Politicians are yet to reach a deal on extending an expired aid package. And president and Prime Minister rajapaksa early results from sri lankas parliamentary elections show the brothers are set to cement their grip on power. The coronavirus gets underway as the wounds based players compete at the p. G. A. Championship. The french president has pledged support during his visit to lebanons capital today is off to it was devastated by a huge explosion a die humanitarian situation is developing there as International Relief teams arrive in the crisis hit city at least 138 people have now died while still missing and more than 5000 have been injured our correspondent anaconda begins our coverage from beirut. Search and rescue teams are still digging through the rubble at beirut port the site of massive explosions that damaged or destroyed much of the lebanese capital families are desperate for news about their loved ones dozens are missing there is pain and grief zainab fears she will nev
Expects a renewed down turn. And with the big swings in the market, weve seen the vix, the volatility fear gauge above 53 59 minutes left in another volatile week. We have great guests david giroux from t. Rowe price. And shares of wind ham hotels Geoff Ballotti will join us. Lets get to the market now and another up and down session for stocks after yesterdays massive drop mike, you may be coanchoring to day. Youre not off the hook. We need your charts and your dash boards. Walk us through the action what happened . I wouldnt have it any other way, of course heres a one year, the s p 500, that selloff yesterday was a little bit destabilizing, it seems for the tape it didnt punk tour the air that this rally is inpenetratable it did hold today. Back down around the 3,000 mark. Theyre fighting it around that level. I did highlight this zone in here a lot of this area is still in normal pullback zone the rhythms of the market seem like theyre a little upset by yesterdays pullback you ment
Shift toward ecommerce. I think for investors, for business in general thats really the question of this moment right now for those businesses that have had this shift to online and have been able to capitalize that, were going to have skzinga on later d theyve done well in engagement because of that shift, how much of that are they going to be able to retain and continue for the rest of the year how much can platforms like apples ios and app store, were getting wwdc coming up in a few weeks, what changes can they and developers make to retain more of that benefit and maybe see a continuing shift in behavior thats unclear, but a lot hangs on that, morgan. Thats so right, jon, and that shift online i think is everything and a big part of that is ecommerce its one of the reasons im keeping a close eye on the u. S. Postal service right now, which is set to report its Quarterly Earnings tomorrow. Last night the usps announcing its finally getting a new postmaster general, louis dejoy, had
Above 24,000 keeping an eye on whats happening with this. The dow has been up. The First Time Since february. If the dow is up again for the fifth session, the first time that has happened since the middle of january. Crude oil has been a big concern. That is down 11. 5 to 11. 85 you are looking at energy being the best performing for april even despite these big swings we have other energy news back with bp out the energy giant reported a 67 slide. Ceo Bernard Looney that the company had a good quarter tough environment here to date it has just been historic and went negative for a while. Back to 12. Crazy. Which is relative how many acres do you have there. You could store oil. Could you put a tank in the ground or just fill the pool we could probably do both we could do a whole oil field here no one Takes Delivery you would think given the challenges that uber is having, they would be doing oil delivery the other thing i told you to buy with all that land is live cattle instead, we
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Minutes. For five mr. Braham thank you, speaker. Rise today to commemorate the efforts of the town of raval, their na, to preserve communitys heritage. School part of the Still Standing is its gymnasium 1960 at did not stop the graduate class from doing something good. Audience on is in the today and the rest of the Alumni Association have purchased and museum t into a showcasing the schools history. Rabal the clerk will designate school, its first graduated students in 1939. It was renamed rabal high school 1949 and eventually briton igh school in 1956 after the