0. 769 a little lower than weve seen in weeks leading up to this. Joe, the most important thing youve said is it is friday. Is it friday . The days are all it has been months. And then again, it feels like one whole long day for the week. In this new bull market we are in we will see, hopefully. Three days im not saying that we are they make no sense anymore. I guess it is possible we could look back a year or two now and say, wow or as Paul Tudor Jones said. Are we opening he said we could probably see some new lows. We are still on the front edge of this horrible thing that will play out in new york and other cities hopefully not as bad as people thought. The coronavirus cases surging to nearly 86,000 passing italy and china and making america the site of the largiest outbreak. The death toll is nearing 1,300 in the u. S. So far those number doubling somewhere around every three days right about now, a little less. Lots of questions about other areas too now how this is playing out i
Maria welcome back. Good wednesday morning. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. I hope you are having a good morning. I am maria bartiromo, wednesday, february 28, 8 00 a. M. On the button east coast, time for hot topic of the hour texas residents fleeing effects of wideopen border the danger it poses on their communities, many are calling on President Biden important slicing ahead of his visit tomorrow leah hugh live in brownsville where the president will be tomorrow good morning. Good morning, maria. That is right the border is certainly an issue that the residents of brownsville texas understood and live all too well they say a visit from President Biden, this week, is just too little too late, it was just last year that migrants hovered thousands through Processing Center behind me two days ago, those numbers down to only 12, the Processing Center quiet, sources tell us that borrowed krfgs still happen just not happening here in brownsville to the same degree migrants sh
Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
A snap back without the sanctions in place . It would be very powerful with or without it. The embargo. Youre right. I can read you. No, no. Wet, have separate resolutions and we have separate regimes that applyth to them, for instance is a very powerful instrument. With United Nations language, do you believe israel is safer eight years with the embargo lifted than it is today . Theres no question in my mind. With the ability to put all other siendz of sanctions in place, u. N. Resolutions apply to missiles and other things. Do you believe Prime Minister netanyahu is highly critical of this deal and knows what he is talking about. I respect and know Prime Minister netanyahu very well. I consider o him a friend and he and i talk regularly, were still talking even in the mist of this agreement because we have a lot of of things to talk about. I completely understand the Prime Minister of is lael. But this iras also a big challenge and i understand the expressions of concerns that he has
Bass, and and to back them up there are similar problems, stay there and work with them i believe my experiences if the nation believe somebody is behind them they are likely to do the right thing the right way and hopefully for a longer time. I will finish with this. My father in law was the guadalcanal marine and he would be very proud of your service, years of service and what very much forward to taking command of the marine corps so we wish you the very best. General neller, will command congratulations, thank you for your service. General neller, i apologize, we had to have a quorum, Judiciary Committee and stepped out briefly so i apologize for asking a question that has already been asked but i want to talk about what would be your top ground Modernization Program priorities. Right now the two top programs yet to be fielded, the joint tactical vehicle and amphibious combat vehicle. Both of them are in jail tv as i understand it, close to initial production and we should down se