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Hear from mike roman later on today, july has been very good i think you will continue to get a positive from housing, this horton number is the number people should be focusing on because it was stellar you will get a lot of people talking about how there is a lot of good news in anything involving personal fun, polaris, but just were just in such dim tidings when it comes to aero space thats what im focused on greg hayes, 2023, oh, my. You were just talking about that and then iata, the International Air transport association is saying 2024 for precovid traffic levels they also point out that airlines are adding capacity, jim, ahead of demand which is coming back slower than they thought. Personal travel, people want toful tra, we know that. Great Conference Call by American Express on friday about what people want to do, but the Business Travelers is where they make all the money and the Business Traveler is zooming they just arent going i dont know what its going to take to bring t
That is growing. The nasdaq was up 110 and s p up 38 points, one and three quarters percent higher across the board. George floyd will be layed to rest today in houston, this as calls to defund even disband Police Departments across the world intensify. President trump, though, holding firm saying we cannot give up on Law Enforcement opposing efforts to Defund Police forces. Turn to ongoing battle against coronavirus, the World Health Organization says that the spread of the virus by people who are asymptomatic appears to be rare as some cases seeing rise in case this week. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning red across the board. Take a look at european indices. Cac request rant in paris 89 and germany by 237. The economy will decline 5 and a quarter percent in 2020. Take a look at asian markets overnight with the best performer there hong kong, hang seng index up better than 1 . Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning, President Trump
Morgan stanleys lead biotech analyst is here on this thursday, may 21 you are watching here on cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome where you may be watching thank you for starting your thursday with us here is how the Global Markets are getting through their week the dow indicated down over 100 points i wouldnt buy too much into it. It has been a very volatile week we were up big plus 900 points on monday. Up fairly big, up solidly yesterday as well. Could be a topsy turvy week. The dow is up nearly 4 just this week. The s p 500 is at the highest level since march 6. Some big news in the bond market the option of 20year bonds that raised 50 billion why is that news we have not sold as a nation 20year bonds since back in 1986 also a bunch of single stock stories we need to Pay Attention to on thursday taketwo interactive a little lower this morning. Everyone apparently staying home playing video games. Just off the alltime high stock two, expedia, a little highe