Similar percentage moves for the s p 500 and the nasdaq composite as well. The question becomes after the best week for the dow since 1938 last week, the best week for the s p 500 and nasdaq composite, are we starting to see a market bottom play out . Lets start here with our invest Investment Committee joe, what are we seeing here is this a market bottom we can see developing out in the next couple of days and weeks no one knows the answer to whether this is an absolute market bottom. What is going on is theres a significant trading bounce in the market and a lot of it is predicated on the end of month rebalancing we know will occur into equities. Today, very surprising there seems to be a high degree of optimism relative to the expectation were going to get a significant amount of negative news coming this week in the form of ism in the form of unemployment figures and in the form of continued negativity surrounding riding cases of coronavirus here in new york city which is the epice
A simple message for all countries terrorist. Test. Welcome to the program the Global Response to the coronavirus pandemic is ramping up but the World Health Organization is improving governments to test far more people with a suspected infection the french president has declared war on the outbreak and is closing frances borders from 1100 g. M. T. On tuesday the European Union has proposed a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the shang in zone the president of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde has pledged to do whatever she can to stop the eurozone from breaking up while the British Government which has been under pressure to toughen its approach is now asking people to avoid nonessential travel and pubs. And theaters u. S. President donald trump position similar advice and no social gatherings of more than 10 people it comes as wall street suffered its worst day for more than 30 years well alan fischer brings us more on the latest moves by the us. If theres a cure fo
Overnight. Americans overseas scrambling to get out. I just want to be home and were hopefully going to get there. Delta slashing flights, apple shutting down stores worldwide. Theme parks closing their doors and shoppers rushing stores to buy essentials as coronavirus cases arrived in 49 states. Were live with how to prepare and how to protect yourself. Today, saturday, march 14, 2020. From nbc news, this is today. With peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. You might notice our digs look different this morning. To try to limit our travel for us and our team, we decided to stay put in washington, d. C. For todays show. Thats right. We wanted to follow the advice of Health Officials and do our part. Most important,ly, we want to make sure you have your information. The way were greeting each other. Weve got a lot of news to get to. We want to start with the overnight headlines. A few hours ago, the house pa
This poisoning rivers and drying up farm us. With sports as calls for the european football championships to be postponed and the international indignity looks set to hold emergency talks about 2020. For the 1st time since the corona out corona Virus Outbreak began there are more deaths and confirmed cases outside of china than within across the world tougher restrictions are being rolled out to try to limit the spread the latest global death toll is 6500 daily 170000 cases lets take you through the latest developments 3 hours ago germany imposed border controls with 5 of its neighbors new checkpoints are in place a most travel is banned but good. And commuters are still able to cross its the latest country in the u. S borderless shang in the area to close its doors one of irans top Government Officials has died from the virus but they go with the capitals representative to the assembly of experts iran is one of the worst affected countries with nearly 14000 cases and the philippines i
A year. And the 1st person ever convicted by the International Criminal court is released from prison in the democratic republic of congo. New border restrictions are being imposed across europe to try to curb the coronavirus spots in other parts of the world theres a growing concern about the wider Economic Impact on monday morning germany rolled out new Border Controls with 5 of its neighbors about france and spain also considering shutdowns china has just had 16 new cases but its economy is taking a big hit manufacturing that dropped 13 and a half percent in february the most in 30 years of iran more than 129 people have died in the past 24 hours taking the death toll there to 853 lets begin with the latest in Europe Lawrence lee joins us from london lets start with those Border Control measures that have been introduced in whats supposed to be an area of free movement. Yes and i mean clearly you know the w. H. O. Says that europe is the epicenter of the of the Global Health crisis