Firmly above 1. 7 . Andrew thank you. We have a crazy big show for you this morning lets just tell you about the lineup among the highlights, we have author ben measurer. Former of ceo of airlines. First Television Interview with the ceo wework in the midst of all of this big questions. Ceo of General Mills and then someone who never holds his tong, venture capitalist and investor coming up in the next three hours. We are going to do it. History in the making today. Central bank will begin buying etfs their Corporate Bond etfs but the First Time Ever. The idea is to be able to direct the money into the credit markets faster than by buying bonds. Reporting that the purchase about 250 billion of the feds 750 billion program inching closer and closer to stock etfs. Probably not a health of a buy on this buy owe tech etf we cant make that leap, right guys when you read this, werent you like, etfs it is not that favre a jump once i read it, instead of this bond, that bond, lets do it i unde
Will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 62, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of
Bombshell from the department of justice. New documents revealed. Fbi discussed Michael Flynn to lie and get him fired. We have more coming up. Earning season rolling on this morning. After the bell tonight attention turns to amazon and apple. Markets this morning are higher. Take a look at future, indicating a gain at start of trading this morning in about 3 and a half hours. Dow industrials on track for best month since january, meanwhile major averages yesterday snapped 3month losing streak, best month since 1974. Shares of facebook are soaring, ad sales stabilizing, take a look at facebook shares. Eighteen dollars a share. Up nine and a third percent, 212 and change. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria markets are higher this morning. You saw futures on wall street. In europe we are looking at markets searching for direction a bit. Ftse 100 is down but the cac quarante is up 17 and dax index higher by 24. Pandemic taking toll on euro zone economy. Contracting 3. 8 . The ec
Facebook premarket, zooming after a big gain yesterday. Its Financial Report suggested some stability returning to the advertising market. Facebook getting 98 of its revenue from ads. This company is a truly global platform. Over 1. 7 billion daily users. Stocks up another 6 this morning after a gain yesterday. Look at microsoft. Big gain yesterday, modest gain this morning. Its close to its alltime high. It says the virus had little impact on its business. Up 1 , microsoft, this morning. Its true to say these trillion Dollar Tech Companies are again pulling in a big chunk of investors money. One more for you. Tesla. Yep, another big gain. Elon musk is furious at the california authorities for keeping his fremont plant closed. He calls them fascists. More on that in a moment. Look at tesla go, 854, up 54. Overall trn overall, its a down day. The dow is looking to be down 280 points. The s p down 33, and the nasdaq, despite the success of big tech companies, thats going to be down as we
Our last speaker is well known to all of you, Gary Gallagher is the third professor in the history of the American Civil War americas at the university of virginia and the founding director of our core sponsor, center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. Knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, i have been writing just about every introduction for him the last few years as if tomorrow the last time we would see him in richmond. I want to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state every time he speaks here. Im happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement would mean farewell and im pleased that hes still a fixture in the commonwealth. Garys contributions to the field of civil war studies are many and varied beyond his own scholarship, writing and ing editing more than 30 books, hes been a frequent contributor and columnist for civil war magazines, battlefield guide, and Founding Edit