Cases, we talk about it every day. We need to im starting, i dont know what youre hearing, im starting to see anecdotal evidence that things are slowing down a bit in the economy. Im getting that too. Im getting people who are saying, i really would want to make a big spend, this is in terms of the big tech spend, for instance, i got to figure out what is going on or when are people coming back, are people ever going to come back . This stay at home versus go back to work, we thought it was resolved, we thought that things it was just a matter of time before you go back to work and those involve big Corporate Capital spending decisions and i think that those decisions are right now on the balance, because people dont know whether this thing is just going to continue to rage. I think we can expect it to continue to rage for the foreseeable future until the vaccine is widely available. There are people people are starting to curb their behavior thats what im referring to, and there are c
House passes and aid package and some corporate bailouts may come at the price of corporate equity stakes. And gilead shares crash as reports suggest its potential covid19 drug flopped in trial. Good morning, everybody. Program. O the we see a sluggish pace reflected in european futures. Much weaker. Features down, plenty of reasons to be gloomy if youre looking for them in terms of u. S. Jobs data, eurozone pmi data. We saw that certainly have an impact. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. We do see some negativity and u. S. Futures in u. S. Futures. But not to the same extent. As we continue to watch the earnings stories coming in, lets get a bloomberg first word news update for you. The u. S. House overwhelmingly passed a nearly 500 billion. Oronavirus aid plan the white house says President Trump will sign the legislation today New Washington time. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin once equity stake in exchange for a share of 17 billion in aid. He says Public Companies critical to N
Business closures as well as layoffs. We will show you how markets are reacting as well. Eugene scalia and richard will join with me about the jobs picture, what they have to say about the jobs market, stimulus package and what lies ahead for the u. S. Economy. Twoday rally for the dow and s p 500 poise to come to an end today, future pointing to losses, down 200 points. Down 93 on the nasdaq after gains of wall street yesterday but markets did close off of the highs of the day, in fact, the nasdaq as you could see finished negative. Dow industrials yesterday up 409 points at the close and the s p was up 28. President trump says parts of the u. S. Could be going back to work in a few weeks participating in a Virtual Conference with g20 leaders today working on a coordinated response for the coronavirus pandemic. Plus americas biggest music star coming together for iheart living concert for america. Special feature includes elton john and alicia keys. Mornings with maria is live right n
I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach well be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of tests out there there are a few things we can do with that one of the things when we make policy poll what well do with the rest of the country particularly areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what penetration is there. We have to act policyize on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is, that the areas of the country, not hot spots, not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In other words, when you test, you find somebody, you isolate them, you get them out of circulation and you do
Points. Brent really rolling over by about 5 , much worse than wti. It is now a pure demand issue. You see equities taking it on the chin, as well as commodities. Time for todays top market moving news from new york and our london team. We want to begin in the u. S. Come over Senate Democrats blocked Mitch Mcconnells attempt to advance the coronavirus economic rescue package. Minneapolis fed president neel bloomberg the fed can do more to support the economy. We are being more aggressive. Is there more we can do . Yes. Is there more we may end up doing . Yes, but i feel we are being very aggressive. Alix joining me for more is Michael Mckee. Walk us through what he said, what more they can do, and what is going on in d. C. Michael jim bullard is the one who really scared the markets by saying a 30 Unemployment Rate and perhaps a 50 annualized decline in gdp during the Second Quarter. Morgan stanleys is the closest to that 30 , so he thinks things can be much worse. They still say the f