Up more than 21 points to exit the bear cave is now up 15. But whats going on here . Could it be oil . In the last couple of minutes, oil suddenly, this is the aftermarket, started to tank. Its now down 7. 5 on apparent news that the United States government will start to add Strategic Petroleum reserves with all of the glut there is of oil. So while im looking, i just quickly checked exxonmobil and chevron, they are still up but they are at session lows as well. We are figuring it might have something to do with the oil news. In the meantime, the Small Business stimulus loans continue to flow as the treasury secretary asks for 250 billion in additional funds. We are expecting President Trump any moment now to give us an update on how that Small Business Program Lending situation is going. Its known as the Paycheck Protection Program. But the latest tally shows that the Small Business administration has processed 225,000 loans worth more than 60 billion. Thats just since friday. No wor
Detention they are playing out within markets. Time now for todays top market moving news from washington and new york. We want to begin in washington, where President Trump extended his National Warning for social distancing in the United States until the end of april, abandoning his easter goal. Pres. Trump we can expect that by june 1, we will be well on our way to recovery. We think by june 1, a lot of great things will be happening. That was aspirational when i said easter. I said it would be great if we could do it by easter. Alix joining me from washington is kevin cirilli. What did we learn in terms of how the government is looking at the lockdown in the u. S. . Kevin President Trump has significantly backed off the claim that he would be able to get life back to normal by easter, now making that marker june 1. Thatresident pushing back timetable to june 1. Over the weekend, talking with sources, i can tell you that the conversation around the next form of economic stimulus wou
New expectations about how long the covid19 crisis may last given President Trumps comments yesterday along with anthony faucis. Well talk about that in a little bit take a look at treasury yields this morning lets show you where the tenyear note stands right about now. Youre looking at 0. 367. The story we probably tonight talk enough about these days, lets show you crude prices because they fell sharply overnight. Wti crude now trading at 20. 53 if that was the only story around, youd think that would have a huge impact on markets unto themselves. Meantime, an update on the outbreak cases confirmed in the u. S. Now topping 143,000, 2,500 deaths. New york is the epicenter right now with nearly 60,000 cases in the state. Another 13,000 cases in neighboring new jersey in new york city, construction is under way to build an Emergency Hospital this taking place inside central park right across the street from mt. Sinai workers from the organization samaritans purse has begun constructing
Up 41. 22 a barrel the giants of the industry, exxon mobil and chevron into bear markets. Where is the president , right now hes heading to the center for Disease Control in atlanta after signing the 8. 3 billion corona spending bill this morning. That seems like ages ago and now the dow is down 812 points. It kinda looks like no amount of money can fix which is gumming up and rupturing in great part to the coronavirus lowdown. It is hitting our nation with a 12 punch after last years trade war, we will take you life to the port of long beach in what is now the fullblown shipping container crunch. From ports to people as 50 new virus deaths overnight add to italy fast growing number of victims, how is the biggest name and traveled to her that region handling the situation. Steven perillo of Steven Perillo tours joins us in a fox business exclusive on cancellations and his new policy. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdown. Liz we have a bunch of breaking
Watching for wild swings right here 10 year yields 0. 7 and thats pretty stable compared to where we were two days ago i checked that, whats the problem with the markets but theres a lot going on breaking overnight, this should have been somewhat helpful you would think. Bank of england announced emergency cut. Lowering the bank rate by 50 basis points to. 25 englands central bank also announced a new funding plan to support small and Medium Sized Companies as well as new steps to help commercial banks lend more well get a live report from london in just a couple of moments. Now an update onthe coronavirus. In the u. S. , confirmed cases have now topped 1,000. Want to get to meg now who joins us with the latest meg. Good morning, andrew, case counts drived to 119,000 overnight with almost 4,300 deaths among the hardest hit countries, italy, iran, and south korea and they tell dramatically different stories. Italy reported highest daily jump in deaths yesterday to more than 600 of more