It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraordinary. And we are at a loss for words for them obviously, all these people are now in some way or another getting compensated this week. But i think its not enough, and i keep thinking that the longer we dont have and its not opening or closing america the longer we dont have faith in being with each other, youre going to have to keep seeing these numbers. I have to tell you, i was hoping i never
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Microsoft was up by about 7 if you watch this morning, dow futures are indicated up s p up by 11 and up by 55 points the treasury yield looking below where we are now the yield on the 10year last i checked weve gotten used to that 0. 8 range. 0. 7 in that area now. Andrew becky, it appears weve found a bottom we have an update on the numbers to bring to you. New york has more thans the epih more than 61,000 of those cases. New york governor made this appeal for Health Care Workers across the county to come help new york as governor of new york, i am asking Health Care Professionals across the country if you dont have a Health Care Crisis in your community, please come help us in new york now we need relief Governor Cuomo said new yorkers havent been doing well with social distancing and he implored the public to be responsible and stay home. A hospital built in central park will officially open today located in front of mount sinai hospital up in the 90s there on the east side. It hold
Yielding around where it had been. 8 is roughly the mark weve been sitting at. It looks like the 10year is yielding as well i know people are short and anxious. These two days backtoback are we putting in a bottom these numbers in new york look promising like the numbers may not be going up as rapidly as imagined well see. We have a lot of big guests to talk about that. We want to get everybody up to date about what happened last night. The Senate Passing that stimulus bill it now goes to the senate. Steve liesman will cover the potential impact on the economy. First, well go to washington, d. C. Where eamon javers is this morning. I cant think of another major vote that was this unanimous, 960. It would have been even more if it hadnt been for the fact that so many members of congress are back home or suffering themselves from this virus we could of seen a 1000 vote yesterday. Buts that where it handed. What is in the bill . Just about something for everybody in the economy lets whip
Will it make its way back to zero . Seems to be part of the conversation building in markets. Barrelumped above 65 a as supply disruptions in iraq brought concern to geoPolitical Risk. With more is Annmarie Hordern. Detention we are seeing in libya and iraq come very different in nature. What is the impact of these on oil supplies . Annmarie they are both geoPolitical Risks to the oil supply. In libya, the government says we could go to 72,000 barrels a day. This has to do with the eastern military commander. He has a blockade now on the port, so actual supply is not disrupted. The market may be shrugging off a little bit because in days or hours, that blockade could be lifted. Iraq, while it is a minor disruption, which is producing more than 4 Million Barrels a day, it opens up a window of worry. Just last thursday, the iea says iraq remains very vulnerable. It is more about could the supply threatened become much bigger. Anna they are overproducing their opec target. Annmarie this c