With china while his father was a sitting Vice President. This as big tech remains under fire for blocking user access to this story. Coming up to discuss, steve bannon is here, georgia congressman doug collins and parler founder and ceo john mace joining us coming up. Were standing by for he retail sales this morning, ahead of the numbers, markets are mixed. Dow down 19, nasdaq up 15 and s p 500 right now down about three quarters of 1 point. Markets yesterday finished in the red, off of session lows by the end of trading, dow industrials gave up 19 points, nasdaq was down 54, s p lower by 5 points yesterday at 4 00 on wall street. The state of real estate, who is leading the push to flee big cities like new york to make a home in the suburbs . Plus flying right into your fridge, one airline is selling sky high meals in stores. Its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets are higher, take a look, the fq100 is up 41, cac is up 55, and the dax
Growth play so it doesnt make sense but we will break it down. Guy we are getting some data out of the United States, wholesale inventories month on and that number has been trending lower. Trade sales coming through significantly better than anticipated, 5. 4 . The prime number was really ugly and that was 16. 9 which has been revised slightly higher but this is late data so in the rearview mirror. The claims data is more highfrequency. We got that earlier on, a little better than anticipated, lets break it down. Were looking at jobless claims coming in above one million for a 16th straight week in while it was slightly better isn what was anticipated, basically double what we saw during the first of the financial crisis. Continuing claims track the number of people claiming ongoing on a plummet benefits and that declined to the direction is encouraging. Of the hotspot states where we have seen covid flare up, texas saw a pickup in claims, arizona little changed and california dropped
We thank everyone for joining us for our first Small Business meeting of 2020. I want to especially thank the witnesses for taking the time to travel from across the country and take time away from their businesses to have this important discussion. There will be members coming and going or overlapping hearings with other committees. Youll see folks, and we ask for your patience with that as well. Farming and agriculture are at the heart of strong economies around the country. It is crucial to insure that our communities thrive. Coming from colorado, i understand the importance that farming and agriculture have on our states way of life and economic wellbeing. Nearly half of colorados 66 million acres are dedicated to over 30,000 farms and ranches. Many of which are small, locally owned operations. Colorados a leading producer of cattle, corn, wheat, and dairy. Colorados small farms are raising everything from bison and ostriches and growing mushrooms and grapes to name a few. In the 2
Innovation imperative, shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce, something that weve been working on at usda, called the agriculture innovation agenda. Were excited to share more with you this morning. Im joined by many of you that are working to shape the future of our agriculture economy. Its important we take stock not only of where we are today, but also of where we need to go to meet a growing Global Demand, with rising standards of living at a time when producers are dealing with uncertainties in the farm economy and the conditions needed to farm, including the climate. Our chief economist, dr. Rob johansson, will provide an indepth overview of the state of the farm economy. Theres a lot to take in in 2019, but certainly not a typical year. There were many factors influencing the economy, including extreme weather, trade, importing and exporting countries, to name just a few. Following dr. Jays talk, the secretary will outline some
Adopted. Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 farmers win by doing right and they win by se questering carbon, using the farming techniques that keep the carbon in the soil, improving the productivity of those soils as well. From a Water Quality perspective, we know in a lot of places weve allowed nutrients to escape our fields. We can do better and our goal is to reduce that nutrient runoff off of our fields and farms by 2050 in that way. We think farming can be a real contributor to our air quality through Renewable Energy and weve seen that already through our ethanol and bio fuels industry, but we think we can do more in that way by creating a better environment for renewable fuels. Hopefully really moving forward with goals of 15 of our Transportation Fuel moving to that. These are all important goals, but were going to have a scoreboard that keeps track of these. Were not going to wait until the buzzer sounds 00 because you know that its progressive and wer