Air we begin in beijing where a district in the Chinese Capital is on high alert after dozens of people there tested positive for corona virus the 1st after 2 months of no infections in the city a house sale market and 11 neighborhoods in its vicinity of been placed under lockdown after testing 45 people at the market were positive focal did 19 officials in that beijing district say they are in a war footing to contain the virus the Chinese Capital is also delaying the reopening of some schools as a result katrina you has more from beijing. So what we know is that this new cluster of cases centers around a wholesale market in beijing called the market now this is the biggest wholesale market in the city its located in the southwest of the city in a district called fun time which is about an hours drive from downtown beijing now we know about 4000. 00 workers work at this market in 1st came to the attention of the authorities when on friday yesterday 2 men had symptoms but of the cord v
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Drop coming up on todays show, were taking a look at how a number of Different Industries are getting back to work in america. Well talk hotels and travel with the ceo of best western plus, walter rob, the former coceo of whole foods will weigh in on grocery trends and well talk about the state of the consumer lets kick things off with a Broader Market a choppy day to kick off the trading week pretty positive. Right near the session highs as we stand on track for a record close for the nasdaq composite actually kind of a quiet levitation out there the average stock not doing much of anything. Volumes are low. But v but the Growth Stocks are powering higher. You see a one year of the s p 500. Its about a couple weeks ago that the enthusiasm for that reopening really seemed to crest for a little while since then, the old Growth Stocks, if you look at the top of the dow right now, its nike, apple, walmart, visa, microsoft. These are the days when the observation that Great Companies remai
Watching here, losses to end the week, stoxx 600 down 1. 25 . Of the major european indexes, the ftse is the biggest loser right now, down 2 . Thats because some of the heaviest stocks affected are british trading in london. Hsbc, london shares of royal dutch shell, British American tobacco, bp, all big losers, and they are very heavy, so they weigh on the ftse. It has been a banner week for equities. If you were long this week, you did quite well because we were up the past four trading. Essions it is not taking away the gains you made for the week. You can see the pound rising. This also amplifies losses on the foot. There tends to be inverse correlation between the pound and the ftse 100. And then rollsroyce. This is not the carmaker. That brand owned by bmw. ,ut the jet engine maker already troubled. It was cutting 9000 jobs it announced earlier this week, but now s p has cut rollsroyces longterm Credit Outlook two junk, and the outlook is negative, so rough for rollsroyce. Vonnie
Spending and chicago pmi fed chair with alan blinder in a few moments. Steve liesman will give us a curtain razor on that. Hey, steve. Good morning, carl. Yeah, were wondering whether powell continues a cautious tone, much more cautious tone than the market seems to embrace and in a way his cautious tone seems to give the market a green light because it means more stimulus or the fed being around for a long time here among powells concerns hes expressed in the past that the employment and growth rebound could take longer than it anticipated, some businesses wont survive the downturn, a possible second wave of the virus and the stimulus will run out and think about more stimulus on the other side you can see the effects of the stimulus carl alluded to in the income and spending numbers this morning. Quite astonishing. Every one of the numbers youre about to see are historic, never been there before. 11 month to month rise in income well tell you why that happened in a second. 13 month t