At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
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
Heres what has given. As you just. Dont have to provide sufficient. Hard. Bodies of. Health services with them. Coming from the russian capital this is your are my names you know meal pleasure of your company. First to our developing story in russia. Died after a guelfs boiler explosion ripped through a building causing it to coopt it happened in a telephone located iran 1000 kilometers east of moscow. Is not the site for us to go what more are we learning about what occurred there. Well 1st and foremost at least 4 people cannot be located and as of now now just to clarify it doesnt mean that they are definitely somewhere there under the tons of rubble behind me no it just means that theyre not picking up the phones as rescue services are trying to reach them well theyre failing to do so but as you can clearly see rescuers are still working on clearing out again these tons of debris. That are out there because of the because of the gas explosion one person is known to have died 5 injur
Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
Terrible composite pmis from the region. Oil continuing that recordbreaking rally yesterday. Some delegates a little bit more optimistic about getting deals done. Now i want to update you on our top stories from our new york team. We want to begin with europe. Thentioned the economies in slump of unprecedented scale, pointing to a contraction of about 10 . Bloombergs Michael Mckee joins us with more. Good morning, mike. Michael we are getting to the point where Economic Data are almost irrelevant to investors. Yeah, it is terrible. We know that. Weve traded it. Thats why you are not seeing a huge reaction in equity markets in europe because it was largely expected. It is sort of exactly what you think wouldve happened. Services pmis and composite pmis just falling off a cliff. The story in spain and italy there, but also france and germany. Those economies have basically shut down. Economists try to put a number on what that means, and that is where you get that 10 contraction figure,