Windows cracked open on the island of manhattan, the soft drone of sirens each and every moment of each day. Francine it is terrible. A lot of us have looked at china with our colleagues, and we are partners for many months, and italy. The pattern, we have been looking at curves and we are trying to flatten the curve by making people isolate, but the curve is similar from country to country with a laggard of one to two weeks. You can look back at the sirens and more resources needed for the heroes and nurses and doctors. Here,e have seen a lot and bloomberg graphics with a great chart out on the number of beds in the five boroughs of new york city. , learned a lot from that chart and from the new york times, great log charts showing the pandemic. All you need to know is new york state, not asas a a city, is on the wrong side of these different geographies affected by this pandemic. There were news in new york city, here is Viviana Hurtado. Viviana the largest economic rescue in u. S. H
Economy could lose a chunk the size of japan as coronavirus cases top 1. 5 million. Across extends gains opecplus meetings as Top Producers move closer to a deal. Cutia says it is ready to 1. 6 billion barrels a day. Just under one hour from the start of cash equity trading. Lets take a look at your futures. Gains inoking at futures on the ftse, cac, and dax of 1. 2 . More than 1 gains in european futures. U. S. Futures had a mixed picture. Nasdaq futures were down and we were seeing gains over the last 30 seconds. We are seeing u. S. Futures climb wellwell ahead of the open in new york. Johnson haser boris spent a third night in Critical Care where we are told his condition is improving. Officials are drawing up plans to extend the lockdown in a bid to control the crisis. Scientists predict the u. K. Will be headed into the peak of the outbreak over the next week. Biden is thejoe Presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Thats as Bernie Sanders ended his run, thanking supporters f
Market. In the we want to begin in washington, where the u. S. Passed a record 2. 2 trillion economic rescue package. The house will vote potentially on friday. Going this is kevin cirilli. Walk us through some of the highlights here. Kevin shortly before midnight, the senate, in a resounding 960 trillionsed the 2 economic stimulus bill. That puts pressure on the house of representatives to get this done quickly. Theres been some comments from farleft progressives and far right republicans that they may have some issues with this version of the bill. I do not it is about that being enough to significantly stop this from being passed, based upon my reporting. I can tell you that the likely vote will come friday, and President Trump has said he is going to sign this virtually immediately once it lands on his desk. Alix thanks so much. As i mentioned earlier, europe really stepping up its effort to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus. The latest is the ecb started buying bonds, but
Could close with an agreement to cut output. Russia says it is prepared to cut as much as 15 . Lets get a check on markets. We are seeing quite a bit of risk abbett risk appetite, given that we dont see signs of a peak in cases globally in the epicenters of coronavirus. Dax up 2 and the futures pointing to gains. The s p 500 technically went to pool territory. Bull territory. Will initial jobless claims put a stop to the rally or will they shrug off the numbers . One market is perhaps telling a different story. The dollar is steady in todays session. Gains, someg some optimism ahead of the opecplus meeting in oil. Generally a bit of a riskon tone across markets. Bloomberg first word news. Vicena former u. S. President joe biden is the Presumptive Democratic nominee for president after Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign. He thanked supporters for helping create an unprecedented grassroots movement. Stays says he will on the ballot to help democrats closer to his vision. Oil gaining a
, guy . S going on Europe Vincent we are seeing stocks guy we are seeing stocks turning around. Makes you wonder how bad they whisper number must have been for everybody to react positively to a 3. 2 number. Stoxx 600 in positive territory. Travel stocks leading the move. The big move in many ways has come from the ecb, announcing , theetails of its pepp pandemic emergency purchase program, which is it is using to buy bonds. It is basically tearing up all of the old rules that use to apply to ecb emergency purchases. As a result, we are seeing a big move on the italian 10 year, and massive move on the spanish tenure. Downw the bank of england today, and some really interesting comments out of the bank of england. Brent crude a little softer today, 27. 13. What a week it has been for stocks. There does seem to be much more positive sentiment towards the equity market. The question is how long can it last. Guy exactly. Vonnie exactly. Those jobless claims did serve four times the previou