Bailey and also to chairman powell. Yesterday, the continued inflationary trend and the outright deflationary trend in switzerland. The numbers in europe in inflation on price change are simply grim, and you are dead on about unemployment. Overnight, Goldman Sachs readjusted their Unemployment Rates, and they get Steve Englander of Standard Chartered bank, a stunning statistic, francine 25 Unemployment Rates modeled out now by Goldman Sachs. And of course we get claims at 8 30 this morning. Francine we will have plenty more on that throughout the day. Its good to first word news with richie good lets go to first word news with they take a to first lets go word news with ritika gupta. Ritika wanted to play all sides of the equation, reopening the country too soon could lead to coronavirus flareups. He warned about the impact on children in schools reopened. President trump called that comment unacceptable. Has seizedortedly the mobile phone of the intelligence committee, richard burr. A
Headline out of china, also a lot of focus on the dismal earnings we have had from Certain Companies and dismal economic data. China considering dropping the numerical gdp growth target for 2020. This is like a company saying it is difficult to forecast so we will not tell you. It happens in the corporate world and not usually with the country, certainly as big as china. I dont know if this will have implications for renminbi. The chief executive of alianza said we are underestimating the impact this will have on the yuan. Tom a shout out to Carl Weinberg who aggressively stated a month ago, forecast your economics as possible. It is possible we need first word news in new york city. Ritika President Trump is ramping up his push to reopen the country, saying americans should return to their everyday lives even if that leads to more sickness and death. He spoke in phoenix and may disband the white house tax form stearate tax force steering the government response to the outbreak. The e.
Will mean then. A lot of earnings out there. Without question the ecb meeting is front and center today. A change after what chairman powell said yesterday. Absolutely stunning the difference between the u. S. Central bank in the European Central banks. Its could be a radically different press conference from lagarde today than what we saw from powell. Francine many people say its a different economy and cycle. Im excited to be talking about that. First lets get straight to new york city. Trumpbegin with president blaming chinas Coronavirus Response on politics. He says beijing would do anything to see him lose the election. The president did not provide any evidence china would liberally mishandle the outbreak. He says he is considering various ways to punish the chinese government. Chinas response, it has no interest in interfering in u. S. Internal affairs. Chairmanderal reserve jerome powell, he worries about the longterm economic damage of the coronavirus. If the economy starts to
Extraordinary. The underlying reasons why is very clear. We are up to our eyeballs in oil, at that means the price goes down. We have some terrific perspective today on oil. Too much oil, not enough storage. We will have plenty more on oil and we will try to figure out whether this could happen to another part of the market, but first lets get to the first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with speculation about the health of north koreas leader kim jongun. The u. S. Official got word that mr. Kim was in Critical Condition after cardiovascular surgery. The white house reportedly was told mr. Kim took a turn for the worse. Kim is 36. He recently missed holiday celebrations in pyongyang. Now to president donald trump, issuing an executive order temporarily suspending immigration. Late monday night, the president tweeting the move is needed to contain coronavirus. He also says it will protect american jobs. No word on how the suspension will last or who it
North korea, but that is where the mystery starts, doesnt it . Francine it is a mystery. You have conflicting reports. Doctors are saying he is back to work and some in the u. S. Say he is in Critical Condition. There is no clear succession plans and authorities around the world including the u. S. Are trying to figure out who is next in line or do you have some military coup detat taking over . All eyes are what is going on in the oil market, june wti oil to 11. 17 ang 49 barrel. Crude,e plunge in brent 19 a barrel on the global oil price. Right now, 20 1. 81 on brent de, an extraordinary shift 21. 81 on brent crude, and extraordinary shift. Viviana speculation about the health of north koreas leader kim jongun. Inicials getting word he was Critical Condition after cardiovascular surgery. The white house reportedly was told mr. Kim took a turn for the worst. Recent6 and missed holiday celebrations in pyongyang. Issue anump plans to executive order suspending immigration. He tweeted th