Indicated up about 40 points yesterday, we did see compressed yields higher prices for treasuries 10year at 1. 36 the twoyear at 1. 7 in japan, the nikkei falling over 300 points. The bond market won, so we are going to have our friend on today. He always says it is going to be because of slowing growth. He seems to get a little bit serandipitus about it. Ill give him credit. The slowing growth caused whatever caused the slowing growth gold is up. Stock market ignores things until it doesnt hope depot might help. Stock called sharply higher after reporting better than expected results i got a 242 bid, 242. 50 bid now. Right . 228 is 18 cents above estimates. Whatyou are seeing there does not reflect what we are seeing samestore sales up 5. 2 , which is strong. Consensus is at 4. 8 home depot announced a 10 increase to 1. 50 a share you can figure out the yield will double every seven years. Joining us with immediate reaction, the bottom line beat is big the samestore number is better.
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Any highrisk factors she picked it up from the community. The patient is an older woman who has been hospitalizeded. And Officials Say she is doing well. Live coverage for you tonight. Lets start with tom vacar, outside the richmond lab where the cruise ship tests were analyzed. Tom . Reporter you can see pictures of the ship on a previous voyage coming into the bay. It was more important for the lab to get this information correct. Why were and are officials being so very careful about coronavirus . Among those tested, 46 persons were swabbed. 21 of those on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. 24 tested negative. One test was inconclusive. Reporter this has a lot more to do with not only the 21 people on board who contracted the virus but others on board who may have been exposed and may get sick later. Remember, there are 2,400 passengers on the ship plus another 1,711 members of the crew. The people come from 43 different nations. Since there are now 197 countriacious quar
We have what we need. David it is said to be a radical change this week on the ability to test. What are we talking about and how many should we be testing in a given day or week . Max ideally thousands a day or tens of thousands a day. Given the fact that we had as many as six weeks of spread in washington and new states popping up with new cases. It is important to test as broadly as possible to catch and break the chains of transmission instead of letting them go on and on and people sitting waiting for tests. We can wrap up as much as we can, even if it means letting hospitals and labs coming up with their own tests. David . Ets go to Peggy Collins the big issue is the personal effect but also the economy. We had numbers out but a little wouldnd not as what you have thought. Peggy we are seeing manufacturing numbers coming in the most since 2009. That is the biggest things economists are looking out for. We came into 2020 with a global fragile, partly from the trade war. Now the co
Julia manchester reports on the 2020 campaign for the hill. We are also joined by erika warner. Make you for joining us. Julia manchester, Pete Buttigieg leaving the race as of yesterday. What does that do to the coming field . Guest on the moderate side, for a while, it was sanders getting that progressive support, but on themoderate side, you have three competing for the moderate vote. Can makes it easier on the moderates Going Forward. Pressure on others to drop out because unlike Pete Buttigieg, they have not been showing the best support. Amy klobuchar has performed worse in Pete Buttigieg, so she is feeling quite a bit of pressure now. Polling, at internal money issue . , they after New Hampshire were not able to broaden their coalition. Iowa and New Hampshire majority white, suburban, rural states. That was the boca Pete Buttigiegs support, and once he had gotten into the more progressive areas, he fell behind in the support. They did not see a path forward going into super tues