About how her organization is approaching testing, treatments and vaccines and which countries she says are doing the best right now handling the pandemic. Plus, the interim president of new yorks mta joins us to discuss a path forward for pass transit and whether people will ever feel comfortable riding in a crowded subway car again the biggest subway system in the country. Lets focus on the big stories were watching kayla has the latest on a new 3 trillion relief bill proposal. Mike diving into the Federal Reserves Corporate Bond Purchase Plan which kicked off today. Kayla, lets start with you and washington relief. We are waiting to hear from House Speaker nancy pelosi to discus what they are calling the heroes act this second wave of multitrillion dollar stimulus that now democrats say is needed to jumpstart the american economy. Pelosi has urged her conference to think big, even as many fiscally minded democrats have raised concerns b about the price tag. In this 3 trillion packag
Industrials down 114, s p down 17, nasdaq down 20. By the way, the nasdaq sixday win streak is in jeopardy but who knows what could happen in the final hour. Thats why youve got to stay with us. Health insure ors caught flatfooted by the pandemic but its particularly frustrating for the aflac duck. The supplemental coverage giant was already well into preparing last year for a crisis, just not this crisis. First on fox business, aflacs chairman and ceo dan amos is here on how the Company Plans to get the stock flying north again. They say you cant fight city hall but billionaire visionary elon musk is doing just that and even risking perhaps an arrest in order to get his tesla factory back to manufacturing his popular electric vehicles. We are live in california with up to the minute details on this lockdown showdown. Plus, the guys who gave up their big city lifestyle to start over down on the goat farm might just hold one of the keys to you safely returning to the economy. How their
Going to prosecute. The governor calls these businesses selfish. President trump goes to pennsylvania on thursday and later on this program, we will have numbers from businesses in states that have allowed a partial reopening and ill tell you now, business is good. Moments from now, we have Shelly Luther with us. Shes the salon owner who went to jail for opening early, an American Hero on this program today. One hour from now, dr. Anthony fauci begins his virtual testimony before congress. Reportedly, he will say opening too early means needless suffering and death. The democrats will try to drive a wedge between dr. Fauci and the president. We will have, by the way, the latest on the explosive revelations coming out about what president obama was doing to instigate and set off the russia collusion mess. Turns out joe biden was in the key meeting. He was asked about it this morning. He did not have convincing answers. The status of joe bidens candidacy, the markets stunning recovery, o
Close, the dow down 57 points and the s p 500 down 2 and the nasdaq snapping a sevenday win streak so whats the take on the Market Action guy adami, made it in like under the wire, your box slid in there, appeared, bam, there you are. Sweet hi, mels hi, guy how are you so we talked about books we read in college last night. This is going somewhere, by the way, and last night i mentioned 100 years of solitude. I had to read the moby dick you might herman melville, remember that one . Yeah, of course its about 570 pages and someone like me you sort of skim it, but every once in a while you get to a page that seems important so you bookmark it, you know what im talking about . Someone like you that has the highlighters no, i didnt defile the books. Fair enough i defiled, but todays one of the days you want to bookmark and its for a number of reasons and i have no idea yet market reversed today, but the market reversed today and look at three stocks in particular look at the move in apple
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac