They jumped from animals to humans, spread rapidly around the world. Both are pretty lethal. Fortunately, this is much less lethal than the 1918 pandemic. However, considerably more contagious than the 1918 pandemic. Virulence, itless will still kill a lot of people. Steve how did the country react . Of course, a different time in terms of news, and how his word spread about how to protect yourself from what at the time was called the spanish flu . John it was a completely different situation because we were at war. Woodrow wilson created an , designed to win the war, with a Propaganda Machine and the architect of that Propaganda Machine wrote and false are just terms, all that matters is what the impact is. That was one thing when you are trying to keep morel up during the war, it was another thing when you are fighting and infectious disease. And because of that infrastructure when the pandemic arrived, National Public Health Leaders or outright lying about it there was no tony fauci
Optimism grows over flattening curve in some areas of the countries. Signs that lockdowns could be having positive impact. 7 and 3 quarters percent yesterday, take a look. Pretty good rally at the end of the day as well. Dow industrials up yesterday, nasdaq up 540 and s p up 175. President trump announcing a deal with 3m to supply medical masks and he said he had a, quote, wonderful call with former Vice President about the coronavirus response. We have you covered this morning about the pandemic and markets and beyond with allstar lineup you do not want to meet miss. Plus what other possible rounds of stimulus might look like, phase 4. The Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban is here on what should be done to help businesses survive pandemic. Heros stepping forward to help the world on time of crisis. Mornings with maria live now. Big show this morning and big rally underway, lets take a look at Global Markets which are mimicking the wall streets gains today. The cac quarante is up 118 a
Up financial loans looking to extend the lockdown to may. Germany announces plans to let small shops reopen next week translator what we have achieved is an interim success no more. No less. I emphasize that it is a frag ill interim success this is an emergency like no other. She warns we could get further economic weakness if this virus takes a double trip around the world. The fund saying asian growth will grind to a stand still this year a look at the european stock market we are now into the trading session. Weve warmed up. The market is in much of the green. What we saw was a reversal of fortunes to the tune of 3. 25 fairly decent selling for the german stock market. These markets also bouncing. Investors still weighing on very negative data. Youve got a glow from the United States to markets well weather retail pressure. The ftse in italy holding on to the strongest gains 2. 3 higher and down about 4. 8 pes recovering about half of that territory. The French Market 1. 1 weve been
In the early part of the session, not just the yield curve that dom mentioned but suspensions of dividends from very large european banks this morning as well. And you have the great interview with michael as well talking about that bank and everything hes seeing through that lens, too the other thing in focus, real estate, worst performing sector in the s p today in what is a down day across the board for the major averages coming off the worst First Quarter for the dow and s p ever the other thing im looking at is crude were seeing crude prices come off again after not only the worst month but the worst quarter ever in terms of price fall for crude, lost more than 66 if in the first three months of the year prp you also had the industrial numbers, manufacturing numbers out of europe that didnt look good either john, what are you watching today . Its hard to find good news among tech stocks this morning so much is down. I think its worth having a broader conversation about where we go
Very early on if you look at all of the countries to date, the mortality is higher at the beginning because youre diagnosing the sickest. The ones that came in quite ill. I want to remind the American Public that the risk for serious illness and the majority of americans are low. Cantat does not mean you transmit it to a higher risk group. That is why we are asking for all americans to take responsibility. You are seeing mortality or deaths today from infections that occurred 23 weeks ago. The other thing you are seeing is the dramatic and very difficult impact of this virus in nursing homes. On the why very early president and Vice President had just come out and put the strict rules in place. Everybody thought we were being too strict in keeping loved ones away from family. If we are going to solve this with a lower death rate, we have to protect the elderly. If there percent is much higher groups. The other age reporter there is a report that the federal government has a plan that s