Oil price crashed below 0 and then kept on going into negative territory our economics editor abby dallies in london he says the glut in oil supplies is a global problem that needs a coordinated multinational response. Theres more than 35000000. 00 barrels in circulation which out which which are not useful to anybody at this present time and so we need to figure out how to get rid of those 35000000. 00 bows that would mean russia United States and saudi arabia shutting down production but thats not practical because if you shut down press corps you can damage wells so it needs a collective help from from everyone around the world the other thing that the United States can do is rig is that off the Strategic Reserve to allow corporations to actually store away their oil in those corporate in those that are in the Strategic Reserves and thats something that were going to consider and the u. S. Is also considering haint Oil Companies to keep oil in in the oil wells so that they dont pump
Could be 41 percent higher than the government is reporting. A dire warning from the u. N. The pandemic could double the number of people around the world who are going to go hungry. And im peter sim to go to sport you a fur and its Member Associations holding a teleconference on tuesday to try and work out a way to finish the football season. Donald trump has declared that he will suspend all immigration to the u. S. To protect american lives and jobs from coronavirus which he calls the invisible enemy the move announced on twitter is in line with what hes trying to achieve throughout his presidency mr trump won the white house in part on a promise to build a wall on the Us Mexico Border his administration has since cracked down on both legal and illegal entries under an executive order and 2017 the president did ban travel from several muslim majority countries but was later modified after legal challenges and since february and march traveled to the u. S. From china parts of europe
Will accept junk, recent fallen angels as collateral. Time now for todays market moving news from brussels in new york. We want to begin in europe, where the pandemic drove the economy to a record slump in april. Pmi Area Services completely decimated, falling to 11. 7. Manufacturing also dropped to 33. 6. Bloombergs maria tadeo joins me from brussels. Maria what you are seeing is that the Coronavirus Crisis is going to do a lot of damage to the european economy. [indiscernible] brussels tell us they do anticipate a contraction for the entire euro area. This is potentially huge. Youre seeing again the European Central bank stepping in to try to shield some of those markets, in particular in countries like. Taly ,he other side of the equation what exactly are european leaders going to do to help the ecb, to put more money on the table and also protect their own economies . There has been a lot of backandforth. Perhaps a 2 trillion euro package. But all of this is still very much in the
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
That we saw over the last few years but now were seeing the almost everything bail out and this is the way when you find out whether the person where no shorts at the poker table or when the tide went out one man who had that in a metaphor if i ever heard one i think people understand you will understand i i combine 2 of Warren Buffetts famous sayings but they imus says half the world has asked for a bailout remember 100 percent of the world cant get a bailout half of it has to pay for half of that have to be the suckers at the poker table so half the world has now asked for a bailout the i. M. F. Is saying that 100 countries have asked for some form of bailout from them about 10 percent has been given out to 10 countries anyway and they expect half the other countries to get some within the next few weeks the i. M. F. Is ready to use its full tool box and one trillion dollar fire power of lending you know i have a question for you so going back to 2008 and remember the i. M. F. Came i