Going on the president announces a travel ban but the lack in detail and large scale coordination is rattling the markets on the legislative side, theres little agreement on how u to move forward on any relief and just this afternoon, the fed announced a massive injection of liquidity into the market. It briefly shocked stocks higher but now weve drifted back down towards the lows o the day a number of big interviews this afternoon. Jack lew on the economic response cmes ceo, terror ki duffey on ty and ben is the former ceo of sprint currently sits on board of jet blue hell join us to discuss the pain thats being felt in the travel sector, and zoe, does it hurt we are all over this massive market sell off. Charlie from Ariel Investments is with us for the hoyer hour. Meg is tracking all the new details on this coronavirus outbreak and elan is in washington with the latest on the house stimulus vote. First, the new york fed just announcing that massive liquidity injection. Cnbcs senior
And a thousand times a day without thinking about it. At least thats how it feels right now. The inevitability of this outbreak is starting to sink in. What does the fed do it gives us a rate cut a 50 basis point rate cut. Reaction hey, condition rate cut. And it was a resounding texas hud. Ultimately the dow fell 786 points and 2. 189 so why did we get that illnesses, cancellations and this epidemic and im beginning to feel just in what has just been cancelled the emails that i get and the notes from Different Companies that is a shutdown it doesnt change that its not a cure. Its not a hazmat suit or respirator it does absolutely nothing to impact the spread of the virus it somehow boosts Business Confidence i did care about the rate cut. I cared about how wrong it was its totally a sign of the panic from the fed. And a rate cut i say this as someone thats been addiment that easy money is a good thing im probably the biggest single proponent of lower Interest Rates on the entire spect
And thats when the Trading Halted it slowed some of the panic selling, the machine selling and at the end of the day, still down more than that for the dow futures for the dow a decline of more than 2,000 points. Youre looking at a big bounceback but only half of the declines from yesterday. Up by 1100 . It found some support and then it was down 5 and then it closed about where it was indicated to open. Right. But we kept saying what if the garden variety correction is 12 we got a pandemic whats a decent where do we got an additional 18 or 19 yesterday. Well, in total. Down down 18 or 19. Yeah. If it goes from here up 1,000 today youll once again be the call of the bottom you will be ill take it. I hope im the call of the bottom. I hope you are too. But its just consensus. Just the feeling that everyone has at the same time that you express. Thats all it is thats many times that is the indicator. Do you think do you think we have more to go . Well, i understand the focus on the equity
Neil. Well, you said it when you set this up at the top. The conversation here on the floor has surpassed this notion of correction which the markets have gone straight through, but now traders are talking about bear market territory. That would be a 20 decline from alltime highs. Theyre saying they hope it doesnt happen, they hope maybe a bottom is set here today. The problem is theres just so much uncertainty, and we dont know where this whole situation is going to go. You know, the comparison has been made to the financial crisis, but there was an orderly process, right, between the government and the banks that stepped in to try to work on things. There was some uncertainty, but people were working on it. With this, were not sure how bad it can get, and thats whats spooking investors. Now, the s p 500 entering correction territory, it only took six days to get there. That is pretty staggering. The last high that we saw was on february 19th. Its been the worst trading week since tha
What i think we ought to do as we go into the march meeting and, obviously, in subsequent meetings this year. Charles now, there has been some intriguing action despite what you see in the overall market. Hardhit stocks finding buyers as the coronavirus stocks are actually giving up gains. And then, of course, mixed signals from the socalled safe havennings. Also the crisis deepens around the world, the number just keeps getting higher and higher, the number of countries with confirmed cases topping 50 and that includes mexico. However, the global rates for a vaccine is offering greater hope, and in the Business World we have amazon thats asking all of its employees to defer nonessential travel including in the United States, and just moments ago that google is banning employees from traveling to south korea or japan after one of their employees in zurich reportedly tested positive. Back here at home, california has become the epicenter of the virus with more than half of the confirmed