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Virus. A councillor that tested positive discusses his experience. And your text and tweets. Washington journal is next. Us coronavirus cases have jumped. Returns at noon as they return to push a response package totalling over 1 million. Good morning, welcome to washington journal, this friday morning. March 20th. Well open up the phone lines, hearing from you, and your experience, response to the federal effort on the coronavirus. Of you in the central time zone, the line is welcome to your input if you are a medical professional tell us your name and where you twitter, ing from on facebook posts. There is a reporter from the mike baker, mes, stationed in the northwest. Part ofg the northwest the us, mike baker tweeting on the numbers, more than he said on the 132. More than 4,000 new cases in the us. Youll see his number at the there 12,336. When we started the programme 9 4509,450. 9,450. Checking the map. 245,484. 10,000, th toll over with 86,000 confirmed recoveries. 14,250. Us i ....
Welcome to fbn am im laurenen lauren. Good morning everybody im cheryl casone. Lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning the nasdaq closed at a record high yesterday the dow and s p 500 back in the green today dow up futures high per by 76 points. Nasdaq and s p futures higher as well and nasdaq by about 30 and a half taking a look at asia right now again as corona virus fierces way on markets we have red excuse me l green arrows at least in japan for hang seng and south korea and shanghai composite down of a quarter of a percent. Green on screen is europe gaining half a of one percent and london gaining three quarts of one percent. Cheryl our top story this morning it is a city showdown tonight 6, 0 contenders take debate stage in las vegas. The democrats expected to take aim at Mike Bloomberg who qualified at the very last minute. Lauren can he keep his poker face live with highlight it is from campaign trail. Gr ....
Profiletalked with high alumni that continue to shape the Business Community including. Organ stanley chairman ceo [indiscernible] well hear from james gorman at other chats we had up Columbia Business School and many of those topics, they are week. D this that included a top story war. Week, u. S. China trade however, economics editor warns of unintended consequences. U. S. s almost as if the and china same to be intent on twoding the world into separate spheres just like really globalization in reverse. Use a much more recent analogy, its like the period ii and the cold war when there was soviet blocked comiccon and western doingies really not commerce with each other. That was not good for prosperity anyone. Conversationst with the Columbia Business School this week. Talked about u. S. China tr ....
Mike u. S. Stocks to some degree have brushed off the tweets from President Trump this morning criticizing china. Soybeans fell to a seven low today. This is after President Trump criticized china after criticized china for not increasing American Farm imports. Trade war worries have people away from soybean market. Open interest in soybean contracts have fallen to eight fouryear low. Wheatcotton, some contracts all off. Forecasts for cooler weather in midwest also plan on playing on prices. Benign weather should help crops behind in development after a rainsoaked season. Ag commodities are a little bit more pressure, but we do have commodities that double as currencies, like silver, up for the 2nd straight day. It is up ahead of the fed meeting as they aresing also piling into more options. The volumes of calls and put ....
We are 2 10 of 1 lower. Pulling up the board, looking at the bond market across asset classes, you have a bit of a move two basis points higher, back to 485 on the day with the 10year hanging flat just over that level. Gold, taking a breather, here, 1. 2 lower on the day, crude also lower on the day, a 77 handle, 1 lower on the day. We want to bring you also some breaking news from across the pond. Rishi sunak will call for an election for july wording to the guardian. We have livvy burnham outside of 10 downing street with more. What is the latest . Lizzie here we are again, downing street, waiting for the Prime Minister at his lectern. Various announced various july 4 announcements for the election, thats what we are expecting. Why . Not the autumn, as westminster has widely expected. 2. 3 was the inflation data this morning. In the eyes of the Prime Minister, thats back to ....