, will get underway. Guest she is the former governor of michigan. She was governor when the economic crisis hit the state, hit the u. S. Pretty badly, michigan in particular with the Auto Industry. She proved herself to be a champion of alternative green energy during that time and really pushed it in the Auto Industry as a way to get them out of tough times. And i think that she met then Vice President joe biden when he was pushing the Obama Administration stimulus act at that time, so they have known each other. She has personal and Work Experience there. Host who might object to her nomination . Guest i think she will be confirmed. There will be objections. Republicans have already made it clear that they have some objections to her, although i do not think they are insurmountable. The objections will be to the larger biden agenda on energy, as well as a former governor and as a speaker at the doc, she was outspoken on her criticism over republicans, so i am sure we will hear about
Well also hear from thom tillis, rick gates and arkansas senator tom cotton. Markets this morning look like this. Futures indicating this morning a decline at the start of trading. The dow industrials down right now 276 points, the nasdaq down almost 201, as you see, and the s p lower by 38. Markets finished near session lows wednesday on fading stimulus hopes of. Earnings season meanwhile rolling on. This morning we hear from walgreens, Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab among others. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. The nfl is back in business, you can watch the biggest games on fox, fox nfl lead analyst and three time hall of Famer Troy Aikman is here previewing whats next for the super bowl and beyond. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this. Weve got a negative showing there as well. The fq100 down 133, the cac down 107 and dax index lower by 363. This as we learned covid cases in europe have surpassed those in t
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Volume on the s p 500. There was commitment on this rally. Taylor start with the chart i am showing you in my terminal. You asked about hedging activities. Look at this chart, or the lack of hedging. People have an minding bullish call options, but not a lot of bearish put options. They are down very low. Buying puts could have cost you a lot of money. That is why we are seeing this rally. I want to look at the individual movers, American Airlines jumping after a 40 gain yesterday. They are seeing a 70 increase in demand. Suspending in some markets because of demand. It was up 100 at one point earlier. I was chatting with remain, this is a romaine. Typically an equity is worth nothing but if you are optimistic on travel, you are buying the shares no matter what they are worth. Crude approaching 40 a barrel and tiffanys, a stock the three of us continue to talk about, up 6. 5 . For will maintain their bid the jewelry maker, but there is a lot of debate. Lets show you this chart. All of
Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. Justice don has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the Antiwar Movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It is truly the Antiwar Movement to 19. It deserves more attention. Arthur slashing said the battle over intervention was the greatest split in American History except the runup to the american civil war. He said it was greater than the split during the war in vietnam and the anticommunist crusade in the 1950s. I wonder what he might say about that now. Let me go back and show you one more. This is one of the very strong antiwar pieces published during this time. Within this contest, since hoover is an anti in