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
Crisis. Class violence and guinea ahead of a controversial referendum that could extend the president s term in office. And wont be dissembled schools its beginning to look more likely the Olympic Games will be postponed as countries announce they wont be same big teams a bit of will definitely its also cool not to take place. Now hundreds more people have died in spain and thousands more have been infected as europe struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak more than 460. 00 people have died there in the last 24 hour as pushing the death toll to nearly 2200 a state of emergency has been extended and foreign as a band from entry Singapore Airlines has grounded nearly its entire fleet it follows decisions by emirates and takesh airlines to hold nearly all passenger flights many major travel hubs are closing down hong kong is now banning all tourists from entering including those from Mainland China india is looking down major cities to slow the spread of the virus curfews are in pl
This is 3 declines for each of these markets. Joe, it looked worse overnight well see what happens as we get a little closer to the opening bell youve been watching the treasury. It was lockdown. It was lockdown for quite some time. And it really was about i couldnt help but saying, this is the politicians fault. It was if they had done what they looked like they were going to do as of friday, i dont think it would have been like that but then again, we may have had the, all right, they passed it, were up and then that sells off. In this world, i dont know what to hope for anymore. This is how it works, though. Im going to read something in a second that im so excited about. I even got more excited about this than i did about the futures not being locked down is,000 points. Weet gel well get to that. It was 954 points or something. Yields have come down. The tenyear was down at 0. 829 . Again, that volatility is spreading not only through the stock market but treasuries. Its been amazi
Treasury, the efforts to stimulate an economy in free fall jim, you got off a call or an interview it was a call as well with secretary mnuchin what stood out to you . That you shouldnt lay people off. I want to point out i got a correction, he said on Small Business payroll, two weeks, he meant two months two months means you do not lay people off without, i think im not saying its irresponsible but everything is being done to keep businesses open Small Businesses open. David, with the fed, i think theyve taken off to me anything involving credit the secretary talked about anything involving liquidity we cant produce demand. You keep people around for two months, but they wont be able to produce demand. There will still be a burden on Small Business not sure how that will be resolved thats an interesting point jim, we did we were watching the futures, which appeared to be limited down at different points in it the evening last night after japan opened as well then we got a fed announc
S p is down 76. We are watching all of these markets. A few things are going on right now. Investors werent impressed by the feds vow to buy an unlimited amount of Government Debt and give loans to businesses, big and small. Theres one industry that Coronavirus Crisis is impacting directly, restaurants. They are closing their doors to patrons, trying to shift to takeout only. We s ghave got the owner of a gp of restaurants who will tell us, he will say this, the restaurant recession has already started, already in effect. We know folks are out of work but how bad is it . We will find out. Theres also sharks in the water, there always are. Investors are not just looking for an edge in the selloff but advising businesses in how to survive the crisis. Weve got one of the best in this. Hes an investor, an entrepreneur, founder of fubu and the star of shark tank, daymond john will join us to give us his perspective in all of this and oh, yeah, we are going to check in on liz claman as she b