A deal to cut production iran says its exempt from the agreement along with libya and venezuela. A 2 week cease fire comes into effect in yemen but the heathy say they wont stop fighting while the country is still under siege. And hundreds of millions of children desperately needing food we look at the difficulties for aid agencies during the coronavirus crisis. So that the damage to the worlds biggest economy from the current of our shutdown is really hitting home in the past week another 6600000 people in the United States have joined the jobless queue and that means nearly 17000000 americans have now filed for Unemployment Benefits in just 3 weeks that figure is around one in 10 workers White House Correspondent can be help it says there are fears the figures could be even worse. Nothing like this scene in modern history and it is expected to be more because heres the reality the states unemployment offices are overwhelmed they cannot keep up with the processing of claims so weve ha
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
But im good and im back. Tom we are thrilled that you are back, and this illness is something, whether it is the flu or covid or whatever. Betsy grace at Morgan Stanley yesterday, and she said she is focused on the original moment we had in earnings yesterday. We will see that with j. P. Morgan and wells fargo. As you mention in your opening, the major thrust here, country to country come is on lockdown, and if and when anybody can really wish country to country, is on lockdown, and if anybody can relinquish the quarantine on society. Francine we will have a full round down rundown on the possibility of a vaccination, but we are nowhere near that yet. We also have to look at antibody testing. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump hopes to reopen the u. S. Ahead of schedule. The president saying within days the administration will issue guidance for governors who want to relax social distancing practices. The pres
And 0en the blocktalks for the efforts. Telling this Program Unity is what is needed a relief package is absolutely necessary it is necessary because we combat a common enemy in europe. Solidarity has to be demonstrated uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson is admitted to the hospital and dominic raab will continue doing had is work there is incredible teamwork behind the Prime Minister to make sure we get him better as soon as possible over to the wall here to give you a story of how the markets have developed weve been on air since the open this morning and only seen gains pile on effective live so europe is playing catchup on the rally we saw in the United States and asia. It is a broadbased rally of the stoxx 600. We are up nearly 3 year, which takes us back 20 on top of the loan that we saw in this index lets roll the wall and show you how that breaks down in terms of that individual picture for different markets. Perhaps im surprisingly given on the focus of the financial well being a
Here as well. Also want to point out some breaking news. Macys says their cfo paula price is going to leave the company. They are looking at an external search currently. Premarket withn the overall market. Exxon mobil also coming out, finally the last of the big majors to cut their capex. They see overall Capital Investments for this year about 23 billion. They saw up to 33 billion. They are also cutting operating expenses by about 15 . They are maintaining their longterm outlook. They say Capital Allocation priorities remain unchanged. The longest chunk of all these cuts are going to be spending in the permian basin. That is interesting. We heard something very similar with chevron, a little easier to shale. Ex within they are dealing with the fallout of the crisis. Watching those stocks as we head into the open. U. S. , as wellthe as the markets, but the collapse of the Small Business optimism i was just talking about. Gauge falling by 8. 18 points in march. Michael mckee joins us w