Lows fausting with a relief after more than 1hundred points lost in just two days. Investors are getting back into this market and theyre bargain hunting because the bottom line, yes, there is fear about the coronavirus but no one really knows what is going to happen. Weve seen a page from this kind of playbook before. Markets do tend to claw their way back. When ebola was a threat of july 2014 to march of 2016, there was a lot of volatility but the dow only lost half a percent overall. For sars, november 2002 to july 2003 the dow gained. From september 2001 to october october 2002 the dow lost a little more than 17 . You look at history, get a sense how investors reacted to all kind of different events, ebola, sars cases, they say that they tend to be blips, not events that define the market. Major corona headlines breaking today, the cdc confirming 14 cases of coronavirus and a u. S. Soldier in south korea testing positive as well. That is not to say this isnt something to worry abou
Uncertainty. Coming in below estimates. Oil making a move higher for a change today, snapping a fiveweek losing streak, turning in one of the best weeks of the year nanny taylor is here welcome to ladies hour here. Girl power. You say tech is the key do you mean fang or something broader . I mean something broader than that we started to see the Economic Data ticking up, yet local p miismt its mi is moving up, small by, Chinese Consumer precoronavirus. So we have to see what is going to be the impact, farreaching impact i think thats good for stocks so i think stocks are less risky. So were looking at tech as if it doesnt work, nothing works right now the total confirmed cases are topping 64,000, the total death toll is nearly 1400. In the u. S. There are 15 confirmed cases with eight of them in california Many Companies are continuing to speak out about the impact the virus is having on their bottom lines. Today british drug Maker Astrazeneca reported quarterly results, warnings a hit
The dow and nasdaq not far amazing suits and float around behind. S of tiffany surging the cabin. It will be a great market after all. I see you are talking about space suit this morning interest in acquiring the that was designed by under company for 120 a share. Armour the next investing frontier, one of the questions that gets Virgin Galactic set to make the put to me a lot is how do you public debut here at New York Stock Exchange this morning. Sir Richard Branson will join us know it is going to be safe . First on cnbc. When it comes to space i mean so, markets are chasing some history this morning the s p is on track to open at space is hard, it got to go off an all time intraday high. On friday, closed within six without the hitch. Points of that record level no room for error here after being fractions away from setting a new milestone. How do you ensure thats the case and what do you tell jim, a lot of the bears arguing what has gotten here from july has been healthcare and ut
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And the news app. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Us stocks close at you record highs we look at what is causing the optimism. Virgin galactic on the stock market debut. Good morning asia, hello well, glad you could join us. Lets kick off the programme with the us stock market because on wall street, the snp 500 index close at a fresh record high overnight. Equities gained with optimism over the progress of the us china trade dock and the Federal Reserve is expected to cut Interest Rates again this week. We have had earnings from alphabetic, beyond meat and t mobile. Earlier i asked whether the trade talk and rate cut expectations were masking general wea knesses expectations were masking general weaknesses in corporate earnings . Certainly that is the case. We are seeing any deal possibly signed in november raising investors hope we will not see trade tensions dolled between before the end of the year. We will see these december 29 tariff hikes delay which