Responsee coronavirus and we take your calls or you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal can join us on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is monday, march 9, 2020. There are more than 500 confirmed coronavirus cases in the u. S. , and those numbers expected to go up this week. As federal, state, and local governments step up their response to the outbreak, we are spending the first part of the washington journal today asking how the coronavirus has impacted your community . If you live in eastern or central time zones, the number 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001 is the number. You can send us a text. That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on twitter, facebook. Good morning to you. You can start calling in now. We want to take you first to the covid19 dashboard being maintained by the Johns Hopkins university.
But the e. U. May challenges deal with china. Up ad Morgan Stanley wraps big earnings week for u. S. Banks , with a beat. We are live from the Morgan Stanley global Alpha Investment conference in hong kong. Us trillion markets just open for trade. Sophie. Sophie asx us trillion marketst open for 600 the top smock the top stock market so far this year. Broadly speaking, asian futures are pointing higher and regional stocks are headed to a seventh weekly gain. We will see if the u. S. Tech rally feeds into asia, given bullish guidance. We did have alphabet joining the 1 trillion market cap club. Fed expected to stand pat on rates. Looking ahead to the chinese gdp report, futures in singapore closing higher after a three day drop was posted and the offshore yuan is headed for an eighth weekly rise. Thea top forecaster says yuan will in the year is one of asias worstperforming currencies. Shery lets go to first word news with jessica summers. Jessica the Senate Begins the formal impeachmen
Nasdaq on track for the best performance. Dow futures indicated up about 34 points and gains for the nasdaq and s p futures treasuries, the 10year has finally hit 1. 9 exactly been watching for that a long time above that yesterday. Looking at it as the economy has shown some pretty strong signs. Now we do it in tens. Normally we wait for 3 . The volatility we talked about that. The inflation volatility is really low he thinks that why multiples have stayed so high. It will take years of inflations coming back. Multiples can stay where they are. This just happened well bring it to you. An Iraqi Security source telling nbc news that demonstrators have stormed the u. S. Embassy in baghdads green zone they have used tear gas grenades to try and prevent them from moving inside the compound hundreds have gathered what we saw. Some saying it was about time that some of the air strikes killed fighters from iranbacked coalition from operating in iraq a big piece saying finally we are addressin
Bradys bad night. The patriots falter in houston meaning there is a new number one in the afc. And from the apple that can last one year in the fridge to the baby crawl competition with an unexpected turn to baby yoda taking over the internet, all the trending stories to kick off your monday morning. Good monday morning, everyone. Im kenneth moton. And im Elizabeth Hur in for janai norman. We begin with the relentless winter storm pummeling the east coast. Lets check the radar right now. The storm is already blamed for several deaths after marching across the country. People in 30 states have been facing travel delays after the Holiday Weekend and the worst is yet to come for several major cities. This morning Winter Weather alerts for millions of americans getting back to business after the thanksgiving break. The deadly storm that hit the west coast and midwest is now making its final stand on the east coast. Several major cities will see the first snow accumulations of the season to
President trump is expected to sign the bill into law. Jay powell saw elevated threats including Global Growth and trade. Sophie macro uncertainty over trade in hong kong certainly looming large, given what we stocks. N so far in ozzie shares opening to the. 1 after being tracked lower wednesday. Aussie bonds are climbing for a Third Session tracking the rally we saw in treasuries overnight, to flatten. Ontinued the move to the downside while treasury futures a fourthing a bid for straight session. All itsstronger against peers. Checking in on what is going on im actually looking at the terminal right here because i wanted to show you it is testing the 100day moving average, some that level. We are hearing google is changing its political add policy, limiting audience targeting. We know twitter has been political ads on its platform. We know facebook has not, but we google will no longer allow political advertisers to target voters because of political affiliation. The company said it