The Dow dipped below 20,000 this morning, but later recovered. Here’s what 5 experts have to say about the market volatility amid the coronavirus pandemic.
12:15 pm: Mnuchin says market trading hours could be shortenedcut trading hours.
"We may get to a point where we shorten the hours if that's something we need to do," Mnuchin said during a press conference Tuesday. Stocks have been in a turmoil where trading was halted briefly multiple times to prevent the market from falling through the floor. Market volatility, measured by the VIX, also surged to the highest level ever amid weeks of wild trading.
in Americans' pockets "immediately" amid the coronavirus crisis. "Americans need cash now," Mnuchin said during a White House press briefing on the administration's latest efforts to combat the disease. "I mean now in the next two weeks."-slashed its oil forecast on Tuesday as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to pressure demand. "Demand losses across the complex are now unprecedented," Goldman's global head of commodities research Jeffrey Currie wrote in a note to clients Tuesday. The firm said that oil use has fallen by eight million barrels per day as the coronavirus has led to a near standstill in travel, among other things. Goldman now sees U.S.
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