At this. Look at the market this morning. We are going to be down today, of course that follows an enormous 20 rally in the last three days. Perhaps investors are upset with the delay in the stimulus vote. Perhaps theres some profit taking after the explosive rally. The dow will open this morning with a loss of around 700 points. The s p, down about 200. The nasdaq off about 82. A decline at the opening bell. President trump, he wants to get the economy back up and running again as soon as possible. He has a plan to divide counties by risk, high, medium and low, depending on medical conditions. Some of those low risk counties may be able to bring some people back to work early. Today on this program, i will ask Vice President pence about the president s plan. Thats in our 10 00 hour this morning. The news on the virus itself, the United States has now more cases than any other country in the world, assuming you can believe the numbers coming out of china. Spain recorded 769 deaths in t
Discussing just that, an early return to work. 9 40 eastern time today on this program. There is outrage at Speaker Pelosi loading up the stimulus package with a host of items unrelated to supporting workers and industries. For example, canceling post office debt, the return of obama phones, same day voter registration, 35 million for the Kennedy Center for performing arts. What has all that got to do with getting money to people who have just lost their jobs, millions of workers thrown out of a job. However, treasury secretary mnuchin and senator schumer did meet last night, and they suggested that a 2 trillion rescue package, stimulus package, is close. Well see. All this has given the market a shot in the arm. For much of the morning, we have been limit up for the dow jones average and at the opening bell, the dow will be up, what, 900 points, maybe more when the restrictions of the limits on trading are off. S p, nasdaq also up 4 , 5 . Clearly, investors like the 2 trillion rescue
The economy, pretty much at a dead stop until may, maybe longer. The market is looking to the other side of the virus problem and surely welcomes more financial help. However, stocks are ending the worst month since 2008 and the dow will open lower this morning, off maybe 140 points. Similar story for the s p and for the nasdaq. A down opening bell today. The price of oil, well, that remains at depression levels. This morning we are in the low 20 per barrel and the average price of gasoline, you got to look at this, the National Average gas price has dropped below 2 a gallon. 1. 99, thats your number this morning. The price is dropping about two cents a day but so what . Demand has cratered, the roads are empty, and few people are taking advantage of dirtcheap gas. Now, this caused a stir yesterday. The u. S. Navy hospital ship arrived in new york and was greeted by crowds of onlookers. They were breaking social distancing rules. Those people who were holed up in their apartments and h
Quarantine it, will be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine. The key is you have to have separation. We have to have separation or this thing takes longer to go away. But the real, really important, and i think you can say this for your country, i think we can say it for a lot of countries, for all countries hope fullly it is going a way. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths. You know, we call it cases, how many cases do you have . Relative to other countries we have very few cases. Relative to certain of major countries that really have a bigger problem than us. Interestingly i think we have the greatest doctors in the world. We offered iran assistance. Iran is having a tremendous problem and we have offered iran assistance if they would like it. We will help them. We would be glad to help them. Reporter mr. President , pentagon determined that iranian backed militia fired rockets that killed two american solders in iraq. Should they expect a response . I would rather
2,255 points. Right now we are down 2,003 points. At 1 00 p. M. , money started fluttering down, the Federal Reserve making a move to support the bond market amid the coronavirus collapse. The s p 500, by the way, had been down 240 points and of course, we had 689 points getting slashed off the nasdaq. Right now the s p is down 219 and as we look at the nasdaq its down 619. Despite the feds move, the s p and nasdaq joined the Dow Jones Industrials in a bear market. This as the 11year bull market is officially about to come to an end. The selloff kicked in pretty much right at the open and five minutes in, triggered once again for the second time this week the Circuit Breakers that halted trading for 15 minutes. Lets show you some metrics here. The oil patch. Take a look at this. It is playing a huge role in this selloff once again. Oil is crashing, folks. We do have it down to 31. 32. Thats a loss of 5 today. Much of this comes after President Trump announced a travel ban on flights fr