At this. Look at the market this morning. We are going to be down today, of course that follows an enormous 20 rally in the last three days. Perhaps investors are upset with the delay in the stimulus vote. Perhaps theres some profit taking after the explosive rally. The dow will open this morning with a loss of around 700 points. The s p, down about 200. The nasdaq off about 82. A decline at the opening bell. President trump, he wants to get the economy back up and running again as soon as possible. He has a plan to divide counties by risk, high, medium and low, depending on medical conditions. Some of those low risk counties may be able to bring some people back to work early. Today on this program, i will ask Vice President pence about the president s plan. Thats in our 10 00 hour this morning. The news on the virus itself, the United States has now more cases than any other country in the world, assuming you can believe the numbers coming out of china. Spain recorded 769 deaths in t
They are right now. Neel kashkari helped pull the nation out of our last economic crisis. Now with the Federal Reserve, he has a frank view of what must be done to save the economy from coronavirus. Having been on the front line of the 2008 financial crisis, and i saw how devastating that was, we did get through it. We will get through this crisis. Rightwing populism is making a notsosubtle comeback in europe. We found an interesting example in hungary, where a Government Program intends to stimulate birth rates by taking over fertility clinics, offering free treatments, giving cash loans, and even subsidizing minivans for young, married couples who become new parents. Im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im jon wertheim. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking togethe a hand especially now with 6month payment relief. Buy a new ford, well defer 3 payments and make 3 payments for peace of mind up to 6 months. Shop at ford. Com or contact your fo
President trump i will be invoking the defense production act in case we need it. It can do a lot of good things if we need it. Well have it all completed, signing it in just a little while of after im finished with this conference. Its prepared to go. Well be invoking the defense production act. Lou President Trump meeting with doctors and nurses at the white house. They committed to an increase in Safety Equipment including masks for healthcare workers. President trump american manufacturers are repurposing factories. One major manufacturer has doubled capacity and we asked Construction Companies to donate unused masks, and they have quite a few of them, the Construction Companies. Who would think that. But they will be donating unused masks. The Defense Department is making millions of masks available for healthcare workers. Lou healthcare workers across the country taking matters into their own hands at the headquarters of the Providence Health system. Workers convening in Conferen
Senate. Were monitoring a anomaly happened in the markets here. You heard about negative Interest Rates abroad. That is almost Standard Operating Procedure particularly if europe. We have them here, yield on one month bill, three month bill, below zero percent. You effectively paying the bank for the honor of holding your dough. It is an anomaly. It worry as lot of folks who seem to think if this become as more established trend it could be a real problem. This, sort of statistical quirk is something were following because it is just limited to really the shortest and most immediate side of the socalled yield curve. It has not hit anything north of the one year and 10year, stuff that we follow closely. But it its something that has now happened for the first time in American History but if the stock market is worried about it, again as i stress, it has a funny way of showing it. Back to capitol hill. Well be monitoring that. Also monitoring what is happening on the floor of the senate
Plan that would help struggling businesses and those put out of work because of the virus and make direct cash payments. The deal was in the work on tuesday ands caused a celebration with the dow having its biggest oneday point gain in history. It appears investors have become a little more optimistic after stocks took a tremendous battery. On tuesday President Trump toogave the first indication of when he wants to see the pullback in the nationwide restrictions we are seeing. He told a town hall that he liked to have the country up by easter, april 12 but thats a much earlier timeline than many experts believe will be required to keep the virus under control. The first shockwaves we saw on thursday when they reported weekly unemployment claims that soared to over 3 million. The most since records have been capped and almost five times higher during the financial crisis. How much has the coronavirus already hurt the economy . How much more damage might be done . And more importantly ho