And i welcome to r. T. International life from moscow hawkins were you to begin from tonights welcome to the program. A World Oil Stocks are taking a major hit following the failure of crude producing countries to agree to production cuts as the model for oil falls amid fears about the krona virus saudi arabia says it will increase output after a dispute with russia with more heres a little. Quite a somber atmosphere here on wall street they are already calling it black monday we saw a 15 minute free on futures trading when the stock market opened big dramatic plunge on the stock market the biggest drop weve seen since the 2008 financial crisis and on top of all of that weve got an Oil Price Drop 30 percent decline in the price of oil a plunge in the price of oil the biggest drop weve ever seen in oil cents in 1901 and at this point it being traced back essentially to the negotiations with opec saudi arabia has come forward and called for a decrease in Oil Production due to limited dem
Warned before below 50. 00 per barrel Many Companies will be unable to service their debt obligations this in turn has the Banking Sector as these Companies Start defaulting big banks including j. P. Morgan city Group Wells Fargo and goldman are down between 9 to 13 percent today as the selling pressure intensified across all sectors u. S. Markets triggered a 15 minute halt at the am the dow fell over a 1000 points as investors continued to seek safer assets the yield on the 10 year dropped below 0. 5 percent for the 1st time ever in the history crude prices have become a bigger problem for the markets than the coronavirus now as it will be virtually impossible for the s. N. P. To bounce when the Energy Sector is down 15 percent interesting way enough gold that defacto safety asset is not spiking instead it is trading flat someone down indicating that people are selling with. Well prejudice this type of broad based sell off is indicative of a cash crunch and that leverage funds are rec
Now, latest numbers. The house is preparing to vote on multiple dollar package. What you need to know coming up. The nba suspending season, suspending season until further notice. March madness to be played without fans. Selloff extending across the globe. European markets deep in the red followed by travel announcement by President Trump. 1. 7 . Cac quarante down 258 and dax in germany lower by 588. Almost 6 . Italy tightening lockdown even further allowing Grocery Stores and pharmacies to stay open. The European Central bank out with latest Rate Decision this morning. We will have that for you as soon as it hits the tape. Investors are looking for news of stimulus to battle the Economic Impact of coronavirus. In asia red across the board. The shanghai composite down 1 and a half percent but japan worst performer down 4 and a half percent. Lets check Interest Rates right now. We are talking about a decline of 15 and a half basis points on the 10year yield now sitting at. 718 . This, t
287 points. Tracing half of yesterdays loss. The Oil Price Crash is a problem yesterday, still his. Bankruptcies and layoffs are a near certainty in the oil patch, drillers can to make money, cant service their debt with oil in the 30 barrel range. Russia wants to meet with opec soon, to see if the price war can be resolved. Oil is back to 34 a barrel as we speak. The anxiety indicator, the 10 year treasury yields 0. 6 almost double what it yielded at the low yesterday which was 0. 31 . Big day in politics, primaries in 6 states. Im calling it bernies last stand. He needs to win big especially in michigan. He is way behind biden in two recent polls. That would be good news for investors, the threat of a socialist in the white house receives but it is not good for the democrats. Their split is obvious and toxic. Varney and company is about to begin. We are going to take care of and have been taking care of the American Public and the american economy, meeting with house republicans, Mit
On every 19th. On february 19. Take a look at the banking sector, take a look at the mining sector, take a look at what is happening with the oil sector. These sectors are down by circa 30 since those highs were hit. Brent crude bouncing back today, up by nearly 8 , after saudi makes it very clear they intend to pump a lot of oil during the month of april. This Oil Price War is not going to go away in a hurry. The german 10 year yield, we are selling off today. We are 10 basis points higher. In italy, 12 basis points lower. The spread tightening up a little bit, but nevertheless, italy has been on offer for the last couple of days. Maybe some fiscal action helping the story out a little bit. Nevertheless, we have a big call between eu leaders. We will have to wait and see. Vonnie we will get all of that later today, but for todays market action, what we are looking at right now, we are joined by nancy davis, Quadratic Capital Management cio. Also joining us, our market live editor this