Stock market suffered its worst trading day since 987 with share prices tumbling by 13 percent on monday the coronavirus pandemic is causing turmoil on Financial Markets worldwide despite drastic action from Central Banks to limit the damage discussed whats driving the sell off with our senior correspondent. Well theres only one way this is going and it is going down look at yourself in a matter of weeks the Dow Jones Industrial average this is this is an average of many major corporations so an index of their stocks the average it is plunged to levels that we saw that the world was out in 2070 so over the course of a few weeks weve race all economic progress made over the last 3 years and this is still early days yet i mean the pandemic in the United States it is predicted to get much much worse and essentially what were seeing is the equivalent of a run on banks so if a bunch of people run by sea to try to get their money out this is what investors are doing now with the stock market
The left column, a lot of those names in the green. Banking names as well. The rest of the region still seeing a lot of pressure. The split is tilted towards more downside. In terms of the sector groups as well, the similar to what we have seen. Youre getting a lot of upside in names like resources, banks, financials are seeing pressure overall. Down for a sixth straight session. 25 from the peak a couple of eci weeks ago. Yvonne back from the slopes. And back in hong kong. Steve, we have been talking about that pivot from President Trump. Painting a dire outlook on this outbreak in the u. S. Why . Wasell, i hope that he looking at the data and also seeing what other, even local news abilities are doing in the United States, cites and states aswell cities and well those in europe and they are taking this very seriously. And donald trump says it is bad. He repeated that. Its bad, its bad. He said this could last until august or even later. Hes calling it an invisible lining. Yo enemy. Y
Intervention such as Circuit Breakers and bailouts now on the other far end of the spectrum of market intervention many are calling for the markets to shut down temporarily to prevent further selling and quote own the shorts the Philippine Stock Exchange has become the 1st to implement this and announce that its suspending trading until further notice after the market wiped out just over a 3rd of market value since the november highs. Is back below 30. 00 after opec canceled their technical meeting this week that was meant to mediate between saudi arabia and russia sources said that it will be hard for both sides to reach a compromise now and then i guess market warns that extreme oil surplus is possible Monetary Policy is now being discounted as cheap or money does little to restore confidence in the average consumer in the face of a deadly pandemic 0 percent Interest Rates wont make up for much of the massive loss of activity and income for companies and consumers. And were now joine
Weekend cutting its key Interest Rate by a full percentage point to near 0 and boosting its Bond Holdings by 700000000000. 00 markets are still getting slammed triggering a 15 minute hold again right off the open. Target range for our own Interest Rate by one percentage point bringing it closer or further we expect to maintain the rate at this one and who were confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is going to try to achieve our maximum employment and productivity go. Equities saying deeper into bear territory as the dow is now about 30 percent off its all time highs investors are digesting nonstop news full of companies shutting down operations countries sealing borders and infections spreading in normal circumstances a large policy response such as this weekend would put a floor under risk assets and support recovery however the fear is exponential and markets are questioning what else Monetary Policy can do in mitigating coronavirus induced risks investors are li
The market down continues as an early fed rate fed doesnt work as planned this is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to mess im christiane and im burnt to born washington coming up the Federal Reserve has taken measures to combat the malays of the cope 19 impact we take a deep dive on the move and the way other Central Banks around the world are reacting plus. We have taken other decisions as well as going up the most important is that we have clues to argentinas borders during the next 15 days a period that can be extended to argentina the borders are closed and amid the outbreak what measures are some nations around the globe taking to slow the spread of which i mean we take a look around the world to see which nations. Traveled to states yesterday. And later several industries have been a casualty of the recent economic slowdown you havent planned as hard as oil we have a live report on how falling demand and a price war has. Been a jam packed show today so lets jump ri