Come friday, thats mayday, with spring weather, getting out of the house and back to work will surely take another step forward. Look at this. Investors love it. We know we are in the middle of a seriously shrinking economy but back to work means a way out of the mess. Top officials including the president and the treasury secretary expect a vigorous recovery later this year. And soon, we will see the Financial Statements from the allimportant big tech companies. Investors are expecting solid results and that, too, is helping the overall market. Heres the big negative of the day. The tumbling price of oil. We dropped to 10 a barrel. Now we are at 11. 87. At the moment, its not hurting the stock market, but the possibility of going back to a zero price or a negative price as we did two weeks ago, that is still on the table. Gas, yep, keeps on falling. Not quite quickly enough, maybe. 1. 76 is your National Average. Wisconsin still the cheapest. The average price today actually went up i
Stabilize and support the financial system, support and rescue. Its moving quickly. On the ground, it is grim. 22 states have deployed the national guard. The virus is now infected all 50 states and d. C. And this is a first, kansas closes all schools for the rest of the school year. Its beginning to sink in that many of us will be confined to our homes for weeks and millions will not be getting a paycheck. You are waking up to an anxious america. Theres an eerie feeling when you see empty cities, shuttered businesses and a country thats really grinding to a halt. Now the markets. Limit down before the opening bell. We might be 5 or 6 down in early trading. Remember, if the s p goes down 7 trading is halted for 15 minutes. We have already seen that twice. The dow, s p, nasdaq limit down, big red arrows right there. Look at this. The yield on the tenyear treasury is now 1. 12 . So money is coming out, repeat, out of treasuries. Why is that . In part because some investors have to cover
Market meltdown. Hang on, everyone, this is the final hour of trade. Good afternoon. Lets have a look at whats driving the action the lack of a Production Cut deal from opec coupled with a saudi price cut sending prices tumbling down 17 on the day alone. Coronavirus fears remain front and center as global cases top 111,000 and italy locks down a quarter of its population. And the bull market chaos rages on as yields on the tenyear at a low of 0. 31 and remain at the moment below 0. 5 . Joining us for the full first hour of the show, lindsey bell from ally invest they have 7. 85 billion in total customer assets. Shes here along with our team of reporters to break down this massive market sell off. Bob pisani is on the floor of the change Brian Sullivan covering the Oil Price Collapse mike is here to look in the the market mike holland ond transports. Well get to all our reporters the dow is down 7. 25 . B bob. Important thing is the Circuit Breakers hit this morning. Down 7 . Halted for
Of emergency. That doesnt include local and a school near settle closed for state. Lower taxes, not higher taxes. Leave the people alone. 2 week and microsoft had asked stuart i think we know where work nester bay area and seattle youre coming from gary to work from home. The question on the market and kaltbaum. Lets ask the same question to investors are still is shame. How much will the economy slow, we dont know yet. Jack how. Politics, ugly threat to supreme im one of the Economic Court and came incredible by from senator schumer, the radicals who believes in paying minority leader of the united his bills, so we cant pretend that we are paying our bills States Senate at a proabortion when we have a trillion dollar rally he raised, you wont know deficit. By the way at the top of expansion we hit next recession. What hit you, he said. We might be going into the hole that story is not over. 2 trillion every year so if there was an idea and as long as schumer may be censored and then i
Eamon javers is inside the meeting. Meg, what can we expect outside of this meeting . We did see the executives head in just a few moments ago as well as research chiefs theyre expected to discuss the status of development of both vaccine and drugs for the novel coronavirus. Gilead and regeneron have medicines in development, while the others are working on vaccines, as moderna las already delivered a batch for testling Stephanie Duke is catching up with stan erk, asking what he hoping to get from this meeting. Im hoping to get a commitment from the government theyll help us expedite the process. The case numbers are continuing to rice here, with seattle and king county just announcing an additional four deaths, bringing the total in this country to six. Guys what are you expecting, meg, in terms of the numbers of those that are diagnosed, given the fact that the cdc apparently is starting to provide more contests or is it in addition, we are starting to see local Public Health labs, a