Up more than 21 points to exit the bear cave is now up 15. But whats going on here . Could it be oil . In the last couple of minutes, oil suddenly, this is the aftermarket, started to tank. Its now down 7. 5 on apparent news that the United States government will start to add Strategic Petroleum reserves with all of the glut there is of oil. So while im looking, i just quickly checked exxonmobil and chevron, they are still up but they are at session lows as well. We are figuring it might have something to do with the oil news. In the meantime, the Small Business stimulus loans continue to flow as the treasury secretary asks for 250 billion in additional funds. We are expecting President Trump any moment now to give us an update on how that Small Business Program Lending situation is going. Its known as the Paycheck Protection Program. But the latest tally shows that the Small Business administration has processed 225,000 loans worth more than 60 billion. Thats just since friday. No wor
Outbreak in the u. S. , but new jersey reported its worst day yet. More money for Small Business as the treasury secretary and lawmakers signal additional funds will be allocated for the Small Business program, which has seen enormous demand and m. G. Firms from exxon to halliburton may lay off workers in light of the economic turm l turmoil. Well speak with the ceo of verizon about the companys effort to keep students informed while they are away from school. And the ceo of state street will join us. We have details on the Small Business relief meeting that is taking place this hour at the white house. Mike santoli is tracking the markets fading gains this hour. Ka kayla, first to you on breaking news in washington reporters are entering the roosevelt room right now where President Trump and his economic advisers are set to host a Virtual Meeting with a slate of financial industry ceos to talk about what they are doing to assist Small Businesses. The list of attendees includes some of
What the governor said a moment ago, he is tired of being behind this virus. We have been behind it, playing catchup from day one, trying to put a plan in place that puts him ahead of it, plans what he believes will be the apex in terms of the virus and the impact on the state of new york in the next two to three weeks. Before we go back to the numbers, another thing the governor mentioned in albany a moment ago, his brother chris, who host as nightly program on cnn, is positive for covid19. His symptoms, according to cnn, are mild. Chris cuomo will continue to host his nightly program, they say from his home on a daily basis, again with mild symptoms. The governor has been talking about his brother who he says is his best friend here for the last few minutes. Before that he did go through these numbers. Lets put them back up there. 75,759 cases in the state of new york and 1500 deaths. 1550 is the latest number, up from over 1200 yesterday. These numbers, to neils point continue to ri
Parts here today. Some are literal. The princess cruise ship is one. Theyre watching throughout the day as it makes its way to the port of oakland. It is supposed to dock around 3 00 this afternoon. Well talk about that, oil off the bat with our buddy phil flynn out in chicago, price futures group, senior strategist at cme. We talked about it last week, phil. You and i were going back and forth about russia and saudi arabia. Now we have the true price war breaking out that has consequences in places like texas and north dakota. Take us through what youre thinking about today . What im thinking about is were learning today, not always is a low price for oil good for everything. There is concerns for banks, oil producers, the general overall market. Having said that, there is some hope, you know, right now with the talks of stimulus. Maybe we can pull off the lows right now. There are old saying in the business low prices cure low prices but this breakup of opec and russia, this opec plu
Excellent meghan, a real pleasure listening to your thoughts today and we will have you back, of course, as soon as we try to get our gps with regard to the coronavirus and its Economic Impact in the marketplace. Thank you for joining us today Carl Quintanilla, back to you. Rick, see you in a little while. Good monday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla at post nine morgan brennanp with us from cnbc Global Headquarters, jon fortt from the floor of the nyse another eventful monday morning as im sure you know by now. We did trigger a Circuit Breaker at 2521, went down around 2400 and then since added about 100 s p points as we are at 2501 on the nose dow was near 25 and now 21. 2 interesting session, guys, as the day is far from over already jon, some headlines creeping out, this one just now, italy Lombardy Region posted the lowest number of new cases in the week, the kind of headline the bulls will want to see. Yes, indeed you know, i continue to watch the levels where we are jon, can you hea