Meaning less demand for oil. Meanwhile similar story in bond market, yield on 10year treasury below 4 tenths of a percent overnight. Now we are staying right under and it is down 28 basis points. Again, another indication of a recession at hand. The 30year following 1 for the first time in history. The 30year bond, the yield there at. 883 . Thats down 40 basis points this morning. Global markets reacting to all of this this morning in the stock market. Deep selloff in europe. The cac quarante down 335 points. That is 6 and a half percent and dax index in germany lower by 672. Overnight in asia across the board. Chinese experts tumbled in the month of january, more signs of trouble in japan as well. First quarter gdp lower in japan showing the economy contracted 7. 1 from the previous quarter. Thats a sharp contraction in japan. This on top of the Coronavirus Crisis, cases in the United States and abroad are growing. The white house looking into emergency measures. Overseas italy report
This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Pope francis will make history once again this morning on his first visit to the u. S. He is becoming the first pontiff to address a joint meeting of congress. Thousands will watch the historic address inside and outside the capital. The popes first day in the u. S. Was a whirlwind. He visited the white house and met privately with president obama, then he thrilled huge crowds during a parade along d. C. Streets before a special mass to canonize the saint. You are taking a live look at the National Mall where some 30,000 people are expected to gather. Del walters is there, too, where he will hear the popes address. Del, tell us whats going to happen outside the capital building. What you are hearing is the National Anthem as a climate day rally is kicking off, co in crieding with the papal address that will take place inside congress at 9 20 this morning. There are expect to go 40,000 people on the m
Meanwhile the Washington Post is reporting the day before the attack the fbi warned of an attack of violent, quote, war at the capitol. The New York Times has just reported Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is said to be pleased at tomorrows second impeachment of President Trump, reportedly believing it will be easier to purge him from the Republican Party. The president himself is warning against impeachment, while refusing to take any responsibility at all for the riot that he clearly encouraged. Lets begin with more on the investigation into the capitol hill siege. Brian todd is working this part of the story for us. Were getting all sorts of sweeping, truly unprecedented developments in this case, brian. Update our viewers. Reporter moments ago, u. S. Attorney for washington, d. C. Said the range of criminal conduct at the capitol last wednesday was, quote, unmatched in any type of scenario that weve seen. Tonight, we have new information on the rapidly expanding inve
Morning. Coronavirus fears and an Oil Price Crash set to send u. S. Markets tumbling again. There is real data behind the fall, concerns how the spread will shrink Economic Growth around the world. Absolutely. Were covering all angles of the pandemic. On wall street markets about to open. Christine romans kicks us off. What are we in store for . In for a big selloff here, the biggest test to the bull market since 2008. This is the 11th anniversary of the bull market and youve got futures around the world tumbling. In fact, at different points, theyve been frozing, because theyve fallen so far, theyve automatically stopped trading to make it not be a freefall. You can see asian shares down sharply and when europe opened, europe opened down very badly, 6 or 7 . Some of the european markets are on the verge of what we call a bear market down 20 from their peak. Its going to be a really rough morning here, and you can see crude prices another part of the story, a big decline in crude oil p
But will use selfie sticks to sell his Signature Health care law get anyone to sign up . Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our world lead today. The widow at the center of a worldwide terror dragnet reappeared in a cover story on an isis magazine. There are no pictures but an isis affiliated journal says it interviewed Hayat Boumeddiene and she is now protected by the terrorists who are deep inside syria. Barely more than a month ago, as you might recall boumeddienes husband rampaged through the kosher supermarket in france killing four innocent men after having killed a female police officer. Its unclear what role she played in those terrorist attacks and the burqawearing extremist remains cloaked in mystery as well. But a video unearthed since then shows her and her husband casing jewish sites in paris, hinting at her deadly intentions. This interview, assuming it is legitimate sends a clear and chilling message to wouldbe terrorists throughout the we