concerns. Some like portman are concerned about funding for opioid at diction. Collins from maine is concerned about impacts fro