Empire manufacturing index for April plunges to -78.2 vs -35 estimate

Empire manufacturing index for April 2020
– Empire manufacturing index -78.2 vs -35 estimate.  Blows away the lowest level from 2009 at -34.3
– number of employees -55.3 versus -1.5 last month
Not only was the monthly number the worst in the history of the report going back to 2001, it more than doubled the previous low reading from