That, you see some famous sites of new york as it passed through the statue of liberty sailing into lower manhattan. World trade center in background of one of these sites, brings up memory this ship has been here before. Three days after 9 11 it helped out with first spenders then. It is back for a second go around. You have 12 operating rooms. 700 beds put into circulation right away. Mayor de blasio speaking, talking about new york has been asking for help and now the help has arrived. Heres the mayor. I cant tell you how much this means. It is so much more than even we realized at this moment, that our nation has heard our plea for help here in new york city and there could not be a better example of all of america pulling for new york city than the arrival of the usns comfort. Some major, major moment in this long battle. Connell mayor de blasio thanking by name both President Trump and defense secretary mark esper in participate of his remarks. You see numbers. New york needs hel
Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all of this mornings top stories. We begin in japan, with efforts to calm the market jitters over the coronavirus outbreak. The boj says it will provide ample liquidity to ensure stability. Joining us is enda curran. It help to the market for a second. What did we learn . Enda it seems like it is part of a coordinated push by the worlds Central Banks. To be a g said they would provide liquid it the boj said they would provide liquidity and followed up by putting money into the market. It is important to also say what they are not doing. They didnt signal an Interest Rate cut. Interest rates are already in the get of territory in japan. They didnt indicate any outright easing. They already have a huge Balance Sheet from years of quantitative easing. It is in sync with steps being taken by others. It is more designed to ensure confidence than outright easing. Alix lets stay in asia right now. Global coronavirus cases are at 89,000. Indonesia re
Fields. So many things are happening. It is a very exciting time for, for medicine. Cheryl talk more about that later. Questions about the virus are growing from our kids to home surfaces. Well separate fact from fiction for you. All of that and a lot more coming up on making money. Cheryl our top story, the White House Coronavirus task force wrapping up another briefing today on a roller coaster day for these markets. Blake burman at the white house. He has a lot more. Blake . Reporter cheryl, we rant into the Vice President s chief of staff, marc short. There are a lot of questions about the phase three stimulus program, the trillion dollar package the white house is trying to put together to coordinate with capitol hill. He told us they believe this could potentially put together and signed by next week. As you heard the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin tell Maria Bartiromo earlier this morning, part of that package entails 500 billion worth of direct payments to americans. The trea
Crisis as leverage to force europe to support his syria operation. Exit polls suggest Benjamin Netanyahu has likud party has won the most seats in Israels Parliament and is within grasp of a governing majority. Coming up in support form a little poor i mean when footballer Daniel Sturridge says hell campaign against basing Company Practices of the being banned for breaching rules on gambling. So we begin with the current Virus Outbreak and data from the World Health Organization which shows the virus is now advancing faster in countries other than china new cases in china dropped to their lowest levels in 6 weeks on monday but continue to rise in south korea italy and iran senegal saudi arabia to nazir jordan and indonesia are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease but every it shows has the best defense is still containment. In the last 24 hours there with almost 9 times more cases reported outside china. Inside china we are in unchartered territory we have never see
This is bloomberg surveillance. These are what the markets are doing. U. S. Stocks and bonds closed today too today due to president s day. We are edging up a bit with buoyancy on the market on the backs of investors taking encouragement from china. They will do more to support their economy which is why we in gold down and yen down. That is a good litmus that we are on a risk on. Spoke the yousef managing director of the imf about the outlook on the Global Economy and the active the coronavirus. All hear from the interview early. First, let leanne erin. Leanne japan is it possible for sex after taking another battery the sales tax hike in the last and that economy at the low end as the coronavirus it activity drunk 6. 3 in the final three months of the year. That would be the biggest slide since the previous tax increase in 2014. Tensions between the u. S. And europe over huawei ramped up another notch this weekend. The u. S. Ambassador to germany tweeted a warning to countries that u