Has the country so passes 12000000 cases. European countries are also moving to soaring infections with portugal banning Domestic Travel ahead of the holiday season. Covered 19 is also dominating the virtual g. 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. Leaders of the worlds 20 biggest economies are expected to played supports a poor countries to help pay for the distribution of vaccines. Medicines and tests. Police have clashed with antigovernment protesters in guatemala, 100 stall in the Congress Building and set it on fire tank. Asked was fired to clear the demonstration after it turned violent. Theres a widespread anger at the new budget which protesters say disenfranchises or an indigenous people. Yes, he has moved from bogota. Protesters have kept confronting the police after Security Forces moved in to move them away from congress after this fire was seen shooting out of a window from the building from Congress Building and guatemala city. And all this is part of this growing demonstrati
The dow coming off its first close ever above 30,000. Still down 180 a lot of focus continues to be on the socalled cyclical trade, energy, banks, airlines all pacing for their best month ever rob, its good to see you again. I come to you first because your note to our producer today really piqued my interest. The last three weeks, you say, were transformational. How so i think going into this, scott, we did not have a prospect for a stimulus plan it pivoted focus to the virus and the virus count really, really increasing. Since then youve had three months of very, very positive news on the virus front. Youve had an election outcome that appears to be more and more benign with the actions of the with the actions of our president elect. Specifically nominating janet yellen it looks like it was an outcome that was squarely middle of the fairway that was not too far left, not too far right. Really goldilocks like from my perspective. Now youre at a place where when you look at major pivot
Which raises even more questions and concerns of the residents here in kabul about the security in the city which has been deteriorating throughout a very, very long time. How could this happen with all those checkpoints, with those glimpse on the sky of kabul, but they have been monitoring the security situation and what happened this morning, really, it really felt like the capital was under attack. I spoke with people who even thought that there was a military coup. Others felt that the taliban were trying to take over the city because for 10 minutes nobody knew what was happening. It was just and i could watch from my window. It was just contact constant explosions and things landing across the city. There were fathers who grab their babies and they try to hide behind refrigerators. Praying that today will not be the day that their baby will die. And all these rockets have landed in the heart of kabul, our very crowded areas, residential areas, and the kabul is not a stranger to ca
Detention until sentencing. Next week, all 3 of them had pleaded guilty to charges relating to the protest of june 21, 2019. Much of todays Court Session was dominated by the prosecution showing evidence off that day showing thousands of people who blockaded that police headquarters, but mainly focusing on the 3 of them shouting slogans and calling on the Police Commissioner to come out. Now, before going into court, joshua warm had spoken to the press and said that he had expected this outcome. He was not surprised that he would be going to jail. This would be the 4th time. Hes going to jail the 1st time within 2017 when he was just a teenager. And at that time it said stop waves throughout hong kong. But now the arrest, the charging of political activists. Democracy activists has become a common occurrence in a very different hong kong. Weve seen in the past few months, emmons, who think theyve launched a missile. And aramco fuel distribution station in saudi arabia is western port,
Small caps having a pretty good day as well. The commentary seems to be the market feels a little tired. Is that how you see it yes i do suspect that the market is fatigu fatigued certainly on monday mornings consecutively weve been greeted with excellent news for society as it relates to the vaccine but markets dont seem to be responding as positively as they did two weeks ago. Scott, you began the show by suggesting that we have a potential end of year run. For there to be an end of year run, we are going to need a catalyst and i suspect its not the vaccine, its not earnings, and it really falls back to washington, d. C. And the ability to try and offer some form of fiscal bridge to get us to the other side in the absence of that, i would just highlight december 15 the and 16th, you have a Federal Reserve meeting. Theres a wild card scenario there where the Federal Reserve steps in and enhances some of the landing programs and provides the bridge in the absence of fiscal policy maker