can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be.alive? we begin another hour here at msnbc with breaking news live here in new york. trading at the new york stock exchange has been halted due to a technical issue. that doesn t mean the entire new york stock exchange isn t online, but parts of it are shut down. it went down about 11:30 this morning. the stock exchange released this statement. the issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach. we chose to suspend trading on the new york stock exchange to avoid problems arising from our technical issue. now, there are parts of there are ways to still trade stocks that trade on the new york stock exchange. to explain that better than i can, are some of my folks, colleagues from cnbc mary thompson and ron insana. also chris jansi
discriminate. to some this is a source of frustration. they feel they shouldn t even have to hang the signs at all in order to make customers feel comfortable. back to you. cnbc mary thompson in indianapolis. thank you so much. i want to go to wall street developing now stocks are soaring to start the week. let s take a look. what s the latest? can we get the big board there? i was going to show this mandy, before introducing you. that was rude of me. let me do it the right way. here is the fab mandy drury with the market run-down. we are soaring. part of it thanks to what s happening in china. all china needed to do was even hint at the need for more stimulus and global markets rally. they didn t even do anything that shows how sensitive markets are to any action from central banks. by the way, if you have exposure to the chinese markets, maybe you have some emerging market
the law opens the door to discriminate against gays and lesbians. here s the speaker of the indiana house last hour. i think what we are looking at right now is specific clarity to remove the misconception that the rifra allows denial of services to any hoosier. it doesn t do that. there are those who say on both sides now who say it has the potential to do that. some say it absolutely does do that. it is our intent to clarify it does not. i want to get to mary thompson in indianapolis. good morning. this could potentially have an economic impact on the state. reporter: it certainly can. you know it is interesting to note that the reaction from local and national community, business community i should say, has been pretty much relentlessly negative since the law was signed last week. just to give you some examples there was an op-ed in the washington post from apple ceo
reporting the pilot pleading for the copilot to open the locked door yelling, for god s sake open the door as he furiously banged on that door. nbc news has not been able to independently verify the report. meanwhile, pope francis took time over the weekend to remember the victims during palm sunday services at the vatican. we start the hour with a reporter near the crash site and katy tur live in germany. what s the latest on the recovery operation? reporter: well, jose the recovery is continuing slowly as investigators have to be lowered from helicopters on the crash site and there are thousands of pieces of debris and, of course body parts scattered around that ravine for hundreds of feet, but it could receive a boost when a ground path they re working on that will allow land vehicles to reach that crash site and, therefore, take the workers by car will be open as early, we ve been told as tonight. meantime, families continue to arrive here on the french alps. we kno
of trading. we re always monitoring the impact that any sort that any sort of policy would have on the economy. so certainly something we re watching. i think as a general matter speaking broadly the impact of falling energy prices has been good for the economy. cnbc s mary thompson joins me now. all right, mary, what is going on with the dow? well there are a couple of things. first of all, those falling energy prices that were mentioned. the energy sector is the leading decliner here or among the s&p groups we follow. oil prices dropping below $50 a barrel just recently. now, that s not necessarily a bad thing. gasoline prices are right now on average at their lowest level since 2009. there are a couple other factors at play today. first of all, you have growing concerns about the eurozone and