A simulcast on an important friday. So many days to the election, 25. Thrilled you are with us on radio, on television across this nation and around the world. I want to look at the markets as we frame up Michael Shaoul to join us in moments. Up 15 in a bid to the market. 3 below record highs. With that, some nice confirmations of good global news. Look at renminbi. Jonathan up on the week by about 3 on the s p 500. On ther chinese currency return from the holiday. The narrative has shifted aggressively, and in a short amount of time, from fears about a contested election to the potential of a blue wave. What we discussed in the previous hour is something we need to discuss in the next hour. How vulnerable is that newmarket market narrative shifting things around . Jonathan the Political Landscape here is most interesting. The president so far quiet on twitter. Hugely active yesterday across media. I guess an 8 00 p. M. Appearance tonight. You wonder what the president would be doing b
Economies trying to rio, maybe not reopen, maybe not straightaway, but starting with france in phase two and starting phase two on may 11. There is hope we have bottomed out when it comes to the economic crisis. I am seeing euro movement. Here is viviana hurtado. Viviana the white house is backing away from a projection that shows the coronavirus out rate getting much worse in the u. S. And says by june there could be 200,000 new cases and 2500 deaths per day. The white house says that is a cdc document that has not and presented to the president. Neither allies nor opponents are happy with Boris Johnsons coronavirus plans. Lawmakers from his party want him to ease the nationwide lockdowns. Propernions demand protection for employees. Three months to fix it 3 trillion wanted tate of easing Program Quantitative easing program, this from the German Constitutional Court to the ecb. Claim the bank overstepped its bounds. Oil on its longest winning streak and nine months. For the fifth day
The focus has been on what is happening in washington. It was fascinating to see the fade on equities today. European equities are off session lows. We faded pretty precipitously earlier on. The pound is also off its earlier session highs and has certainly faded the early move. A similar story in brent as well. The initial burst of enthusiasm around that deal starting to ease back a little bit. The real question, this is just dealing with the here and now. Are we going to need further help from washington and other governments around the world to get the bounceback that may some people are looking for . Vonnie just getting a headline now that german lawmakers have approved a 156 billion euro stimulus. A few things happening in europe as well. Back to washington, the white house and senators have finally come together in an effort to bolster the economy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell spoke earlier on the senate floor. Sen. Mcconnell at last, we have a deal. After days of intens
Quarter. The Second Quarter is probably going to be weak. In fact, in the view of many, output declining output lower in the Second Quarter than in the First Quarter. After that, its very hard to say how big the effects will be or how long they will last thats going to depend, of course, on how widely the virus spreads, which is something that is highly uncertain and i would say in fact unknowable jim, so its just you and me today. Lets start broad. Get your thoughts on the last 72 hours. What are you thinking right now . I think that the one thing i was very worried about in the 2007 and the 2009 issue, could i take out 50,000 from Jpmorgan Bank because i was concerned. And i took it out. I took money out of a lot of Different Bank accounts. This time im not. What was the purpose of last night . Theres a lot of things. The purpose of last night was to make sure you didnt take money out of the bank because you didnt trust the system. You dont have to bury it. That was important now the
Many expect to more in the first half of the year. Time now for global exchange. We are going to bring your todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to new york to washington, or bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Coronavirus cases around the world are over 93,000. Joining me now is yvonne man, and with some data to go with it that is not so supportive. Yvonne right. South korea now topping 5600 cases. The government there now seeking 9. 1 billion to help businesses. We have seen surging cases in italy and iran. Rate for this is now at 3. 4 . We also saw in the u. S. , reporting its ninth death, and china, more signs of containment. We saw the number of total cases have topped 80,000. We also learned of 15,000 that dischargedred and from the hospital. China come of the total death toll now at 2981. We saw car sales out of Mainland China falling a record 80 as this virus keeps shoppers away, and you see more pressure added to th