Country americas wounded mass to stay in lockdown to avoid a fight taliban is running into the hundreds of thousands. Plants nicaraguans are celebrating easter as normal with no restrictions on daily life that worries Global Health officials president Daniel Ortega is accused of risking an epidemic in central america. Im rebecca ridges welcome to the program christians around the world are celebrating easter under a lockdown as Global Health authorities struggle to contain the spread of the corona virus pope francis held mass on the eve of the holiday in a largely empty some pages basilica in rome the pope described the service as a message of hope urging the faithful not to give in to their fears over the virus. The pontiff will give his Easter Sunday blessing when fewer than 20 people present churches worldwide are also Holding Easter services we know the congregation. Well throughout the day well be speaking to our correspondents around the world about in the time of corona we begin
Equity markets are up and bonds are down. The market is functioning from that point of view. Vonnie we have not much concrete to go on for equities expect except the promise we will get a stimulus built in the next few hours. Everything that has been dropping his rallying and everything that has been rallying seems to be dropping. By that i mean the grocers. The s p 500 is up a whopping 8 . We will see if we get a successful vote in that few hours, if there is even more room for u. S. Equities. Again, we have a search for the u. S. 10 year yield, although that has been trading in a range, if you could call 15 basis points a range. The vix is slightly higher in the session, down three points itself. The dollar index is seeing a little bit of relief after sessions and sessions of strength with a voracious appetite for the u. S. Dollars finally abating or maybe some people taking advantage to take a little bit of profit. Insight asget more to where these markets are and potentially where
Biden, and senator Amy Klobuchar all of them suggesting they have no intention of getting out of this race prior to super tuesday. Finally, on the issue of super tuesday, especially when it relates to delegates, the Sanders Campaign is already laying the groundwork that even if they are not able to clinch the precise number of delegates that are needed for them to formally have the nomination, should he be able to get more delegates than the other candidates, it is going to be very difficult to stop him. David the founder and majority owner of our Parent Company bloomberg is in the center and the spotlight last night. Take us into what happens next. South carolina is when . Is there another debate and then when his super tuesday . What we have to look forward to . Kevin in terms of the next 10 days, saturdays nevada caucus. Tuesday is the South Carolina democratic president ial debate. Next saturday will be the South Carolina primary. Hasmber, the Biden Campaign suggested that South Ca
Lifeline. We will hear from the Morgan Stanley ceo on the big 13 billion acquisition of e trade. Paul. Paul thanks, emily. Lets check on how futures are looking in asia. Looking like a much quieter day than yesterday. Sydney futures looking fairly flat right now. U. K. Futures looking weaker by 0. 4 . A bit of a move down in costly futures. We saw u. S. Markets ending modestly low. Concerns about earnings downgrade. More on that later. New zealand also trading right now. Currently flat. Emily thanks. Lets get a check of where the u. S. Markets closed today. Taylor riggs is in the newsroom. What were the highlights . Taylor sort of a risk off day. Really 500 Big Companies leading the losses. Bonds rallying five basis points after the crucial 1. 51, and the yield curve is inverted by the most since october, six basis points. Take a look at the chart in my terminal that put the selloff into perspective. The chip performance relative to s p 500 performance is still near an 18 year high. On
The woman to leave the u. S. If they are not happy that congos a bold outbreak spreads to buy wrist reaches to be crowned city of the crowded city of goma on the border with for wanda the World Health Organization describes the new case as a potential game changer plus we have looked up the world works 50 years since the astronauts of apollo 11 took to the skies on a mission to put a man on the moon. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program in just over an hour germanys arcilla founder live is due to address the European Parliament in a final push to persuade lawmakers to back her bed for that you use top job now if she can secure. A majority of todays vote she will become the 1st woman president of the European Commission success though its far from certain funder line faces hostility from parliamentary groups who say that she was foisted on them by National Leaders so shes been on a Charm Offensive making a raft of promises to win support. For keeping up with the honda law and its not a