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Brent crude hits its lowest price this century as the demand crash hits the Global Benchmark. An impromptu opecplus call reaffirms commitment to cuts but no action. Repeat,see brent, brent. The u. S. Senate passes new Pandemic Relief Funds totaling 500 billion. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says it is likely to be the last roche sees a bump as they work on developing tests for covid19. We will speak with the ceo of roche at 8 00 a. M. U. K. Time, 9 00 a. M. On the continent. Just one hour away from the start of cash equity trading throughout europe. Lets take a look at what futures are doing this morning after that drop in u. S. Stocks yesterday. Euro stocks futures, the benchmark European Index futures. 7 5 . Ts trading at ftse futures up just over. 5 right now. Take a look at what is going on in u. S. Futures. Also seeing green arrows they are. A little bit of a bounce to be expected for sure but we see s p futures up. 5 , nasdaq futures . 6 these are the top stories from the bloo
Is the condition essentially the same day two of intensive care as what we saw a day one of intensive care . Guy it appears to be, the second night in the icu, though, which is significant, so the indications are that he is stable and in good spirits. Basically that is all the information we have at this point. We simply do not know anything more. I drove past this morning, and they were delivering oxygen. But at the moment there is very Little Information about the Prime Ministers epic addition. He is not on a ventilator. I think on the Prime Ministers condition. He is not on a ventilator. Don we are really tom we are thrilled to bring are in. On the state we first word news. Viviana we begin with European Union finance ministers, on an emergency teleconference that lasted more than 16 hours, yet they failed to agree on a strategy to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. They could not reconcile their contracting visions there big roadblock, should the e. U. Issue joint deb
President trump and members of the White House Coronavirus task force spoke to reporters about the outbreak in the latest projections from health officials. As of yesterday, the u. S. Now has the most reported cases of covid19, surpassing china and italy. President trump hello, everybody. Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you. Beautiful day. Very good, what youre doing. Look at all those empty seats. Never seen it like that. Oh, boy. How the world has changed. How the world has changed. Right . But its going to end up being better than ever. I want to thank you very much for being here and i want to update you on the steps were taking on our ongoing fight to the virus. This morning i spoke to the leaders of the g20. Had a great meeting. We have a lot of different ideas, a lot of good ideas. Were working together. The leaders gathered virtually around the world to discuss the whole subject of the problem now, 151 nations have got. We had president fernandez of argentina, Prime Minister
Loom over the market. And the u. S. And china continue to trade barbs over the handling of the crisis. Washington says the world has been let down. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures looking like this. Unchanged at the moment. This, after we saw a broadbased rally in the regular session. This halting a two day slide. We had the latest around corporate earnings showing a little more positive sentiment. Chipotle and Texas Instruments rising on solid result. We had tech leading the gains with the nassau composite seen the best day in about one week, reversing yesterdays weakness in tech and chipmakers as well. We have a little more optimism about the eventual reopening of the economy as well, so we had this pullback in treasuries confirming this riskon move. Take a look at what oil is doing. We saw oil rising from record lows in the new york session. Barrel right 14 a now as President Trump ordered the navy to deploy any uranium boats i