 Good morning everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TFNN 9am Eastern time Thursday morning 30 minutes into the excuse me 30 minutes until the trading day begins with the opening bell and we got markets accelerating to the downside S&P is negative by 33 points trading at 2908 the NASDAQ now off by 51 trading at 8986 you have the Dow off 200 and make that 301 points 24,270 it's weekly jobless claims number day folks and we got quite a number that number jumping to the number 3.84 million weekly jobless claims if you add up the six weeks we're now at 30 million quite a number that number hitting the tape right at 830 jumping back to the charts will start things off with the Dow 24,269 you see the highs we made right at about midnight you see the volatility really begin at about 745 and then things escalating further at about 830 even in the last 30 minutes we've dropped about 200 points in the Dow NASDAQ excuse me NASDAQ 100 we were above 9,058 at 830 we're now trading at 8994 there's your S&Ps the highs overnight at 2964 we're now down about 55 points from that price level at 2909 in the S&Ps crude oil catching a bid was above 17 for a while now just under that level at 1698 gold contract dropping a bit as well in about the last hour from 1731 down to 1706 gold trading 1714 and the euro US dollar at 10868 I'm gonna jump through some headlines of stocks with news this morning McDonald's earnings falling 17% as coronavirus leads to restaurant closures you have Twitter reporting strong first quarter results despite the expected downturn from the coronavirus Facebook out with their numbers last night that stock soaring higher after reporting stability in ad revenue you had Tesla see rising after the company eeks out a Q1 profit that Q1 profit earnings per share at $1.41 the market was looking for a loss of 36 cents jumping over to some of those stocks starting it off with Tesla quite a rocket ship now trading at about 855 Twitter shares on the other hand trading down at about 2928 McDonald's shares trading lower as well at 18459 we get Apple after the bell and we get Amazon after the bell as well and you know what folks check out the front page of TFNN because Tom O'Brien starting his timing the trade webinar all day today it starts right now still time to go sign up at the front page of TFNN you'll be in there with Tom and all the attendees all day today that will be archived too station folks Larry Pezzavento coming up live right now we'll be right back