A Trial Program for its Digital Currency were going to discuss all that and more coming up all right its time to boost your news i q. 1000 continues to take the world by storm with cases now topping well over 2000000 the latest number of cases now 2 and a half 1000000 with about 175000 reported deaths here in this country in the United States 814000 total cases with about 43000 deaths more than one 4th of that total number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Come from new york state alone now new york continues to be the epicenter of this outbreak with some 242000. 00 converge cases and now the governor and. Requote cuomo is meeting with President Trump to discuss the States Coronavirus response with more on that anticipated meeting and how the federal government could help out new york heres arties Trinity Chavez with more. As the states across the country begin to reopen Governor Andrew Cuomo says in order for new york to get back to business a drastic increase of testing is needed but w
A huge agreement has been reached between the Trump Administration and u. S. Airlines for a bailout package in the billions included in the 2 trillion dollars stimulus package signed on march 27th was about 25000000000 dollars for the Airline Industry but until now the Treasury Department and the airlines had not come to an agreement on exactly how or under what conditions the airlines would receive that money now the greenman which came together late tuesday includes warrants that could lead to the federal government owning equity stakes in the companies and requirements that 30 percent of the assistance would have to be paid back now according to treasury secretary Kerry Stephen minucci and the airlines that will receive the funding include Alaska Airlines Allegiant Airlines American Airlines Delta Airlines Frontier Airlines Hawaiian Airlines jet blue united sky west and Southwest Airlines now conversations continue with airlines regarding their potential participation now thats of c
Significantly in this statement here, in unanimous decision, the fed will maintain the target rate of near zero, between zero and quarter of a point until the fed is certain, it says that the economy has weathered this storm. Now the fed also approved establishment after primary credit rate of. 25 . The basic credit rate it lends to banks going back and forth no mention other Credit Facilities being related or created for this. Of the almost 5 trillion in stimulus. The Federal Reserve has yet to go forward. I talked with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and he said [inaudible] cheryl weve just lost edward. I want to give you a recap. Well look at the dow right now. Stocks are actually maintaining their position right now. The dow is up 570. All of the headlines were seeing cross from the Federal Reserve right now, again just to recap here, near zero, unanimous decision. It was 100 from the fed a unanimous decision and they are pledging aggressive action as the economic distress worsens
Earnings season even as Goldman Sachs warns of a 35 g. D. P. Slump. And jpmorgan is the first u. S. Bank to report. Wells fargo comes next. Dont miss our interview with the c. F. O. Later on today. Those earnings come out before the u. S. Bell this morning. And global coronavirus cases approach the 2 million mark with 119,000 people dead. France extends its lockdown. The u. K. Is expected to follow suit this week. Were just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning. We had the u. S. Trade down yesterday. India is doing quite well or did quite well overnight. European futures up more than 1 across the board. Ftse and euro stocks, dak futures this morning. Dax futures this morning. Here h your top stories this morning. President trump says he has total authority to order states to relax social distancing and reopening their economies. A number of u. S. State governors say they will form regional alliances to coordinate th
Percent they say of the grants that the airlines would get would actually benefit taxpayers get this they say in the form of payroll and income tax receipts that doesnt make any sense at all they dont loan someone money if they can pay it back to you and then say thats a benefit to me because they were going to give some of the back and form of taxes thats thats crazy and so essentially what theyve done is are saying 30 percent of it youre going to repay back at some point but i got to tell you this stinks this whole thing 25000000000. 00 going directly to airlines to build them out when in the past we know this that American Airlines and Delta Airlines so Many Airlines have gone into bankruptcy in the past it doesnt mean that those airlines shut down they re emerge from bankruptcy it does not mean the end of the Airline Industry which is what so many in the media are telling us now what are the most interesting portions of this deal is that it does seem to include some ownership stake