Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not going to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times because one particularly interesting tidbit states that the equipment they provided to china was not from the pandemic stockpile and that china has since reciprocated our donation many times over between april 2nd of april 15th we received over 12000000 pieces of p. P. In the u. K. From china p. V. Becoming increasingly crucial to the whole Coronavirus Response here may be we dont have the real figures here maybe 20000 have died from grown over it why the briefing from downing street which has been there over the past few weeks against. It is a coming from Dominic Cummings well it does kind of seem like advi
Oligarchy run government while a lot of very much have been rumors that chance the dutch of lancaster one of johnsons deputies michael gove is supported by Rupert Murdoch i dont remember donald trump in interview when i was 1st with the British Press here michael did the interview Rupert Murdoch was in the room the entire time and michael gove actually went on the sunday political shows here in the u. K. To defend Boris Johnson and he offered this kind of less than spirited response to some question it was a really really simple question is it correct that by late february the u. K. Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times this one particularly interesti
Another busy day for earnings after the bell. Cvs and news corp. Will lead the charge. Well have analysis of all the numbers. Before we get to all of that, lets look at where we are in the markets right now. The markets have been whipsawed today by International Tensions. The dow down as much earlier in the session as 93 points. Right now were down about 75 so we are headed back towards the low, 16,368 is the level there. Nasdaq is off 15 points. S p 500 is off ten. Tyler, it is now down to 1,910. Joining our Closing Bell Exchange this hour, heather hughes, meg green, larry mcdonald, and our very own rick santelli. Welcome, one and all. Rick, id like to go back to something that you showed graphically. Might not work quite as well without your graphics. On power lunch, you looked at the performance of some bond charts versus the equity charts. Would you sum up what you were saying there . I will. As a matter of fact, were going to be showing those same charts right now as i talk. If yo
The very best we can. Today there are new questions about how the federal government has handled the outbreak so far. As a massive effort is underway to find the source of a california womans infection whose testing was delayed. California Health Officials are monitoring 8400 people and the governor is warning that while the cdc says more kits are coming, the state is not prepared to test people properly. We have just a few hundred testing kits in the state of california, and thats surveillance testing as well as diagnostic testing. Thats simply inadequate to do justice tooth kind of testing that is required to address this issue head on. So there are some growing fears that resulted in this wall street journal headline. The week that wiped 3. 4 trillion off the stock market. As we watch the markets drop significantly yet again today from coronavirus fears. Right now the dow is down about 400 points. Thats off of what it was before. It was as high as 600 or 700 points when i saw it. It
All the stops. President trump now expected to visit the cdc today after signing an 8. 3 billion coronavirus package from congress. Even as governments around the world are struggling to keep up with the crisis, the president doesnt sound worried about whats happening in the u. S. So here we are. 8. 3 billion. Its an unforseen problem. Came out of nowhere. Were take karg taking care of it. We did an interview, a town hall. It was very good. I said calm, you have to be calm. It will go away. Not everyone is so sure its being taken care of. The white house promising to have 1 million test kits available by the end of the week. Now mike pence in charge of the administrations response admits thats not happening. Not even close. Only 75,000 tests available. Meanwhile a Dramatic Mission off the coast of San Francisco. A team of National Guardsman repelled from the sky to drop test kits onto a cruise ship where at least 21 people are having flulike symptoms. Four coronavirus cases are linked