Boris johnson and his house secretary. Spains deputy Prime Minister yesterday. Huge number of cases in the u. S. 22 states now under stayathome orders as 50 of the u. S. Population is meant to be abiding those orders. Down to 73 basis points on the 10 year yield. Crude back down again. 21 point 49. Canadian dollar weaker by about 7 10 of 1 after the bank of canada reduced its Interest Rate to 25 basis points. The Prime Minister selfisolating over here, the Health Secretary selfisolating. We are all selfisolating. The brown story in the market is done and dusted. We go into a weekend where traders do not want to take risk. Terrible numbers overnight out of spain. U. K. Numbers continue to climb. Numbers around the world of those infected and the fatalities continue to rise. That story is now taking over from that meal a we focused on so much over the last couple of days. European stocks at session lows, approaching that 300 mark with a bid back in the bond market. 50 in the german tenye
Mondays losses on the dow eclipse the first day of the wall street crash in the great depression, as the ceo of nasdaq says it is critically important to keep markets open. Macron callsuel for unity in the battle against the coronavirus. The e. U. Closes its borders, as im a trump admits the u. S. Could enter a recession. Unknown, volkswagen says the economic fallout from the pandemic is impossible to predict, as car plants across europe are shut down. Anna good morning everybody. A grizzly monday on wall street following a 100 basis point cut from the fed after an emergency meeting, the dow fell almost 13 , the biggest plunge since 1987. Oil hit its lowest level in over four years. President trump says the coronavirus may cause economic disruption against the summer and it could send the u. S. Economy into recession. Pointing, u. S. Futures up and european features also pointing to gains. The s p has fallen or risen by 4 last six days, an incredible record of volatility. And, lets loo
Day. Thet issues and trade, ongoing battle between the u. S. And potential cyber warfare. Here in california. A lot of people commute. It is a feeling our colleagues in asia have been living with for weeks. How are markets opening up over there . Paul some unambiguous signals. New zealand has been open for an 2. 5 , aready off by move down of similar magnitude for futures in australia. 4. 5 , theures are off kospi weaker as well. We continue to see strength in the japanese yen. A lot of data coming out of japan today, retail sales, tokyo cpi, both of those contracting, even before the coronavirus outbreak. Take a look at the yields, big move down. Of at a fresh record low. 83. Global stocks plunging to fourmonth lows, u. S. Equities falling the most since august 2011 as anxiety over the coronavirus deepens. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. A lot of red. And id be on the close. Averages all down more than 4 , there was a rebound rally attempt. Turned briefly higher, but that i
Or things like that that weve discussed that is that we have the same problem in america all of the presenters on the mainstream news on the cable news are centered entirely out of new york entirely out of washington d. C. All of the newspapers across america we used to have local television we have local newspapers we have used the regional newspapers Regional Press outlets now we only have from the Major Financial Centers and it reminded me of a contact i have in the Intelligence Community i know thats big now and these days i would be a hero on m. S. N. B c but he was telling me that under dick cheney that dick cheney was really furious when the Intelligence Community basically did not agree that there was working in iraq and that saddam husseins was friends with iraq with al qaeda and that they were w m ds there so he basically got rid of all of the agents in the field. And the reason why he did that is he said they had gone native and they had too much sympathy with the natives an
First time in decades. Going there for more from beijing is bloombergs selina wang. Give us an update on the situation in terms of the death toll and some of the evacuations from the ships, and also what we have heard about potential delay to the National Peoples congress. Selina we heard from the head hospital that he turning point may be reached, but we did see the number of , so it looks like the virus has not reached a peak yet. Outside china, countries have been stepping up evacuation efforts from these cruise lines. The diamond princess cruise ship in japan reporting the number of infections jumped to 454 after another 99 new cases right in the fight. In beijing, you can still feel the effects on the local economy, with stores and restaurants still closed. There has been a slight uptick in activity as people have resumed work, but only about 40 to 50 of the economy has been running at capacity this week. In beijing, anyone returning from the city has been ordered to self quaranti