Or at least number of cases and number of deaths appear to be slowing. Certainly in the new york area, new york metropolitan area. Neil across the country, by and large across the globe. That does not mean cases are still increasing. It is theyre not increasing as much. Like yesterday the markets are seizing on that. That is lifting pretty much all of the major s p 500 sectors. All 11 that weve been keeping an eye on here. That despite what youre seeing happening in americas busiest thoroughfare, what used to be times square in new york, the crossroads of america, has been all but tumbleweed territory but again a lot of what youre seeing shows that right now at least in the markets maybe there is a sense those roadways will be busier and soon. There is no way of telling. Blake burman is looking what does justify or will describe what gets people out of their homes and what the government is looking at, what the United States is looking at, what states are looking at, to sort of get goi
Unity and the best of society. American held welcome pope francis has said a live streamed easter mass as the worlds 1300000000 catholics civil rights holiday under lockdown but it is traditional it will be a message to what he called this years easter of so he spoke in front of a small audience in some pages basilica instead of the 10s of thousands who normally gathered in the Square Francis called for Global Solidarity in fighting the coronavirus the pontiff also appealed for debt relief for poor countries and cease fires in all conflicts. Lets cross now to. Religious Affairs Correspondent martin what issues did the pope touch on in his speech. Clearly we have got a problem that will come back to martin if we can well its not just the pope for whom the coronavirus has forced a dramatic we think of face to celebrations but for christians of all denominations so lets take a look at how theyre marking a holy day lord jesus we love you today this texas church holds more than 16000. 00 wo
Believe the job that we have done. They cannot even believe it. I give tremendous credit to the military, theres been a military operation with private people, wait a minute. I give tremendous credit to our military, the army corps of engineers, fema, these people, the job that they have done is incredible. And you should not be asking that kind of a question. Jim honestly i really dont believe youre that bad. You should not be asking that kind of a question. You should say, you know what, it is been really incredible what has been happening. Jim, nobody is asking, what governor, let me ask you this. What governor, we have more test than anybody in the world we have virtually every country in the world calling us, asking us, how do we get these tests that you have, your testing is the best in the world, how do we get it, theyve done a fantastic job and when you ask a question like that its very insulting to a lot of great people. One more. You may have seen how sweden has responded to
Performance for the dow and the s p since the great depression. We have fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman with the latest, with the president. Lauren simonetti watching the markets. Edward lawrence is live in d. C. Lawrence, lets kick it off with you . I have to say good riddance to the month of march and it was really awful. Let me tell you how awful it was, the worst month for talks since the 2018 financial crisis. If were talking, dow lost, nasdaq lost more than 900 points this month. Not one dow winner in the entire month of march. In fact four march, worst one for the dow and s p 500 since, ready for this, the great dedepression. Does it get any better for the First Quarter . Not really, the dow down 23 in the First Quarter of the year. S p down 19 . Nasdaq down 12 . We had a winner in the quarter, just one. Out of 30 dow stocks it, was microsoft up barely but in the green. The worst stock for the month, for the quarter on the dow was boeing. This is a stock that saw 330, t
2. 3 billion trillion dollar stimulus package that is providing relief to Small Businesses. One of the biggest of that is 386 billion set aside to help Small Businesses with loans, checks, money that can be outright grants, Edward Lawrence has been following that because a lot of banks are handling the transactions, bank of america was up and running on this. He has the latest on all of th that. Reporter very interesting, Community Banks have led the charge on the spanking figure going forward, at 830 this morning, Steven Mnuchin has been on top of this to make sure. Look at the latest numbers, as of 1130, there was 2330 banks loans that have been given out for a total of 889 million that is direct stimulus into the u. S. Economy for the Small Businesses to keep people on pay checks and to give people pay checks and keep their lights on and pay the rent. On the jobs numbers, we expected was going to be bad but the number was really a surprise. Look at this a 4. 4 unemployment over all