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
Its not difficult to be crabby when you are basically living hand to mouth with government stimulus. I thought that encompassed the markets perfectly for a day like today. A lot of earnings coming out. Delta looking at a 50 cut in daily cash burn by the end of june. In terms of their First Quarter loss, they had about a . 51 loss , and revenue was down 18 year on year. As we expected, pretty brutal when it comes to delta. Baker hughes, oil services company, saying the outlook for oil and gas is certain. No kidding. The revenue down by about 4 year on year. 0. 11, acoming in at little bit light. Lets get you some of the headlines here. All of todays market moving news from new york, as will is washington. Brent crude getting sucked into the lowest level since 1999. Bloombergs part two thought to be role bloomberg spoke to thought he be role spoke to fatih birol. Some of the countries are cutting their production earlier than announced. Others joined them. If others do not follow the ste
The nasdaq down by 25 points this morning, youll see futures are lower again. These are modest declines. The types of numbers we used to see all the time in the morning just over a month ago. Right now, the dow looks like it would open about 42 points nasdaq around 18 points. Keeping track of treasury yields we find ourselves this morning again with the yield indicated around those levels. 0. 7 and change andrew lets bring you an update on the pandemic and some of the numbers. The number of confirmed u. S. Cases rising to 400,000. More than 12,000 have died in america. New york is the epicenter with 140,000 confirmed cases. New york, new jersey and l. A. Reporting the deadliest day. And los angeles mandates masks as essential sharing this responsibility to keep workers and everybody safe which is why we are requiring customers to wear face coverings. Shopping for groceries, picking up a precipitation or any other business, you will need to cover your face. If you are not covering your
Joining us momentarily and to open the show we have to get news that developed moments ago and that is the president invoking the defense production act to encourage or force some American Companies to make ventilators. Lets get more on that breaking news right now with Kayla Tausche in washington, d. C kayla . Brian, President Trump has done this just a handful of times during the coronavirus crisis, but this afternoon he issued an order that targets six medical Device Companies to procure the elements and materials they need to expedite the production of ventilators and personal protective equipment. The companies include general electric, hillrom, medtronic, resmed, philips and vy aire so they can make things like ventilators and the personal propektipr protective equipment for medical providers more quickly we know it is in short suspect blew in hardhit states as they grapple with growing numbers of sick patients. The white house so far has refrained from using the dpa as a blunt i
Top producers consider even deeper output curves. Shinzo abes state of emergency now covers the whole of japan after critics said his initial virus response offered to little, too late too little, too late. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless rate coming in at 3. 8 . As expected, a rebound from the previous month of february. February was a 3. 3 . In the month of march coming in at 3. 8 . In line with estimates but still a rebound. Of course, we have seen weakness in retail and hospitality, employment, given this coronavirus pandemic. The government has tried to create jobs and that has helped the economy. They of course have already passed a 10 billion extra budget, but we are now seeing the jobless rate climbing to 3. 8 . This as president moon jaein has called for more aggressive measures on job creation. Of course, moons Ruling Democratic Party of korea just won the implementer elections. Take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. We are se