The s p 500 down deep in the red down 5 . Fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman is at the white house where the president is currently meeting with nurses on the pandemic. Kristina partsinevelos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. And chad pergram is on capitol hill. Were going to start with blake. Reporter hi, there, we had known for about a day now that the Trump Administration had been potentially eyeballing a trillion dollar stimulus package, bailout package, whatever you want to call it. Now we know what they are thinking of, how that trillion dollars might be divvied out. According to a Treasury Department document 50 billion would go towards the airlines. 150 billion would be in loans to critical sectors of the economy or what is deemed as critical sectors of the economy. On top of that, there would be 300 billion in Small Business loan guarantees, and, there would be 500 billion in direct payments to americans. Half on april 6th. Half six weeks after that, on may 18
S p is down 76. We are watching all of these markets. A few things are going on right now. Investors werent impressed by the feds vow to buy an unlimited amount of Government Debt and give loans to businesses, big and small. Theres one industry that Coronavirus Crisis is impacting directly, restaurants. They are closing their doors to patrons, trying to shift to takeout only. We s ghave got the owner of a gp of restaurants who will tell us, he will say this, the restaurant recession has already started, already in effect. We know folks are out of work but how bad is it . We will find out. Theres also sharks in the water, there always are. Investors are not just looking for an edge in the selloff but advising businesses in how to survive the crisis. Weve got one of the best in this. Hes an investor, an entrepreneur, founder of fubu and the star of shark tank, daymond john will join us to give us his perspective in all of this and oh, yeah, we are going to check in on liz claman as she b
Really just the tip of the iceberg with probably millions of layoffs still to come. On monday the first big wave hit the Retail Sector with macys, kohls and gaps announcing they would furlough tens of thousands of mows. The closure of stores to prevent the spread to have virus has taken a heavy toll on its business. And President Trump had to give up on his hope expressed just a week ago that the u. S. Could be opened up by easter. Hes now saying the company will have to keep practicing social distancing for the entire month of april, and he add added that we should prepare for a very painful two weeks ahead. Meantime, his top medical advisers warn that up to 240,000 americans could die from this disease even with current Safety Measures in place. On wall street stocks ended their worst First Quarter ever. The dow lost 23 , thats the biggest quarterly decline since the quarter of the black monday market crash of 1987. And the New York Stock Exchange floor remained eerily quiet, tempora
Suspended at one point on wall street as stocks plummeted again despite the announcement of massive stimulus plan. The World Health Organization says its concerned some countries still arent doing enough testing to prevent the spread of corona virus more than 8000 people globally and now confirmed to have died after catching the virus the number of reported cases this past 200000 italy has reported 475 new deaths the highest death toll for a single day of any nation since the 1st case was detected in china late last year malaysia is racing to track down potential corona virus carriers after its confirmed cases jumped to 790. 00 nearly 2 thirds of those a link to a religious gathering late last month that spread the virus to at least 6 other countries and despite many governments announcing massive stimulus packages asian european and u. S. Markets have plummeted again as well as oil prices u. S. Markets were suspended for 15 minutes for the 4th time in a month the team barbara has more
Iceberg with probably millions of layoffs still to come. On monday the first big wave hit the Retail Sector with macys, kohls and gaps announcing they would furlough tens of thousands of mows. The closure of stores to prevent the spread to have virus has taken a heavy toll on its business. And President Trump had to give up on his hope expressed just a week ago that the u. S. Could be opened up by easter. Hes now saying the company will have to keep practicing social distancing for the entire month of april, and he add added that we should prepare for a very painful two weeks ahead. Meantime, his top medical advisers warn that up to 240,000 americans could die from this disease even with current Safety Measures in place. On wall street stocks ended their worst First Quarter ever. The dow lost 23 , thats the biggest quarterly decline since the quarter of the black monday market crash of 1987. And the New York Stock Exchange floor remained eerily quiet, temporarily closeed because of the