At 10. 01 per barrel. It did manage to scratch back about 126 of yesterdays 300 plus loss but energy has swamped the stock market over the past 48 hours, completely wiping out fridays 700 plus point gain for the Dow Jones Industrials. Right now we are looking at the dow swooning at the moment, down 562 points. Thats good for a 2. 33 loss. All three major indices are facing a second straight day in the red. Could a lifeboat arrive within just an hour or two . Word is congress is coming together as we speak to replenish the Small Business rescue plan with a fresh 310 billion round of loans. As some big banks, though, play favorites with the First Tranche of money, nontraditional lenders are fast gaining more respect. Weve got the chairman and ceo of one of them. He has already delivered 2 billion to Small Companies and is ready, willing and able to do it once again. Got to hear how hes doing it. And hollywood is on hold as the sopranos prequell sleeps with the fishes. Steph patt ernot is
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
Nasdaq futures higher by 310 after even worse than expected jobs number led to selloff on friday. We showed you the numbers friday, dow, nasdaq and s p 500 in the red for the week. Take a look. Markets were down 2 overall on each of the major indices on the week. Oil prices this morning falling after the opec meeting which was to include russia was actually delayed. It was supposed to be a Virtual Meeting happening. It was scheduled to take place today. We are waiting on any news in terms of where the meeting stands with crude at 27. 40 a barrel. Later this Morning Energy secretary dan briet will join me and take on war between saudi arabia and russia. Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to coronavirus, we will get the latest on Prime Minister johnson coming up this morning. We are answering your financial questions this morning. Later what you need to know about your 401 k during this crisis. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets
Developments and Governor Andrew Cuomo has been mentioning these developments. Now worry on the food side though. We heard that tyson foods is indefinitely suspending operations at that largest pork plant in south dakota and worries now, forget about whether you get pork or beef. Whether, if and when you get it. We could be looking at sharply higher prices because right now it is in short supply. Connell mcshane on the latest developments. Hey, connell. Reporter neil, we have widespread agreement whether it is governments or companies, about the economic damage being caused by this pandemic in the country where there are differences though is on the approach to how to reopen economies. Now, you mentioned, some of it is businesses versus government. Business us will make the own decision. Tyson is example of that. Suspension of these operations you mentioned is an indefinite suspension. The basic thing here. A lot of workers, so many calling in sick at that plant that tyson felt they ju
President s chief economic adviser larry kudlow. Hes going to join us. Thats the question we will ask, when, where and how will some americans be able to get back to work. Now, check out the market. It reopens today after a threeday weekend. Last week was one of the best weeks in decades, with the dow rising 12 . No significant pullback this morning. We are down just maybe 70 odd points for the dow industrials and well above 23,500. How about that. The s p down about. 33 and the nasdaq, same thing, down about. 33 . That is not a significant pullback. Not helping the stock market is a forecast from jpmorgan. They suggest that gdp could fall 40 this quarter and unemployment could reach 20 . Now, that is a dire prediction. Check out the price of oil. The u. S. , russia, saudi arabia and other Oil Producers have announced an agreement that would take 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil a day off the world market. However, that has had very little impact. It may put a floor under the price of oil b