Markets pointing to lower opening. Major averages. Take a look. The nasdaq lower by 65, the s p lower lower by 34 after the markets rallied last week, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 second straight week of gains with market up on the session as you can see about 2 higher on the dow industrials for week. Oil prices having a rough morning, take a look at this. Taking a steep dive as the coronavirus slams demand. Crude oil now at 13. 54 a barrel. Holding china responsible, questions are swirling this morning about the origins of the virus. Chinas lack of transparency. Congressman andy barr to investigate chinas handling of the pandemic. Mornings with maria begins now. Noble markets look like this. Germany taking a step with reopening the economy. Some stores. The white house is allowing some companies to delay payments of import tariffs if they can demonstrate significant financial hardship, tariffs on chinese goods are not included in the interruption of the white house tariff program. In a
Weeks earlier than first already got money needed from the federal government. Thought. The owners of a slice of new thats when a 57yearold mother york pizza in santa clara in died at home. County health leadersead not tr sunnyvale breathing easier. Country. 34 employees and a payroll of what these deaths tell us is that we had Community Transmission probably to a 26,000 that does not include significant degree far earlier overhead, rent, utilities. Than we had known. Dowd is one of two people they filed for a loan and then got a direct positive. It just showed up in our known to have died from account. 245,000. My wife jumped up and down. Coronavirus in february. Health leaders in alameda the owners also found out county are scrambling to get even more homeless in hotels. 10,000 Disaster Relief grant, and they the chronicle reporting some are second programs and all 5,300 people there have moved from shelters to hotel rooms, being voted on today. And the state is paying 200 a 45,000 i
Forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, kari. All eyes on capitol hill as lawmakers take final steps for approving more money for Small Businesses. Tracie potts joins us with more of what we can expect. Hi, marcus. You can expect today law meekers who are scrambling to get back here will approve 484 billion, and the bulk of that is for Small Business loans in two different programs. These are the loans that in part ran out of money last week. Now lawmakers to refund that with the provision to make sure the money goes to Small Businesses and not big ones, and that was some of the complaints last week, and that will close some of the loopholes. One south bay restaurant is one of the lucky ones that already have gotten muchneeded money from the federal government. Owners of a slice of new york pizza in santa clara and sunnyvale breathing easier now, and they have a 26,000 a week payroll, and a few weeks ago they applied for a federal loan and suddenly got a direct deposit. It just
It has been eight days since coronavirus was declared a Global Pandemic and our way of life gets turned upside down the president signs a relief package which could include direct payment to americans. The first coronavirus case was diagnosed in the country fearly two months ago now the number of confirmed cases has escalated reaching more than 8,600. Those numbers are expected to spike as more tests become available. Two members of congress announce they tested positive for the deadly disease mario and ben mcadams announced they are selfquarantining as ventilator numbers reach a critical state, auto makers gm and ford are considering the same nike is donating more than 15 million to help support employees. The majority of donations will benefit relief efforts in oregon but boston and memphis will also receive support as well as some countries overseas in los angeles 50 grab and go food centers are helping to get a warm meal. It started afz schools were closed earlier this week country
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