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Platform, facebook shares are plunges as the cash cow of an advertising machine takes a public hit dow is down 750 coming up on todays show, a recession unlike any weve seen before the imf shocking the Investment Community with a huge negative revision to the forecast we have an exclusive interview with the managing director of the imf. You do not want to miss that lets focus in on the big stories with 59 minutes left of trading. Mike santoli following the plunge phil lebeau tracking the fall in Airline Stocks the ceos meet at the white house today. And meg terrell has the surge in coronavirus cases and rethinking of the reopenings happening across the country lets start with you, mike, on the selloff. What are you seeing . Well, sarah remember back in february, march, almost every friday it seems like the market backed off. A little nervous what might come over the wee ....
Casino, those are the biggest gainers today. But fears over the virus remain as cases in the u. S. , italy and around the world move higher though the president says he would love to have to country open by easter we are up 1700 points on the dow. Nice for a change. We have a huge lineup of guests coming up. The ceo of cvs health will tell us about the companys hiring spree and Virus Testing plans. Campbells ceo will join us to talk about the supply chain and well discuss the administrations actions thus far with mark short, chief of start to the Vice President. Lets focus in on two of the big stories, kayla has the latest. But first, mike is tracking todays market rally mike, over to you. By the looks of it, its a sturdy rally well scrutinize to see if theres more than anything but a bounce it tells you a couple of things. One is a strong bounce is it doesnt look that dramati ....
Bloomberg. You mentioned housing and todays gdp data when you look at that, do you believe that you have achieved a soft landing or are achieving a soft landing in the sense that removing to trend growth the rest of the year and next year that is our outlook overall, is for moderate growth of around 2 , pretty close to trend. Thats our outlook could be better. Could be worse you know, you never say youve achieved it. But thats our outlook we feel like our current stance of policy is appropriate as long as that remains broadly our outloo outlook. Donna borak with cnn. Chair powell, setting aside expectations for todays rate cut, obviously 97 sort of expected this would happen today, can you tell us more about the rationale behind moving at this particular meeting as opposed to waiting six weeks and cutting in december and if there was any discussion about that around the table . Thanks. Yeah. I think this seems to be the right movement you can see we had our usual range of prospects, ra ....
Economy. Well be looking for things affecting the outlook of the u. S. Economy, particularly as it relates to zblrchlts all those things in principle can affect the achievement of our goals its an unusual situation because you know the u. S. Economy itself, the largest part of it, the consumer part of it, is in strong shape the manufacturing part, less so. Overall you see an economy that generally forecast shows growth similar to our own forecast coming in at about 2 . Significant risks to that outlook from not just the geopolitical events but slowing Global Growth. Well be looking at all of that and also Financial Market conditions and how they are affecting the outlook. I cant it is a challenging time i admit it were not on a preset course well be making decisions meeting by meeting as we see this and well try to be as trance parent as we can, as we go. Sparent as we can, ....