Markets tank amid Coronavirus fears & oil pries fight; trading briefly halted during wild day on wall street; Dow plunges 2,000+ points, Wall St. suffers historic losses; Oil prices suffer worst crash since 1991; New CNN polls on Coronavirus outbreak
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we start with Breaking News. |
| 0:07.0 | Wall Street is about to close any minute now. |
| 0:09.0 | The Dow collapsing around900 points today. |
| 0:14.2 | Its worst single day loss ever. |
| 0:18.7 | As an oil price war adds to fears over the coronavirus, |
| 0:22.3 | the Treasury bond today, the yield, hit an all-time low. |
| 0:27.0 | The Treasury bond yield is the government's interest rate to borrow money and to reiterate |
| 0:30.6 | the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield fell below 1% for the first time in American history. |
| 0:36.4 | Also, the oil market had its worst day in almost three decades and just minutes after |
| 0:42.4 | opening, the S&P 500 plunged so far a |
| 0:46.0 | trip the so-called circuit breaker triggering a brief pause in trading. |
| 0:50.2 | CNN's Allison Kausic is at the New York Stock Exchange now Allison |
| 0:53.4 | Wall Street's been on this 11 year rise. Are we officially starting to see the end of |
| 0:58.8 | the bull market here? Jake ironically this today is the 11th anniversary of the bull market, but we are getting close to the end of that bull market |
| 1:08.4 | based on where stocks are now about 2% away from a bear market, which would be a 20% drop from a recent high. |
| 1:15.0 | That's as we close out an historic day here on Wall Street. |
| 1:18.8 | Much of what you mentioned, those circuit breakers being activated after stops fell too far and too fast in the morning, |
| 1:27.0 | putting investors on the sidelines waiting 15 minutes to begin trading again, where we saw oil prices plunged the most since |
| 1:36.0 | 1991. That's when the Gulf War was in full force, and that's as Saudi Arabia floods the market with oil despite waning demand. |
| 1:45.0 | And where we saw another red warning sign flash in the bond market, we're seeing yields at record lows. |
| 1:51.0 | That's because investors are expecting a potential |
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