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if. this is the one business show you can't afford to miss or in washington coming up. to come to get a. national you need to come from this fund and meek as the pandemic continues to take a toll on global health and well the w.h.o. is calling for unity to combat the cold but 1000 outbreak straight ahead we break down the global numbers and how international markets are reacting plus boeing is back in the headlines after scrapping a joint venture with them where we bring you
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a live report on the aerospace giant's latest move and oil continues to sink as storage nears capacity amid the massive decline in demand we take a look at the petro sector and what lies ahead for energy with a packed show today so let's dive right in. as the worldwide total of corona virus cases has officially clips to $3000000.00 the world health organization's director general on monday addressed the easing of lock downs in europe due to the klein new cases on the continent. the new hope is was declining numbers of new cases. we continue to urge countries to find isolate test and treat all cases and try this every 2 e. these declining trends continue but the pundit mickeys far from
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over w.h.o. warned that while western europe may be seeing declining numbers there is a concerning upward trend in africa eastern europe latin america and some asian nations the director general also spoke about the importance of the world coming together to fight this and future pandemics. i continue to call for the woman to come together in solidarity and national unity to come from this pond and weak but also to prevent the next one and to build safe a fairer world for everyone everywhere. if we are not united the virus we exploit the cracks between us and continue to create havoc. lives will be lost and even every single life is very precious and as we're seeing
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more governments prepare plans to use these lockdowns let's take another global look at the spread of the crow virus with r t correspondent side cabbage or so where are we today so brian numerous countries around the world are actually in the beginning stages of managing the virus outbreak now that doesn't obviously mean that people aren't getting in fact that it just means that several countries are slowing the rate of infection out take a look at countries like a u.s. u.k. spain italy germany china and france now they're all slowing their rate of infection which means they're actually the trends are flattening on the curve and my flattening the curve means in other words preventing and delaying the spread of the virus so that large portions of the population aren't actually sick at the same time so all in all the very good news brown you know as we're seeing some of this flattening of the curve as they say what are some of the actions governments are taking to ease some restrictions reopen economies so here in the u.s.
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americans are showing signs of quarantine fatigue which basically means that americans are venturing out of their homes more of war the 1st time since social distancing guidelines were put in place in mid march and with more than 505-5000 deaths and almost 1000000 confirmed cases some states are already planning to ease some say. to restrictions like for example a george of the fastest state to ease restrictions is already has allowed hair and nails salons small shops and jim street reopened last week and today people in tennessee will be allowed to dine out of restaurants for the 1st time and missouri is planning to allow almost every business to open next week now new york has also laid out a plan for a gradual reopening of low risk business a starting in mid may then looking globally there are spain the european countries with the highest number of deaths after italy would report it its lowest death toll
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in nearly 5 weeks on sunday and then at that same day on sunday children were able to actually go outside for the 1st time in 6 weeks and then we have switzerland where beauty salons open up their doors today and shops are actually selling for the 1st time other things other than food then we have a neighboring country germany and they're also gradually easing some restrictions with playground set to open later this week and they've also made face masks mandatory in shops and public transportation and they're giving out fines between 251-0000 euros if violated then we have the u.k. where prime minister boris johnson is back at work today after recovering from the virus where he announced u.k.'s lockdown would actually remain in place and reviewed at a later time by may a 7th and italy has recorded their low with
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a daily death toll in 2 weeks and people are now allowed to actually move around their regions but not between different regions for example if you live in rome you still cannot visit relatives or friends in the milan but you could go ahead and mentor of between roma the city that you live in and italy is also considering restriction commercial flights from other countries into italy but that's still not decided on. but salons bars and restaurants are expected to be open starting june 1st and that's pretty significant considering that italy had some of the strict this lockdown in order to contain the virus and lastly brand argentina which has been under a national lockdown since march 20th and with over a $192.00 deaths already has closed its borders and blog entry to foreigners from affected zones which include your rob china and the u.s. and they've just expense extended that ban until september 1st but some activities
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are not permitted including a maximum one hour walks per day but only within $500.00 metres of people's homes are key correspondents i haven't heard thank you for the update and a reminder you can always find the latest news and information regarding the quote a virus on portable t.v.'s kroto virus tracker. and it's no big surprise that the coronavirus shutdowns have severely impacted their lives monday brought even more bad news for the 2 of the largest aerospace companies in the world at boeing and airbus in fact boeing shares traded lower on monday after the plane maker dropped plans for a $4200000000.00 joint venture with brazil's embraer now the deal was 2 years in the making but was canceled on saturday after a deadline passed to bridge gaps in the agreement between the 2 companies but embers says that it was boeing that wrongfully terminated the agreement joining us now to discuss his book the toast and investigative journalist ben swan is been
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following this story for us ben thank you for joining us on this why would boeing attempt to get out of this agreement if that is in fact what they actually did well i think they're trying to get out of it for a couple of reasons 1st of all remember as you just said there correctly so this is a deal that's been 2 years in the making and in 2 years ago boeing was in a very different position position that it is now keep in mind this was all before the 737 max jets began to crash and boeing's production line went offline before boeing started losing out on hundreds of orders of new planes those orders to go into air bus instead and then of course with the coronavirus and the fact that air travel has been so low you know no one could have predicted that and now boeing finds itself in an even tougher position but the real losers in all of this are going to be the staff of boeing about $16700.00 commercial planes you know are have been grounded they're not going anywhere as a result of that but we is also talking about layoffs for about 10 percent of its
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workforce which is about $160000.00 people so you're talking about a massive amount of people who may be out of the job and boeing doesn't see how it's going to be able to pull out of this so instead they cite irreconcilable differences on an agreement with amber in order to not be able to move forward and now boeing has actually a big week ahead in the next week boeing will hold its annual meeting report 1st quarter results and face the application deadline for a multibillion dollar aid package from the federal government what are we expecting this week here. well it's going to be interesting to see kind of how that plays out because obviously with the aid package boeing just wanted to be given a stack of money which doesn't everybody and they was a going to work out that way so they do have to apply for that money show how they're going to use it but again when you're talking about a large amount of their workforce being cut you have to look at that and also question whether or not they should be given all this federal money if the because it's really taxpayer money if taxpayers are going to hand over billions of dollars to boeing and yet boeing is planning to cut 10 percent of its workforce by laying
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those people off where's the money actually go and where is it flowing to especially when right now air travel is not back and boeing has preexisting problems it's not like boeing was humming along just fine when the coronavirus had these were problems of their own making and this is definitely been probably about an 800 to 2 year 18 month to 2 year issue for boeing really facing struggles and many of them of their own making and i want to take that away from them boeing's biggest competitor the air bus told its staff on saturday that the world's largest plane maker is bleeding cash it on president speed and warned that its survival is in question quickly ben what does this mean for air bus and its employees the same thing but bad news for employees there about 3000 employees have been furloughed in france already air bus does not know how they're going to continue to pay all those people they've been trying to you know get those workers back to work as quickly as possible but in the over in france the union is the one fighting is a bus to say workers should not be back right now so again it's workers who are
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being hurt more than anyone else right now boom bust co-host an investigative journalist ben swan thank you so much for that reporting you got it. and markets worldwide are up as the prospects of easing lockdowns and reopening economies is leveling out volatility so let's get an update on what is happening with co-host other bus co-hosts christiane christy is joining us from los angeles christy thank you so much now we're starting off the week pretty quiet i mean we were up you know the dow is up 400 points or so today but this is going to be one of the busiest weeks on wall street what do we have to look forward to. well today we're actually up on the hope that the economy will reopen so states including alaska georgia south carolina tennessee and texas now all beginning to allow restaurants and other stablish meant to start to serve customers looking forward for going to be in the midst of peak q one earnings this week with about 173 companies reporting the big ones i've got to be alphabet starbucks pfizer facebook microsoft and apple they're
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all slated for later on this week now last week has given us a mixed bag view with some companies weathering the storm better than others however this week will really be an indication of where the economy is not good at getting right now on the market in the case that traders are kind of preparing for another sell off as recent optimism has flooded the market back into the overbought territory now the magnitude of over 26000000 unemployment is being lost here and the economy will feel some of the delayed effect of unemployment in the coming quarters and now on top of that we also have a couple big macro events this week the fed and the e.c.b. are due to announce policy decisions following the b.o.j. now the b.o.j. went all in this morning launching a new makes you they have gotten rid of their upper limit of about $743000000000.00 per year and will now be purchasing as much as necessary so we will hear from the fed on one than the e.c.b. on thursday to provide an outlook and what their response will be on how to continue to support the market the big question is what else can the fed do now
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with interest rates are already had 0 and buying up all the corporate bond the only thing left is really what japan is doing right now and that's to start buying corporate stock as well you know kristie i want to talk a little bit about earnings because specifically about the financial sector here deutsche bank is actually surging on monday after beating 1st quarter estimates but it is warning of a 67 percent decline in profits year over year and as you said we could have a lot of earnings coming up this week what are we looking at in that sector and overall because i mean you're saying it looks like we could have a sell off i mean is that really what's happening is. well right now the statement from budget bank was a surprise it sent shares soaring up about 11 percent today they have had a challenging couple of months racked with scandals and restructuring and layoff about 18000 of that work force in its quote radical transformation and that restoring profitability so i mean confidence and sentiment in the name has gone down to an all time low here after the new or scandal that they were involved in
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last year to the point that it is now in the oversold territory and undervalued so now with its latest earnings front it's giving investors confidence that yes this ship can u. turn around and the restructuring plans to reduce and if it should sink are taking hold now so deutsche is kind of being used as the big canary in the coal mine now because it was already struggling last year before the coronavirus it so how it fares in the face of the challenging economic right now is going to be an indicator of how healthy european banks are so this will be right and i doubt that ahead of earnings out wednesday see where the final shoots fall that most likely i suspect we're going to get a mixed bag earnings review from them. christiane thank you or just stick around here because we have some more stories straight ahead that we want to get your take on and time now for a quick. type because on the other side the oil sector is still in the wake of the drop in demand what could lie of store for energy going to break it all down and as we go to break here the numbers at the close.
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and welcome back us oil prices dropped by more than 25 percent at times on monday to the concerns that storage could soon reach capacity as global demand continues to plummet due to the crow virus pandemic west texas intermediate futures for june fell by 27 percent to below. $13.00 per barrel at the time at the low for monday and international benchmark brant crude also dropped by as much as 8 percent going below $20.00 per barrel so let's take
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a look at the state of oil and the commodities effect on the overall economy by bringing back the boom bust coast christiane and rick rule c.e.o. of sprott holdings thank you both for joining us again here rick i want to start with you boil is now moving into the endgame as we will hit peak storage capacity by about mid may now the u.s. oil sector is decimated with only about $378.00 rigs out of $650.00 still running what will remain of the u.s. energy sector after all this is over. the u.s. energy sector is a very very resilient sector but this will of course be. a real test the rigs will do is the people will still be trained should those of glee need to remember if you are in the oil markets you are isis prices they are in fact they were running so if you really means that the shooter is already being worked on remember that the u.s. production ridiculous or. the shale based production decline rates are extremely rapid so you will see production decline as
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a consequence of less sustaining capital investment in the restroom in the very near term of course i don't think anybody could have estimated circumstance where the consumption of oil would fall sassed as a consequence of the virus or being in winter as a consequence of consumption declines we would run out of storage there are literally is no place along the production and transmission line to cover any more oil and gas and it's a circumstance that nobody could. see but the industry coming back yes absolutely the industry will come back it'll be a mess. markets are always messy markets always work. our and our record i think is interesting because we don't know when this whole thing is going to be over i think you know initially when we saw oil go below 0 last week you know the reason that was mostly because people said oh by june july numbers will be up but
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it'll be back to normal so they'll be able there will be the demand and frankly that's not the case and we don't know when that demand is actually going to come back but i want to i want to cover and i want to talk about something else erick because last week treasury secretary stephen newton actually selection suggested things that the government could do to help the oil industry including buying fuel for the country in advance although if stores are completely full well that's going to really work out but he also said that the government was open to taking an equity stake in energy companies adding that there were a. lot more options as well but what do you make of this prospect of the u.s. government taking stake in the u.s. oil companies. that horrifies me i don't think the government does anything particularly well i. need better at doing well in gas company analysis they are at things like delivering mail. it's a bad use of. taxpayers' money and ultimately. colin 2 sides ation of the oil industry that would occur as
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a consequence of large pieces of government ownership would do more damage to the industry i believe piracy is done let the markets work to treat pain in the near future and the cure for low prices is in fact low prices. i would benefit if they'd . put some feet of levitation guest business but voters across the country need to understand that what lower prices are is a huge near churn subsidy to consumers while rowell prices are very detrimental were prices are very good for the consumer economy if you think about the impact of the stimulus that the government's been talking about the oil market just gave americans in years more stimulus than the government has and now kristie i want to bring you in here for a little bit of a a global perspective about this because what about the other countries who rely on oil as their main exports countries in the middle east russia and venezuela our
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vera counting is being affected by this plunge in oil prices. well lower prices certainly very good for the consumers as rick just pointed out saudi arabia they are suffering now due to the prices tanking out because this is the life blood of the 2 countries they're the world's largest energy producer and both can actually sustain low prices for a while riyadh has taken a very aggressive position cutting its prices down to $5.00 per barrel as they're battling out exports to asia asia's one of their biggest consumers right now however russia actually has a structural advantage over saudi arabia it's closer to ajax and they already have an established relationship with pipelines and dealing capacity of up to $1600000.00 barrels to the pipeline so transportation from russia to asia is much cheaper than transport from the middle east where tankers are already in short supply now meanwhile to what you said with venezuela that economy is certainly doing much worse their production costs are much higher than saudi and russia's and in line more so with the us what the us had before at about $30.00 per barrel now
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96 percent of their economy is driven by oil exports and so a price war has kind of taken a tremendous toll on the local economy giving them given the tight tight correlation inflation has increased making its debt burden which is denominated u.s. dollars ever the more painful the potential now for unrest in that country is very high as conditions worsen and now food supply is getting disrupted with the lockdowns in the record i want to transition a little bit here what about gold i know you're you're big into this is gold really that good of a long term investment as a recent survey showed that one in 6 americans choose gold as an investment what do you make of this. the fact that only one of the 6 americans is attracted to go with the is one of the real attractions there in the market share that google. enjoys in the u.s. see things in nature is about is about one half of one percent more than 3
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decades the earth is about one and a half percent so if google just reverted to me. that would suggest demand for precious metals and precious related assets would in fact for all the world does well during times when people are concerned about the producing power of sovereign currencies and in particular the u.s. 10 year treasury and my suspicion is that quantitative easing or it should be known counterfeiting the basis of currency the 2nd thing is that the united states is running. ever margin debt and deficits so that means that what we need to be concerned about the very critical ali of the issue are finally being interest rate your pain in the u.s. to your treasury which is to say the way the preserve your purchasing power and your reward for taking risks is at least in real terms in a negative level my friend jim grant goes so far as to call he what you treasury quoth richard 3 risk so gold challenge is to be another asset that offers richard
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3 risks i think goes up to that and thank you so much rick rule c.e.o. of sprott holdings and. i want to get your take on it all but alas we are out of time for today thank you both for your excellent info. and here thank you. and finally the hubble telescope is celebrating its 30 year anniversary in space to mark the occasion the team of researchers behind the hubble released new images of 2 nebulous in the large magellanic cloud a galaxy located roughly 163000 light years from mars in the shots you see the red nebula the n g c 2014 and the blue nobility n.g.c. 2020 now nasa researchers say that these nebulous look like coral reef so they titled the picture cosmic reef meanwhile if that wasn't enough to satiate your interest in space today the u.s. geological survey has released the 1st geological map of the moon the map which was
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created in tandem with nasa and the lunar planetary institute is color coded so users can identify interesting geological features on the map also uses apollo era maps as well as recent satellite data to give an in-depth look at the surface of the moon and that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on the brand new portable t.v. episode on smartphones through google play and the apple app store by searching portable t.v. and online it portable t.v. and as always you can check us out on you tube dot com slash boom bust so you next time.
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sinks. we do. to ask. is the us economy was booming doing numbers of people when they need us. you can work 40 hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is that we're not financially equality and i'm not going to be counting the living minimum wage give many people no choice . that's been a problem with the cd and always turn their backs on a whole new stay way out almost all of the food that is no it's because yes that
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requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible us. greetings and sal you take. on a previous episode of watching the hawks we covered how the united states was running a wild west style smash and grab when it came to securing valuable medical supplies during this pandemic germany brazil and other countries around the world were claiming that the united states government was either swooping in and out bidding them after sales were already finalized or the us was just playing downright stealing or as we like to call it here confiscating everything from face masks to ventilators as the item sat on the tarmac in china waiting to be shipped off to the cunt.

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