After inside story by. Will record breaking cuts in production to stop the Oil Price Slump crude producers led by saudi arabia and russia agreed to the biggest of the reduction in oil. So who will be most affected this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Factories shut grounded cars and trucks off the roads in many cities under lockdown demand for oil has collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic and Oil Prices Fell further when major producers saudi arabia and russia couldnt agree on cutting output now theyve set aside their dispute opec and the oil cartels allies agreed to a 10 percent Production Cut the biggest ever but the deal to switch off the top spy 10000000 barrels a day still needs approval from mexico. These circumstances require swift and timely measures all of our Oil Producing countries must pull efforts to change the situation related to the substantial over production of oil in the world the us it didnt take part in the opec discussions on thursday which are
Warns america to prepare for a painful time as new york surpasses chinas Hubei Province in reported cases, the deadliest day so far. Japan proposes its biggest ever stimulus package as the virus threatens a deep recession. The Business Survey this hour will gauge some of the damage. Haiti. Haidi haidi. Haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up in australia. Trickling online in the staggered open, seeing early signs of positivity when it comes to this market after ending the session lower yesterday. We are seeing upside of about. 7 at the moment as we are awaiting the rba march 18 Meeting Minutes later today. We are trying to get past the worst quarter ever, so downside of 25 for australian stocks over the last three months today is a new day and new zealand, we are seeing gains for a Third Straight session as the rbnz is doubling down in the bond purchase program. Japanese shares looking a little bit lower. They had the worst quarter since 2008 and the kospi also trending lower a
Rally, talk about a turnaround. South korea, hong kong, japan investors moving away from haven place. Remember, china had been quite an out performer. The hang seng currently up 3 . We are hearing chinese buyers are buying up those stocks in hong kong. Lets look at where futures are setting up. We see futures pointing to a higher open. It has been a volatile right. Ride. Futures volatile equity futures down about 1 despite jumps in the s p 500 and the dow. Aide, saying that the deal may not be up and running just yet. Flip the page and look at where we are, the kiwi dollar tokening further, starting buy bonds to stimulate the economy, and look at that, down 1. 7 . It is moving just like the stock market. People were saying bitcoin was a haven play. for more context in the markets, david ingles our coanchor joins us. David, could we say this is the end of the route, or a bear market rally . David it is hard to say if this is the bottom. Once markets stop reacting, that is when you know
Who isnt . Who needs a miracle . Thats what it comes down to in the age of the coronavirus including today where the dow rebounded 1,167 points the s p surged 4. 9 . And the nasdaq pulled up 4. 95 based on the hope that federal government stimulus could offset the sudden slowdown were getting in the economy and beat the demand shock caused by the coronavirus. So how do you pick among the rubble now that were bouncing too you think the stimulus may be too little, too late . Which is the judgment i have heard all day. Some people are skeptical. First for all intents and purposes, the market is not working. Thats all you can say well, how about that these violent swings, what are they a sign of they are a sign of sickness. Its unhealthy they tell us people are scared and theyre far too few players, too many investors, too many guys with machine guns for stocks to be able to handle the impact of that fear. It doesnt help the tail wagging the dog. The market just cant handle all this algori
Ahead of the Conference Call to the g7, leaders, a lot of focus will be on whether they will step in with coordinated action or words to assuage the markets. Ahead of that, markets are rising. The stock europe 600, 4 and the that saw a lot of losses because of the epicenter in europe still in italy, up today. The dax up. S p futures, gains across the board. A caveat. Yesterday, we saw similar gains and they peter off as the day went on. Today, there is expectation from g7 and that the fed will possibly step in. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. With an update on the coronavirus. Governments around the world preparing for emergency measures to fight the outbreak. Drugmakers hope to have antiviral treatments ready within the month and vaccines by next year. Of cases number worldwide, topping 90,000 but reports suggest over half those people have now recovered or have been released from the hospital. Central bank, it has cut rates and signals