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this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss branch boring washington coming up grim prospects have gotten even darker as the i.m.f. has issued an outlook of the near future of the global economy and as the economic continues to sink poor nations are struggling to receive pandemic payments we'll break it all down plus. endemic u.s. markets are surging despite record unemployment claims and poor bank performance but why we'll bring in expert analysis straight ahead we have a packed show today let's go and dive right in.
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the corona virus pandemic which has caused a lockdown and mere halt of business worldwide is going to have a lasting effect on the global economy but just how bad will it get the international monetary fund on tuesday joins those who say it could create the worst financial crisis since the great depression. we are projecting global growth in 2022 full on to minus. 3 percent now this is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from general 2020 major division over a very short period of time. this makes the great lockdown the worst recession since the great depression and far worse than the global financial crises the
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i.m.f. chief economist said there will be a partial recovery in 2021 adding the overall g.d.p. will remain below previous levels the comments come weeks after u.n. secretary general antonio terra's made similar comments saying the pandemic will bring a recession that has no parallel in recent years and that it is the worst crisis since the 2nd world war meanwhile the w t o said last week global trade will fall by between 13 and 32 percent this year alone there's a lot of great doubt here so let's go ahead and bring in some expert analysis from co-host ben swann and christiane i guys thank you so much for joining us christy this contraction of economic growth is it simply because of supply chain slowdowns or are there entire industries that will collapse as a result of the economic shutdown. well run as kind of both you have this slowdown stemming from the shutdowns and businesses which creates massive layoffs and unemployment which then snowballed into lower income decrease discretionary
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spending which then repeats and feedbacks into the chain in a form of slowing demand so it's a vicious cycle that's very hard to control once again momentum the other part of that is that you have entire industries that are on the brink of collapse and they've been levered to help bring on cheap corporate debt now of course we're talking about the oil and energy sector hit one of the icons of america well we can also be talking about that big economy the gig and share to cop a sickly have your assets that valuation upwards of several billions of dollars but 0 assets so that economy has a collapse and the fact is it has no assets to back it up or doesn't own its cars being b. doesn't own any of its real estate making it all the more painful and then finally let's not forget about trade international trade accounts for a significant portion of the economy but now the pen demick borders are sealed essential industries like mass make and ventilators are all hoarded not shared. and it's every country for itself and i mean back up and trade is expected to fall anywhere between 30 and 32 percent in 2020 and better want to bring you into this
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conversation what does this mean for workers for instance here in the u.s. we are seeing the there will be good we're not 100 percent sure that people will actually get these jobs back after the stay at home orders are lifted because you know if we're talking about an economic downturn a recession and something that rivals the great depression that means that these jobs will be lost for a long time before things start to rebound. well it's very possible they will be by the way i thought that was such great analysis from christie talking about you know air b.n. b. and some of those massive companies that really don't own anything so who does own the real estate who does own the vehicles that you know the people traveling for over well it's the individual workers and then in many cases those are individual contractors the problem is right now to your point. the government's not bailing out contractors or small business owners this s.b.a. rollout has been an absolute joke so far in terms the way it's been handled and one
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of the problems is you have a lot of small business owners who are being crushed by it because they're not getting any help but the majority of people in this country who are employed are employed by small businesses so it's not just the workers that are hurt but if those small businesses cannot come back if those small businesses cannot reopen when the time comes because they didn't get help that they were promised and yet they were being forced to shut down and that's important for people to remember none of these shutdowns are because people asked for them or indicated they needed them they're being mandated and forced upon them and then small businesses can't make money so yeah you're right a lot of these jobs for workers they may not come back because those businesses might collapse and now kristie there are some big concerns about what this virus means for poor countries around the world now the g. 7 has actually announced that it could suspend debt payments for poor countries affected by the virus. what does it mean for these economies that are a little smaller. so they missed part in developing nations they have previously taken on a lot of day very low interest rates and are to borrow so now they need to make
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payments and that's choking the funding for their other efforts to control the pen next and raytheon share conny so right now these relief measures will allow them to channel more of their scarce financial resources toward medical and other relief measures but while these temporary relief measures help i believe that have about 6 months it's certainly not enough as these developing countries are at most risk for the pandemic spread as well as for food shortages coming up in the future. ben it seems like a lifetime ago but just a few weeks ago as the pandemic was getting underway we did a 2nd here on boom bust with you explaining pandemic that they could be released for the 1st time ever can you give us an explanation of one of what pandemic bugs are just to refresh the viewers as to what that is yes who appeared to be bob very briefly these bonds were essentially created in 2014 remember that we had that big scare of ebola around the world and here in the united states well after the bolus scare took place. the i.m.f. essentially created these things called pandemic bonds which essentially would help
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small and poor countries deal with a large pandemic and so about $190.00 that magick is just the number $190000000.00 was promised in financing for poor countries if they receive those pandemic bombs in the event there was a global pandemic which of course we have now and of course but it turns out that. in the midst of this actual global pandemic those bonds are helping the countries that had been promised to help so who is actually benefiting from this well and unfortunately that is the reality of this is that wall street is actually a big surprise here right wall street is benefiting from it wall street has done very well with these pandemic bonds unfortunately but the countries that need them can't even get them according to the w.h.o. there's a whole series of rules about how this works it has to be 12 weeks after a pandemic. because declare that a country can even receive it you have to have over 250 deaths in that country and the way that this is been set up right now essentially a lot of these poor nations will not actually be able to receive money from the
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pandemic bonds even though the w.h.o. declared a worldwide global pandemic so the bonds are not going to pay out to a lot of the countries that actually need them and in the meantime we are seeing again investors having made a bunch of money by buying into these bonds and they'll continue to do so but they're not actually being used the way they're supposed to be a big surprise here you know kristie you have the background in wall street that we know you come from here he was playing number one how wall street is making money off these pandemic bonds when they're supposed to use to be helping poor nations. so the way that it was cheap use it and then we can know of no surprise here these are if we had as a short sort of insurance hedge so basically when a pandemic hits the response will pay out but in return because wall street is fronting all of the funding for these they're getting about between 10 to 11 percent return year over year so all the past decade that we haven't had really a pandemic as they guess that's why they think cashing in on between 10 and 11
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percent return and as ben mentioned there's certain criteria that have been mentioned and you try to use a really an weasel now that we look back into how coronavirus rolled out you have to wait between 10 to 12 weeks for the coronavirus to actually hit and by then we're already in the mess and it's almost too late to really make a dent with these funds and then also mention a lot of these countries are eligible simply because they're not poor enough or they haven't had enough cases but on the other hand of a lot of the countries that need financing the most countries like china italy spain korea the ones that have the most most episodes of coronavirus they're an eligible because they're not poor enough apparently well and it's interesting too because when you look at it just because you're not overly affected by the krona virus you don't have that many cases does it mean that your financial system is not being heard as we've seen travel has gone to a standstill so people are coming in and out and even when you're not hit hard a lot of people are still doing the locked. to prevent the spread just in case so it's very interesting we'll keep an eye on the story you must go spence one christiane thank you so much for your time on that. thank you.
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as the number of cases of crowbars nears 2000000 worldwide let's take another global look at the spread of the krone virus with our key correspondent saya tavenner so where we have today brand in europe a few countries are organizing some sort of slow activity back in that qana me in spain some construction work has resumed and a few factories are also reopening later this week and in austria and italy followed with the gradual easing of restrictions that followed some small shops open and then we have denmark that has even allowed small children to return to schools and nurseries later this week and here in the u.s. for cases are still on the rise and account for most of the confirmed cases and that's governors on both coasts are considering measures to begin to restart the economy even though president trump has made it clear that only he the president
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and will decide when he would be safe to ease those restrictions but new york governor andrew cuomo has said. that united states doesn't have a king we have a president so we'll be seeing as soon what those restrictions are that are going to be lifted and who will make those decision but in brand i also want to mention that the odd bracket outbreak in some countries are still far from their peaks a great example of that is india who has jest extended a nationwide lockdown for 3 more weeks leaving 1000000000 people on their servier restrictions and you'll see that india has almost 11 more than 11000 confirmed cases and a little over 390 deaths but experts say. india has not conducted enough has and that the true number of factions are actually much higher last i want to mention that millions of india's poor population have been left almost completely
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without support as jobs have pretty much advantage and incomes gone brown so i want to go back to something we actually spoke. there's been talks of businesses using a 5 year pyramid which is a hierarchy which is a system that china has used previously he talks about that yes exactly so businesses have long relied on a 5 tier pyramid called the hierarchy of controls to reduce workplace restore employees and this will be the basis for companies planning to get back to work which china has already like you said implemented so the most affected is the elimination and it goes from most effective to elise effect of the elimination is removing the hazaras so obviously you can do that on top of axion as found then the 2nd most effective is the substitution now this works for an example in a company where you can eliminate substitute one toxic for another you can't obviously swap out this virus for another the 3rd most effective is the engineering
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controls and generic control is when you isolate people from the hazard keeping them out whole and that's what they're doing right now globally right then there is a administrative controls that's when you change the way people work like for example in our line of work a lot of reporters are working from home but that doesn't obviously apply to every industry so you can do that right now then there is that p.p.p. which china has implemented and that p.p.p. stands for protect the worker with personal protective equipment so i think of it this should be eating feast mags and telling their employees constantly to wash hands and that's exactly what china is doing so governments and companies are facing a very difficult choice in the coming weeks they can either reopen businesses with expensive hygiene controls or we're trying to work with fewer controls and accept the risk of a 2nd wave of infections or to respond at sites average or thank you so much for
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your help. and as a reminder you can always find the latest news and information regarding the crow virus on portable t.v. tracker time now for a quick pause but hang tight markets are surging but they are not necessarily reflective of the state of unemployment and stock. we'll break it down with some expert analysis straight ahead and as we go to break here the numbers at the close .
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and welcome back markets here in the u.s. are in the green tuesday continuing the mostly upward trend we have seen over the last week so i don't wanna waste a time here and let's get right to the details of markets with shawn hyman editor of the logical investor and boom bust co-host christy i would welcome her back now christy you called me bad luck bright yesterday but tell us what's going on in the markets today i go there up. yes equities open up sharply on tuesday as investors were more optimistic about the coronavirus outlook with major indexes up over 3 percent johnson and johnson was the best performing name in the dow as a lead rallies in consumer discretionary is and consumer staple names and for the 1st time since march the nasdaq has scrambled back above key technical levels above its 50 and 200 day moving average is now corporate earnings kicked off on tuesday giving us a 1st look at how devastating the recent shutdowns have been for corporations j.p. morgan reported that it missed expectations with earnings plunging e.p.a.'s at
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$0.78 down 71 percent from the 2 dollars and 65 cents reported q one of last year profits dropped to 69 percent year over year which is the biggest annual drop since the financial crisis as the bank recorded a surge in credit losses to 8300000000 dollars as a braced for surge and defaults j.p. morgan also announced that it has added $6800000000.00 in reserves this quarter as c.e.o. jamie dimon emphasized the need to remain well capitalized and highly liquid given the strong likelihood of a severe recession now much of the optimism stems from improving conditions as 10 states have reported that they're making coordinated efforts to reopen businesses shut down by the crowd of virus now these include washington oregon and california led by california governor gavin newsome and new york new jersey connecticut delaware pennsylvania rhode island and massachusetts led by new york governor andrew cuomo now collectively these 10 states generate almost 40 percent of the
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total u.s. economic output so as these plans are still in early stages companies are still bracing for at least months of limited revenues many are scrambling to raise debt in order to ensure continued liquidity but the credit market has tightened but the spread between risky high yield debt and u.s. treasury widening sharply to about 9 percent now from 3.5 percent in january airlines especially have been hard hit with global airline losses climbing up to 3 $114000000000.00 representing. if 55 percent drop in 2020 passenger revenue compared with last year now there's still no visibility on when travel restrictions will be eased so while a further slowdown in the pen them expressing is keeping sentiment and optimism some supported analysts are still reluctant to trust a long lasting recovery goldman sachs warned that this downturn could be 4 times worse than the crandell crisis with the u.s. facing the highest unemployment rate since world war 2 and as fiscal and monetary policy raise to put out fires one after another during this pandemic the fed has
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become the lifeline to main street as well as wall street the fed and treasury are becoming the main lenders to american businesses and in doing so it's putting american capitalism at risk so what is the fed going to do want to keep on backstopping everything where is the market price discovery then when this is all over will the fed actually retreat. now i want to bring in shawn here shown earnings are out for wells fargo and j.p. morgan as we just said christine just said that if they and they have foreshadowed that the rest of the earning season is going to be pretty bad even with the negative revisions that look is not great so then why are we seeing a rally in markets here on tuesday and really almost the last week when we knew these were coming. yeah absolutely now we've had is really you know you we've had a sell off that was 35 percent the and then we're seeing the recoil of that and more of that just because you've got institutional shorts that are covering those shorts and you cover a short with a buy so that makes buying pressure you've got institutional traders that go in for
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quick trades of a day or a week or a month that's pushing things up and that can evaporate and turn very quickly as well and then you've got the retail money which are just regular everyday mom and pop people they're fishing for bottoms that's going in and trying to buy on this as well and it's pushed you know the market back up towards only down about 16 percent now we've still got one more leg to roll over and head lower and we'll probably see that happen and unfold in the next coming weeks or so now kristie there's more talk about reopening the economy as you just mentioned what's that going to look like and how would it help when there is really still no demand if people really are going out and frankly we don't know what people are going to want to do when we don't have a vaccine or whatever may be used to control the spread of this virus. exactly we're going to see less strict a measure is probably what they mean by reopening the economy they're going to be open in phases with slowly getting back to business but ultimately it's going to fall on consumers and demand so in the recent whole sports fan show that 30 percent
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don't know that they'll ever feel comfortable attending a live event in the current this year and travel more than 2 thirds of respondents said that they won't be ready to get on an airplane with a 3 months and only a 3rd said that they'll be willing to stand a hotel so while businesses start to reopen again it will initially be very similar to what china actually experienced a huge demand shock and suddenly you have this. boy i left when i previously saw massive consumption so you will see a production ramp take some time after that and show what are you seeing with the prospects of reopening the economy to what christie just said if you do start to get those businesses back to work but there isn't the demand they're going to start having a lot of overhead that they have to pay that they're not making any money and now they have really no excuse they can't say oh well the doors are still closed due to the coronavirus i think that they really don't need to make it like a blanket thing across the nation i really think they need to analyze where the pandemic has been the worse and open those areas more slowly like new york and new
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jersey things of that those places and then also maybe open it a little quicker in places where like for instance in texas we've had 300 some odd this in a population of 29000000 people in texas so that's very very very low so open places like that a little bit quicker and then you know eventually open places a little bit slower that have been more highly impacted and then don't let people you know travel to the high impact places as well for quite some time on the 1st round of paychecks stimulus is getting deposited now is this going to make a difference for u.s. consumers. some so by that i mean you know if you take an average person that makes 50 or $60000.00 a year and you pretty much shut his business down you know there's $45000.00 a month that they've lost but you're giving them like $1200.00 back if they're not above a certain amount that they were made on their taxes last year so you know in my head will make the rent possibly probably not going help them make their mortgage and if it lasts for any length of time it's not going to help them that much at all and then when you think about is going to help certain places of america better
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than others like in texas where the cost of living is lower it's going to help them more but when then when you get to higher income brackets in places like california where it starts to taper off it's going to help them less well absolutely as we've discussed if there's no place to spend your stimulus you're going to put it back into bills and when you put those back into bills that does not stimulate the economy does it keep your head above water absolutely unfortunately it does not stimulate the economy what a stimulus check is needed for now chris i want to ask you a quick question before we wrap up here as we brace for more of these negative earnings as we saw today will we see a big selloff and get to retest the lows or are things going to just keep going up because people are hoping for the best. but i also think that we are headed for another lay down because once we have this slew of negative earnings we will have an expectation rebalance so right now expectations are high but i thought agent haven't really come down enough so we did see j.p.
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morgan expectations get lower but apparently the earnings their earnings report actually showed that what they reported was actually a lot worse than what the street expected so as we get more data points we can get an increasingly more accurate picture of what we're working with and at that point we will either violent these gains back up and retest the lows or we might potentially just churn and grind continuously lower as we have not the previous liquidations of panic selling that we've seen before but just another earnings to a balancing. co-host christiane sean harmon of the logical investor thank you both for your time today thank you. and finally it's no shock that streaming demand has skyrocketed due to the ongoing lock downs around the world frankly we've seen the data from internet giants that proves exactly that point now roku as we just talked about earnings announced they estimate an increase of 49 percent in streaming hours on their platform in the 1st quarter of this year compared to the same period last year now spiking to more than 13000000000 hours
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watch think about that teen 1000000000 hours watch now you may actually be watching this program boom bust right now in crystal clear high definition with the portable t.v. app on your roku device right at this very moment and why wouldn't you when you could watch it instead of watching it in standard definition now on that news to roku saw a 10 percent jump in their stock price and added more than $1000000000.00 to their market cap despite saying that the company could lose as much as $60000000.00 in quarter one of 2020 and that's it for this time you can find the brand new portable t.v. episode smartphone through play and the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or streams to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. and as i just mentioned on roku devices you can also find our coronavirus tracker on the portable t.v. app where you can get the latest news and information about the spread of the virus and as always check us out on you tube dot com slash boom bust r t c n x that. actually
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conservatively more than 12000 individual souls to cope with 19 virus and that number is only going to rise by the time this tragedy has run its course mainly because our political leaders failed to act when they should have in the wake of the tragedy hard questions must always be asked me here in the united states of america one of the most important questions begging begging to be asked of our great elected officials from donald trump to me. mitch mcconnell is why did you allow this to happen why did over $12000.00 americans die on your watch especially when you spend $1.00 trillion dollars of our tax dollars on national security this year alone the trumpet administration secured a near record 750000000000 and.
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