Check futures, dow futures right now in the red to the tune of 360 points, nasdaq futures down 110 and s p futures lower by 40. Oil prices under pressure this morning. The International Energy agency warning that demand could plummet to less than 25 years. Airlines reaching a deal for Financial Aid. Mornings with maria live. Striking a deal Oil Producing countries agreeing to cut output by 9. 7 millionbarrels a day in an effort to stabilize the price of crude. President trump weighing in on much anticipated agreements. Countries around the world will cut Oil Production by approximately 20 millionbarrels. People are saying 10 million but we think the number that theyll actually hit is closer to 20 millionbarrels a day. This historic action will help americans supported by the oil and gas industry. Saudi minister say the cuts will amount to 20 million a day and confirmed what President Trump just said when taking into account policemens by other g20 nations and preserves. Prince abdulazi
Quote, dont go to crowded places. Look, thats going to slow the economy. We dont know by how much. Remember, friday, larry kudlow was on the show, told us that targeted stimulus is being considered. The fed is being urged to take steps, too. Were watching for any announcement. Heres the other big problem. The price of oil is tumbling. The saudis have launched a price war, promising to flood the world with a glut because russia wouldnt agree to production cuts. American drillers will take a huge hit. They cant make a profit at 30 bucks a barrel. 31. 89 right now. Look at this. Money pouring into treasury securities, pushing the yield way down to yet more record lows. Takes your breath away. We were down to 0. 31 at one stage. Now we are 0. 41 . Extraordinary. It has to be said, the United States is in a better position to weather this storm. That jobs report was a blockbuster. Look at italy. Its locking down a quarter of its population, locking it down. That lwill ensure a deep recessio
Looked like both the house and senate would be out next week and it would be difficult to get anything done fiscally in terms of legislation before next week. The timeline is getting pushed out. Because of that we lost all of our gains. 3 gains in some cases. Then we had some mike pence strategy from the meeting with insurers. At that meeting mike pence said there would be no surprises, there would be 4 million test sent out and there would be no copay. Insurers would waive copays. That gives the markets the idea we are going to get an accurate and quick assessment of those infected and those passing it on. We also heard President Trump Pay Lip Service to the fact that they were looking at the cruise industry and Airline Industry and that has stocks bouncing. The s p 500 up almost 1 . The 10 year yield, 60 basis points. Jim vogel out with some good levels saying there was a cluster around 55 and buying is concentrated in certain areas. It is trading within a 21 basis point range. The y
Meaning less demand for oil. Meanwhile similar story in bond market, yield on 10year treasury below 4 tenths of a percent overnight. Now we are staying right under and it is down 28 basis points. Again, another indication of a recession at hand. The 30year following 1 for the first time in history. The 30year bond, the yield there at. 883 . Thats down 40 basis points this morning. Global markets reacting to all of this this morning in the stock market. Deep selloff in europe. The cac quarante down 335 points. That is 6 and a half percent and dax index in germany lower by 672. Overnight in asia across the board. Chinese experts tumbled in the month of january, more signs of trouble in japan as well. First quarter gdp lower in japan showing the economy contracted 7. 1 from the previous quarter. Thats a sharp contraction in japan. This on top of the Coronavirus Crisis, cases in the United States and abroad are growing. The white house looking into emergency measures. Overseas italy report
Pot belly cfo why the klain lost 6 today we will get to it all let us begin with the Federal Reserve as expected no change in rates in the time meeting of both the year and final meeting of the decade. Come on. Thats all in the past, guy what should we expect in the future the new year, a rate cut, a rate hike, Steve Liesman was there. Asking questions at the press conference and he joins us now with more good evening, steve. Sully, thanks the Federal Reserve ended a momentous year for Monetary Policy by lawmakering what it indicated was a new regime where policy is likely to remain on hold for what could be at least several months the move to neutral follows three successive rate cuts beginning in august and reversal of plans to hike earlier this year now the policy statement the fed called the current stance of policy appropriate feds overnight lending rate standing at a range of 1. 5 to is 1. 75 . Jerome powell saying that could be the case for a while to come. We believe that the c