Good afternoon we begin this hour of power lunch lunch with continuing breaking news President Trump, as you surely know by now, testing positive for the coronavirus confirming via tweet late last night, early this morning that he will begin quarantining with the first lady who also tested positive the market is lower right now but off the worst levels of the day and you can see dow futures immediately sunk early this morning after President Trump tweeted. We have paired back those losselosses quite substantially at this time lets get straight over to shepherd smith new developments this afternoon since we learned that after midnight the president and first lady have tested positive. Were told both have mild symptoms and are in quarantine at this moment at the white house. The Reelection Campaign announcing minutes ago that all of the president s Campaign Events are being moved to virtual or postponed we learned last night that the president s close adviser hope hicks tested positive f
Scrambles to absorb the rate shock. Opec has failed, failed to reach a deal to cut production all of this as the coronavirus spreads globally we are now more than 100,000 confirmed cases worldwide with more than 200 cases right here, kelly, in the u. S. Thank you we have all angles of todays sell off covered bob pisani is watching squatock. Rick santelli is in chicago where yields continue to plunge. Steve liesman is monitoring the fed and economy and diana oleic is telling us what it means for the economy and eamon javers at the white house looking at possible government response, but lets begin with bob just barely negative for the week i know that sounds startling barely negative for the week overall. Important thing here the bottom was 2954 and we are below that bottom right now for the s p 500. Take a look at some of the laggards now microsoft down very weak today jpmorgan, the worst performer, down 7 overall. Nike also weak dow inc also down. Home depot is down for the day, but u
Cnbc news lauren hurst was the first to report this story she joins us now. The attorney are prepared to expand their probe beyond the companys advertising business to its search business, people familiar with the matter tell me texas which is leading the probe announced the investigation earlier this year but so far, the investigation has centered on googles advertising business texas has issued subpoenas for materials relating to that business now other states will lead the charge in investigating Google Search and android units separately people familiar the with the matter tell me they will issue subpoenas on those businesses. The attorney general investigation is running concurrent to a doj led inquiry which google confirmed earlier this year. Lauren, just quickly, what is the implication of separating an investigation into search versus android. Reporter so the key point is they are very serious about the investigation. Its not shocking they would be curious to learn more about e
Russian and Turkish Forces are. Were just trying to ascertain where the president got the thousands of lives that have been saved on the kurds side. At this point, i am not questioning him, we have not found evidence or anyone to corroborate that. When we do, we pass that along. We want to make sure everything on the up and up and information youre hear something accurate. Separately we want to get to the Mark Zuckerberg testimony on capitol hill. This is about the libra currency at the outset or his hiring practice, whether he got too big for his britches and whether he alienated republicans and democrats and in the future his company is broken up. The stock bouncing up because they think he has done a pretty good job thus far. Hillary vaughn with the latest from washington. Hey, hillary. Reporter ohiohi, neil. Mark zuckerberg making the case or assuring lawmakers he will not move forward with libra whether he gets moving forward with regulators. He was asked what specific regulators
The window in time for the opposition or dissidents or mr johnsons coalition to legislate a barrier to a no deal brags that mr johnson has given every indication of being dead set on taking the u. K. Out of the e. U. Want to 31st without a deal if the e. U. Does not submit to his demands regarding the socalled backstop on the border between ireland and Northern Ireland some experts on the u. K. s unwritten constitution say the move effectively makes parliamentary prevention of a no deal braggs at nearly impossible the pound sterling was erratic in currency markets on the news with action on the Options Market showing expectations of volatility reaching a new high since the beginning of this year. A us 30 year bond yield fell to a record low of 1. 907 percent early wednesday morning while the yield curve and verging continue to worsen we talk a lot about this to tell inversion as this is a notable and highly watch recession ended. That has correctly predicted the recession the last 7 ti