Harrington is the ceo and Portfolio Management at Gilman Hill Asset management, rob sechman is one of forbes top 100 Financial Advisers and rich sapperstein is back. He, as well, a top Financial Adviser, barrons, in the top 100 there. Lets get to the board, show you where we were currently trading. Pretty much highs of the day 550 for the dow, 2. 25 , 24,646 s p 500 trying to push towards 3,000, a gain of 2. 5 today, a gain of 73 points. Nasdaq, the outperformer of the majors at 3 , and theres the russell, which is having a good day as well, with a nearly 5 gain some 61 points there dow going for its best month since 87. The question is what all of this means for the coming days, weeks, and months ahead. Joe, im going to go to you first. You look at the drivers today, i mentioned the gilead news, and that is clearly overshadowing what was a dreadful gdp number fauci now is talking about the clearcut positive effects of this remdesivir trial. Boeings calhoun, the ceo saying the thaw is
This morning is speeches from senators laying out their positions. Senator Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell started up the process starting to vote to advance the measure, but that vote hasnt been scheduled. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty and everlasting god, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers defend us. Away. We cry out to you and seem to only hear our echos of laments. As our lawmakers reach out to you night and day, enable them to connect to your matchless power. May they find in you a sure refuge, a shelter in the time of storms. Lord, strengthen the weakness of our faith, and give us trust for our trembling and hope for our fears. Give us patience and cheerful endurance and serenity of mind. And, lord, place your Healing Hands upon john bessler, senator rand paul, and others who need to feel your touch. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the ple
India 414 does seem really low for a country with a population of 1300000000 people india has also performed the lowest number of tests among affected countries Something Like 3 per 1000000 that was a was about 90 a day and there are increasing concerns of the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases and so indians a bracing themselves as the government has now expanded testing criteria and doubled the number of Testing Centers brought in the private sector private hospitals so there was Something Like 52 Testing Center the government Testing Centers and not all of them were operational its double that people are really bracing themselves to see what the real number of cases are and there has been an exponential rise just on saturday and sunday both days saw saw the biggest jump so again you know unprecedented times here like like many other places in the world but for now most indians do understand the need for the for the lock down for the number of dead has
Within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly the u. S. President though is more optimistic saying he hopes to have the virus under control by east. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but will when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony felt she has downplayed the president s timeline. Thats really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day reply week basis you need to ev
A huge Unprecedented Program of support both for workers and for business and i can assure you that we will keep these restrictions on the constant review we will look again in 3 weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to but present the rig just no easy options the way ahead is hard and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost. Well the death toll in europe continues to grow the number in italy is now past 6000 double that of china where the virus began one in spain more than 2200 have died the u. S. President says he is working with both the republicans and the democrats to ensure a trillion dollar stimulus bill is approved politicians on monday failed to pass the legislation for a 2nd time theyre under increasing pressure to prevent an economic collapse amid an increasing number of cases the head of the u. N. Is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic is a diplomatic editor james. Lowe welcome to this the