In the last 24 hours, combining virus dynamics with oil dynamics. That is a distinction of this crisis. Francine and i am looking two to european lets get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with a uturn from President Trump on the need for an economic stimulus he now says he will seek a payroll tax cut and belief are Industries Hit i the new coronavirus. Today the president is promising to unveil what he calls very dramatic action to support the economy. Bloomberg has learned for now the package will not include help for airlines and others in the travel industry. Now to italy it will become the first country in the world to attempt a nationwide lockdown. It is trying to stop the spread of coronavirus in europe. Almost 500 people in italy have died from it. A prime ministry imposing a travel ban. He has told italians, stayathome. Some of the worlds biggest banks predicting the European Central bank will cut Interest Rates thursday. J. P. Morgan a
Today. Members of the house begin in just a minute with speeches. They will work today on four bills. 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. March 2, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable ed case to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate between the parties with time equally alocaled between the parties. No neevent shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from puerto rico, miss gonzalezcolon, for five minutes. Miss gonzalezcolon thank you, mr. Speaker. On this day, 1917, Puert
Lighten up in a bid to get people back to work. The concern here and why these indices are in the red is what if that brings about a surge in the case count. Lets look at what is happening in the broader asian markets outside of china. You can see the asiapacific index excluding japan. Japan is on hold today. Also in the red. S p, futures looking ahead. Under pressure on worries about what suppliers will be doing to supply chains. A lot of them are in south korea and that is now the focal point for the coronavirus outside of china. I want to bring to your attention at the top of the screen, the malaysia stock index. Some political turmoil, news coming out of the Prime Ministers office. Really weighing on malaysian equities, down to the lowest point since 2015. I want to bring your attention to the currency markets. Also want to point attention to the aussie dollar versus the yen. That is not just the currency to watch in asia, but the broader risk barometer. The aussie dollar can be a
Continue on funding for u. S. Coronavirus response in house and Senate Negotiators are working on a total Funding Amount and the house is exciting to see a bill early this week with the Senate Taking it up after the house. Gary shapiros president and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Esther shapiro, what is the cpa and what do you represent . Guest is great to be back here. Thank you. The Consumer Technology association represents over 2000 American Technology companies and we produce the greatest, honest, coolest most amazing event in the world and that is the ces in las vegas. Host and will we will get to ces in a moment but who are some of the Member Companies . Guest everyone you check to see when you walk into your local best buy, walmart, but we also have sony and apple and you name it. 80 of our companies are Small Businesses but the 20 of the big ones we have everywhere from google to air b b to lift and the disruptor
Announcer 1 watch american artifacts sunday 6 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. On lectures in history, Utah State University professor Maria Angela Diaz discusses the civil war in the west and looks at the conflict in states and territories like missouri, kansas, texas, and arizona. She explores how the diverse populations of the region reacted to the war and decided between siding with the union and confederacy. She focuses on the larger role guerrilla warfare played in the west. Today we areo talking about the civil war in the west. Before we get started, i just ont to say, reminder, thursday, we will continue talking about the civil war in the west. We will do it all week long. Thursday, we will talk about the book civil war in the southwest borderlands. I am trusting that, like me, you all have studiously read the book the entire semester and taken deep notes and are ready to talk about it on thursday. Today we will talk about two borders. Is it week 12 . Lets say