Eight days, getting a little bit of relief. Euro still seeing very strong buying in the treasury markets. You are buying equities, buying commodities, and buying treasuries. Thats what you are seeing into the weekend. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world, from washington to new york to london. Oil. Gin with the move and crude continuing to climb after its biggest ever single day gain. All trump says he may intervene in the price war between saudi arabia and russia that has rocked crude markets. Here was more is annmarie hordern. Intervene how, and does anyone care . Annmarie it is interesting how exactly he would do this. He said he has some power over the situation, and would get involved at the appropriate time, may be giving riyadh some chance to potentially swamp the world with oil and put the pressure on russia. Then we heard from president Vladimir Putin in an incredible scoop by our moscow bureau. He says they say he is
About 800 points on the dow. Youre still looking at a loss of greater than 5 a huge story today the crude oil crush as the saudis initiate a price war. We should think about it in terms of the speed and velocity of decline the s p the is down about 17 . We hear about the news with are the russians and saudi arabia. The problem i have is you have a very healthy patient being the market now it appears to be in intensive care we dont seem to have any doctors around to treat them in intense iive care negative rates are present in the uk, first time ever. We are battling here in the United States with the potential for negative rates the missing link in all of this which is what we saw in 2008 was a global coordinated effort. There does not seem to be a globally coordinating effort to address that i think thats what the market is riding against. Liz young, what do you see . Lets start with the globally coordinated effort i think theres been an effort from Central Banks thats been reasonably
Cruise ship is being treated with an experimental drug made by Gilead Sciences. Hes in the Nebraska Medical Center in omaha. Overseas, virus cases linked to italy have spread to five other European Countries, and virus cases linked to iran have spread to iraq, afghanistan, kuwait, oman, lebanon and bahrain. Brazil is testing a man who recently visited italy. If a second test is positive, it would be the first case in latin america. Health secretary azar told congress quote, we cannot hermetically seal off the United States. The cdc says its not if it arrives, but when. Worldwide, economies are slowing, there is a fear of association with anyone who may have been in any way near a Virus Outbreak. Some borders are closing, flights canceled, hotels with any possible carriers, locked down. All right. Now lets show you the markets. Its all over the place. The dow at one point very early this morning was down over, well over 400 points. Now weve got a green arrow showing maybe a gain of 60 p
Nearly 3,000 coming just in the first 90 minutes. The blue chip index closing down more than 500 points for the second straight day and over the last three sessions the dow and s p are down nearly 9 and the nasdaq is off almost 10 yesterday alone 685 billion is lost among market cap in s p 500 companies. Thats 100 billion more than apples market cap. If they dont tell you enough about the volatility check out the vix. Moving above 50 intraday for the first time. Check out the front pages of some major newspapers around the world today. Youre looking at sort of a full list of whats going on in virtually everybody touches on the market above the fold. Like the bear there on the New York Post . Wild. And the guys a lot of times the photographer is waiting and he may have a scratch here on his eyebrow and looks like hes stressed. I think they pose for them now. They see the photographer coming and theyre like that and just do that look. They want to be in the paper. Come on. Have you notic
Houston and other parts of texas will worsen in the coming days and then be slow to reseed. Additional 20an inches of rain could fall in the coming days on two of more than 30 on top of rather more than 30 inches, some areas have received. The acting Homeland Security secretary tells bloomberg it is too early to predict cost estimates on the toll of devastation caused by harvey. She outlined in media priorities for the department. No preliminary estimates at this time. At this point, we are doing what the president asked us to do and said people first, and paperwork later. We are looking at searchandrescue. Secretary duke says officials expect floodwaters to peak thursday, at least 30,000 people are in official shelters, thousands more have and displays. Officials released more water from houston was a bars houston reservoirs. Say ancy officials controlled release could cause additional street flooding, but if steps for not taken, rising water levels and rain could cause the dams to br