The trend of bad mondays but contracts for major indexes shaking off losses to gain more than 1 . 2 on the euro stoxx 50. Global cases of the coronavirus than 3000,000, more died in spain and italy over the weekend as medical experts say deaths in the u. S. Could reach 200,000. The Oil Price Slump continues with wti briefly dropping below 20 a barrel in new york. Brent prices are at a 17 year low. Just under one hour away from the start of cash trading across europe, you saw briefly, futures here in europe are more than 1 . Euro stoxx 50 futures up. They are trading out 1. 5 percent to 1. 75 . Futures also showing gains. Friday was a down day in u. S. Indexes so you could see today start off risk on. What do you see on the gmm . Anna interesting to see those futures looking strong. When you look at the gmm, you get a different picture. This is the Asian Session and how it looks right now. Msci asiad. 4 on the pacific. The australian and south korean markets in positive territory but th
As many as 100 employees at amazons Staten Island, new york, Fulfillment Center, plan to walk off the job claiming the company is mishandling its response to the covid19 outbreak we speak to the protest organizer coming up. Its march 30, 2020, and you are watching cnbc. Good morning and welcome to the show im dominic chu kicking off this monday morning with markets in turmoil once again after the dow fell nearly or more than 900 points as you can see on friday wall street is looking to pick up where it left off futures indicate 165point drop at the opening bell. If these futures moves hold, the s p down by 10 and the nasdaq up by 1 point at this point this is, by the way, the first time in about a month we havent woken up on a monday morning with futures socalled limit down or stopped because of downside price action. Checking the futures over the past 12 hours, you can see the move has been pretty volatile. Weve seen green substantially at one point all the way down to where we are no
Let that sink in for a moment. 16 just this week were not even done. President trump announcing a travel ban on all nonu. S. Citizens coming in from europe were awaiting details on a stimulus plan or domestic response to ensure containment mitigation and increased testing capabilities right here in the u. S. Were talking to three ceos today. Group one auto, redfin and verizon ceo about how these companies are dealing with the fall out and what the impact of this virus will be on the overall economy. Lets get right to our reporters covering the story for us rick ismonitoring the action i the bond action. We begin with steve on the phone with the latest on this move by the fed. Its been about an hour for markets to digest it people are still trying to figure it all out here it looks like the Federal Reserve is going to do a series of masds ifr operations to put it this way, it will be a trillion dollars a week in the following ways a half a trillion dollars was done at 1 30 today a half
Offset those nearterm disruptions. Does not going to be able to go on a cruise. This is a potential supply and demand shock. The supply shock, now and oil price shock. It is difficult for Monetary Policy alone to reassure markets. Monetary policy has to go to zero. Monetary policy is at its limit. It is not sufficient. It is wasting valuable ammunition. Just cutting into it is ineffective. We have much further to go for it to be truly effective. You need massive, not kind of, massive monetary and fiscal stimulus. The monetary response has been there. Focus needs to shift onto a fisc onto fiscal stimulus. Jonathan the key question, what will stop the bleeding . City,g us in new york michael and alexia of invesco. It got real and it got real quickly. Tom extraordinarily day expert and airy day. I disagree to the parallels of 1987. The price changes are there but this is a medical event. We saw the ncaa giveaway on madness. You have all the other news around including mr. Macron becoming
Yields down by about eight basis points, once again under 1 for the 10 year. Time now for global exchange. From hong kong to washington to new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Want to beginning asia. Total coronavirus cases around the world is now above 95,000. Cases seem to slow in south korea, while switzerland reported its first death. With us now is sophie kamaruddin. Is reporting an increasing number of recovery patients, roughly 62 of those who have been diagnosed who have been discharged from hospitals. The number of fatalities reported wednesday totaling 31, all of which were in hubei province. Jinpings scheduled visit to tokyo has been delayed, and Prime Minister shinzo abe did reveal tighter border controls and japan, including two weeks of quarantine from visitors arriving from china and iran, as well as south korea, where cases have topped 6000, but the daily count has slowed has monday at the country been testing hundreds of thou