Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs and was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, and that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity, nita lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women for chair of the appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, following in the footsteps of another new yorker, eliot engel. And the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to be the chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of the great leadership of collin peterson. Greg meeks is also africanamerican. Pretty historic. A woman and africanamerican. In contested races. Throughout our leadership, half of the leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. There are more chairs to be announced, but these ar
Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, footsteps of he the first woman to serve in that lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs ommittee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, footsteps of he another new yorker, eliot engel. Chair of the ag from tee, david scott georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of leadership of collin peterson. Africanamerican. Historic. Africanamerican. Contested races. Throughout our leadership, half leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. Here are more chairs to be announced, but these are the nes that related to rules and budget related to the steering and policy committees. Two of the speakers announcements that i made. Others will
Concerns about jobs and especially about the coronavirus. Well talk about it all. Im connell shane, welcome to after the bell on a friday, and its time for the news thats happening at this hour. Our fox Business Team coverage, blake burman at the white house, Edward Lawrence is in washington, jer true willis in new york. Edward, we kick it off with you and the details on the jobs report. Reporter theres still some growth, plus looking forward to stimulus. Thats what the markets like. In november the economy added 245,000 jobs, almost half as much as the the experts thought. The unemployment rate, though, dropped to 6. 7 , well below what the federal are serve estimated from last summer. Now, the administration saying this is a fundamentally strong economy, and were moving very quickly in the right direction. Listen. President trump has always add slow e candidated keeping advocated keeping businesses open and keeping schools open. Thats very important. All right, thats a good point. So
The stoxx 600 up by 0. 7 . It has not given up gains of yesterday. The ibex continues to outperform. It has been one of the most beaten up during the covid crisis. The s p is down by 0. 8 percent. Crude is still up, trading at 42. 82. This demand expectation goes handinhand with the travel story, but crude stocks in europe are some of the best performers. Oil certainly gaining on a number of fronts. We continue to see what is happening in the bond market, and we watch this very carefully. I think the german bond market increasingly, certainly over the last day or so, feeling like it has been driven by what is happening in treasuries. Treasuries moving up to that 1 mark, having an effect on what is happening in germany. Interest overwith the next few days. It is only tuesday. Alix thanks for that. It was an ugly close yesterday for the u. S. As guy was mentioning, eu negotiators reaching a deal on the longterm budget, expected to add about 2 to the eus economic output in the coming year
There have been no major issues. We will take a look at the toll plaza. You can see traffic is moving along okay. We dont have issues driving onto the bridge. There are no problems on interstate 80 going south. Lets go back to the headlines. Thank you. Happening today, the president will sign an executive order to give federal funding incentives to police nationwide. The money will be for improving the use of force training and expanding a National Database to track lease misconduct. This executive action follows recent deaths of several africanamericans by police, including fridays Fatal Shooting of Rayshard Brooks in atlanta. President trump talked about yesterday. I thought it was a terrible situation. I studied it closely. Im going to get some reports done today, very strong reports. We will have a little more to say about it tomorrow. Certainly, to me, it was very disturbing. Rayshard brooks was shot and killed by a Police Officer after a struggle when he failed a sobriety test. H