We want to wish them the best, we like to see flattening of a curve in italy, madrid, new york theres the earnings world the earnings world doesnt bend. The earnings world responds. There are a lot of companies doing poorly, sometimes their stocks have reflected that sometimes their stocks havent i warn people that if youre going to do buy or sell stocks based on what the president says or what Governor Cuomo says, youre not being thoughtful it takes a thoughtful person to figure out whether you want a lot of exposure here or not. Does that mean if we did see more signs today some people theorize maybe theres a weekend bias to the counts if we got some affirmation over the next couple of days, what would it take for you to change that view . To say the market is looking through the Health Numbers i think we need to see testing, testing, testing. I would like to see the beginning abbott labs shipped its tests on thursday. I would like to see empirical evidence that people have antibodie
Breaking news. U. S. Stock market futures are limit down even as the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stave off recession in the face of a global coronavirus threat. Life in america changing rapidly as governments at every level take drastic and unprecedented steps to try to slow the spread of the pandemic. Major retailers including nike and apple, shutting their doors for weeks. Well talk about the fallout for the u. S. Economy it is monday, march 16, 2020 squawk box begins right now. Good morning im becky quick at cnbc headquarters joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin u. S. Equity futures hitting limit down after dropping 5 that means they cant trade any lower this morning those are the curbs set up by the exchanges. You will continue to watch whats happening with the etfs, however, because they are not held to the same restrictions. Can you see the dow etf is down by 9 . The s p etf down by almost 9 . That gives you a better idea of where the major averages would open if we were open h
Quarter. The Second Quarter is probably going to be weak. In fact, in the view of many, output declining output lower in the Second Quarter than in the First Quarter. After that, its very hard to say how big the effects will be or how long they will last thats going to depend, of course, on how widely the virus spreads, which is something that is highly uncertain and i would say in fact unknowable jim, so its just you and me today. Lets start broad. Get your thoughts on the last 72 hours. What are you thinking right now . I think that the one thing i was very worried about in the 2007 and the 2009 issue, could i take out 50,000 from Jpmorgan Bank because i was concerned. And i took it out. I took money out of a lot of Different Bank accounts. This time im not. What was the purpose of last night . Theres a lot of things. The purpose of last night was to make sure you didnt take money out of the bank because you didnt trust the system. You dont have to bury it. That was important now the
Excellent meghan, a real pleasure listening to your thoughts today and we will have you back, of course, as soon as we try to get our gps with regard to the coronavirus and its Economic Impact in the marketplace. Thank you for joining us today Carl Quintanilla, back to you. Rick, see you in a little while. Good monday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla at post nine morgan brennanp with us from cnbc Global Headquarters, jon fortt from the floor of the nyse another eventful monday morning as im sure you know by now. We did trigger a Circuit Breaker at 2521, went down around 2400 and then since added about 100 s p points as we are at 2501 on the nose dow was near 25 and now 21. 2 interesting session, guys, as the day is far from over already jon, some headlines creeping out, this one just now, italy Lombardy Region posted the lowest number of new cases in the week, the kind of headline the bulls will want to see. Yes, indeed you know, i continue to watch the levels where we are jon, can you hea
We have a great show to kick off a big week for the markets. We will discuss what 2017 holds for u. S. Monetary policy. As italy lines up another new premier, in turkey comes to terms with the bombing istanbul, we will focus on the market and Political Risk in europe. As crude oil surges, we also speak live to the Nigerian Petroleum minister on surveillance at 9 40 u. K. Time. Lets check on the markets. This is a picture for oil, gaining 5. 1 at 54. It surged the highest in 17 months as efforts to cut production sent the 10year treasury yield above 2. 5 . Chinese equities tumbling. European shares holding to what we saw last week, pretty much flat. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra president elect donald trump says hes close to naming his secretary of state, dropping hints it could be exxon mobils ceo. A person close to the transition on hasnt beenrs formally offered the job yet but is likely to be the pick. Italys prize minister designate has been hol