Provisions in a decade and a vote on the virus. South korea heads to the polls in an election seen as a referendum on president moons pandemic performance. Shery we are seeing qe stocks gaining ground again, now at the highest level in over a month. And this after the u. S. Really finished at a one month high for the s p 500 jumping. We had gains in tech giants. U. S. Futures at the moment under pressure, down 1 . Nikkei futures not doing much right now. We have the japanese yen Holding Steady but this after four sessions of gains. We had safe haven demand as we continue to see concerns of the coronavirus outbreak. Wti at the moment rebounding after plunging more than 10 in the u. S. Session to the lowest level in two weeks. This despite that historic opecplus agreement. Closedave south korea today for parliamentary elections. Happening right now, President Trump having his daily coronavirus presser. He said that he hoped u. S. Funding to the World Health Organization failed in its bas
Stock market suffered its worst trading day since 987 with share prices tumbling by 13 percent on monday the coronavirus pandemic is causing turmoil on Financial Markets worldwide despite drastic action from Central Banks to limit the damage discussed whats driving the sell off with our senior correspondent. Well theres only one way this is going and it is going down look at yourself in a matter of weeks the Dow Jones Industrial average this is this is an average of many major corporations so an index of their stocks the average it is plunged to levels that we saw that the world was out in 2070 so over the course of a few weeks weve race all economic progress made over the last 3 years and this is still early days yet i mean the pandemic in the United States it is predicted to get much much worse and essentially what were seeing is the equivalent of a run on banks so if a bunch of people run by sea to try to get their money out this is what investors are doing now with the stock market
Intervention such as Circuit Breakers and bailouts now on the other far end of the spectrum of market intervention many are calling for the markets to shut down temporarily to prevent further selling and quote own the shorts the Philippine Stock Exchange has become the 1st to implement this and announce that its suspending trading until further notice after the market wiped out just over a 3rd of market value since the november highs. Is back below 30. 00 after opec canceled their technical meeting this week that was meant to mediate between saudi arabia and russia sources said that it will be hard for both sides to reach a compromise now and then i guess market warns that extreme oil surplus is possible Monetary Policy is now being discounted as cheap or money does little to restore confidence in the average consumer in the face of a deadly pandemic 0 percent Interest Rates wont make up for much of the massive loss of activity and income for companies and consumers. And were now joine
A casualty of the recent economic slowdown if you havent planned as hard as oil sector we have a live report on how falling demand and a price war has. Been a jam packed show today so lets jump right and. Futures his limit down before market opened monday as the fed said the markets panicking yet again there are technical meeting this week that was meant to mediate between saudi arabia and russia sources so that it will be hard for both sides to reach a compromise now and then i just mark a warrant that extreme oil surplus is possible Monetary Policy is now being discounted as cheap or money does little to restore confidence in the average consumer in the face of a deadly pandemic 0 percent Interest Rates wont make up for much of the massive loss of activity and income for companies and consumers. And for more were now joined by danielle de martino book author of fed up an insiders take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for america and former Federal Reserve insider so danielle startin
Weekend cutting its key Interest Rate by a full percentage point to near 0 and boosting its Bond Holdings by 700000000000. 00 markets are still getting slammed triggering a 15 minute hold again right off the open. Target range for our own Interest Rate by one percentage point bringing it closer or further we expect to maintain the rate at this one and who were confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is going to try to achieve our maximum employment and productivity go. Equities saying deeper into bear territory as the dow is now about 30 percent off its all time highs investors are digesting nonstop news full of companies shutting down operations countries sealing borders and infections spreading in normal circumstances a large policy response such as this weekend would put a floor under risk assets and support recovery however the fear is exponential and markets are questioning what else Monetary Policy can do in mitigating coronavirus induced risks investors are li