Top of strong rally yesterday. The dow industrials having biggest oneday point gain ever, 11 and a third percent. S p up 9 , 209 points higher yesterday. President trump says he wants the country opened up and raring to go by easter. The white house quarantine for those People Living new york which has more than half of all cases in the United States right now. The private sector stepping up against its fight. 3m chairman and ceo with teaming up with ford and General Electric to make respirators and ventilators. India on lockdown. 1. 3 billion people ordered to stay home. Mornings with maria live right now. We want to check Global Markets this morning. In Europe Senate agreement of stimulus plan leading to green across the board. Check up the markets, s p up and overnight similar story, finishing strong, take a look at the asian markets. Best performer in japan, kospi in korea up almost 6 . Oil prices this morning on upswing extending gains a third section in a row. Twentyeight cents a
And a 2020 launch. Facebooks Cryptocurrency Libra is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libra and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. The ecommerce giant posted its largest advance on the s p 500 index on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but the statement backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spencer, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. Spencer in terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon and ecommerce. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. Ta
By the Mormon Church according to a whistleblower who claims it is misled its members into parting with their money people in new york tell us its high time the church pay taxes. Im not terribly surprised we should pay something but they just dont especially would be the guys who those big houses in the jetson tax free its not for. Clothes are you watching R T International where shes gone 9 in the morning hey. Man vesta gate is still trying to establish the identity of the attacker who opened fire at side the federal Security Service building in central moscow last night he killed one f. S. B. Officer before being shot dead himself 5 other people were injured there is get the latest now from down in the same. All of the shooting for siegel whats it like there now more further information to. Well and its already very quiet now the f. S. B. Building is right there behind me and the shooting took place right outside of it late night not too late but in the evening the shooting he came t
Oh good morning just clock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International now top story this hour an investigation is underway to find out the identity of the shooter who opened fire on thursday in the vicinity of the federal Security Service building in central moscow it has been confirmed that one officer was killed in the attack the gun battle happened in the very heart of the russian capital not far from the crime. The f. S. B. Has confirmed the shooter was in and didnt enter its premises ive people. Including a civilian my colleagues neil Harvey Hawkins discuss what happened. What we can say for sure is that there was one attacker involved we know that this attack and attempted to enter the headquarters of the f. S. B. Thats the Russian Federal Security Service or its a building very much in central moscow its within a stones throw from the bolshoi theater red square. Big Shopping Center rochelle this sort of packed with people very busy people leaving work to go home and go ab
Libre is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libre and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. Posted itsrce giant largest advance on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but they say it backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spenser, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. In terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. And darren, every year is a record year. Is amazon just riding the wave of ecommerce or are they doing