Boris johnson and his house secretary. Spains deputy Prime Minister yesterday. Huge number of cases in the u. S. 22 states now under stayathome orders as 50 of the u. S. Population is meant to be abiding those orders. Down to 73 basis points on the 10 year yield. Crude back down again. 21 point 49. Canadian dollar weaker by about 7 10 of 1 after the bank of canada reduced its Interest Rate to 25 basis points. The Prime Minister selfisolating over here, the Health Secretary selfisolating. We are all selfisolating. The brown story in the market is done and dusted. We go into a weekend where traders do not want to take risk. Terrible numbers overnight out of spain. U. K. Numbers continue to climb. Numbers around the world of those infected and the fatalities continue to rise. That story is now taking over from that meal a we focused on so much over the last couple of days. European stocks at session lows, approaching that 300 mark with a bid back in the bond market. 50 in the german tenye
In the wake of several Mass Shootings, he says the senate will look at expanded the ground checks. Red on the table, socalled flag loss to keep guns away from dangerous people. Mcconnell has a post most gun laws in the past. A Political Drama is playing out in italy. His deputy is trying to bring down the countries populist coalition and force snap elections. Salvini wants lawmakers to vote out the government as soon as next week. He says he and his party are tired of infighting with their coalition allies. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, im vonnie quinn. Amanda im amanda lang in toronto. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. Our bloombergby and Bnn Bloomberg audiences. What a week it has been for global markets. We will wrap up the week, and escalate in trade war with the u. S. And china sign currencies, bo
Other big s p winners, general growth, regeneron pharma, wyn ddz ham and under armour. Cvs up about 900 . Priceline, chipotle and netflix. Well talk about where that goes from here. First, before we do that, lets get some other corporate headlines. This one, i dont know what you think of this one, joe, snapchat now valued at near 10 billion. A lot company, 10 billion. The number based on a recent investment in the messaging start up. The wall street journal reporting that vc cliner perkins committed up to 20 million. Among the other startups now boasting valuations of 10 billion or more. B b and uber. And payment provider square theyre also getting a valuation boost. On their way to 6 billion. That Company Reportedly in the process of raising about 200 million in cash. Square, of course, run by twitter cofounder jack dorsey. Square was valued at 5 billion earlier this year and you might recall that starbucks has an investment in that company. And then we got a little bit of media tech
Information we have at this time, as i said, indicates that u. S. Citizens are among the hostages, but they dont have at this point more details to provide to you. Were certainly concerned about reports of loss of life and are seeking clarity from the government. Trouble for tao. The onetime heisman hopeful, is he the victim of a cruel hoax or part of the plot . Just got a message from somebody i think in hawaii saying they had heard his girlfriend didnt exist. Every single thing about this was real to me at the time. There was no suspicion that it wasnt no belief that it might not be, and so the pain was real, the grief was real, the affection was real. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell live in washington. Our new nbc newswall street journal poll is real, and it shows that white house officials move just how difficult the fight is going to be to pass the president s new gun proposals. The president s biggest public opponent on this issue, the marshall Rifle Association carries a favorable
Nbc musewall street journal poll shows the lobby may have more clout. Coming up, the nations top Police Commissioner new yorks ray kelly on the frontlines in a battle against guns. We know were not going eliminate, you know, all gun violence, but it will certainly diminish the possibility of having another newtown. The nra defends its web ad, pea touring the president s daughters. President s have been off limits for decades. Theyve been understanding that we dont talk particularly about the minor children of president s. Nobody was talking about his children. Nobody was maiming his children. Money was doing this. Rescue attempt. Fastmoving developments unfolding in algeria. We are awaiting word on the fate of dozens of foreign hostages, including americans as well as al qaeda militants and a bp national gas plant. Unfortunately, the best information we have at this time, as i said, indicates that u. S. Citizens are among the hostages, but they dont have at this point more details to p