Docks in new york to help the citys struggling health care system. And lockdown in senegal but with limited access to clean water there are fears of how far infections could spread. But 1st to japan where the government is imposing a series of new social restrictions amid a recent surge in cases of coronavirus its also urging citizens not to travel to 73. 00 countries in regions thats a 3rd of the world its expected to close its borders to people coming from the us canada china south korea and from most of europe japan has so far been spared a major outbreak of the virus but the number of infections is now approaching 2056 people have died. And the world bank is warning the pandemic could force up to 11000000. 00 people into poverty across the Asia Pacific Region its expecting growth in china and developing asian economies will fall heavily warning significant economic pain is now unavoidable lets get the very latest now from across asia katrina is our correspondent in beijing so 2 ver
Remembering the victims across it and watching those live pictures there from that moment of silence being observed in rome well lets get more on whats happening around the country our correspondent francesco jumper tony is in milan for us francesco yet another sobering moment today but at the same time i see some potential optimism i see some Health Experts are predicting that italy could now reach its infection peak in a week or so. Where were they thats thats where. The latest on official forecasts based on different researchers are saying that the daily could reach the peak in 7 to 10 days and see the new cases hitting 0 in the 1st 2 weeks of may but of course this is not sure yet what is sure is dead 812 people died yesterday bring in the total death toll to over 11500 and the confirmed positive cases are more than 100000 but the growth appears much slower than last week did ailing crees is now costs unduly under the 8 percent and the recoveries never been so many so there is yes
A building makeshift facilities as the Health Care Systems struggle to. India orders the worlds biggest lock down 1300000000 people are told to stay indoors for 3 weeks in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. And the Olympic Games in tokyo have been postponed for a year because of the global spread of the disease. The new york and new york has been a major battlefront in the fight against the corona virus pandemic the largest us city now has more than 25000 confirmed cases and that number is rising rapidly medical facilities meanwhile a struggling to cope and are facing potential shortages of things like beds ventilators and even staff but the u. S. President says he hopes to have the situation under control by Easter Gabriel elizondo ripples out from new york. Sobering news for new yorkers the situation is worse than 1st start with the coronavirus rate of infection doubling every 3 days we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet tra
Performance for the dow and the s p since the great depression. We have fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman with the latest, with the president. Lauren simonetti watching the markets. Edward lawrence is live in d. C. Lawrence, lets kick it off with you . I have to say good riddance to the month of march and it was really awful. Let me tell you how awful it was, the worst month for talks since the 2018 financial crisis. If were talking, dow lost, nasdaq lost more than 900 points this month. Not one dow winner in the entire month of march. In fact four march, worst one for the dow and s p 500 since, ready for this, the great dedepression. Does it get any better for the First Quarter . Not really, the dow down 23 in the First Quarter of the year. S p down 19 . Nasdaq down 12 . We had a winner in the quarter, just one. Out of 30 dow stocks it, was microsoft up barely but in the green. The worst stock for the month, for the quarter on the dow was boeing. This is a stock that saw 330, t
Month. Regents financial down 18 just catastrophic week this is a week chicos down 43 the kohls. Gap down 28 these stocks have been cut 50 or more in the last couple of weeks. Utilities another sector look at plain old run of the mill electric power companies. Regulated e lelectric power company. Believe it or not, this is a calmer week than it has been in the prior three or four weeks. The volume is about 30 lower than prior weeks the intraday swings are two to three below. The vix is below 50. We were 80 three weeks ago guys, i take no solace in saying were down 2. 4 on the week. In terms of all the craziness we saw two and three weeks ago, this is calmer a month ago i would have thought myself crazy to say that but it is true. Back to you. I think you should try out the vest, bob, thanks. Lets get over to steve who is digging into this devastating payroll plunge as tons of americans are left without work during this pandemic kelly, i got to advise you and tyler to save your adjectiv