Thursday, April 2, 2020
Evening
- Stock futures lower as indexes head for modest weekly losses
- Fed balance sheet increases to record $5.86 trillion
- Oil jump lifts Wall Street as jobless claims data surges
- Gold, silver prices see sharp pop on huge jump in U.S. jobless
- Coronavirus live updates: Global cases top 1 million, Americans may face relief check delays
- White House says small business lending program will be running Friday, even as JPMorgan says it’s not ready
- Trump touts 'great' Saudi-Russia oil deal to halt price rout, but details unclear
- Emerging markets need more than Fed repos to fix dollar malaise
- European leaders warn coronavirus could lead to the breakup of their union
- U.S. high-grade corporate bond issuance sets weekly record
- Manhattan real estate sales ground to a halt in March. Prices could plunge next
- U.S. Navy relieves commander of coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier
- China answers Brazil plea for medical equipment to fight coronavirus
- Brazil's Bolsonaro isolated, weakened by coronavirus denial
- In Just Three Weeks, 10% of Workers in These States Are Jobless
- Foreign Central Banks Sell $109 Billion of Treasuries in March
- S&P 500 Dividend Cuts Add Up Faster Than Any Time Since 2009
- Banks Tighten Lending to Nervous Homeowners Hoping to Tap Equity
- Exploding Fed Balance Sheet Risks Unintended Brake on Bank Loans
- U.S. High-Yield Bond Funds See Record Inflow After Exodus
- The Rush for $350 Billion in Small-Business Loans Starts Friday. Banks Have Questions.
Afternoon
- Wall St. gains as oil recovery eclipses record weekly jobless claims
- Oil soars after Trump says Saudis and Russians to cut output
- Trump tells CNBC he spoke to Putin, MBS and expects Saudis, Russia to announce 10 million barrel cut
- Coronavirus live updates: US cases top 217,000, Goldman’s David Solomon says US response was ‘slow’
- U.S. trade deficit near three-and-a-half-year low as Chinese imports tumble
- This map shows which states are seeing the most job losses due to the coronavirus
- Disaster in motion: 3.4 million travelers poured into US as coronavirus pandemic erupted
- Nursing home infections, deaths surge amid lockdown measures
- Home Lenders Brace for Up to 15 Million U.S. Mortgage Defaults
- Poorer Countries Are Least Prepared for Pandemic Lockdowns
- Oil at $4 a Barrel? That’s the Price Belarus Is Offering Russia
- The Rush for $350 Billion in Small-Business Loans Starts Friday. Banks Have Questions.
- Questions About Accuracy of Coronavirus Tests Sow Worry
General
- World stocks drift as wary investors expect grim U.S. jobs data
- Dollar maintains gains after weeks of rallying
- Oil rallies 10% after Trump says he expects Saudi Arabia-Russia feud to end soon
- Gold extends rise after another surge in jobless claims
- 10-year Treasury yield falls below 0.6% after unemployment claims surge for a second week
- US weekly jobless claims total 6.6 million, vs 3.1 million expected
- Coronavirus live updates: US unemployment claims skyrocket, Boeing offers workforce buyouts
- Stuck at home and jobless, Americans confront growing costs of coronavirus
- Whiting Petroleum is just the ‘first domino’ to fall in US shale wipeout, strategist says
- Apply here: How to spend $2.2 trillion — and rescue economy
- Ford first-quarter U.S. auto sales tumble 12.5% on coronavirus hit
- Exclusive: U.S. officials agree on new ways to control high tech exports to China - sources
- Yuan Weakens Past Key Support Level as Depreciation Quickens
- China-Focused Hedge Funds Risk a Wave of Redemptions
- Worst Yet to Come For Junk Debt as Defaults Loom, Goldman Says
- Coronavirus Is Making the Public Pension Crisis Even Worse
- Empty Hotels. Idled Tour Buses. The Pandemic Is Devastating Tourism.
- Fed Temporarily Eases Capital Requirements for Big Banks
- How the Muni Market Became the Epicenter of the Liquidity Crisis
- Investors brace for credit crisis in emerging markets
- China’s economy has yet to reach bottom
- China, coronavirus and surveillance: the messy reality of personal data