Points. 770 is the yield on the 10year treasury right now. The yield on the 30year treasury below 1. 35 . It is now down 18 basis points at 1. 358 on the 30year. Mortgage rates are hitting record lows, how you can take advantage of this, these yields are tied to mortgages so we could see refi activity as well. Coronavirus crisis, one hundred thousand confirmed cases worldwide. That number is expected to increase. President trump says that the u. S. Economy could take a hit but says it is all going to work out and everybody should be calm. The democratic field is thinning out. Elizabeth warren the latest to drop out of the 2020 race but not making an endorsement just yet. Meanwhile this Jpmorgan Chase jamie dimon is recovering from emergency heart surgery this morning. The surgery was successful and dimon is awake and alert. Plus nashville recovery, President Trump headed to tornado ravished area today after approving disaster declaration, we will tell you there live this morning for a
Lets get over to china correspondent in beijing for more. What are the latest developments . The economic front, we did hear from the finance minister over the weekend. There will be additional measures from china to cut taxes and fees to support the economy. We saw additional meters over bond issues at the local government level. Additional letters from policymakers to support the economy. Meet its social and economic target. The question is how much budgetary pressure china will be under and how aggressive these stimulus measures are going to be. Pboc has lowered Interest Rates ensure Financial Markets in terms of cases, 68,500 are the latest numbers in terms of infection. 1600 deaths. The rate of infections continues to slow. We had a doctor out of one of the hospital say that now according to state media, this is starting potentially to peak the rate of infection. The new officials on hubei profits, wuhan is the capital, population they are told not to leave their homes. Leadership
And we think we will see two to 4 billion of free cash, which is an uptick from where we were a year ago. We also highlighted that that guidance incorporates what we are seeing in the wake of the coronavirus and the first quarter, but we did not take a view with respect to the rest of the year because what we do not know more than outweighs what we do know. What we do know relative to the first quarters we will see probably 500 million, 200 million to 300 million operating profit pressure because of the effects of the coronavirus, principally in the aviation into a lesser degree our health care business. David the scientists cannot tell us where this thing is going. We do not know. If you kept the basic structure for 2020, do you believe we can get through this . You think this will not have a lasting permanent effect on ges business or the economy overall . Larry what we do not know outweighs what we do know. This will be temporary. That does not mean it will disappear tomorrow. We di
This is bloomberg surveillance. These are what the markets are doing. U. S. Stocks and bonds closed today too today due to president s day. We are edging up a bit with buoyancy on the market on the backs of investors taking encouragement from china. They will do more to support their economy which is why we in gold down and yen down. That is a good litmus that we are on a risk on. Spoke the yousef managing director of the imf about the outlook on the Global Economy and the active the coronavirus. All hear from the interview early. First, let leanne erin. Leanne japan is it possible for sex after taking another battery the sales tax hike in the last and that economy at the low end as the coronavirus it activity drunk 6. 3 in the final three months of the year. That would be the biggest slide since the previous tax increase in 2014. Tensions between the u. S. And europe over huawei ramped up another notch this weekend. The u. S. Ambassador to germany tweeted a warning to countries that u
First time in decades. Going there for more from beijing is bloombergs selina wang. Give us an update on the situation in terms of the death toll and some of the evacuations from the ships, and also what we have heard about potential delay to the National Peoples congress. Selina we heard from the head hospital that he turning point may be reached, but we did see the number of , so it looks like the virus has not reached a peak yet. Outside china, countries have been stepping up evacuation efforts from these cruise lines. The diamond princess cruise ship in japan reporting the number of infections jumped to 454 after another 99 new cases right in the fight. In beijing, you can still feel the effects on the local economy, with stores and restaurants still closed. There has been a slight uptick in activity as people have resumed work, but only about 40 to 50 of the economy has been running at capacity this week. In beijing, anyone returning from the city has been ordered to self quaranti