Projections for 2021 are also being revised down. And, where it all began. China has lifted travel in wuhan, ending 11 weeks of a lockdown that disrupted the lives of millions of people. Shery happening right now, President Trump speaking at the white house, talk about how he is handling the virus outbreak, saying he will ask congress for an additional 250 billion. Take a listen. Pres. Trump it was a big, important thing. We are looking to have far fewer deaths than originally thought. I think we are heading in that direction, but it is too early to talk about it. I really dont want to talk about it now. Doingk that people are an incredible job. The doctors, the nurses, the firefighters, the police. All medical people, the bravery they are displaying is just incredible. Every citizen should take nd selflessness and all the courage and compassion of our people. The people that are working, and construction workers going into hospitals, knowing nothing about this problem other than it is
The nasdaq down by 25 points this morning, youll see futures are lower again. These are modest declines. The types of numbers we used to see all the time in the morning just over a month ago. Right now, the dow looks like it would open about 42 points nasdaq around 18 points. Keeping track of treasury yields we find ourselves this morning again with the yield indicated around those levels. 0. 7 and change andrew lets bring you an update on the pandemic and some of the numbers. The number of confirmed u. S. Cases rising to 400,000. More than 12,000 have died in america. New york is the epicenter with 140,000 confirmed cases. New york, new jersey and l. A. Reporting the deadliest day. And los angeles mandates masks as essential sharing this responsibility to keep workers and everybody safe which is why we are requiring customers to wear face coverings. Shopping for groceries, picking up a precipitation or any other business, you will need to cover your face. If you are not covering your
Sectorsre your main leading the rally today. We should mention this is unlimited volume as well. It is up 11 . In the case of the dow and s p lower than it was a day ago. Passover begins tonight. We might see limited trading. Friday is a public holiday. Monday there might be people off. Jay powell is speaking, and that might provide some catalyst for market pricing. Romaine joining us is christina from invesco. ,hen you look at these rallies it is an encouraging sign, but the market seems to be very focused on the virus data we are getting, the number of deaths and what is a decline in the number of new cases in certain regions. The market will start to focus on little less on the virus count, and focus more on the economic numbers, corporate profitability, the more traditional metrics, and is it going to matter knowing that we know it is going to be bad . Kristina that is the point you are making is right. It is going to be bad. The market is likely not to focus on it which is the rig
Know if you come in contact with someone who is infected it doesnt infringe on privacy. And on peter stand with your sports with prosecutors dropped one of 2 cases against a form of fee for prison sick thats what. It is one month since the World Health Organization declare the Coronavirus Crisis a pandemic more than 1700000. 00 people around the world have been infected and the death toll is now above 103000. 00 but there is cautious optimism in spain where the number of daily that says fallen for a 3rd day in a row still 510 people died in the last 24 hours but that is the smallest jump in 1000 days with 16000 deaths its one of the worst hit countries in europe. Along with italy where more than 18000 people have died a nationwide lockdown has been extended until early may and people had been urged to stay home over the Easter Holiday turkey is now imposed a 2 day curfew in 31 provinces that does include istanbul and ankara the death toll has surged above 1000 and the u. S. They have r
Stocks as well. At 4 00 oclock on wall Street Markets were downwith the dow industrials taking another step down near the close so we were down sharply in the morning, leveled off in the afternoon, went back at it at the close, down 592 points on dow industrials at 4 00 oclock yesterday. Earning season rolls on. Big names include cocacola, lockheed martin, Philip Morris and travelers this morning. After the bell attention turning to streaming giant netflix. We will anticipate what the numbers will be. President trump saying he will sign executive order temporarily suspending immigration as part of the war against the coronavirus pandemic. Getting america back to work, georgias governor announcing businesses can reopen this week. Other states including South Carolina and tennessee also starting to ease restrictions. Meanwhile battle over additional coronavirus aid continues on capitol hill this morning. Businesses are waiting for the muchneeded funds to become available. Senate likely t