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Optimism grows over flattening curve in some areas of the countries. Signs that lockdowns could be having positive impact. 7 and 3 quarters percent yesterday, take a look. Pretty good rally at the end of the day as well. Dow industrials up yesterday, nasdaq up 540 and s p up 175. President trump announcing a deal with 3m to supply medical masks and he said he had a, quote, wonderful call with former Vice President about the coronavirus response. We have you covered this morning about the pandemi...

Better. Im tom kean in new york and joining me is taylor rigs this morning. I love the chart you put out on high yield this morning. What else do you see in the markets . Taylor what does it mean when the fed comes in and buys junk bonds, tom . Weve never seen it before, supporting the fallen angels. Massive rally in the high yield market not to mention a bit of the equity markets, coming off the best week since 1974. Some of that seems to be reversing this morning. Tom im really thrilled with t...

Reported. New york state reported its highly daily death toll highest daily death toll yet. President s briefing will start at about 5 30. U. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson remains in the icu in the british hospital for the third day in a row. And nasdaq are climbing today. I want to bring in keith. One day is up, one is down. The only thing we know for sure is the daily case counts. What indicators are you watching to determine what kind of day its going to be . Keith its amazing, the daytoday...

Rafael espinal from Freelancers Union talks about the impact of the pandemic on the selfemployed. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is washington journal, for april 2. We want to hear from you about your level of confidence in the u. S. Health versus to treat those affected by coronavirus. What you are seeing and experiencing in your community and we especially want to hear from you if you are a Health Care Worker in the field and you want to give your perspective on the u. S. Healt...

The department of corrections is here. Thank you for joining this afternoon. Joined today by kathy from the Grocery Association and mark from banking and finance. We will be talking here in a little bit. First of all, i just want to remind people as i always do, folks, this is really, really important, the social distancing. We have talked about this in the past. If you are out enjoying the weather, it is a great day today. Keep thatyou have to six feet distance. Do not gather in groups of more ...

Among, at least seven different other items that World Health Officials will look at, including the president of the United States before deciding at the end of this month whether to extend sheltering provisions or to start unwinding them n the middle that a bit of a constitutional back and forth whether the president alone can decide this matter. We have different reads of this. Well get into a little bit on this, some say that the president is wrong, states ultimately decide on this. The presi...

Spread from one person to another. Reporter to completely flatten the covid19 infection curve, Santa Clara County officials announcing tuesday an extension of the shelterinplace order, now medical may 3rd. Social distancing by residents is mandatory. All coninstruction is halted exempt projects deemed necessary. Examples include projects related to limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Reporter all businesses that are not essential are required to close medical. The San Jose Police department ...

Payments to lower income households. Aid to households households with children. One year tax referral. Cuts, money handouts for businesses and households it seems like officials in tokyo are stepping up to try to support the economy as they look to implement an emergency lockdown as early as tomorrow. That is likely when it will be announced. It will be starting on april 8. We will continue to digest the details from that package. They did see a thousand cases in japan and we are waiting for mo...

Good evening everyone. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Thoseof the focus on deaths and infection. It seems europe may be stabilizing, i spoke to a number ,f experts think its too soon if you look at the curve of the seems its getting worse and we are also hearing did may get worse before it gets better. This is what your markets are telling you. I know weve been talking about the dollar almost day in and day out. A lot of the focus is on whats going on. Lets have a at what equities are doing, gain...

The bloomberg terminal. A grim milestone. One Million People have now tested positive for the coronavirus with more than 50,000 deaths worldwide. The Asian Development bank estimates the cost of the pandemic at 4. 1 trillion. We will get through this, you was Vice President mike pence tells bloomberg that the economy will rebound from mounting unemployment as the government ramps up virus testing. We are testing over 100,000 americans a day. We literally are tracking every single day the number ...