The crown a virus has infected more than 2400000 people globally its taken more than 160000 lives while some countries are seeing a flattening curve others are still seeing a surge in new cases coppa 19 has infected more than 766000 americans while deaths in the u. S. Have top 40000 new york state which is finally seeing a drop in new cases announced that its going to begin aggressive statewide Antibody Testing this week protests continue across the u. S. Over shelter in place orders amid pressure on governors to reopen local economies at sundays briefing president said hell use the defense production act to increase manufacturing of testing swabs while working with governors to reopen their economies are with the governors doing a better job than others the robust capacity that weve brought online will empower governors to deploy sophisticated strategies so they can safely reopen their states. Some people believe in. Play and other people believe in it less strongly but still its a very good thing to have that you must remember that the governors wanted to have. Total control over the opening of their states but now they want to have us the federal government do the testing and again testing as is local you cant have it both ways us governors are in conflict with President Trump and say that testing is still an adequate and not adequate enough to lift restrictions or President Trump raise the question whether china was knowingly responsible for the global spread of the coronavirus on monday Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson gang schwab responded by calling for international unity. Would die young like other countries china has been attacked by the virus and is also a victim of the virus we are not the corporate nor the accomplice of the virus in the face of a Major Public Health crisis and threats of Infectious Diseases the International Community should stay united rather than blaming each other for rushing to hold someone accountable or demanding compensation i dont remember where there was such an International Practice before so People United states must understand that their enemy is the virus not china. Well some countries in europe are seeing signs that the coven 19 infections are slowing germany is reopening shops and easing restrictions as a country toll fell by more than 60 percent in just 2 days and the u. K. Reached its lowest daily death toll in nearly 2 weeks but education secretary said there are no plans to open schools by summer time one sunday france reported 395 deaths its lowest number in nearly 3 weeks while italy reported 433. 00 deaths its lowest in 7 days meanwhile some businesses in iran reopened as the countrys daily death toll fell to 73. 00 though this is the lowest in more than a month but other countries are seeing an increase in its numbers singapore for example reported more than 1400 new cases in just one day raising the total to more than 8000 from the 6500 reported on sunday well peru reported 215000 new confirmed cases but for context here the country reported its 1st case on march 6th and it took 25 days for infections so then to reach 1000 was so far peru has more than 15000 cases and 400 deaths brazil is the only other country in latin america with more cases than peru but for more numbers and information on the coronavirus be sure to check out our portable the t. V. Up and look for the section trucking coronavirus. Now we reported 2 weeks ago that this Historic Oil Deal was nothing more than political the actrix making a whole lot of much ado about nothing but we said that it was not enough to counter the record inventory buildup and that prices will crash even more as the steel doesnt even make a dent well for a breakdown of how markets are starting this week lets turn to boom bust cohost chris while the chips are down today as oil plunges below 0 kristie were seeing at negative values here for the 1st time in u. S. History whats happening with the oil. Wells there this is on record the biggest plunge ever that were seeing and of e. T. I. Were down over 300 percent today from a. W. T. I contract now this price dynamic happens when producers actually have to pay to have someone take that crude as the cause is less then shutting down all of production so its kind of weird that the this is the environment that were living in the world where we live and have negative carry on crude and also negative Interest Rates those kind of a very interesting time in modern economics and now today we have the front and one just morning and weve been saying for weeks came true that supply has far outpaced the man which has fallen and 36000000. 00 Barrels Per Day and now are coming close out of storage the global oil stored on land and the is rapidly filling up and its currently estimated to have exceeded 70 percent brant however its very a little bit better as it is a water borne crude and tanker storage is still accessible however in contrast w. T. R. Is completely landlocked in the us in canada and russia and about 500 miles from water brant is still under considerable pressure today down 6 percent but it is likely to find some sort of support at 20. 00 per barrel given its strategic location so the main contracts will expire tomorrow on tuesday but right now the entire front end of the futures curve looks just as ugly the spread between front months is now at the widest ever in history speculators and paper traders roll their contract out well kristie the u. S. Equities market also continues to remain extreme. The volatile it tries to find some direction whats happening there. Well we looked last a bit today as the market attempted to stage a rally midday as we got some indications that the pandemic is getting under control in the u. S. And that seems to be the near term issue on everybodys mind but then as we look a little bit further earnings and the aftermath then come into focus and thats when you start seeing the market get sold off again on the back of oil so right now the instability and oil markets bled over into equities and we thought into the close with the industrial heavy dow taking the biggest hit down over 2 percent the tech focus cues however seem to fare a little bit better down about one percent short sellers are now also coming back as the latest earnings and data brought to light the devastating toll of coping 19 a pat on the economy this recent rally was in large part due to a short squeeze as a huge stimulus package was passed in the 11th hour but now thats been shown to merely delayed the downturn the shorts are back tracking a bet against the s. And p. Were Short Interest rose to 60000000000. 00 last week which is now the highest level in data going back to 2016 with the most heavily shorted company now all within travel and retail christine you mentioned the relief package that the trumpet my station has said will be reached that deal by monday there seems to be more relief coming to this Small Businesses and assistance to local state governments what do we know about that. So now after much pleading for additional assistance the administration is closing in on another bill to further help Small Businesses and hospitals around the country so it is now expected to include another 310000000. 00 for the p. P. P. Programmed i ran out last wednesday in order to help Small Businesses survive the outbreak is also expected provide another 75000000000. 00 for hospitals and 25000000000. 00 in testing now these measures are meant to be a bridge between phase 3 and face for their beliefs measures merely extending the life line a little bit more to get the funds to those who urgently need the aid now face war is what will include a big spending package and analysts estimate could cost about 1. 00 trillion dollars as it will provide assistance to states and municipalities as well were looking for more stimulus help on this but for more analysis we are joined by t. E. O. And chief strategist for equal intelligence and former Federal Reserve insider danielle de martino whos danielle thank you for joining us today more stimulus actually is it going to help at this point are these packages even being deployed correctly or is all this just a little bit too late and extending the rope for a little bit more and just trying to delay the eventual crash that many people are expecting. Well you know whats interesting is that if you look at the p. P. P. Loans that were distributed from the original 349000000070 percent of them were for less for 350000. 00 dollars 1 or less so its apparent that the bulk of the day that the demand was coming from very Small Companies even though weve seen some splashy headlines about much Larger Companies that have been able to get much larger loans so i think that im hoping the government has learned its lesson that it needed a separate program for really Larger Companies maybe that is what the Federal Reserves main Street Lending program will do but because the funds and michel we were exhausted you have to think that theres a backlog of applications sitting at u. S. Banks right now that are ready to go the minute that that could. Congress approves and we get we get the extra stimulus signed into law well yes especially as you said because it definitely looks like the Small Businesses really werent necessarily taken account you have Companies Like ruths chris shishakly just returned their money and you know a lot of these midsize retailers are really just getting screwed here now they dont qualify for a lot of these programs as it is theyre too big to qualify for the s. B. A. And they are too distressed to qualify them for the the primary market Corporate Credit facility thats aimed at these Larger Companies there are Companies Like macys and Neiman Marcus that are being forced to then go into bankruptcy whats going to happen to this industry if they dont receive the aid now these retail accounts for the largest private sector employer. Youre right it is the largest employer in the nation and thats what makes this that much more of a tragedy unfortunately i would say that the corona virus has acted as kind of an accelerant that you would but i want to fire Neiman Marcus it was well known last year was desperately struggling with an overhang of debt it had been you know its Balance Sheet was in a tatters so we knew that Neiman Marcus would be the 1st one to declare bankruptcy if there was any kind of a red swan or even worse a black swan event of this magnitude and other major retailers such as macys for years have been kind of doing this slow drip methodology of closing down stores 100 here and 100 there as opposed to really right sizing the company to what demand was for their traditional kinds of Department Stores again its tragic and its awful and i hate to see these people lose their jobs and i do hope that the extra amount of Unemployment Insurance that is available the stimulus is of assistance to them but again these are some of these retail deaths have been a Long Time Coming a lot of people now also turning to Online Shopping in the last couple years but even more so now because they are still still selling rather than theyre saying the Department Stores will no longer not necessarily not exist but they are dying down but kristie earnings week continues as we have the group of Major Airlines that are reporting this week we all know that its not going to be good give us a preview of really whats to come. Well i dont think. And i guess just to put things in perspective in january there was about an average of over 100000 flights every single day flying worldwide now last week there were only 28000 flight so in the u. S. Domestic life i was only just 10 passengers per flight and everything a carrier has now been scrambling to cut out the cars and now entire sleeping around it was booking revenues down over 100 percent year reign year so we know things are bad and not looking to recover any time soon the Airline Industry on average takes about 4 years to recover from any sort of shock ive seen from 911. 00 so we wanted to hear anything good come from them now but the biggest focus will be the aftermath what will the company be doing to rightsize the operation and the fleet once the coronavirus the over what efficiency measures will be in place and certainly on social distancing becomes more of the norm now these days downsizing to cram more capacity wont be an option anymore for airlines where lines are definitely struggling we have about a minute left but christine let me get this question and now despite oil cratering whats really holding the companies are the markets for now they traded pretty flat today. While they try to play flat but you saw the fang stocks actually gain a lot of decline as lead advances 3. 00 to 1. 00 and even so a lot of the tech stocks still manage to stay afloat so you have amazon and netflix both the clear winners however coming in to earnings facebook might be a completely different story as they generate most of their earnings on at and as companies are struggling to stay afloat spending more money on as an ad read in commercials is the last thing on everybodys minds. Well you must cohost christine and former fed inspired both thank you so much i mean only time will tell like weve been saying for the last couple weeks but markets seem to be. Holding pretty well except for unfortunately oil all time lows hopefully we can come back from this and not in the slow recovery that we were expecting but time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return as more people and companies go online to work competition is growing for Cloud Computing and maybe looking to make a run at amazon and even microsoft as we go to break here the numbers out of. Kobe 19 pandemic not only sees much of the world in lockdown but it is also devastation economies then demi has been painful recovery from it may be even more painful is an all day shes focus. Has changed american lives the pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. These drugs talk to people who are chronic pain patients and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them on the remedy be said to. Price at the. Close of dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isnt scientifically justified and ill study actually suggest that. 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Yet to shape out these days it comes to educate and it gains from it equals betrayal. Points on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Theres no question that the coronavirus is indeed changing the way that businesses operate and its also placing new focus on digital economies as well one example of that is the new focus that online marketplace is now placing on building out its Cloud Computing division the Global Leaders in that space are amazon and microsoft is now going to make a major run at them joining us to discuss is bloomberg and a vegetative journalist ben swan ben what kind of financial commitment are we talking about here by. Well actually its a pretty massive commitment were talking about the equivalent of about 28000000000. 00 of alibaba is going to roll into Cloud Computing essentially saying that this is the next frontier this is where the Company Needs to be and theyre making this kind of double down investment as you just said based on the fact that they say with the coronavirus right now that there is more of an opportunity in this Digital Space all bob as we know is kind of a amazon right sort of platform ecommerce online marketplace its somewhat remarkable how ali babas sees its future is now back in 20 danielle is the c. E. O. Of alibaba told the n. B. C. Quote i think cloud will be the Main Business of ali baba in the future and quote this was back in 20 team but why. Why are Companies Like amazon so focused on these Cloud Services who because its a massive new space that theres so much room and so you still consider the fact as you said that alibaba and amazon are essentially the same company in terms of being these online retailers where you go in