Stimulus for months but have remained far apart on the amount necessary to combat the pandemic so lets waste no time and bring in towson investigative journalist ben swan and tobin smith c. E. O. Of transforming research to discuss thank you both for being here ben i want to get right to you here since lawmakers from both sides have been saying for months that another round of stimulus is needed why are they so far apart on the details. Or is the cost of this whole thing i mean democrats of come down a little bit this latest you know bill that they put forth about 2. 00 trillion dollars thats about a trillion dollars less than where they had been so there are some compromise there hard to believe that 2. 4 trillion is a compromise but lets take a look at some of the things they want to do here because obviously this includes as you said a new round of 600. 00 stimulus checks but on top of those that new out of 600. 00 stimulus checks comes another round of 1200. 00 stimulus checks for
A 2. 00 trillion dollar coronavirus alif package which they claim would restore 600. 00 weekly jobless benefits and provide another round of stimulus checks to most americans now the plan released monday evening is a last ditch effort to revive stalled stimulus talks with the white house Many Republican and democratic lawmakers have pushed for another round of economic stimulus for months but have remained far apart on the amount necessary to combat the pandemic so lets waste no time and bring in towson investigative journalist ben swan and tobin smith c. E. O. Of transforming research to discuss thank you both for being here ben i want to get right to you here since lawmakers from both sides have been saying for months that another round of stimulus is needed why are they so far apart on the details. Is the cost of this whole thing i mean democrats have come down a little bit this latest you know bill that they put forward about 2. 00 trillion dollars that. About a trillion dollars le
Twist. Walmart teaming up with microsoft in a bid for the popular social media app both stocks rallying to new alltime highs on this news. Julia boorstin has the details. The news keeps coming on this one. Reuters just reporting tiktok engineers were told to make contingency plans should it need to shut down u. S. Operations they are preparing for various scenarios including a forced shutdown telling us they are simultaneously developing plans to make sure u. S. Employees continue to get paid on the heels of any outcome. Walmart is teaming up with microsoft to buy tiktok. Walmart telling us, quote, we believe a potential relationship with tiktok u. S. In partnership with microsoft could add this key functionality and provide walmart with an important way for us to reach and serve omni channel customers as well as grow our Third Party Marketplace and advertising businesses dan ives tells us, quote, we believe microsoft buying ticktoticktok would be like Christmas Morning coming early fo
Results, saying the missing 2. 1 billion euros on its Balance Sheet probably doesnt exist. Shift, the bank of england governor saying he gave officials more firepower in future cases. And no holds barred. Slam hongrass set to kongs National Security law when they hold talks today. We are live in brussels. Just over an hour away from cash trading. Arrows inking at red europe, more than one person , ftse futurescks a little down and dax futures off about 1. 5 . U. S. Futures are pointing higher. We see some slight gains, little gain, really unchanged. S p futures up to tens of 1 and nasdaq almost 3 10 of 1 . Gmm . Have you got on the its interesting we see the divergence in u. S. Futures and european futures, a little bit of catchup and European Equity markets. On a fairly flat session for asian markets, at least overall. Some weakness coming through in hong kong as a result of the security law, some more detail on that from china. A bit of weakness in the hong kong market. Broadly, flat
Fields. So many things are happening. It is a very exciting time for, for medicine. Cheryl talk more about that later. Questions about the virus are growing from our kids to home surfaces. Well separate fact from fiction for you. All of that and a lot more coming up on making money. Cheryl our top story, the White House Coronavirus task force wrapping up another briefing today on a roller coaster day for these markets. Blake burman at the white house. He has a lot more. Blake . Reporter cheryl, we rant into the Vice President s chief of staff, marc short. There are a lot of questions about the phase three stimulus program, the trillion dollar package the white house is trying to put together to coordinate with capitol hill. He told us they believe this could potentially put together and signed by next week. As you heard the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin tell Maria Bartiromo earlier this morning, part of that package entails 500 billion worth of direct payments to americans. The trea