Teams and teams and delivery of cars for 2020 and so forth. Were starting to get a clearer picture on whats happening in technology as well. This is a big earnings week in general but we got the alphabet earnings last night. And one of the stark things was the difference between direct response advertising and general brand advertising. We heard direct response is doing better we heard it from snap. Heres the general idea from alphabet, gives you a read through whats going to happen with facebook. There were other numbers that alphabet talked about that could have implications for apple, certainly for amazon and microsoft in their cloud numbers. So that data, that intelligence were getting not only for what happened in q 1 but the trends in beginning of q 2, morgan, are so important. Yeah, potentially read through for apple when we get those results after the bell tomorrow, too. We started the week talking about the outsized leadership of these names, microsoft, facebook, amazon, alpha
Retail certificate going to zero not every biotech will keep growing every day. Thats the way it feels on a gay when oil imploded. The stock market got slammed because of it. Dow losing 592 points. S p sinking 1. 79 , why, of course its got a lot of tech and biotech. I dont blame a soul for being confused here. Buy, buy, buy a. Sell, sell, sell. The situation is, confusing were in Uncharted Waters now. It doesnt lend itself to easy explanation. We have to take them one at a time because some of these are so extreme they almost feel like science fiction. Like the price of oil falling to negative 37 and change today. Yeah, thats right you heard me, negative 37, minus sign lets start with oil as that meltdown was terrifying to watch. At dawn crude was a buck and a half, little below 20, seemed okay by the time the stock market opened it was down to 11, negative whoever owned the oil last had to pay someone else to take it off their hands. Next thing you know it was negative 10, negative 2
And thats when the Trading Halted it slowed some of the panic selling, the machine selling and at the end of the day, still down more than that for the dow futures for the dow a decline of more than 2,000 points. Youre looking at a big bounceback but only half of the declines from yesterday. Up by 1100 . It found some support and then it was down 5 and then it closed about where it was indicated to open. Right. But we kept saying what if the garden variety correction is 12 we got a pandemic whats a decent where do we got an additional 18 or 19 yesterday. Well, in total. Down down 18 or 19. Yeah. If it goes from here up 1,000 today youll once again be the call of the bottom you will be ill take it. I hope im the call of the bottom. I hope you are too. But its just consensus. Just the feeling that everyone has at the same time that you express. Thats all it is thats many times that is the indicator. Do you think do you think we have more to go . Well, i understand the focus on the equity
Coronavirus death toll has now hit 11 in america. The latest in california. The president and Vice President meeting with the ceos of airlines and diagnostic labs at the white house today, as the search for a vaccine goes on. One of the stars of netflixs docuseries pandemic is here. Jacob glanville, founder and ceo of distributed bio will break things down in a fox business exclusive. Less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Ashley Webster in for liz claman. Lets start the claman countdown. Ashley we begin with breaking news. United Airlines Says it is cutting domestic and International Flights by up to 20 in april, all in response to the slump in travel demand caused by the spreading coronavirus. The carrier also parking some wide body jets, also offering staff an unpaid leave of absence. United, the first u. S. Carrier to actually cut domestic flying. Check in on the stock, down a third of a percent. 58 a share. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg set to make a statement after suspending his
A 2nd and a run up the next hour on the way to what his backers are doing well right now while backing down from one of the nations biggest media conglomerates just got bigger were going to break down which company has now swallowed up Spanish Language Network Univision so much to get to on this very busy day so lets get started and we begin where else but with the very latest on the coronavirus as that surge of new cases is rising outside of china were also seeing markets react very strongly kristie is the latest on that coming up in just a 2nd but right now lets take a look at the boom of new cases in south korea as well as iran lets start in south korea where virtually all of the new cases are connected to a mega church about 200000 people in fact about 60 percent of all south koreas cases of the coronavirus or link to the church of jesus where it apparently a 61 year old woman began transmitting the virus its not clear how she became infected. Well now south korean officials have a