Dow indicated up by about 200 points, s p up by about 20 and nasdaq up by about 59. The dow closed above 26,000. S p was actually up about two points ant the nasdaq up about 32 treasury yields about where weve been 10year around 0. 7 . This morning, it is at 0. 715 overnight, twitter adding a warning to a post by President Trump. The tweet is a video of two toddlers running down the side walk that had been altered that said racist baby probably a trump voter. Twitter tagging that as manipulated media with a link that the original was cnbc story about a friendship between two toddlers the continued battle between social media and some of the social Media Companies and President Trump. Facebook removing Trump Campaign ads that used a banned hate group symbol to identify context. It issued a red triangle symbol used by nazis. The campaign used that symbol as it denounced antifa, a group of protesters the president has blamed for vandalism during the protests a lot of back and forth in ter
The Senate Environment and public works Works Committee held a hearing on how infrastructure legislation can help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Senators and panelists discuss the best way to fund road and bridge projects. Good morning. I called his hearing to order. Before i discussed todays hearing i want to say a few words about what is happening in communities across the country today. This is a time of great pain and unrest for our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary. They listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Some of the peaceful protests were hijacked by filing criminal, distraction, looting and arson stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause and the Peaceful Pro
We will take you to the basic news, and we will begin with , a call to help negate the academic Economic Impact of the coronavirus. Michael mckee joints me now with more. Theres a lot riding on the next 24 hours. Mike a rescue package for European Countries should be based on the european stability mechanism rather than joint bond issuance. And another idea is to set up another European Fund that would guarantee bank loans to Small Business. And finance ministers meet tomorrow to discuss a package and then possibly the leaders would decide on something on thursday. Thehe other of the world, japanese Prime Minister is announcing the largest similars package ever for the country. He says he will declare a state of emergency in tokyo. Is equivalent to of japan. Of the gdp the first phase would be support for households and businesses affected by the virus, shut down. The second would aim to look at trying to stimulate a vshaped recovery in japan. The plan includes cash handouts to househo
I think everyone would agree, tgif, not from the dows perspective. All in all, we were up 13 on the dow, and the best week since 1938 and that is cold comfort given what weve seen and we are down thousands of points from our high just one month ago and the dow losing 115 points today. The benchmark tenyear treasury note ended kind of where it began at 0. 7 . When you throw a couple trillion dollars like the fed is at the bond market maybe you will see a move, maybe not, and continues to fall, and it is moving around after hours. Oil stocks falling across the board as well today. The average oil stock in the United States is now down 50 this year and theres a lot more that are down each more than that welcome. Options action will be on at 5 30 as well and our group has been resilient, and that is guy adami, tim seymour, and we are proud to welcome victoria fernandez who is in houston. We will get to all of the traders in just a moment, but we have breaking news on General Motors really
A payroll tax cut to provide shortterm stimulus, pu sources telling cnbc the white house is far from ready to roll out the proposals and a number of Companies Cutting their dividends and Spending Plans guests this afternoon, the ceo of jet blue as the company pulls its guidance due coronavirus jim oneill joins us to discuss the Economic Impact and government responses around the globe and what to do with your money now. David herro will join us as we count you down into the close. 59 minutes left of trade joining us for the full hour, paul hickey and paul, you guys have been doing some research as to how key and how stomach churning this final hour of trade has been this really is the most important hour of the day lately over the last ten days zblsh repeat that. Most important hour of the day. Over the last ten trading days, weve seen an average move of 1. 1 in the s p 500. Weve only seen that five other times going back to the early 80s last 15 minutes of trading, average move of. 8