Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
To come back to life, whether weve actually based on the numbers weve had in the last couple days seen a peak in confirmed cases, what all of that looks like. Then, of course, the fact that we have earning season kicking off in earnest this week, the big banks reporting and some key other names that give us some insight into the state of the economy and things like trade flows like jb hunt will report this week too. Number of analysts and strategists saying the number is meaningless, the eps number is meaningless, any guidance for q2 probably up in the air as well, that its really going to be the health of these companies, its going to be the Balance Sheets and how theyre able to weather what has been a complete shutdown in so many different parts of the economy, so many industries, so many different businesses dom . I mean, whats curious about this whole conversation debate, guys, thats happening right now is there are so many takes about just how much damage has been done to the econ
And p 500, however mark said asset prices havent seen the worst of it yet. In a slump in hong kong after scrapping dividends amid pmi data for asia showing contraction across the region. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. A trifecta of investors saying the worst is yet to come. U. S. And european futures also declining after the worst quarter for Global Equity since the financial crisis. The 10year gilts slipping, seeing a little bit of dollar strength. We saw that lifeline from the fed to help ease some of the liquidity strains. Oil fluctuating a little bit with talks about this discussions with saudi arabia and russia. Manus can you imagine what a deal with them might looks might look like. This talk about donald trump, his call for a 2 trillion Infrastructure Spending bill, saying that low rates would make it easy to finance. It is unclear whether his proposal would be part of another package being considered by congress and the white house. Bloomberg sources also say it would de
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How low can or oil prices go crude oil drops below 30. 00 a barrel as a price war between 2. 00 of the worlds biggest producers worsens how badly will that hurt the Global Economy already suffering from a coronavirus pandemic this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im norrin taylor the coronavirus pandemic is triggering fears of a global recession businesses around the world the shot stock markets are suffering massive losses on top of all that an Oil Price War between 2 of the worlds biggest producers the dispute between saudi arabia and russia has already pushed the price to its lowest in 4 years brant crude dropped below 30 us dollars a barrel on monday Global Demand for oil was already low since governments imposed widespread lock downs and airlines grounded flights because of a disease you know a cartel opec and the International Energy agency both warn that developing countries such as algeria angola and venezuela could suffer the most losing up to 85 percent of th