Performance of all time. We are looking at limit up with dow futures and the etf slightly more than that looking at the treasury market the yields have been all over the place. Weve watched the 10year go from. 4 to 0. 85 . Andrew a huge lineup for you this morning, in about 30 minutes, new data from the china books about how ugly the hit to the First Quarter may be at 7 15, well talk to the ceo of lab corp about the ramp up for testing. At 7 30, well talk about the hit to our economy with Starwood Capital. Last time he was on, he was bullish in the face of the bears. And at 8 00 a. M. , the ceo of boeing, dave calhoun so many questions for him. At 8 30, joining a growing chore yus of voices. Global cases have topped 38,000 including 300,000 in the United States. New york city with the biggest hotspot. 13,000 confirmed cases in the city new york state accounts for half of the confirmed cases in the United States. China says the lockdown in wuhan will end on april 8. Cnbc is bringing you
Falling back below 2 . As i said, the s p 500s essentially flat at this moment. The dows just lower the nasdaq down 0. 1 the russell looks down a full percent as regional banks down almost 2 . Joining us for the hour today to break down the Market Action is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Great to have you with us. Good to be here whats your take on this sort of softish session only a day or so after great positive trade news . You have a holiday week, so you have a shortened, abbreviated week you have people looking for either you had a rebalance on friday, you had end of quarter, end of month, end of week. People are starting to take a big, deep breath in. Seeing where they want to reassess, and and redistribute their Equity Holdings its all about the fed people are on fed watch right now. Thats really the only thing that is taking up the brain of a lot of the Market Participants right now. Even though trade is all over the headlines, its still fed. Fed still cut, but the trade tru
was not rightly approved it would be ludicrous if it wasn t so serious. former house speaker nancy pelosi calls out the courts and lawmakers in the legal fight over the abortion pill her comments came just before the supreme court delayed its decision on the medication we ll break down what s next in that case. elsewhere on capitol hill kevin mccarthy finally releases the republican plan to address the debt ceiling we ll take you through the house speaker s proposal just ahead. plus yet another shocking act of gun violence in america this time in maine where a man just released from prison went on a deadly shooting spree good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, april 20th i m jonathan lemire. thanks so much for starting your day with us. we ll begin with this headline the supreme court has delayed making a decision on the abortion pill mifepristone by extending a temporary block on a lower court ruling until this friday that means the drug will co
Coming the new bellwethers it could be argued that ge has not been a bellwether for a very long time. Meantime tesla shares also under pressure today over under certainty around whether the electric vehicle maker will be opening a new factory in china were going to separate fact from fiction on this one. And after the bell, soon youll be able to order takeout directly from the amazon app the head of amazon payments will be joining us exculusively to talk about the ecommerce giants latest announcement. Everybodys getting into the Payment System business right now apple pay, amazon pay. International, too. Alibaba pay, ali pay. Absolutely. Lets get to the top story out of washington. That would be tax reform and a major change being floated by republican lawmakers that could have a huge impact on your Retirement Savings cnbcs ylan mui is in washington with that story. Ylan reporter bill, a capitol hill source told me they were looking at lowering the limit on how much you can contribute
Estate loans. Should the government pay more attention to art lending . I love this story. A new report says sothebys and its lending arm could be creating a shadow banking system. To hide laundered money. Crazy. Robert frank will be along to talk about that in a little bit here. A settlement for Gretchen Carlson, the fox news anchor claiming she was a victim of Sexual Harassment. More on what it means for twenty First Century fox. There was plenty of deal making. We have the stories. Dom, you first. Kick things off here at the board. Bill, merger monday. No more. Labor day holiday. Takeover tuesdays today. Well talk about the first big one. The german pharmaceutical looking to buy monosanto. Thats up 2 from the 125 bid they had before and up from the 122 bid before that. When we combine them in a hypothetical deal, the biggest Crop Sciences seed manufacturer in the world and brings together monsanto. They own roundup and then bayer as we know it in america and dr. Scholls foot care co