Test defund, captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they decided together they would stay at home. There wasnt a precedent for a first lady and the first the second first lady, the Vice President s wife, to be living with the men. It was by choice. Martha did it. But abigail had the liberty to choose to go home and she did for the next six years. We learned the city of philadelphia was decimated at the start of the second washington term by yellow fever. Did she have any illness related to that . No. What was her illness . Its very hard to tell all these years later. She describes symptoms, but its hard to put a name on the symptoms. Rum tism. She did have rum tism. Beyond that the symptoms are hard to diagnose. There was no role model for being the second lady at the time, but jean spear asked, did the newspapers of that time mention abigail . Im not sure about that. They certainly mentioned john from time to time, although was she a National Figure at that point . No.
It was remarkably tame. The first thing i did was look at the bloomberg terminal to see if we could find some of the technical work. This morningned me is the reaffirmation of the in some form of recovery and enthusiasm for stocks. Later by ben laidlaw who is optimistic. Jonathan the s p 500 futures looking optimistic this morning, up 1. 5 . 1. 9 . Look at we have a look at what the markets will look like. Will it be sequential we can we can provement or will recovery . We have been trading on the former. We got the gut punch reminder not to forget about the latter. I think it was a letter that made a comeback. Last 24back in the hours in a more pronounced way. Tom no question about it, the pandemic updated it and there are new geographies of concern. It is important. S ed hyman is adamant that a vaccine is critical in the next year. He was usually hugely enthusiastic on the American Financial experiment. Jonathan the data has been getting better, but the pandemic number has been climb
Well. We are in a grimmer america and the trend we are seeing in this pandemic, what do you observe in london on this wednesday . Iancine more than london, wanted to give you context on the rest of the u. S. It is a different market in the u. K. , many more homeowners and people do not live as much as in the u. S. Paychecktopaycheck. In the markets, we do not know what will happen because all of the rent due in the u. S. In the credit markets, regulators are racing to deal with this. They have more than 1. 5 trillion in outstanding debt, something we need to keep an eye on. Tom emerging markets front and center. Right now, our first word news. Viviana President Donald Trump is largely giving up his optimistic tome and warns tone and warns the u. S. To brace for one of the toughest wretches ever. The corona stretches ever. The coronavirus could kill 240,000 people. Overw york, the death toll 1000, new york state reporting over 75,000 confirmed infections. That exceeds the place where th
Ease concern over coronavirus. 1 10 year yield falls below for the first time in over 150 years. Uncoordinated action. Other g7 Central Banks are yet to follow suit, though expectations for the central bank of canada, japan, and korea and furtherrowing to fall. Scott meinhardt said u. S. Equities could slump another 15 but a surprise come back for joe biden on super tuesday cease turn positive. Speaking of the biden news, we are getting a breaking headline on the bloomberg terminal that joe biden has won the Texas Democratic president ial primary, state that was expected to show strong support for Bernie Sanders, has gone instead for joe biden according to the associated press. Of super tuesday for joe biden. A contender who had almost been counted out after the initial caucuses, coming back in a big way after getting endorsements from Amy Klobuchar and pete buttigieg. Matt, lets go from the United States politics to Money Management in the u. K. Breaking news on the uks largest manage
Seeing. Sarah you look at equities in japan right now. The nikkei 225 of more than five percent, trading below 20,000 for the first time in over a year. What is already been very rough price action is only getting worse as time goes on. You look at s p 500 futures trading at the 5 limit from the friday reference price. 28. 1 nine. At futures continue to trade. They just cannot jump although it or fall below it. That is the first time we have seen a limit down since donald trump did win the presidency in 2016. The asx having its worst day since 2008. Msi market watch, the asiapacific region is having its worst day since june of 2016. What is really pulling lower is the energy stuck. Off by 8 . That is the worst day since 2008. It is your upstream energy companies. Your producers that are weighing. The worst day since 1988. Also some of your worst performers coming out of hong kong. The legs of oil fields having its worst day ever, off 15 anything. Energy related really all 15 . Anything