record high in history. the dow, nasdaq and s&p having worst week since october of 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. checking on global market action, pmi out earlier, below 50, but that was up from 47.9 in last month and we have losses across the board. the biggest loser there is the ftse 100 in england, down 2.6%. checking asian markets overnight, china s manufacturing getting slammed by the coronavirus. private measuring of manufacturing activity released monday record low for february. 40.3 reading in february. the lowers since the survey started in april 2004. nevertheless asian markets are close but agreeing across the board. hong kong retail sales fell 21.4% year over year, 12-month of declines. could led to worse number for february. market rebound in asia. all eyes on the coronavirus. two deaths now reported in the united states due to that virus. cheryl casone has the details, cheryl. cheryl: that s right, dagen, washington state has confirmed the second c
decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency. pete buttigieg ends his white house bid. how his sudden departure shakes up the race on the eve of super tuesday. all that, plus, inexcusable. kobe bryant s wife, vanessa, is outraged over the reports that law enforcement officials shared graphic photos of the crash site. breaking overnight, remembering a titan. jack welsh of general electric has died. ahead, his two decades in charge of the iconic brand he helped grow into the world s most valuable company. and age-old battle. zion. young rookie sensation, zion williamson, going toe to toe with nba legend lebron james. over zion. who came out on top in one for the ages? today, march 2nd, 2020. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hi, everybody. good morning. welcome to today. it s nice to have you with us on a monday morning. if you re missing hoda, so are we. guess wha
we have what we need. david: it is said to be a radical change this week on the ability to test. what are we talking about and how many should we be testing in a given day or week? max: ideally thousands a day or tens of thousands a day. given the fact that we had as many as six weeks of spread in washington and new states popping up with new cases. it is important to test as broadly as possible to catch and break the chains of transmission instead of letting them go on and on and people sitting waiting for tests. we can wrap up as much as we can, even if it means letting hospitals and labs coming up with their own tests. david: .et s go to peggy collins the big issue is the personal effect but also the economy. we had numbers out but a little wouldnd not as what you have thought. peggy: we are seeing manufacturing numbers coming in the most since 2009. that is the biggest things economists are looking out for. we came into 2020 with a global fragile, partly from the trade wa
this shakeup has certainly reset the race and has set the stage for a dramatic super tuesday. are lauren blanchard has the wait is now ahead of tomorrow s crucial contest. reporter: minnesota sen. and eco-bashar suspending her campaign the day before super tuesday. she has announced she would fly to dallas texas to endorse joe biden. we can win big or we can lose big. the talk of evolution isn t changing anyone s life. , bashar is the latest candidate to drop out. pete buttigieg suspended his canon to see sunday night. he is expected to endorse current front runner, bernie sanders. this is a strong message as to where the democratic party is. in november, we are going to remind donald trump what democracy is about, because we are gonna throw him out of office. and despite skipping every primary and caucus before this point, michael bloomberg is continuing his campaign. he is also competing for moderate democratic voters. i talked to mayor pete and amy klobuch
stocks of companies with obviously great fundamentals but a battle ground with fire. and madness. count me out too much effort. sometimes though you have to take a stand and in a market like this one where the bullish animal spirits can bowl anybody over. including today the dow inched up 30 points s&p advanced and then some battlegrounds, even for me, too tempting to ignore that s why i have been taking a stand with tesla i might have gone back and forth, two of the biggest hornet s nests of our time what separates the tesla a battleground stock that i feel compelled to champion from the netflix which i lost conviction in championing it for years at lower levels okay, all my career i have been fascinated by companies with vociferous bulls and ferocious bears if only because they re so entertainling. three things distinguished the stocks from regular run of the mill equities. first, they re cult like the house of pleasure. people buy them because they love the product a