Nasdaq futures higher by 310 after even worse than expected jobs number led to selloff on friday. We showed you the numbers friday, dow, nasdaq and s p 500 in the red for the week. Take a look. Markets were down 2 overall on each of the major indices on the week. Oil prices this morning falling after the opec meeting which was to include russia was actually delayed. It was supposed to be a Virtual Meeting happening. It was scheduled to take place today. We are waiting on any news in terms of where the meeting stands with crude at 27. 40 a barrel. Later this Morning Energy secretary dan briet will join me and take on war between saudi arabia and russia. Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to coronavirus, we will get the latest on Prime Minister johnson coming up this morning. We are answering your financial questions this morning. Later what you need to know about your 401 k during this crisis. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets
Question. Spring break canceled. Distancing storm of seriously enough. And making the best of it, people around the world finding ways to entertain themselves, their families and even perform some good deeds for our Furry Friends in whats quickly become our new normal, today, saturday, march 21st, 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic, with Peter Alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today and thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are joining you once again from our bureau in washington, d. C. And are keeping the appropriate social distance from one another. I got the tape measure out its a strong 6 feet separating us today. We thank you for joining us. A lot of the news youre hearing these days will be overwhelming, we will do you our best to bring you the latest headlines and also some stories that we hope will make you smile. Nice to be here in d. C. Near our families. Thats right, we hope
Trillion coronavirus aid package saying it has a slush fund for big business republicans warning their rivals are playing with fire as the economy tanks. At risk, new warnings from Health Officials on the viruss toll on younger americans. We have to really examine why were seeing it here but we didnt see it in china. What the cdc is saying straight ahead. Plus olympics in jeopardy. The First Nations announce they wont send athletes to tokyo and the debate intensifies this morning over whether the games should really happen today monday, march 23rd, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on monday morning. Its good to have you along with us once again we are separated but together in our hearts, hoda im working from home this week and youre back in the studio. Indeed, savannah. Its great, great to see your face on this monday morning. We do have a lot to
Results in less than an hour and now its fda approved. That it can has the potential prompts hotels into makeshift hospital wards. Support for Health Care Workers to speed up the process in on the frontlines knows no getting results. Since last time santa clara borders, the eiffel tower dazzled in a tribute to Health Care Workers, in spain first confirmed 67 more cases since yesterday. A man died in Monterey County responders switched on the sirens to praise the hospital of the coronavirus. Workers, four states in the 11 have died in the bay area and 27 in the state of u. S. Have asked all california. More on the testing efforts nonessential workers to stay under way. 45 minutes, thats how long home. Theres growing calls to it takes to get the results of postpone the olympics. Track and field is asking the the case. They will roll the tests out at summer games and delayed. That follows a request by the the end of the month. Government Health Officials say as the pace of tests increases
The dow moving 140 points to session highs. Ending the day 76 points lower. The s p did rebound off its second biggest drop of the year on that news. Again, this is historically the worst time of year for your money in the markets. Now starting to flash a fasten your seatbelt warning. Were going to have more on that. This after 12 hours of horror in the deadliest terror attack in spain in over a decade. The death toll rising to 14 and an american among those murdered. At least 100 others wounded. Four suspects now held in spain. The attacks could have been even bigger involving bombs. The search on for the driver of the van that plowed into pedestrians in a popular tourist spot in the heart of barcelona. But first, steve bannon, the president removing bannon at the white house as the white house chief strategist. This is the sixth departure from the Trump Administration after mike flynn, james comey, sean spicer, reince priebus, and Anthony Scaramucci. We have experts to react. Brett b