That before says can operate freely in subsaharan africa. Hello im Christine Wonderwall come to the program the 7 german stage off the area has canceled the october face to be effaced of all because of the coronavirus the event attracts more than 6000000. 00 visitors every year and all 4 as he has feared allowing it to go ahead would lead to a spike in infections. No crowded party tents giant mugs of beer or packed out parades. Germanys biggest festival has been cancelled for the 1st time since world war 2. Large events are currently banned in germany until the end of august october 1st. Supposed to start on september 19th but Officials Say the risk of infection during the coronavirus pandemic is just too high 2 2. Which is painful for us its a great pity because with many things this is not a normal year and this is going to be a year without the 1st. About 6000000. 00 visitors flock to the october 1st every year crowding the Festival Grounds but also the host city munich the cancella
0. 769 a little lower than weve seen in weeks leading up to this. Joe, the most important thing youve said is it is friday. Is it friday . The days are all it has been months. And then again, it feels like one whole long day for the week. In this new bull market we are in we will see, hopefully. Three days im not saying that we are they make no sense anymore. I guess it is possible we could look back a year or two now and say, wow or as Paul Tudor Jones said. Are we opening he said we could probably see some new lows. We are still on the front edge of this horrible thing that will play out in new york and other cities hopefully not as bad as people thought. The coronavirus cases surging to nearly 86,000 passing italy and china and making america the site of the largiest outbreak. The death toll is nearing 1,300 in the u. S. So far those number doubling somewhere around every three days right about now, a little less. Lots of questions about other areas too now how this is playing out i
You are watching cnbc. Lets get right to the markets and look at how your money is setting up today. The dow would be implied just about flat that is a weakening there. Margining declines in the s p and nasdaq a bit of volatility returning to the market now up more than 20 since the march 23 low just more than two weeks ago at this point. Take a look at the bond market we are seeing a little bit of a bid on that side of things pushing things to that side. Just a hair below 25 basis points or. 25 and a little below. 75 or 75 basis points there. Lets go worldwide matt taylor is in singapore and Julianna Tatelbaum is watching the Early Morning trade of european forces. And well go to the opec plus meeting and Frank Holland is here with the coronavirus headlines. Matthew, well start with you. Thank you. We did see a firmer trading session. Before the final session are either closed on friday and monday for the easter break. Japan was the exception flat at the close. We had the nikkei down
At 1 00 p. M. Today. Time now for global exchange. Tom hong kong to beirut, berlin, brussels and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground this mornings top stories. We want to begin in china. Chinese vice premier liu he will travel to washington next week to sign the first phase of a u. S. Trade deal. Ranthe current enda cur joins us. In some ways, no surprise. Enda no surprise, but is the first indication that we will find this next week. It will be a pretty heavy delegation with the vice premier. Other trade and commerce related officials. We dont have much more detail be on. The Foreign Ministry didnt give much more detail. That agricultural goods are part of the agreement, but we dont know what else. While this is obviously a positive sign that the trade deal will go ahead, a lot of people will be looking for any final hiccups in the days before the signing, and of course, when the details come out, there will be a lot of scrutiny. Alix thank you very much. In beirut,
The u. S. And china are dusting off corporate deals in anticipation. Austria braces for a hotter weekend as fires continue to burn out of control. Thousands are urged to seek shelter. This justin, the u. S. House is voting on the or powers resolution. , as is mostly symbolic resolution that would seek to limit the President Trumps options for military action against iran. House speaker Nancy Pallone says democrats were not satisfied by the administrations justification for last weeks airstrikes that kill a top iranian official. Nancy pelosi saying this is more than a symbolic gesture. We have more analysis, but it seems like a long shot for this to pass the republican held senate. That news just coming in that the resolution has been passed in the house. When it comes to the trading session, it is fading out. Tensions between u. S. And iran. A report suggests that the ukrainian flight was taken down by Iranian Missiles. That did not deter optimism. All three markets in the u. S. Hittin