SQUAWK BOX, FRIDAY 27TH MARCH, 2020

The U.S. overtakes China and Italy reporting the world’s highest number of Covid-19 cases. New York is the epicentre and there are warnings the health system there is fraying. The dollar heads toward its largest decline in a decade but the Dow posts its best three-day rally in more than 90 years, after the US Senate passes the $2tn stimulus package. Federal Reserve president Jerome Powell tells NBC that the U.S. is already likely to be in recession but insists that the central bank has enough ammunition to weather the Coronavirus pandemic, as its balance sheet grows to $5tn. The G20 nations pledge to inject that same figure into the global economy in a rare united response to mitigate the fallout from the crisis. And finally, we speak to the CEO of pharma giant Novartis, who tells the programme he is seeing unprecedented collaboration between the world's biggest healthcare names.