Package may not be needed. Dow industrials down 76, s p down 4 points and nasdaq lower by 2 and a half this after roller coaster week on wall street where we saw dow industrials go back to bull market territory posting largest weekly gain since 1938. Dow, nasdaq, s p 500 up better than 9 on the week. We are now off of the lows at 20. 54 a barrel, down 97 cents, 4 lower. Cases of coronavirus are rising across the country, death toll topping 1,000 in new york. Mayor de blasio says people who do not practice social distancing in the city can face fines up to 500dollars. A Million Dollars raised fox last night including fox business. More Companies Help to go fight the war on coronavirus. Manufacturing, medical supplies to free flight to healthcare workers. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets this morning as u. S. Searches for direction. We have weakness across europe, cac quarant down 41 and dax index in germany lower by 32 points. European leaders conti
Continues on a global scale. A worldwide their market, the 11 year bull run here is over. The dow is heading to the 22,000 level. A month ago it was 29,000. It is the fastest selloff in history. The s p will hit bear market territory at the open today, down 20 from the february high, the same story with the nasdaq. More money is still moving into safe treasury securities pushing the yield down to 0. 69 as of right now. The latest news on the virus brings its impact home to all of us. Sport dramatically affected. The nba has suspended the season indefinitely. A few days ago they banned reporters from locker rooms. Now the whole sport is shutdown. The Seattle Mariners will not be playing any home games. The early baseball season is in question. There will be an announcement later on the nhl. Social distancing is apparent across the country. You can see it and businesses are feeling it. Theres a long list of conference and meeting cancellations that is barely hurting airlines, hotels and
Charles at this moment all eyes on the Federal Reserve as coronavirus fears rattle the market. Breaks news from boston fed president aaron, give us the news, jennifer. Good afternoon, charles. Boston fed giving a speech in new york this afternoon saying the fed should consider buying a broaderrange of assets besides treasuries should rates go to zero. That policy would require change to the Federal Reserve act, rosenbrend says a facility that could buy assets if treasury agrees to backstop it and offer and hes one that is caution that lowering rates at the risk of pushing investors into riskier assets could lead to bubbles in markets and now suggesting this policy really taking a page out of japans playbook. That would not stimulate the economy. All of this, of course, on a yield when the year on the 10year hitting alltime new low. This is the last time that fed officials will talk before they meet for their policy meeting next week to determine whether to take further policy action, c
President trump meeting with Bank Executives right now at the white house about the state of the economy, amid the outbreak. Well bring you the president s comment from that meeting as soon as we have them. We have fox Business Team coverage. Jackie deangelis is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence is outside of the west wing. Phil flynn watching action in oil and gold at the cme. Jackie, first to you. Reporter melissa, good afternoon to you, when i say the new normal expect the seesaw swings, it is not really an exaggeration. Tensions were high on the floor today, traders trying to internalize it, deal with it in the best way possible, basically saying until the virus peaks in this country and starts to fall off, you will not see an end to the volatility. Today a more than 1400 point loss. Session low was down 1689. The dow is now in bear market territory, in that bear market mode. As we said, not sure that wipes out the entire bull run but not a positive sign.
Wiped out. Were back to where we were right after the financial metdown. A lot of people are wondering how many arrows are left in the feds quiver. The president is taking Emergency Action of his own. He is already Restricted International travel. Of course for School Systems across the country, comprising now better than 11 million kids, theyre closed and a lot of kids sort of have to, technologywise do their classes on their home computers. I can tell you as a parent of a couple teenagers good luck with that. Meantime the Global Impact is clear, as one market after another sells well off into bear territory. Deirdre bolton following all of that. Bolton, we are jolten. A tough start to the trading day. The fed seemed to make more traders anxious than not. The fed, neil, you know this, basically what the fed has done in credit crisis over seven or eight month period t was done within hours this weekend markets reacted in the first 10 seconds. We dropped on the s p 500. We had a 15 minu