Pandemic more than 500000 people lost their livelihood when it comes to Something Like unemployment the effects get felt more deeply week after week it doesnt all happen to want to guess she gets tougher as we go along so. I think whats coming up is going to be even more of a challenge and thats why were preparing right now to feed everyone this while the citys Homeless Population seeks refuge with no place to go as new york remains the epicenter of the outbreak with over 200000 cases and more than 10000 deaths the city announcing that they plan to move 6000 Homeless People about a 3rd of shelter residents from shelters into hotels by april 20th the coalition for the homeless saying that the move does not come close to meeting the scale or urgency of the need this while new York Governor Andrew Cuomo along with governors from several other Eastern States are working to coordinate the reopening of the region and its economy while governments grapple with how to reopen people on the stre
Surveillance. Quite a lot going on with your markets. Lets have a look at what they are doing and some data out of the euro area. Services pmi are coming in short of the expectations. Preliminary figures were 28. 4. Services pmi are at 26. 4. Important jobs data will give us a clue as to the scale of damage to the worlds biggest economy as the damage spreads arid the dollar is actually edging higher. Fluctuating following the jump yesterday. Investors are weighing the assertion that saudi arabia would cut production. Lets get straight to bloomberg news. Coronavirus infections have topped one million, reaching a milestone just four months after it surfaced in china. Deaths are accelerating in europe but new infections are starting to slow in both spain and france arid france. Officials say it is too early to relax restrictions. In the United States, the Unemployment Rate could rise 15 these comments come after 10 million americans lost their jobs over the past two weeks. Yesterdays jobl
Activity as Economic Activity grinds to a halt here in the u. S. , the white house calling for half a trillion dollars in direct payments to taxpayers and says we could see bailouts for airlines, hotels, and cruise industries, all the sectors getting crushed in todays market and crude oil down a staggering 23 . Now trading just above 20 a barrel we have every angle covered for you. Bob pisani is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Kayla is in washington with the response to lawmakers. And were covering the latest on the virus itself bob, first to you on another roller coaster ride today here at the Stock Exchange. We have a quiet morning i say relatively quiet, it was down 6 tach take a look at the s p i urge you to watch it emotionally. He said we need a 30spring break. This slow rollout of a shutdown is not working market dropped quickly to the lows of the day. We hit the Circuit Breaker at 12 50 eastern time, 15minute pause. We reopened. We have not dropped to the he second
Measures fail to emerge. On the monetary side, the bank of england, becomes the latest to cut rates treasury yields hovering around 80 basis points. Full Team Coverage of todays market plunge. Mike san tolly is with us and meg on the latest on the coronavirus. But well begin with breaking news out of washington major Bank Executives meet with the president today. Well get to wolf at the white house. Reporter the president and the Vice President and the treasury secretary currently hosting in the white house behind me the leaders of the major Financial Institutions of this country in attendance we have the leaders of jpmorgan, bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs, wells fargo, black stone making it the type of gathering we havent seen since the peak of the financial crisis. Theyre all inside, as we speak. What will be on the agenda well, two main things. Number one, liquidity and the functioning of markets number two, lending to businesses that are most affected by the coronavirus.
A fairly strong currency move this week. Time now for global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to london, frankfurt and new york come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. In asia, the coronavirus continues to spread, with south africa reporting a surge in was also inand that south korea. Joining us is stephen engle. Give us the latest. Stephen you have another revision out of china as they get previously unreported cases out of five different prisons in three provinces. You have those supposedly isolated clusters adding to the total again. They revealed the numbers and then added more. In some cases, more than 200 ands in chengdu province another in hubei province. More provinces could report outbreaks as well in those supposedly isolated ecosystems like prisons. As well, we are seeing additional clusters in other parts of asia, not just china. You are seeing a surge in cases of another 52 in sou