Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
Achieve strong Sustainable Growth and safeguard against downside risks. The group offered no specific actions to combat the virus. How disappointing was that look, i think this is the same problem, central bankers are dealing with a biological problem that is then going to spill over to economics, probably means fiscal help what are we talking about here lets talk about restaurant closing, malls closing how about the people who work at the places, thinly capitalized companies that are supposed to pay these people Steve Liesman i worked with him this morning, excellent drop in there, par suited into their office one point the Federal Reserve was saying well stand back behind people whose insurance for instance isnt paid off for a hurricane. I think that its up to treasury and incumbent upon treasury to say were going to work with Small Business, if you have a problem, you can come to us, because thats where the real pain is going to be. We dont want the only retailer to be walmart when
S p indicated down about 4. 5 looks like the 10year is yielding below 1. 6 . 1. 549 well talk about what china did. Loan rates there dropping as the company tries to take on the impact of the coronavirus. Lets get an update now on the coronavirus. The people on the ship, a couple of people did die from the coronavirus. China as we heard cutting its benchmark lending rate that was expected. Authorities looking to boost the market unfortunately, two passengers from the diamond princess cruise have died. The first reported deaths in connection with the ship which was quarantined off the coast of japan nearly two weeks china is again, changing the criteria of confirmed cases adding confusion to tracking going up or down and whether weve seen a peak or close to a peak l brands reportedly selling shares of victorias sek receipt valuing that brand just over 1 billion. This had been expected that theyd pay for it. L brands chairman and ceo will step down as part of the deal but remain on the b
Dow down 37 points and the s p nudging back up towards the flat line at 2066 and change and nasdaq in Percentage Points the big lieutenantser, down twothirds of a point. Seven of the sectors are low for the year including staples, i. T. , financial, industrials, utilities and energy rounding out the bottom of the pack. Both down more than 9 year to date. Oil getting hit hard again today before staging a bit of a comeback. There you see its got modest losses right now. West texas intermediate at 51. 97. Ice brent crude at 56. 43, down 11 cents or about a fifth of 1 . And then ty yield falling enough that were starting to hear about lower mortgage rates. The tenyear right now earning 2. 221 . Euro Group Leaders meantime emergeing from a crucial summit on greece about one hour ago. The result nothing, according to reuters. Another meeting set for tomorrow. The eurozone summit is under way now. Yields meantime skyrocketing on the greek twoyear bond at 49. 5 . The etf that tracks greece all
Ecb president. He suggests the eurozone economy is likely to remain stagnant and the central bank stands ready to act. T speaking of Central Banks, here at home, the fed is launching a review of how it oversees the major banks. The review comes after a series of critical reports. The fed is asking its Inspector General to help with the probe. Andrew. Weve got stocks to watch this morning. A lot of stuff moving. Gamestop earnings and revenue falling well short of estimates. The company blaming the late relief to be assassins creed unity game and slowing Video Game Software sales. Joseph kernens family always usually havent been big on that. But i read through the Analyst Report trying to figure out what happened. And there was worry that it was in digital, but its older software. Also, believe it or not, the west coast port situation is part of the forecast. The kernen family has no, no. Its strange that the west coast Court Situation would affect things. And they also use games. Also,