virus than in china. and india launches a search for a suspected corona virus cases after thousands attended a religious gathering potentially exposing them to the virus. a lot done in senegal but with limited access to clean water there are fears about how far infections could spread. hello the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spread across the globe with countries taking drastic measures to curb transmission and save lives both france and spain have recorded their highest death tolls in a single day since the outbreak began and the official u.s. death toll of nearly 3 and a half 1000 now exceeds china it s the 3rd highest global globally after italy and spain and the world health organization says the epidemic is far from over in the asia pacific urging countries there to prepare for a large scale community transmission s a minute s silence has been held across italy to remember its nearly 12 and a half 1000 victims of the pandemic the country remains the hardest hit i
present some sort of model for the future course the coronavirus is expected to take. 180,000, overr 3000 people have died. i want to bring in our what d you miss? cohost romaine bostick. the s&p had been rallying. what is the reason for the downward move today? is it simply that there are no more places to hide? romaine: if you look at the higher,hat had moved defensive stocks, a lot of crowding. the worst quarter for the dow jones since 1987, the worst for the s&p since 2008. same thing for the nasdaq composite. the nasdaq 100 held up a little bit better. we are down about 14% on the nasdaq 100 for the quarter that just ended today, about 6% other than the s&p and about 9% better than the dow. over the course of the quarter, you had names like netflix and tesla rally more than 20%. some of those large cap genetic sciences companies, those moving higher as well as gilead sciences. the in mind, a big reason nasdaq was down, we talk about this being a tech index but it has n
we ll get his take on the economy and the company s growth plan. a cnbc exclusive. would you get a mortgage from that girl? no, from walmart. a lot of people say they would. what s that all about? we re going to run it down later on power lunch. we start with my partner sue herera in the center of the action downtown at the nyse. stocks are slightly lower right now despite those fiscal cliff anxieties. they ve been pretty steady throughout the day. the s&p 500 broke above its 50-day moving average, believe it or not. earlier in the day it s backed off a little bit. economic news and new data shows u.s. manufacturing falling to its lowest level in three years. and there is a little nervousness about the president taking to twitter at 2:00 p.m. eastern time to talk about the fiscal cliff negotiations that are going on. but it is the first trading day of the month and some on wall street are getting bullish for year end. it is going to be a december to remember, i predic
listen. we ll have to see. do you think it s going to pass? we ll see what happens. did you rush it, do you think? no. we ll see what happens. reporter: did you rush it at first? no. reporter: will paul ryan stay speaker if it fails, sir? right now the house is taking the second in what are expected to be a series of procedural votes ahead of a final vote late this afternoon. earlier this morning this tweet from the president, quote, after seven horrible years of obamacare, skyrocketing premiums and deductibles, bad health care, this is finally your chance for a great plan. the president issued an ultimatum to house republicans, pa pass the bill today or he will leave obamacare in place. a bunch of people from the white house went over to the house. mulvaney raised the stakes even more this morning. listen. lawmakers will have to be accountable as to why they didn t vote to get rid of obamacare when they had the chance and that chance is today. and rig