Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Online more Central Bank Action from japan helping fuel the bulls and despite all of that, oil plunging again, down more than 20 as we see one Energy Company file for brankruptcy. Ahead on todays show, were taking a deep dive on the path forward for retailers. That sector deals with the fallout from the lock down well speak with about the issues facing the industry and be joined by former macys ceo as Department Stores deal with their own challenges and bankruptcy concerns swirl around the sector were up 5 on the s p with 59 minutes left citigroup is up 8 still down 42 year to date. Lets focus on the big stories were watching today mike is is tracking the market moves. Meg has the latest mike, lets kick it off with you and the broader markets. After about two weeks of going sideways, the s p 500 gets a little bit of a boost today to basically the levels it saw at the post crash highs of ten days ago. Take a look at how it fits into the broader picture here 2874 is a number that we firs
Cameron called for unity. Pm cameron i would like to reclaim a mantle we should have never lost, a mantle of one nation, one United Kingdom. That is how i will govern if i unfortunate fortunate enough to hold a government in the coming days. Olivia it was a crushing defeat for labor leader ed miliband and raises questions about his political future. The Scottish National party won 56 of the 59 seats in scotland almost shutting out the other two major parties. We will know in 2. 5 hours from now whether marchs disappointing jobs report was more than a onetime event. Job figures at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time this morning. 235,000 jobs were raised and the jobless rate fell. 1 to 5. 4 . In march, employers hired the fewest workers in 15 months. President obama is in Portland Oregon today where he will push for the asian trade deal and have an appearance at nike headquarters. Nike announcing that if congress oks the trade deal, the company will increase manufacturing in the u. S. Nike says tha
Statistics the Coronavirus Task force, and the doctors whove become household names, deborah birx and Anthony Fauci will continue but take a backseat to the forwardlooking. Define trumps Coronavirus Response whiplash over todays White House Briefing. On his schedule this morning, off his schedule this afternoon, then back on again. A president ial News Conference now scheduled to start about an hour from now. This latest battle of upheaval follows public humiliation leaving a mark on trump. Political standing and personal standing. Sounding very mad on twitter. The New York Times writing this, even by the turbulent standards of this president , his musings on virus remedies have lended with uncommon force, drawing widespread condemnation as dangerous to the health of americans and inspiring a nearuseful alarm that many of his past remarks whether offensive or fearmongering or simply untrue, did not. The president s failure noted widely by republicans. The times also reports, quote, pre
A guy that had gone for spring break in miami, and he came back and he was admitted in the icu for trouble breathing. And his friend, best friend, was outside the unit, wanted to drop him off some toiletries. And i went and talked to the best friend, and he said, i know i cant come in, but can you please give him this and please tell him i love him dearly. So im in the covid19 unit and i talked to his friend, the patient, and explained we cant have any visitors, that he wanted me to tell you that he loved you, and he started to cry. And i started to cry. And we talked for a minute. And he said, can i ask you something . I said sure. Hes like, no, never mind. Its a dumb question. And i said, no, no, no. No questions are dumb right now. And he said, well, am i going to be okay . I said well, your vital signs look good, youre five days in, and i said, well, youre talking, and just continue to exercise your lungs. And he cried some more with tears of joy and gratefulness that, you know, i