Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
Thank you, guys. Okay. Alex gorsky from j j, appreciate it well be back tomorrow cnbcs special coverage continues right now. Good monday morning welcome to squawk on the street, im Carl Quintanilla with jim cramer and david faber. Coming to you live from separate locations even on set as we practice social distancing futures are stable to start the week as the president extends those social distancing guidelines to april 30th j j, as you just heard, announcing a lead candidate for a covid19 vaccine a lot of people were astonished that the futures, just at the moment when the president said, look, we have to extend things. Take away that april 12th deadline, it will go all april at the very moment we saw the futures start reversing. I think this is a day, dont know how much more, a day where science trumps the pain and the disaster frankly that is covid there have been many, many days weve come in and science has been playing catch up game today it sounds like science is on target. List
Need to accept the world has changed and we need to change with it. From now on when we come in on monday, were not going to be focus on sales or earnings of companies but Coronavirus Infections and fay fatalities. These days, the pandemic controls the dow gained, nasdaq jumped 9. 35 . Yes, those are not mistakes. All have been an extremely oversold position, 2. 78 yield for the dow. Until this virus is contained or cured or just naturally levels out, you should expect much of this gain to be repealed, more selling and if we dont get the fiscal help needed to improve the rudiments of our Service Based economy, i think today is going to end up being a good day to sell. And it already happened, maybe monday lets be real. We cant sustain a meaningful rally, until we have the covid19 situation under control. And we cant get things under control without test kits and antibody medicine that triumphs over the scourge there are two paradigms south korea which is doing it right. Right. We have
Hour futures are solid, earnings phase one signing, lots of eco data our road map begins with trade optimism reigniting the record rally. The chinese delegation heads to d. C. Today for an expected phase one signing on wednesday plus new ceo, same crisis. What to expect from boeings new chief executive, David Calhoun, who takes over today and the future of the 737 max. Then there were four, alphabet nearing the trilliondollar market cap club, behind apple, microsoft and amazon stocks are looking to recoup some losses from dow, the dow surpassed 29k for the first time before finishing in the red. All three major indices are in the green since the beginning of the year led by the nasdaqs 2 gain as we were saying on squawk a few moments ago, jim, if lulu yes, maam of lemon is a clue to the earnings season, maybe this rally has been justified we have two conference this is ek wweek, icr in orlando andi conference in san francisco, health care. Theyre used to be able to say better than expe