Ten year is yielding around 0. 65 . Yeah, 0. 648 30year is at 1. 383 andrew thanks, becky nice to see you. Meantime, civil Rights Groups involved in that meeting with facebook which we previewed for you yesterday right here on squawk, well, the companys platforms, they are calling that sitdown meeting disappointing. They say they were unable to get commitments from Company Leaders on how they plan to combat hate speech and misinformation on the site facebook spokesperson said this was an opportunity for the company to reaffirm the commitment to combatting hate on the services well talk a lot more about this later with somebody who was on that phone call. I dont know if it was a phone call or a zoom. They dont do zoom, guys. They didnt i thought it was a zoom . Facebook now has their own. They do they have their own platform now. I dont know if you are going to meet with well, ive had meetings on facebook they often use blue jeans. I thought it said zoom but it might have been used sayi
Andrew ross sorkin with joe kernen becky is off again today a little in the red. The treasury yields and earnings that may have an impact on all of this. The 10year note, we are now below. 6 we are down to. 592 we can debate what that means for today. Discussing Market Recovery and earnings Kansas City Southern and United Airlines ceo and health and Human Services secretary you want to stay tuned to squauchl the nasdaq down pretty significantly. It was up two or three hundred. It was up and did you know and up and down. It was really crazy. You heard cramer talking about that it was truly crazy. Insanity. The didnt hold on to the big gains. I think it was down almost 300 when cooperating on that at the end of the day, well see. I heard it said, well, you gave him an out he could have been resting on his laurels by now saying i would at least nuance it so i could claim to have been right if we had extended here. Doesnt it feel extended here. If i were paulson. Fur trying to be right all
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their vote or to vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 87, the nays are 13. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Ms. Ernst mr. President , the coronavirus doesnt come with a label saying made in china, but perhaps it should. This pandemic which began in wuhan, china, has flooded the world just like so many products from china that we all now rely upon to protect ourselves against the spread of contagion. The situation underscores the conundrum our nation faces balancing the need to work with the Chinese Government and the challenges of holding the communist Party Accountable for its devious deeds. Plain and simple, the Chinese Communist party attempted to cover up the outbreak of covid19 from the very beginning and continues to do so today. Rather than containing the
Having a free and Fair Election without external intervention, even when both sides were perfectly wellprepared to play by the rules. We now have a situation before the pandemic hit where that is much more problematic, where issues of saying there is voter fraud happening, impersonations, you should not be doing vote by mail. All of the president s all of the measures for a president who is well behind in the polls but has the ability to shape the outcomes of the way the election is put together. In the Worlds Largest economy, the idea that the election will be contested and half of the population will think it is rigged even before the pandemic hit, we thought that was the single largest risk affecting the markets in 2020. Of course, the pandemic makes this a lot worse. Inid it strikes me that 2016 most of us were not thinking about the election being contaminated by social media disinformation, russia trying to intervene in the election. Now we know what happened. We have much better
And the mcgregor family, all of them, including the longsuffering wife who has had to be the sister, like my sister, for all these years. I want to thank them all. Mayoryor burke and kennedy, thank you. Mr. President , as i said earlier, the iron workers have been with me my entire career. The first operation to ever endorse me in 1972. I wasnt even old enough to be elected senator, and you guys endorsed me, and i was able to turn 30 by the time i got sworn in. At the time i was elected, i wasnt old enough. And it is great to be home. Dunmore, mr. M mayor, and my mom was from scranton. Bob and everyone here at Mcgregor Industries for showing me around this morning. Although we knew of this establishment a long time, it has only been around 100 years, that this is the kind of small Manufacturing Business that ,emonstrates the resilience creativity and staying power of the American Industrial base. I am not telling you anything new, but we are living through a time unlike any other in is