Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
Tom it will be interesting to talk to fatih. We have the price actions and dynamics and future this is and futures that. What are they going to do about it . Derth, a absolutely complete mystery out there right now over what the next step is. There was opec plus, there was all the meeting of the World Leaders and that. And what i hear on a wednesday is just absolute thundering silence. Francine yeah, absolutely, tom. We were speaking to the former n. E. Chief executive and they were saying they would need to cut Something Like 33 Million Barrels for make a difference. It seems difficult for this group alone to do something. Well discuss that and also have to look at the world e. T. F. s place on this but straight to bloomberg first ord news with viviana hurtado. Viviana the Senate Passing a relief package including money for the tapped out program to aid Small Businesses. Theres also money for coronavirus testing and hospitals swamped by patients. The house could take up the measure as
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Claims at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Economists are expecting 3. 5 million jobless claims falling record 3. 2 the following week. We will bring you those numbers and jobs number coming out tomorrow. We are expecting a firm e tone with Dow Jones Industrial average up 332 and s p by 72. Take a look at the numbers. Dow industrials down 973 points at the close yesterday. S p 500 down 114. President trump is considering grounding domestic flights between hot spots to try and contain the spread of the virus and boeing to send early retirement as the virus takes a toll on the aircraft industry, its 73 max fleet remains grounded. Coronavirus impacting the 2020 race. Former Vice President joe biden calling for the Democratic Convention to be pushed from midjuly into august. This as pandemic could lead to virtual election. Long lines at Grocery Stores. What you should be getting right now and how to store it and what measures can be taken to make sure takeout orders are safe. We are getting answer
The oil news really make up for that . As you can see, crude is up about 25 or so, but the rest of the market trying to hang in there as well. Every economist was very surprised here that the jobless claims were double what they were last weekend, more so than a lot of economist had been expecting. Indeed, 10 million jobs claims in two weeks, that really gets your attention. What is going on with bonds . I want to take a look at the bond market, i do think we have the board there, david. I dont know, we are going to have to leave it there, sorry. David ok, thats all right. Any sense of exactly what went on between President Trump and mohammad bin salman . The only headlines that we were getting is that he came out with a tweet saying that he expects saudi arabia and russia to cover the option by about 10 million 10 Million Barrels per day or so. Not sure if this is 10 Million Barrels per day or not, if that was barrels per day, that would be 10 of the Global Demand we had seen. For the