Cheerleading forward as we expect politicians to do. The underlying math on the thursday past was outright graham. Outright graham. Whether it was germany or russia. Increasedew york city 9. 8 yesterday. That is a huge fall back from the end of may story we have been getting. Francine if you look at the pattern, if it is anything like we saw in france, gets better and then gets worse and then get better. Bear with us and good luck to everyone. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. There china hasnt had an economic report like this in decades. The coronavirus pushing the countrys economy into a contraction in the First Quarter. Gdp shrinking to 6. 8 from a year ago, the worst performance since at least 1992. Recovery will not be easy. Coronavirus has hammered business around the world. China will have to demand will have to rely on fragile domestic demand. It is a threephase process. The president says some phases could begin literally tomorrow. The guidelines mark
Also janet yellin saying maybe the Federal Reserve should be allowed to buy equities directly maybe they should be able to were going to talk about the markets all show long. And see if were getting getting around this area well look at where we understand with the indications. And where we think we might be in flat thing that curve waiting on tim seymour as well, tony dwyer will join us too, it is a big market day. Lets begin now with these markets. Guy adami, i have a statistic for you that i think may move you given the kind of weeks we have had in the moveup, the qqq well talked about on this fine program, is it now higher year over year. I mean, some of the its amazing what you can do with numbers, i didnt know that and thank you for sharing that, and happy monday to everybody. This is a good day, and listen i think you can take some glimmer of hope from that absolutely tims joining in, and hes been optimistic, which is good. Dan has a longer slew that he will share about where th
Trade iing at levels we havent seen in nearly two decades amid falling demand and an expected jump in production and the virus itself remains front and center. President trump e iine ining gus until the end of april as the u. S. Cases top 150,000 weve got great guests join ing us, the ceo of medical supply Company Henry Schein and the head of amid this turbulent market with 59 minutes left, we are up 2. 8 led by helhealth care, tech and Consumer Staples lets focus in on the big stories. Meg is going to join us with the latest on testing and treatment. Kayla has the latest from lawmakers and mike is tracking all the Market Action but meg, first to you hi, guys. Lets start with Johnson Johnson. That news theyve selected their lead candidate for Vaccine Development. Really moving their stock higher and causing a lot of optimism that well see a vaccine in timelines that are faster than expected companies saying it plans to tart human Clinical Trials in september. Months faster than they pr
Our schedules. Were also making sure the companies that are Good Companies stay solvent and have the money necessary to keep functioning. We have a lot of things were working on with Financial Markets and its going to work out fine you have to remember the stock market is much higher. Its taken a big hit its going to all bounce back and its going to bounce back at the right time when will you decide for the American Workers were deciding right now. Were dealing prior to even the stafford act were dealing with the democrats in congress. Well see what can be done i happen to think a payroll tax cut would be a very good idea. Very distributed to really distributes it very evenly among middle class and other workers it would be a great thing. I happen to think it would be a great thing beyond this. Were looking at the payroll tax cut and that wont come immediately because thats a stronger measure but we are looking to do that i think at the right Time Congress will probably go along with i
Warrant that level down sharply today we know you have all the analysis covered well try to get some rest tonight guys see you tomorrow morning thank you very much. Welcome to fast money, im Brian Sullivan and your traders on this very important night tonight are tim seymour and guy adami. Well get to that in a second. A record day on wall street, and for many a day to forget all three major averages plunging more than 7 . The dow the biggest loser, falling 2,013. That is not a misquote, thats the largest point drop ever in one of the top ten biggest decleanings on a percentage basis ever the transports crushed, falling nearly 0 , their worst day since all way back in september of 2001 on 9 11. Todays losses fueled by that crude crash we just discussed. The snrg sector having its worst day as well. Oil losing a quarter of its value, crude is trading below 31 a barrel many oil and gas stocks down 30 and 40 today. As the market assesses many of these companies ability to survive in a low