The designation of this episode as a recession even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions now economists generally define a recession as 2 consecutive quarter months of 2 consecutive quarters of Economic Contraction g. D. P. In the us has already fell by 5 percent in the 1st quarter of this year and the economy is expected to climb by a steeper margin in q 2 of 2020 lets get some expert analysis on this and and the state of the economy with todd morris chief strategist at the trading and cohost christiane who joins us from los angeles thank you both for being here today but i want to start with you now the n b e r declared that the u. S. Recession began officially in february now this marks the fastest the n b r has actually declared any recession is this a good thing as the faster the drop usually the faster the bounce back. From a back listen i put very little stuff. To what any account is really said because theyre not calling it until its already over and theyre s
Ongoing global chaos how far will optimism carry this ball run and is it sustainable we bring you that and more today so lets jump right in. And thousands of protesters continue to take the streets worldwide calling for reform to the Justice System after george floyd was killed in Police Custody in minneapolis minnesota couple weeks ago here in the United States demonstrators continued in nearly every major city including washington d. C. New york philadelphia chicago los angeles and San Francisco just to name a few meanwhile in germany 15000 protesters marched in leipzig on sunday and an estimated 25000 gathered in munich on saturday officials in australia said more than 20000 demonstrated in sydney with smaller protests taking place throughout the country in london the thousands gathered in Parliament Square and outside the u. S. Embassy to protest injustice and again this is just a small sample protests also erupted in paris rome toronto and other. Numerous other cities throughout t
Curbs. The amount of storage is 300 higher than a year ago. And global virus cases top 7 million in less than a week after topping 6 million. The u. S. And u. K. Show signs of a slowdown. India and brazil are the new hotspots. Taylor lets get a quick check of those u. S. Markets and a reminder of how they ended. Erased all the losses that we have for 2020. The nasdaq 100 continues to post more record highs. You see futures taking that in stride, mostly unchanged after what has been an astounding past few days coming up the big fridays jobs report. The optimism continues here in the monday trading. I do want to see how things are shaping up for some of the asian markets. For that, we have Sophie Kamaruddin here. Are asian markets extending some of the optimism we got in the u. S. . So, even afterestly we got warnings from slowing growth from the world bank. Kiwi stocks adding about one third of 1 at the start. Clawing back year losses as the country with social distancing rules. Austral
Muskets, carbines and revolvers and advances that allowed soldiers to fire faster and with more accuracy. All right guys, how are you all doing today . Welcome to class. Today, as i talked about a little bit earlier this week, we have a special lecture here. Doctor jeff kinard. You may have a class with him. He is the chair of our history and Political Science program here at Guilford Technical Community college. Which may not know about doctor kinard is that he is a military historian, an expert in military history. He has published at least four books on anything from weaponry, weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war. He collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. He is a ph. D. And earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth texas. What year was that . It was a while ago but he is an expert. So if you get an opportunity to take a class within, take the class. We will continue to discuss the civil war. Thankfully for d
Sustainable we bring you that and more today so lets jump right in. And thousands of protesters continue to take the streets worldwide calling for reform to the Justice System after george floyd was killed in Police Custody in minneapolis minnesota couple weeks ago here in the United States demonstrators continued in nearly every major city including washington d. C. New york philadelphia chicago los angeles and San Francisco just to name a few meanwhile in germany 15000 protesters marched in leipzig on sunday and an estimated 25000 gathered in munich on saturday officials in australia said more than 20000 demonstrated in sydney with smaller protests taking place throughout the country in london thousands gathered in Parliament Square and outside the u. S. Embassy to protest injustice and again this is just a small sample protest also erupted in paris rome toronto and numerous other cities throughout the world one of the big. Protest here in the United States has been to define Police