Firmly in the red here nasdaq is up 104 . Up 3 this week alone. Only tuesday coming up on todays show kraft is trading higher. Of they outline two billion in cost cuts and selling off part of the cheese business not all of the cheese business and some confusion as to which cheeses go and which stay. Well find out why the companys president about those moves will join us to discuss whether lack of fresh stimulus can impact and speaking of stimulus, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us and his article calling for more than 2 trillion in government spending. We begin with breaking news on apple. It is much anticipated event unveiling a new number of products we have the latest josh so a lot of news in that 60 minutes of apples show today. Start with the new hardware. That new ipad air. It is going to start at 599 available next month 10. 9 inch display with a huge boost in performance we know the ipad is a hardware line clearly benefitting from that work from home trend apple w
The nasdaq up about four points. Yields firmed up a little. You can see the 10year, as equities came up, the 10year about 0. 624 all of this as Energy Prices got stronger the june contract up about 13 now trading at 15. 68. Hard to believe that is a strong level. 15 a barrel is pretty strong for oil when they were paying people to take it from them earlier this week. Time for the squawk planner is it . It is yours, joe. Getting to closely watched jobless numbers. More than 4. 3 million americans are expected to have filed for jobless claims that number rose on the earnings front, well hear from eli lily, blackstone, dominos. Well see if dominos has the same type of positive numbers like chipolte. Nobody eats at dominos intel is reporting after todays close. Now, andrew. Now. You were eager this better be good. You know, im just doing the update on the pandemic numbers as we do every morning it is not good it is not good global cases have risen to 2. 6 million. U. S. Cases 842,000 with
Coronavirus fearing weighs on the market, surpassing 100,000 worldwide. We are expecting a briefing from Vice President mike pence a bit hear this evening. Though that survey was conducted in the middle of february before the outbreak took hold in the u. S. In just a few moments well talk about russ cost rich he says the u. S. Consumer remains strong and where he is putting to work now. Dan, what are you doing . Not a whole heck of a lot week on week, there was a bit of optimism. As investors star thinking about how to allocate towards equities visibility will be the big point. I think i dont think were going to get that anytime soon right now. That was the low for this move you had a strong reversal off of that we set ourselves up for a powerful rally, but most of that snsht has dissipated, so some say you will have to retest the low, and were doing it right now on a relatively tenuous way, so i still think, given the stress in credit markets, stocks are not yet convincingly saying we
The city has not seen widespread infection from the coronavirus. Still, she says more than 5300 people there are subject to mandatory quarantine. Hsbc revealed an employee in hong kong is one of them. The bank is urging workers who came in contact with a person to stay home for 14 days. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is backing President Trumps assessment by the proposed by american ally doing business with huawei. Speaking at an International Conference in munich today, Speaker Pelosi warned european allies to steer clear of the chinese tech giant as they build their next Generation Cellular networks. She added, doing business with huawei could embolden chinese president xi jinping as he undermined democratic values, human rights, economic independence, and national security. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters
hampshire. we have the top stories. we begin in asia and the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. the death toll retain 910, higher than sars. joining me from hong kong is stephen engle. give us the latest. containment remains the operative word both inside china and outside. let s begin inside china. there is a total globally of 910 confirmed cases of deaths. 908 is inside of china. than theore deaths sars outbreak in china and hong kong and elsewhere around the world. there are more than 40,000 confirmed cases. the good thing according to the world health organization in china, they see the number of new cases has plateaued, but the challenge is as many of the workers are starting to go back to work after the extended holiday and all of those travelers getting back into the factory, can china keep the number of new cases at that stable level? that will be very key to the global outbreak. outside of china, we have that , now 136ip in focus additionalases, an 66 cases were r