Of this epidemic, and everywhere in europe, it is accelerating and intensifying. It hits the most Vulnerable People first of all. Most of them will need suitable in hospital, often assisted breathing. That is why we are taking extremely strong measures to boost the availability of hospital beds and we are asking ineveryone over the age of 70, everyone who suffers from chronic condiditions or breathig disabilities, asking anyone handicapped, to stay at home as much as possible. President macron addressing the nation less accurate in the meantime, European Countries boosting precautionary measures against the spread of coronavirus, but experts say that they are not being coordinated. Temperature checks, for instance, are being taken on some borders, but not inin othe. Mention that the eu states do not have a common strategy. For more, lets go to our correspondent in brussels. The president of the European Commission is about to hold a press conference. What are we expect ring her to say
Welcome to the derek sheely conference, reducing catastrophic risk for student athletes. My name is brian hainline, the chief medical officer for the ncaa. I want to welcome everyone here, especially mr. And mrs. Sh eely, who will be speaking after me. Just a couple of housekeeping items. Refreshments are on the second floor. That is where we will be having lunch. This is an academic building. Classes are going on. This is being broadcast live. All of your remarks are going out to millions of people around the world who will be watching this. That is just the monday, and a few words of thanks. This is being cohosted with George Washington, University George washington university. Special thanks to president Thomas Leblanc of George Washington university, tonya vog el, the director of athletics who helped get this food together properly and chris kennelly, the associate director of athletics at George Washington university. John solomon is here from the Aspen Institute. The Aspen Instit
Retail sectors, the chain struggles to turn things around and teslas first model 3, rolls off the Assembly Line and ceo elon musk showing it off on essential media, checking Global Market action futures searching for direction this morning, they pretty much been going nowhere at the moment. Dow futures up 3 and s p futures up 3 and nasdaq futures current i up 18. We will see how things shape up. In Europe Movement to the upside there. Cac quarante and dax up as well. Hang seng posting gains of sixth tenths of 1 . All right, Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg maybe looking to branch out beyond tech, details on new report hes eyeing a bit for a Major Sports Team and the super hero welcomed tat box office, the new speederman movie swinging to the top in debut weekend, we have the full recap. All that coming up and with me this morning fox news correspondent Lea Gabrielle, happy to have her. Health care credit and Michael Gregory is here. And forbes media chairman steve forbes, good to see you a
It will be. 1 rally is where we are. A lot of this is about the u. K. If you look at the polls over the weekend, we saw the shift against leaving the European Union. The state crowd over there is winning the day. We have heard this over and over. Dont rely too heavily on the pole over there because in the past they havent been the most accurate in scotland and other things. More than a trillion dollars investment and trade, there is the potential for some big time market fallout from the exit code in Great Britain and we are going to ask the wall street titan bob dole about that. Lets get started here. We will see you. Youve got some people to come on and tell us this about and it could really, if it doesnt go away, you could be headed for some sort of real Global Economic albums. And anothe starting to emerge that we are making too big of a deal. The story of today would calm down a little bit. Which camp you fall in . In the near term, the camps as we are making to much ado about not
Morning and welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. What a week to launch a show about the Global Markets. Absolutely right and a great choice of song by the director there. Under pressure. Wall street waking up to another wild market story. Chinese stocks halted for a second time this week. This time trade was suspended for less than 30 minutes after the open. So very short bit of trade today. The main catalyst is the Chinese Central Bank setting the official midpoint rate on the currency at the lowest level since march 2011. It was spt 5 weaker than yesterday. Thats a big move. If biggest daily drop since last august. Chinese security regulators announcing new rules restricting trading by shareholders. They cant sell more than 1 of a listed Company Every three months. Lets check on the global ripple effects and boy are they far and wide. Starting in the u. S. , under pressure is a understatement. A steep sell off yesterday. S p futures down 42 at this early hour. This is another ugly