Though still awaits aprooul from the house of rep sentives. That vote expected tomorrow. Jobless claims surging above 3 million americans, far outpacing the record of 700,000 and also well above what economists were looking for around 1. 5 million unemployment claims and the virus itself remains front and center for wall street as italy reports more than 6,000 new cases, the most in five days, the worldwide total now shy of half a Million People wilfred. All of the sectors of the s p higher up 4. 7 . All higher, but one to keep an eye on is energy it has been the best performing. Its now towards the bottom. Still up by 4 oil prices slipped a lot this afternoon. Theyre down 7 , so well hope that doesnt drag the rest of the market lower weve got a huge lineup of gu guesting coming your way, ceo of General Mills, plus peter orszag whether he thinks the stimulus bill is enough to ease the pleading and well speak with the ceo of hertz about their program the give free rentals to new York Ci
Locations as we put social distancing into effect here at cnbc as a precaution were going to start squawk alley this morning with bob pisani with an update on todays markets. Bob . And jon, the important thing here is i want to show you the futures because a lot of confusion overnight here we were futures down overnight, then we hada big rally at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time as the Federal Reserve announced new programs and yet the open was a real disappointment and it shows you that liquidity is fairly thin preopen. A lot of people were surprised we opened down so much but were off of the lows right now. Sects here, banks have had a tough time throughout the morning, most down 4, 5 or 6 . Energy stocks also had a tough morning. Everything else, 2 lets say, industrials, technology also down about 2 . Semiconductors started strong but have been weak for a while now. Boeing, one of the few stocks on the upside, only three or four up today, an upgrade goldman sachs. Home depot on the upside, c
A vote failed again and as new york becomes a epicenter of the outbreak in america, more states are taking strict measures to keep residents at home including michigan, massachusetts and louisiana. As we stand, the market is down 3. 4 on the s p 500. The dow is down 60 poin60 59 minutes left of the session weve got a huge lineup of guests coming up including the ceo of Quest Diagnostics to break down the latest on testing for the virus and former bank of america governor, mervy nn king he was governor of the bank of england during the financial crisis we are covering every angle of this crisis for you mike is tracking the mashlgt moves. Kayla has the latest on the stimulus bill. Steve liesman is covering the feds historic moves again today and meg is following the latest treatment developments mike, first to you on the market another big sell off despite another big fed intervention yes, definite ly a big sell off. Though i have to say the intentionty of it, i dont know if this is much
The nasdaq up 1. 3 , and the vix is at 52. Obviously it is going to be a volatile week. We have the 10 year yield at 61 basis points at the moment. Any number of things moving these markets. Guy i think in many ways, youre right. It is going to be a volatile week. We sibley dont know what is coming down the pike towards us. Is an ok opening. Considering the numbers we had over the weekend, considering what is going on, this is a very undramatic open. It is placid by comparison to what you couldve expected. A couple of exceptions, the. Obviously a couple of exceptions, though. Obviously, what is happening in the crude market is something to be paid attention to. Take a look at the contango in brent crude. It is terrifying. Take a look at btu at bdp yields in italy. There are problems still very much unresolved. Some of those problems exist here in europe. We are waiting to see what is going to happen with corona bonds, etc. , and whether europe is going to stick together. Youve also got
Welcome. Im Morgan Brennan on cnbc and st. Patricks day. Breaking news. That is wall street. Stock futures surging. Well off their highs hitting limit up levels overnight as President Trump said in a tweet last night, quote, the United States will be power fully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others particularly affected by the chinese virus. We will be stronger than ever before limit up means we turn attention to the etfs that are tracking to get a better sense of where they are opening this morning the die, the dow etf is up 2 . Off the gains we saw earlier the s p 500 etf, the spider, is up about 2 . The qqq trust is up about 3. 3 coming off that worse day for both the dow and the s p since 1987 and the nasdaq and the russell 2000, worst daily drop ever breaking overnight, the eight largest u. S. Banks announced they will be jointly taking funds from the Federal Reserve all of this after all the major average posted the worst day since black monday drop of 1987. The d