With any recovery increasingly week. And the senate backs a bill to punish china for tightening its grip on hong kong. U. S. Banks may be hit if they continue to do business with beijing. Shery u. S. Futures flat at the open, after we saw u. S. Stocks jumping in late trade. Major indices all gaining at least one present in the regular session, after fluctuating through most of the session. We saw some moves to buy the dip. We have the pandemic in the u. S. Raging. The s p 500 rising the most in a week. Only banks were solidly in the green after regulators eased the volcker rule that will free up capital. We also had mixed data in the u. S. Jobless claims higher than forecast for a second straight week. Take a look at what oil is doing. We are seeing upside pressure, up 1 , around 1 , above 39 a barrel for wti. We saw whale under pressure earlier this week, but russia slashed exports of its crude to the lowest in at least 10 years. That gave crude prices a boost, haidi. Haidi as you men
Dow jones up better than 600 points. S p 500 racing ahead. Over 200 day moving average. A lot of technicians Pay Attention to that. Chicken entrails and tea leaves to moi. A lot of people Pay Attention. Nasdaq three or 4 from alltime highs. Already in positive territory but from all time highs. Greasing the skids, hope for a vaccine sooner than later and Nine Companies are into that, thats right, Nine Companies. Well get into that in a second. Optimistic comments from companies as we speak from andrew cuomo. Hospitalizations also sliding. Number of deaths also sliding that could be a Promising Development when we open up entirely the empire state. The whole drill there is up state, down state, new york city region, everything north. Right now there seems to be growing talk eventually getting new york city addressed. Were on top of that as well. Jackie deangelis following all the fast moving crosscurrents. Jackie, what have you got . Reporter good afternoon to you, neil, after a Holiday
Honor officer Brian Sicknick, who was murdered in the invasion of the capitol. He died at 9 30 p. M. The night after the capitol was invaded. And at 9 30 p. M. Tonight his remains were returned to the capitol. The honoring of officer Brian Sicknick tonight has been reserved for members of the Capitol Police. Tomorrow morning members of congress will have an opportunity to honor Officer Sicknick. Brian sicknick is the third Capitol Police officer to be given this honor of Lying In Honor in the Capitol Rotunda after being killed in the line of duty. In 1998 two Capitol Police officers were shot and killed by a lone gunman who rushed through the Metal Detector at the capitol, shot officer Jacob Chestnut in the head, officer john gibson was in a free Fire Exchange with the shooter. Officer gibson was killed and both of their caskets appeared in the Capitol Rotunda, where they were given this honor of Lying In Honor. And thats the scene in 1998 when officer gibson and officer chestnut were
Folks. By land size, it is the same size as the United States. A lot of people think they are the Biggest Country by land. And canada is number 2 in china, number 3 by land, we are both close. I love visiting china. The people of china, they are wonderful people, very smart, very hardworking, very aspirational and i say this because when i talk about china i want you to understand i am not talking about the people of china. The people of china are good people. The Chinese Communist party not so much. I regret having to say this. I would not turn my back on the Chinese Communist party if they were two days ahead. I dont want to have a cold war with china. I would rather see us Work Together for the common good of the planet earth. We tried but that didnt work out very well. We admitted china to the World Trade Organization on december 11th, 2001. It wasnt just our decision, but you know better than i do china wouldnt have been admitted to the wto without our support. We agreed december
Word signup box. While the house of representatives remains out of session due to the coronavirus pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee met on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to the labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member congressman tom cole. Our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center