In chicago some ways this was very specific in the wicker park neighborhood. Theyre hitting Liquor Stores and salons, getting bottles of shampoo. Hitting clothing stories. Other ways it is very indiscriminate. They are hitting Small Business and you can see they hit the target which is now being boarded up as we speak. It is about cleaning up, boarding up buildings that have been hit. Boarding up other buildings to prevent this from happening again. I want to show you video from over the weekend. What happened here in chicago, they shut down Public Transit into the downtown areas where we saw protested on saturday night. They shut down main arteries into the downtown area. As a result of that, the protests and looting became more scattered. They hit suburbs and south side. Where we are outside of the Downtown City Center in wicker park. I talked to a Small Business owner not far from here. She was getting ready to reopen the clothing retail space on june third. Because of this it is de
Leave big tech for long. Look at this. Apple is back up by 7. Microsoft, 3. 50. Amazon, thats up 40 bucks. Alphabet up 21. Facebook up nearly five. Solid gains. Got it. All right. Its 6 00 on the west coast and the people of seattle are waking up to a full scale insurrection. I use that word deliberately because thats what it is. The capitol hill district in the city is now known as chaz. That is the capitol hill autonomous zone. Police officers have abandoned their precinct, the anarchists are in charge and the mayor says its not terrorism, its patriotism. You ever think an American City would cede control willingly to anarchy . It just happened. Varney company is about to begin. They dont straighten that situation out, were going to straighten it out. What i mean is very simple. Were not going to let seattle be occupied by anarchists. Were not going to let this happen in seattle. If we have to go in, were going to go in. The governors either going to do it, let the governor do it. He
The europeans today. Their central bank will pump trillions into the euro zone economy. Thats called stimulus. Investors like it. So the dow is going to be down maybe 100. S p, 17. The nasdaq, about 26. Thats not a big pullback after yesterdays big gain and this weeks very big gains. Opening up the economy, thats a big deal for investors. This week, many theme parks and vegas casinos will open up again, albeit with limited capacity rules in place. And gms Ceo Mary Barra says auto plants will be back to previrus levels by the end of this month. Opening up, very important. Heres what you are waking up to this morning. Lot of boarding up of storefronts in the big cities. That appears to have cut down on the looting. Heavier charges against the Police Officer involved in the killing of george floyd. Its now Second Degree murder. In addition, the other three officers involved have been arrested and Face Criminal Charges for the first time. Following that, the protests were just as big but t
Quarter gdp. All coming up at 8 30 a. M. Eastern and investor reaction. Reaction from u. S. Labor secretary Eugene Scalia, hes here live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Ahead of the numbers, markets mixed. Markets surged yesterday but this morning dow futures up 75 but the s p and nasdaq futures negative. This on top of yesterday when the dow closed above 25,000 for the First Time Since march tenth with big rally yesterday at the close on wall street. As you see the dow industrials up 553 points at the close yesterday, nasdaq was up 72 and s p 500 yesterday up 44. President trump versus social media. White house reportedly set to take executive action to hold companies responsible for stiffing free speech and the Michael Flynn controversy deepens this morning. Attorney general william barr announcing brandnew investigation more unmasking, looking at what happened before and after the 2016 election. Plus major travel destinations returning, las vegas resorts ready to welcome guests once again, d
Down up by 89 points. Nasdaq was down and s p in the red 1 and a half. Oil prices are down this morning, take a look at 16. 32. Treasury is considering a Lending Program for struggling Oil Companies. We have the story coming up. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is asking for equity stake that take coronavirus aid as Big Companies give back money aimed for Small Business. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning are lower. Take a look at european indices across the board. Cac quarante down 36 and dax index lower by 94. Retail Sales Numbers out in the uk looking at the largest decline on record. Down 5. 1 in the uk. In ash overnight red across the board remdesivir failed chinese Clinical Trial. A lot of hope around the drug and it continues to be. Shanghai composite down better than 1 . The white house now saying that the coronavirus pandemic could be behind us by memorial day. Dr. Deborah birx pointing to downward cases week by week. If we continue to mitig