About the transition to a biden presidency. This is live coverage on cspan2. Political aspects that are still unfolding but were facing a lot of challenges that require that the kind of continuity that a country is known for, one government can hand over to another government, the landscape in the tools that are necessary to do with these issues especially in the middle of the pandemic and our hearts go out to all those who are affected around the world by the pandemic and we hope the 2021 would be a brighter year. Thank you for joining us and i will turn it over to toni. [inaudible] as we wait for toni i will just say that all the presenters that i have described have deep reservoir of experience on the legislative side of the aisle. Theres toni right there. Welcome. Shes actually at reading right and were delighted to have you join us. So over to. Thank you. Thank you, stewart. I really appreciate its an honor and privilege to be here. Meridian has been very much a part of my persona
1 trillion stimulus package heading down south, maybe. What Goldman Sacks is reportedly thinking of doing. Its monday, december 7th. This is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for joining us here is one reason to like this monday there are 25 days left in the year 2020. It cant get out fast enough can we agree lets see how your money looks now. Futures are down about half a percent down dow off about 133. Wall street coming off another good week for stocks the dow was up last week thats the ninth record close of the year on friday of course, its not just the dow. The s p and the nasdaq also closing at record highs. Thats the first time the three have done so at the same time three years. Thats an rbi for you. Hard to believe but true one thing watch, of course, inside the markets is this increasing growing fight between socalled value and Growth Stocks the two kind of at a
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
And nonfood products. In. Food for primarily food stores will not be expanded and we are also putting a ban on fireworks ahead of new years eve and theyll be in an ordinance in place to make this law. But there will also be a ban on body Care Services hairdressers beauty salons etc schools will also be limited and Daycare Centers as well so that will mean that children are to be looked after at home wherever possible and from the 16th of december so thats from wednesday schools will be closed certainly the School Children no longer have to go to school there will be emergency care. In place for some children. And Distance Learning will also be offered the. Senior year. High school might be dealt with differently and daycare will be run just the same as schools in this regard we are appealing to employers to offer home Office Options wherever possible from the 16th of december to the 10th of. January. And in terms of take away and delivery food from restaurants this will continue to be