During the financial crisis, the peak was about 695,000 in one week first we have our full Team Coverage the house gets ready to vote on stimulus package bob is watching the wild swing in stocks. Steve on a surprising move from the Federal Reserve chairman lets start with kayla the house of representatives is set to vote tomorrow morning. Its expected to pass easily businesses and workers are pursing the nearly 900 pages of legislation to find out how they can access the funds provided. The treasury secretary offered clarity saying the direct Cash Payments should be received within three weeks fore kwlouclosures and eviction be put on hoeds and Small Businesses should be able to use some of these loans to rehire workers that were laid off and large share of the unemployment claims we saw in the last week there were some businesses that were left out. Democrats removed language that would have provided 3 billion for the administration to buy oil. The Postal Service got 15 billion less t
Furloughs taking place the other thing to keep an eye on is the high yield bond etf, hyg, and also the junk etf, spider, bloomberg, bark clays, hy bond, jnk were seeing those jump because of some of these fed actions which include now basically buying into and helping support u. S. High yield corporate bonds, so really talk about taking all the tools out of the chest its cause something strategists to now circulate notes today asking what could potentially be next for the fed is it going to be Something Like buying into actual equities . Guys carl . We are glad back to have on our air art cashin, director of floor operations at ubs and bob pisani art, we have missed your guidance and wisdom over the past few weeks as you recover from an accident, but its great to have you back let me just start off by asking you about this historic fed move and as you said in one of your notes this morning with powell on the tape, the game is now on the table. What do you mean well, its, you know, the
As demand dips and price wars loom with brent reaching its lowest level since 2002. Awe quarry tet of eurozone banks scrap their proposal after the ecb wants to preserve cash until october in a bid to maintain liquidity the number of confirmed coronavirus globally has risen 723,000. The death toll has risen to 34,000 germany and france have started lockdown with germany. The number of deaths in italy has fallen for the second straight day tough restrictions remain in place. Elsewhere china says it has posted a drop in new cases for the fourth consecutive day as beijing battles against a second outbreak of the virus. How are the markets reacting to it markets are trading on the back foot in europe. We are seeing some pretty substantial losses coming together in the early hours of trade. Ftse 100 down 2. 6 in the germany the dax is holding up a little better, down just 1. 4 . A few sectors are getting a particularly hard hit this morning after some analysts weighed through the impact of
So nbc news now has obtained a onepager, in effect, laying out the stage 3 proposal key terms. Thats the mnuchin proposal for about 1 trillion in stimulus and economic backstopping. Heres whats in it, as were going through it in realtime the Airline Industry gets a secured Lending Facility of 50 billi billion. Theyre saying it would be secured by lateral thats specified by the Treasury Department here. Other severely distressed sectors of the u. S. Economy, thats 150 billion. This document not specifying what other sectors might be included here, but theyre saying that it would authorize use of those funds for secured lending on loan guarantees to assist other critical sectors of the u. S. Economy, experiencing distress here. Also, theyre going to temporarily permit use of the Exchange Stabilization fund to guarantee Money Market Mutual Funds. What treasury is saying here is they will temporarily suspend the statutory limitation on the use of Exchange Stabilization fund for guaranteed
Activity as Economic Activity grinds to a halt here in the u. S. , the white house calling for half a trillion dollars in direct payments to taxpayers and says we could see bailouts for airlines, hotels, and cruise industries, all the sectors getting crushed in todays market and crude oil down a staggering 23 . Now trading just above 20 a barrel we have every angle covered for you. Bob pisani is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Kayla is in washington with the response to lawmakers. And were covering the latest on the virus itself bob, first to you on another roller coaster ride today here at the Stock Exchange. We have a quiet morning i say relatively quiet, it was down 6 tach take a look at the s p i urge you to watch it emotionally. He said we need a 30spring break. This slow rollout of a shutdown is not working market dropped quickly to the lows of the day. We hit the Circuit Breaker at 12 50 eastern time, 15minute pause. We reopened. We have not dropped to the he second