Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
Before rebounding to finish up almost 5 , recouping half of the losses from mondays 2,000 point selloff. Jim, remember when we couldnt get a 1 move la last 12 sessions, s p moved 3. 5. The market feels broken to me not a lot of liquidity many things happening at night youll see the Interest Rates go down at night. Then suddenly the s p is having a nightly session. We have to play by that tune i get it theres i want to say theres not panic. People want to get out if there were people, you would see endless downing endless down you could say buyers will come in i was listening to jim paulson before, he sees a lot that he would like i dont. You dont no. I like utilities i like the drug companies, i like the highest growth tech, teledoc. The rest sell to you people are buying Royal Caribbean right here as if its like a buying opportunity. A lot of people using the term buying opportunity, b. O. , for things no. No, to b. O. As you might expect, people are focusing on the credit markets and
Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Its good to have you with us on our wednesday. Jim lebenthal, Pete Najarian and from naples, florida, lizann sonders. Highs of the day, approaching big numbers, dow 30,000, nasdaq 10k, not that far away and cooperman weighing in on the state of stocks, telling us its not time to worry, yet. I would say were in the early stages of knocking on the door of euphoria but not quite euphoria certain parts of the market, like tesla, are in euphoria. Other parts, like energy, are in pessimism. These big numbers not all that far away, pete. All good, the market depends on what were focusing on. Are we focused on the coronavirus . If so, we go down. Generally were focused on earnings and we go higher. Thats where the market has been trading. Yesterday was interesting because apples with a little bit of both, right you look at apple. It was getting pushed down because of their guidance about what they were facing right now, what they were seeing Going For
This market . I mean, look, i will tell you in a month you know all we know is that the market was relatively high based on relative optimism and the optimism has been punctured. Is it terminal who knows. A mean a few weeks ago the market had a bad day on coronavirus. A monday ago it had a bad day on iran will it be long term or short . Nobody knows. People sort of throw around terms like black swan event and waiting for those types of thing to really cause a dramatic market selloff does it feel to you in your gut through all the markets you have seen that this is the kind of thing that could evolve into that as long as you use the word could. It has the potential to be that kind of thing, a catalyst. But you know, will the you know, its its on fear now you know a week ago, people were talking about containment. Now they are talking about contention now they are talking about italy, and you know, moving beyond china so i think that, you know, in one of my memos bryn knows all the memos
Industrialization in the postbellum u. S. , and the cultural history of Petroleum Use in the 20th century, and what it revealed about American Environmental ethics and precedents. He has examined industrial intensity during the civil war era, as well as the impact of modernism and landuse planning on the modern environmental movement. Professor black received his doctorate in american studies from the university of kansas in 1996. This evening, he will address how world war i informed the 20th centurys use of Energy Sources including petroleum, and the fuels enduring impact on our environment and climate today. Give a warm welcome to professor brian black. [applause] professor black thanks ,everyone. Thanks, everyone. Thank you for being hardcore audience to come out on an evening like this. Thank you, kamil, and everyone for putting together this program. I truly am impressed on a number of levels and i have not been to this facility, so i am impressed at that. I was part of a confere