Plus price of gasoline continue to go plummet. Mornings with maria begins right now. Lets check markets this morning. Closing out the week in europe, european indices are higher across the board. Ftse 100 is up 173 points, cac quarante up 231 and dax up 349 points. Bank of england cut rates of wasnt tenth of a percent, marks rally in asia overnight. China keeping lending rate unchanged but said the future easing the likely. Markets in japan are closed and the markets were higher across the board. Korea up 7 and a half percent overnight. Hong kong, better than 5 . Check out oil prices. They are surging. The price war is racing on. Take a look at crowd oil, 267 higher at level of 27 a barrel. Yield of 10year treasury currently lower but at 1 even 1. 050 . Thats down 10 basis points this morning on 10year. Senate republicans announcing covid19 relief plan complete with checks to american citizens and Small Business protections. Here is how the direct payments break down. 1,200 for individ
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Tonight we welcome our two great the coauthors of wartime escapes and rescues. I have to say they had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape starring James Mcqueen Steve Mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. All of the guys in my class fell in love with it. We would play at out at recess. Each one of us would take one of the roles. Of course all of us wanted to be mcqueen. He was the cooler one. I always was the one who got executed at the end of the movie. Of course the Queen Mcqueen survives. The movie was based on a true story. The film gave us a real life ending to this story. Only three of those men who escaped stayed escaped. And anothern pilots pilot from the netherlands, no americans. Escape was not often tried and when it was it did not succeed. When it did, it really was an inspiration. It was often hollywood stuff. This is the third time david has spoken here at the library. The last was a little less than a ye
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
Expected to move to trial, the phase one china trade deal expected to be signed at the white house this morning top trump economic adviser larry kudlow joins us first cnbc this hour. And financials are in focus, bank of america beats for the quarter, goldman hampered by litigation charges target shares are plunging. Holiday sales miss on estimates on weakness and toys and electronics. The u. S. china phase one trade deal said to be signed this morning this is what secretary mnuchin said about the agreement earlier this morning on squawk. We need to put together very significant laws to change rules and regulations and made strong commitments to our companies there will not be forced Technology Going forward thats a big win for our technology companies, businesses and American Workers we look forward to learning more in the wake of this signing. Jim, mnuchins appearance this morning brought us something new, the notion of phase 2a, phase 2b, phase 2c, so stories evolving rapidly i think