Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Keeping an eye on the treasury market, the 10year right about 0. 638 for that yield. Right now time for the squawk planner. The American Economy has lost about 8. 8 million jobs in the last three weeks economists are expecting the loss of an additional 5 million. Well get Housing Starts data with a decline of 15 for the month of march we have a big lineup of guests starting at 6 30 eastern with black rocks larry fink. We also have ken fine berg, dr. Emanuel, barry diller and House Majority leader mccarthy coming up and cases to top 2 million u. S. Cases top 640,000 new york cases over 21,000 new york governor now squarequi people to wear a Face Covering when out in public that takes Effect Tomorrow becky. Joe, everybody in engel wood cliffs right now is wearing a mask everyone who is not on air it is something they are take very, very seriously too im thinking about exactly what it means when we are all trying to get back and when we are in the nasdaq. I think in the entire place, it i
Good morning and welcome it is 5 00 a. M. On the east coast of the u. S im Frank Holland along with courtney reagan. Good morning lets get a start with the markets early and see where the futures will open this morning we are indicated lower the dow lower by 400 lets check on the bond markets and see what is happening. The 10year yield at 0. 77 all of this after the big rally yesterday. The dow jumping more than 1,300 points or 6. 4 the dow is on track to snap a threeday losing streak. Most my green across the board in asia. Different in early trade in europe, however. Matt taylor is standing by in singapore. Well toss to you first. Mostly positive session for asia pacific markets seemingly shrugging off the picture. Japan up about 4 . Japan logging the best weekend gain you can see at the 108 level australian stocks ending down. The government ordering all people arriving in the country must selfisolate in hotels. India cutting the repo rate by 75 basis points and an unscheduled emerg
The yield down below. 6 last time i checked, it was at 0. 597 dr. Fauci saying the first human trial testing for a covid19 vaccine is now on track calling it the ultimate game changer but that public distribution is still 12 to 18 months away. President trump was asked if the stom pile of personal protective equipment was nearly depleted. We are sending it directly to hospitals. We dont want to take it before it gets there. We asked many states to do this. Many states have people or where they make clothing, we said see if you can get it directly from those manufacturers. The president considering halting flights to hot spots in the country, which would be a shift in this batter and also potentially have an impact on when and if the economy will return to some normal si in the meantime, total death numbers have topped 5,100. Confirmed cases have topped 200,000. In new york, topping 81,000 cases. In italy, the lowest daily death toll the new number of active cases declining. The hate he
It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraordinary. And we are at a loss for words for them obviously, all these people are now in some way or another getting compensated this week. But i think its not enough, and i keep thinking that the longer we dont have and its not opening or closing america the longer we dont have faith in being with each other, youre going to have to keep seeing these numbers. I have to tell you, i was hoping i never