Bombshell from the department of justice. New documents revealed. Fbi discussed Michael Flynn to lie and get him fired. We have more coming up. Earning season rolling on this morning. After the bell tonight attention turns to amazon and apple. Markets this morning are higher. Take a look at future, indicating a gain at start of trading this morning in about 3 and a half hours. Dow industrials on track for best month since january, meanwhile major averages yesterday snapped 3month losing streak, best month since 1974. Shares of facebook are soaring, ad sales stabilizing, take a look at facebook shares. Eighteen dollars a share. Up nine and a third percent, 212 and change. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria markets are higher this morning. You saw futures on wall street. In europe we are looking at markets searching for direction a bit. Ftse 100 is down but the cac quarante is up 17 and dax index higher by 24. Pandemic taking toll on euro zone economy. Contracting 3. 8 . The ec
Business lending facilities to keep credit flowing as u. S. Job losses surge past 30 million. Shery lets get started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing pressure on u. S. Futures, falling more than a percent at the moment, after the s p 500 fell from the sevenweek high. But yes, it was the best month since 1987. We saw the s p 500 climbing 13 this month. We have more pessimism about the economy today. We had dismal jobless claims data. Slowing down but elevated. We have positive sentiment being filtered through with the fed expanding the scope of the main Street Lending program. Also, the nasdaq was helped by results from microsoft, facebook, and tesla. When it comes to wti, we continue to see extended gains. It is trading near 19 per barrel. This, as we saw signs of fuel consumption start to recover in the u. S. We have a few markets that are closed across asia. China,cludes hong kong, singapore, india, and many more. Limited trading in the asian session. Haidi yeah. Shar
Tonights talk is on a book that explores the life and legacy of Daniel Morgan. Morgan began life as a homeless, illiterate teenage laborer, through ambition and determination and a great deal of luck, he became a land owner, a congressman, and one of the American Revolutions greatest battlefield commanders. Daniel morgan, a revolutionary life, available in the back corner after the speech, is a deeply american story and the become is recently been published by doctoral better louis zambone. He earned his doctorate in American History from the university of oxford and an m. A. In medieval studies from Catholic University of america. He has received a number of scholarships and awards in the field of early American History, including a rockefeller fellowship from Colonial Williamsburg foundation. He is the post of the popular audience format podcast historically thinking. Please join me in welcoming dr. Al zambone. Al. [ applause ] well my thanks to ross perry and to Kelsey Atwood who ma
Closely. The treasury yields are probably the more important story were watching this morning. Lets take a look at that. Youll see the tenyear is yielding 1. 067 . Mike santoli point the twoyear at 0. 73 right now. Its been cut in half since valentines day. I think a lot of the push and pull of futures from when they opened last evening, are we going to get a surprise rate cut . Weve had Central Banks around the world comment on that. Its been stunning considering bond yields were already very, very compressed coming into this weekend and now weve just stretched the new lows. At one point 0. 69 , that still stuns me for the tenyear. Weve been continuing to watch these numbers drop rapidly this is the story people will watch closely. We should point out, stocks in shanghai surged overnight on speculation that authorities will stimulate the economy soon. As mike mentioned, theres talk of potential coordinated central bank move. Thats something our guest host talked about on friday, an op
It looks like San Francisco and the city and it feels like summer. This is in the 60s. But its a hot day. And the problem is it is only february. February 25. And the weather is a very hot topic. It looks like we are going to be a record that back in 1864 the driest february. And, this is what they thought about this dry weather and famous rain. This is cool. Its wonderful. Its been nice. I wish a little bit more rain. I think that we are not quite certain that we have had less rain than what weve had since last year. Maybe here. You know so that the vegetation is more alive and everything. But compared to florida, i dont miss it. Downtown San Francisco the 27th consecutive ones without rainfall. And i dont know. When you go outside, a beautiful letter. Feel pretty bad. It meant that pockets of sunshine but 27 Straight Days its a little bit too much. If we just get over winter and went straight to spring. And temperature is unseasonably warm. We are not seeing any rain over the next fe