Profits could be dragged by 4 billion in pandemic opening related cost. The dow by 1 3 4. Nasdaq down by 1 1 2. I think next year will be a spectacular year in terms of growth and bringing our country back. That is tran15 is speaking on the economy predicting the economy will rebound. 30 million americans filed and implement claims in the past six weeks. The administration said the new jobless claims have gone down week by week. The president is holding a white house ceremony. Leaders said they are not satisfied with the federal governments response and want another relief bill to help smaller communities. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the house will not return to washington next week. Several members well. Democrats look at virtual and in person meetings as they craft the next cares act. Today, employees at some of the nations Biggest Companies planning a strike on this may 1 which is International Workers day. Employees at amazon, target, walmart and fedex, some of those set to wal
Rafael espinal from Freelancers Union talks about the impact of the pandemic on the selfemployed. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is washington journal, for april 2. We want to hear from you about your level of confidence in the u. S. Health versus to treat those affected by coronavirus. What you are seeing and experiencing in your community and we especially want to hear from you if you are a Health Care Worker in the field and you want to give your perspective on the u. S. Health care system possibility to treat coronavirus. In the easternu and central time zones, give us a call at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain pacific time zones, its 202 7488001. If you are a medical professional, you can call in at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Tweet at cspan wj or post on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. On latest numbers coronavirus are available at the Johns Hopkins website. When it comes to the u. S. , as far as the numbers they have coming in wit
Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Zoom, director of Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation and will serve on the coronavirus Recovery Commission. What questions will you try to answer . Guest thank you so much for having me. I have to extend the thanks to my older son amos. Normally we are doing socially distancing math so he gets to skip that. Host i hope you pick it up later in the day. Guest we will say what happens see what happens. We have to prioritize folks getting back to work but only when it is safe, and that is the preponderance of the advice from Economic Experts and literature. There was a study done by m. I. T. Economists looking at the 1918 flu pandemic and they found in city is that instituted Good Public Health policy, the economic recovery was much faster than areas that did not institute Good Public Health policy like social distancing. Not only does Good Public Health policy push down mortality but it negates the longterm effects of the pandemic. Americans and businesses across the country are l
Concern. In an exclusive interview, fetal ceo says things will get worse before they get better. The expectations of how long the virus might last and its longlasting impact, people have probably been reducing their worstcase scenarios over that period of time. Is said toredit ceo emerge as a leading contender for the top job at hsbc. Could another European Banking head be about to jump ship . Lets take a look just under an hour away from the start of cac equity trading at futures this morning. Down across the board, no matter where you look. Red arrows there. They are pretty solid. 0. 5 down on deck futures. 0. 5 drop. S, also almostfutures down 0. 66 . Gmm. A look at the that will show you quite clearly that we had big losses in equities and asia overnight. We continue to see some of those equity indices fall. Hsi. Kong down 1 on the if you look at the bonds, if we go to the next column you will see that investors are buying bonds and that really weighs on the yield. The trend is ris