Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, March 24th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

I must give the British people a very simple instruction.

You must stay at home.

Last night, Boris Johnson ordered UK residents to stay indoors and close non-essential shops in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, in the US, the coronavirus. Meanwhile in the US the national death toll

reached nearly 600 on Monday but even with close to half the country under

stay-at-home orders and economists anticipating a global downturn, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested

America would soon be back open for business.

At a certain point, we have to get open and we have to be, have to get moving we don't want to lose

these companies we don't want to lose these workers we'll look at another day of

stalled discussions on stimulus in Washington and why the F.T.'s Rana Faruhar argues that the little guys should

get first crack at a government bailout. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start

your day.

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve took one of its most forceful actions yet to fight the economic

fallout caused by the coronavirus.

But as we've seen at different points over the past few weeks, the

intervention wasn't enough to satisfy equity investors. The F.T.'s U.S. markets

editor, Jennifer Oblon, has more. So the Federal Reserve came out with a large bazooka, so to speak.

They took the historic step in not only pledging to buy government bonds and unlimited amounts, but the new measures also include a historic step to buy U.S. corporate debt.

That's a powerful stimulus to liquefy the markets.

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