And full analysis. The stocks going into it are higher. Futures pointing to gain at the start of tradingment broader looks good. Look at futures. 280 points right out of the gate. S p 500 up 29, better than 1 and nasdaq higher by 115 points, one and a third percent. This after the dow, s p 500 much of the needed money. Lindsey graham right here. Former Vice President joe biden picking up major endorsement from former rival senator Bernie Sanders. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning also mix today. Take a look. Ftse 100 down 25 points. Cac quarante down 2 points but the dax in germany down by higher than 11. Better than 1 . French president aim to go start opening economy and schools on may 11th, in asia overnight green across the board, take a look. Good tone overnight for the asian markets, better than expected Economic News out of china this morning, exports were down in the month of march from a year earlier. Import down 9 tenths of a percent. Both
After a day of wild weather impacting millions from the south to the northeast. A new decision on whether Car Insurance companies should be forced to give you a refund during this crisis with no one or fewer vehicles on the road. Later a surprise for the 93yearold Woman Holding that sign up requesting beer. More evidence of americans separated but coming together. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Officials from new york to california are discussing possible ways to reopen their states. Thats setting up a showdown with President Trump over who gets to make that decision. But first lets look at the map. In new york, more than 10,000 people have now died from coronavirus even though the governor says the worst is over. Hospitals in new york are still seeing 2,000 new patients a day. Elsewhere theres growing concern in massachusetts about the rising number of deaths there. President trump is now defending dr. Anthony fauci just hours after retweeting a post that called for him to be fired.
Also tonight, the senate signed off on a nearly half a trillion dollars in new funding, some of it to help those struggling hospitals. Most of the money will replenish a loan program for Small Businesses that ran dry last aek. And theres about 25 billion that will pay for coronavirus tests, which governors say they desperately need before they can lift their stayathome orders. Now, protesters rallied across the country again today, demanding an end to those orders. Li and some governors, especially in the south are already lifting them, despite warnings from experts and even as cases and deaths continue to rise. Now, tonight, more than 820,000 infections have been confirmed infections have been confirmed right here in the u. S. , and the death toll has passed 44,000. Theres a lot of news to get to tonight. Our team has it all covered. Mark strassmann is going to lead us off tonight in atlanta where businesses could soon be open. Eporter after three weeks, norah, some o reporter after t
5. 1 Million People filing for unemployment in the last week. We have the numbers and full amounts this morning. Ahead of the numbers, futures pointing to gain at start of trading, take a look at futures, 100 points on dow industrials, s p is up 15 and nasdaq higher by 72. This after worse than expected news yesterday in resail sales and disappointing earnings led to selloff in market. Dow industrials down 445 points. Nasdaq down 122 and s p was lower by 62. Earnings season rolls on. This morning more banks on tap. Weve got all the numbers you need to see this morning as we ahate Morgan Stanley, blackrock among others. Plus the origins of the coronavirus. More focus this morning turns to a lab in wuhan, china. Something ive been highlights for several months now. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning look like this. Cac quarante in paris is up 28 and germany taking steps to reopen its economy and Angela Merkel announcing some stores can reopen next week and
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