Winning streak falling by 300 points yesterday take a look at whats happening. Yesterdays session, the dow was down s p dipped back in for the year inching its way in the day before the nasdaq did power to a new record close and briefly broke above 10,000 for the first time. Lifted by amazon, apple, facebook and microsoft which all closed at record highs adding about 5 trillion. About the amount well spend in federal spending this year also take a look at whats been happening with u. S. Equity this hour both the dow and s p are under a little pressure. Dow indicated down by about 60 points s p down by 3. The nasdaq, even after all these gains is indicated up by about 17 points this morning taking a look at whats happening in the treasury market the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 797 crude oil prices are in the red. Crude oil prices, talking about the recovery theyve made. Talking about wti. Down about 2. 3 . What an improvement or a gain in crude oil prices now above 38 thank you it is
Amid the pandemic but opposition parties in the country say antigovernment critics are being kept behind bars while murderers and rapists they say are going free and for people convicted for smuggling women from nigeria to italy to work as 6 slaves how a g. W. News investigation helped bring those human traffickers to justice. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with a bleak forecast the whites of which the world has not seen since the 1930 s. The International Monetary fund says that the Global Economy is on track this year for the kind of downturn that wrecked economies back in the Great Depression and it has everything to do with far reaching measures designed to save lives in the corona virus pandemic. Amid lockdowns business shutdowns and travel restrictions due to the covert 19 pandemic the outlook is bleak for the Global Economy the i. M. F. Is now forecasting a decline of 3 percent this year before the pandemic emerg
Administration made as covid19 gan its spread through the u. S. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding f the pbs newshour has been provided by the william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. At www. Hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing suort of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the coronavirus pandemic is showing more signs of leveling off in parts of the world, and there is more talk tonight about easing restrictions. That comes as the global death toll nears 120,000, including some 23,000 in the United States. In new york state alone, deaths topped 10,000 today, but officials pointed to other, more positive trend lines. We begin with this report from amna nawaz. Nawaz as the National Death toll ticks higher, at the epicen
A daily meal. At another use saudi forces interceptor missile over the capital riyadh explosions are heard in Northern Areas of the city and. The number of deaths is wising by the day millions are in confinement of the world is slipping into recession the coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be humanitys worst crisis in decades there are now more than 30000 deaths linked to the virus more than half of those in just 2 countries in europe italy alone more than 10000 people have died and spain has reported its highest number of deaths in a single day bringing the total there to more than 5800 the army has been asked to transfer bodies to morgues because undertakers are unable to cope saturday also so the highest day on day increase in violence related deaths in the u. K. More than 1000 people died and the government is increasing testing for frontline hospital staff and in india the fear of death due to starvation not the virus has led to a mass exodus of poor workers bus and train stat
To normal in a province once the epicenter of the virus in china. Will also be looking at how the social Media Movement called care mongering is helping Vulnerable People cope with the crisis wherever they are. And its for chinas top Football League is aiming for a quick return to action the teams are now back in training hoping to kick off the season in may. So another surge in the number of people who have died from coronavirus in europe as the continent struggles to contain the outbreak spain 832 people have died there in just 24 hours it brings the total number of the dead to nearly 5700 since the outbreak began italy also really struggling to control things on friday it recorded the highest death toll of any single day anywhere in the world it was 909. 00 teen deaths as a result of covered 19 in 24 hours and theres also a 21. 00 day government lockdown which is affecting lives of hundreds of thousands of market workers in india a Public Transport Service is suspended leaving milli