Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
You are watching cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening from wherever in the world youre watching. Im Brian Sullivan im glad to be with you during this troubled and turbulent times. Coming off friday 700point game gain for the dow futures are lower, indicating a drop of about 200 points for the dow, slightly less for the nasdaq 100 your big story right now is the price of oil and a new week bringing the same old story prices, they are falling in a big way. The may contract right now at an incredible 14 and change per barrel now down 22 overnight. The may contract, keep in mind, does expire tomorrow its also important to look at other contracts. Primarily the june or july contracts for oil. They are slightly less dire. The june contract at about 23 bucks. The problem with oil is very simple there is so much oil being produced around the world and so little demand right now for gasoline or jet fuel that unneeded and unused oil is simply piling up everywhere. Many storage tank
Stocks as well. At 4 00 oclock on wall Street Markets were downwith the dow industrials taking another step down near the close so we were down sharply in the morning, leveled off in the afternoon, went back at it at the close, down 592 points on dow industrials at 4 00 oclock yesterday. Earning season rolls on. Big names include cocacola, lockheed martin, Philip Morris and travelers this morning. After the bell attention turning to streaming giant netflix. We will anticipate what the numbers will be. President trump saying he will sign executive order temporarily suspending immigration as part of the war against the coronavirus pandemic. Getting america back to work, georgias governor announcing businesses can reopen this week. Other states including South Carolina and tennessee also starting to ease restrictions. Meanwhile battle over additional coronavirus aid continues on capitol hill this morning. Businesses are waiting for the muchneeded funds to become available. Senate likely t
So much for social distancing. You are watching cnbc. Good morning and welcome we are live and waking up to another day of potential losses for major averages stock futures now pointing to modest declines from a relative perspective. The dow jones opened down 244 points, nasdaq down implied 77 points that is much more than normal. This after the wall Street Market staged a rally yesterday for the dow. Major averages on pace for the third down week of the last four checking the treasury side of things, we are seeing movement for the bond and notes higher to. 227 10year at. 61 . Oil on a wild ride it had been lower Early Morning but ralied after news after a meeting on monday by Conference Call to discuss cuts President Trump meets with Top Energy Executives at the white house today. Full details on that summit at the white house coming up. Global Team Coverage dan murphy is in singapore Geoff Cutmore is in london, nbcs tracie potts with the latest out of washington and Frank Holland wit