Loom over the market. And the u. S. And china continue to trade barbs over the handling of the crisis. Washington says the world has been let down. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures looking like this. Unchanged at the moment. This, after we saw a broadbased rally in the regular session. This halting a two day slide. We had the latest around corporate earnings showing a little more positive sentiment. Chipotle and Texas Instruments rising on solid result. We had tech leading the gains with the nassau composite seen the best day in about one week, reversing yesterdays weakness in tech and chipmakers as well. We have a little more optimism about the eventual reopening of the economy as well, so we had this pullback in treasuries confirming this riskon move. Take a look at what oil is doing. We saw oil rising from record lows in the new york session. Barrel right 14 a now as President Trump ordered the navy to deploy any uranium boats i
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Time to lessen the economic pain, which we are clearly suffering. Meanwhile, fox news has blown the lid off the china virus story. Reliable sources suggest the virus began at a virology lab in wuhan, china. Patient zero, the first person to get it, was a lab worker who went out into the city and spread the virus from there. Now, the chinese authorities covered it up. They delayed action. They altered data and suppressed doctors and journalists who reported the truth. The story is an indictment of china and the communist authorities. It will dramatically change the u. S. china relationship. Heres how the markets reacting to all of this. We got bad news on manufacturing in the philadelphia and new york area. We got a sharp drop in Housing Starts. And weve got those dreadful jobless numbers. But the dow is going to open on the upside, maybe up 90 points. Thats almost a half percentage point. Same story for the nasdaq and also, look at the nasdaq, actually, thats going to be up more than 1
Coronavirus case fails to improve overnight. The u. K. Prime minister is still conscious but has received oxygen treatment dominic raab is deputized. Equities heading for their first backtoback games in two weeks. Futures pointing higher in the u. S. While oil rises ahead of thursdays opecplus meeting. Coronavirusthe maybe reaching a plateau in europe as cases slow across the continent. Italy could start ending its. Ockdown on a gradual basis just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. A quick look at futures here. A gain in futures at the cash trade closed higher yesterday. Gains in u. S. Futures with the 0. 4 the dow s p up 0. 4 . Anna everybody still focused on what is going on with coronavirus globally. Cases are being handled and death rates. We need to get to the first word news update. Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. His Coronavirus Infection worsened. He had been selfisolating for 10 days, struggling to shake off covid19. Dominic raab is