The market selloff continues and so does the search for a safe haven, the spreading virus is the main factor, dow industrials down 400 points at the opening bell, this is shaping up to be the worst week for the dow since the financial crisis of 2008. S p down 50, one. 5 or more and the nasdaq down 2 at the opening bell. The president has offered reassurance about the virus, quote, the risk to the American People remains very low. We are ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads. Now comes news of an unexplained case of the coronavirus in california. The patient did not travel to a virus hotspot and was not in contact with a known virus carrier. In other words it is here. Oversees dramatic action in japan. They closed all the schools until april. In italy, 528 cases at least, 12 that. Iran finally doing something. Having refused to quarantine towns or cities they suggested less unnecessary travel. Listen to what the president said about the Market Reaction. I think the stoc
General motors negotiations resuming next hour. The strike coming as gm faces declining sales and is closing plants with uaw leadership while facing an fbi corruption probe. Have news on vaping, opioids and chinas economy as well but im david asman in for stuart today. Good monday morning with varney co. Start right now. David lets get right to oil. Studies have shut down 5 of the production after two drone attacks. West texas crude and brent crude surging on that news over 10 . Here are dow components exxon and chevron free markets. They are unchanged but those situations could change dramatically when you have the opening bell. Stocks are a big along with the entire Energy Sector of the orbit here is President Trumps latest tweet on the subject because we have done so well with energy over the last few years, thank you mr. President , we are a Net Energy Exporter and now the Number One Energy producer in the world and we dont need middle eastern oil and gas and in fact, we have very
Slumping and Global Growth concerns back in the headlines, as chinas Economic Data comes in weaker. Joining us for the entire hour, final hour of trade is keith bliss, managing partner and ceo of iq capital usa. Keith, welcome thank you very much you and i were just chatting about the fact that you were noting that youre kind of surprised that the stock market isnt down even worse. I think its really resilient and speaks to the trend weve been seeing throughout the last 30 days for sure and ive been a big believer that well continue to trend higher throughout the rest of the year but think of Something Like this that happened 45 years ago, when we did have real supply concerns and the kingdom of saudi arabia was the big player in the market now its much more dispersed we were not a big player. At all. For a variety of reasons i am grateful and pleased at the resilience of the equity market on news like this today. Even some energyimporting nations like china, for example, you didnt see
It really is a mixed picture here the dow is up 49 points, so well off the highs of the session the s p is down fractionally right now, but keep in mind, we are still in striking distance of a potential record close. So the next hour is going to be one to watch closely joining us for that hour is Michelle Mckinnon from Payne Capital management here at post 9. Welcome. Thank you what do you think of this market here . Were poised for gains for the week for all the major averages, but the russell 2000 and the transportation average are both up 5 , week to date. And so are the banks, like you mentioned. What im really looking at is the bond market. We started the tenyear treasury at 1. 55 for the week and now were up to 1. 88 and the longterm treasury are down 5 for the week thats basically two years worth of coupon that you lost. Wow do you think thats going to speak bond holders, that it could go worse than that or not . You know, i absolutely think rates look like theyre going higher h
Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Apologize for the lack of space and lack of sandwiches. More people showed up than we were expecting. If you were expecting that jay z would be on this panel, i apologize. I dont think he was available. But this is Congressional Internet Caucus Academy briefing. Weve been doing these things since 1996. A pretty remarkable span of time. Informative issues, discussions on critical internet issues as we see them. Were policy agnostic but try to provide a good baseline on understanding of key issues. Todays panel in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul jay z or congress. This is with congressional in conjunction with congressional internet caucus. The cochairs of caucus on the senate side are chairman john thune and patrick leahy. On the host side congresswoman anna escru. Congressman collins would be cochair on the caucus and were thrilled to have him. The reality is that for members participating in briefings and hosting briefings in conjunction w