Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
Therapeutics, the whole thing. Europe is down 5, oil below 25, that will take you back to 2002. So, yesterdays gains are obviously in jeopardy, since february 24th, the first big day of the virus selloff, the average daily move of the s p, up or down, 4. 9 jim, dont need to tell that you is unprecedented the market is trying to figure out how to deal with these Uncertain Times when you have Financial Health on the line and, of course, what we were talking about with separation, actual health. Its not processing it very well in part because the liquidity is not there, but also because weather in a highly emotional moment yesterday it looked like the market was up. The indices lie. What was really up were things like hormel. When we put shutters across the country, one of the first things to do was put in spam. Yesterday it was chef boyardee the wrong stocks are going up. The companies we invoked during thermonuclear war time that is what was up in the index, that and drug stocks a halfh
Package amid disagreement on how to spend nearly 2 trillion. President trump says coronavirus measures shouldnt be worse than the problem itself. Europe tightens its grip. Leaders scramble to enforce unprecedented restrictions as 2000 more people die in italy and spain over the weekend. Angela merkel says she is self isolating after contact with a doctor who tested positive for the coronavirus. An hour awaynder from the start of cash trading across europe and it looks like it will be another risk off day as futures fall. Euro stoxx 50 futures as well as ftse and dax futures, down 4 . Futuresftse mib gaining, but i believe that is actually fridays trade, so that is not current live futures contracts. All life futures contracts are down, deep, deep in the red. If you look at u. S. Futures, we also see drops of about 3 across the major equity indexes, so s p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures all down. Its get into the markets with laura cooper, bloombergs mliv macro strategist. Laura, we hav
Earlier, it was down 12 . As the deadly pandemic expands to every state in the nation now and the president shuts the northern border with canada, the death toll has ticked up to 97 in the United States. Let us start looking through a whole bunch of different sectors here. How low will oil go. The rout at this hour in the aftermarket is pretty brutal. We are down 19. 2 and we do have it at 21. 78 a barrel. It settled lower than that at 20. 37 per barrel just a half hour ago. Crude has lost 56 over just the last ten days. That is the worst tenday trading stretch since the futures contract launched back in 1983. As we speak, we should tell you the senate is expected to begin voting on the 100 billion phase two coronavirus bill. Heres what we know it includes. Free coronavirus testing, funds for state Unemployment Insurance and paid sick family and medical leave for employees and Small Businesses. We will take you to capitol hill to get the vote tally when it begins and we will try to do
And up to 200,000 deaths. The president listening to his medical advisers and he has adjusted policy. The social distancing rules will be extended until april 30th. Therefore, the shutdown of the economy will continue well beyond easter. The president says the recovery will start by june 1st. On the markets, expect continued volatility. We have certainly seen that already today. At one point early this morning, futures showed a loss of a couple hundred points. Now we are looking at a gain at the opening bell of a couple hundred points. That would be almost 1 . A similar gain, better gain, actually, for the nasdaq, up about 1. 25 and the s p also up over 1 . A rally at the opening bell. Investors seem to like the idea of more pain now so we get out of it faster. The other big financial story is the price of oil. This is apart from the virus. This is the price of oil. Look at it. Its down to 20 a barrel. Earlier it hit 19. 20. 48 is the price right now. The saudis have declared war on Am