S p 500 few you ares up 15 the nasdaq with a gain of about 1. 7 all because of what is happening with four big horseman check out shares of apple, facebook, alphabet and amazon. They went before congress two days ago and came out with earnings that knocked it out of the park on every one of those counts three of the four are trading sharply higher apple up 6. 1 , facebook up 5. 8 , amazon up 5. 4 alphabet did beat earnings estimate did post the first revenue decline and is down 0. 67 . More on those in a second. Lets kick it over to wi will everyone wilford. Good to be back extraordinary numbers, as you said well discuss those in a moment. First check out this mornings agenda as we are closing out the week well bring you results from cat, chevron, exxon and merck. Kol gate, underarmor and others. The late day of july lets check out the market score card owl three major indices on track for the fourth straight gains. Nasdaq the big oner up 18 month to date up 5. 2 . This past week, back
Any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that theyre responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, staff will mute members when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. All house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. [ inaudible ] economy and i know recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Chair powell, the law that required the Federal Reserve chair to testify before congress twice each year was established back in 1978. However, no fed chair has ever testified before this committee with the economy in the condition that it is in today. More than 116,000 americans are dead from the coronavirus. And just last week, 21 states recorded an increase in their average daily new cases compared to the prior week. The april jobs report was the worst in Americ
The Prime Minister says an end is in sight. So if africa deploys 90 percent of its army to enforce coronavirus lockdown measures. And its for one of the premier leagues main broadcast partners wants to block the saudi takeover of Newcastle United cats as the saudi government and illegal channels are still games and its threatening the leagues financial future. Iran says its launched its 1st military satellite into orbit it is likely to increase tensions with the u. S. In the past washington has blamed iran of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development iranian leaders deny that iran has spent a decade trying to improve its Rocket Technology it fired its 1st successful satellite into orbit in 2009 but in recent months its had several failed launch is the latest came in february when iran failed to put it zaphod a one Communications Satellite into orbit last year it had 3 failures including a rocket explosion in august the United States called those actions provocative but
And the worst humanitarian crisis the u. N. Calls for an immediate truce in yemen 5 years after a Saudi Led Coalition the start of the war. But into the program we begin in spain where the number of deaths and cases taken another big jump in the past 24 hours figures just really show 655 people have died and nearly 9000 have tested positive across spain more than 56000 people and our infected bodies of the dead and are being taken to a temporary morgue set up in a converted ice rink in madrid spain is Health Care System is feeling the strain its running short of beds space and equipment is appealing for help from an intergovernmental military alliance to fight the coronavirus the government has extended a lockdown to contain the spread of the virus well martha her there as our correspondent for us in madrid and joins me now those numbers certainly not going down in spain so perhaps their curve isnt going to flatten out quite yet. Yes that was that was what helped our authorities told u
Numbers means quarantine measures will continue. Yesterday Prime Minister better sanchez approved in the congress this extension of the state of the marriage and see were bruised receiving plenty of criticism from other Political Parties and what he said was that your only efficient option against the virus is social isolation so these next sense of these 15 days of extension of the state of of measuring c until april 12th where running out of protective protective. Equipment for our health care and for the army and even for civilians we bought we bought many many equipment to china when we got here the testing kits we realized that there are not enough good i mean there are not enough sensitive they should be more than 80 percent sensitive these test kits and they are not even 30 percent so still we dont have real figures we need to test all the people that especially the ones that are working in the front line Like Police Officers the army and health curse her home care workers now s