Claims at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Economists are expecting 3. 5 million jobless claims falling record 3. 2 the following week. We will bring you those numbers and jobs number coming out tomorrow. We are expecting a firm e tone with Dow Jones Industrial average up 332 and s p by 72. Take a look at the numbers. Dow industrials down 973 points at the close yesterday. S p 500 down 114. President trump is considering grounding domestic flights between hot spots to try and contain the spread of the virus and boeing to send early retirement as the virus takes a toll on the aircraft industry, its 73 max fleet remains grounded. Coronavirus impacting the 2020 race. Former Vice President joe biden calling for the Democratic Convention to be pushed from midjuly into august. This as pandemic could lead to virtual election. Long lines at Grocery Stores. What you should be getting right now and how to store it and what measures can be taken to make sure takeout orders are safe. We are getting answer
5. 1 Million People filing for unemployment in the last week. We have the numbers and full amounts this morning. Ahead of the numbers, futures pointing to gain at start of trading, take a look at futures, 100 points on dow industrials, s p is up 15 and nasdaq higher by 72. This after worse than expected news yesterday in resail sales and disappointing earnings led to selloff in market. Dow industrials down 445 points. Nasdaq down 122 and s p was lower by 62. Earnings season rolls on. This morning more banks on tap. Weve got all the numbers you need to see this morning as we ahate Morgan Stanley, blackrock among others. Plus the origins of the coronavirus. More focus this morning turns to a lab in wuhan, china. Something ive been highlights for several months now. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning look like this. Cac quarante in paris is up 28 and germany taking steps to reopen its economy and Angela Merkel announcing some stores can reopen next week and
President s chief economic adviser larry kudlow. Hes going to join us. Thats the question we will ask, when, where and how will some americans be able to get back to work. Now, check out the market. It reopens today after a threeday weekend. Last week was one of the best weeks in decades, with the dow rising 12 . No significant pullback this morning. We are down just maybe 70 odd points for the dow industrials and well above 23,500. How about that. The s p down about. 33 and the nasdaq, same thing, down about. 33 . That is not a significant pullback. Not helping the stock market is a forecast from jpmorgan. They suggest that gdp could fall 40 this quarter and unemployment could reach 20 . Now, that is a dire prediction. Check out the price of oil. The u. S. , russia, saudi arabia and other Oil Producers have announced an agreement that would take 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil a day off the world market. However, that has had very little impact. It may put a floor under the price of oil b
And oil is up to the tune of 25 . The jobless claims rocked the street. We were expecting them to be bad. We were not expecting them to be 6. 6 million bad. Jackie deangelis, jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Lets go ahead to start with the tweet from the president that had the dow jones up more than 300 points now. The president said, i spoke to my friend, mbs, crown prince of saudi arabia who spoke with president putin of russia and i expect and hope they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels and maybe substantially more, which if it happens will be great for the oil and gas industry. The markets are rallying on this, because low oil prices are good for consumers and businesses that use oil. Statement, you dont want the price to be so low that the shale producers go out of business. That the Oil Producers have a hard time, staying, conducting, keeping things going. So prices spiking today, more than 20 is a positive sign that it is all moving in the right
At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to