President trump says social distancing will hold until at least april 30. Lives in claims italy and spain over the weekend. Warnings against loosening lockdowns. To Matt Bloomberg daybreak europe. Best week since 1938, 8 dead cat bounce or the start of something bigger . A great piece looking forward thats as while it is difficult to call, there are two potential mistakes. A premature exposure to risk assets or being overly cautious. At the moment, he would err on the side of being overly cautious. Is whether youte have seen the beginning of the next wave of lockdown come close down extension of the distancing in the u. S. , the talk of potentially 200,000 deaths. Advises institutions to dip their towing to the equity market. Time to buyg it is credit. Jpmorgans note saying the wildcard is the infection rate, but they are confident the stability is coming into these markets and you may want some of the risk assets like equities and bonds, so the calls are mounting. It did poorly depend
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Minutes. For five mr. Braham thank you, speaker. Rise today to commemorate the efforts of the town of raval, their na, to preserve communitys heritage. School part of the Still Standing is its gymnasium 1960 at did not stop the graduate class from doing something good. Audience on is in the today and the rest of the Alumni Association have purchased and museum t into a showcasing the schools history. Rabal the clerk will designate school, its first graduated students in 1939. It was renamed rabal high school 1949 and eventually briton igh school in 1956 after the
Are watching this morning, snow already falling in parts of carolinas and georgia, up to 6inches could blanket southern part of virginia region and eastern North Carolina, drivers are being warned about extremely dangerous Road Conditions this morning. Onto coronavirus this morning, the number of cases appear to be falling as death toll is now topping 2,020, 2200. The passengers quarantine have tested positive for coronavirus. New infections in china have fallen this week but new cases are being counted and they have a new way of counting the cases, the virus claiming 2,248 lives with at least 76,000 individual cases confirmed across the world. 27 countries affected by the deadly path of coronavirus. 11 americans meanwhile cruise ship tested positive, i will be speaking with two passengers, one of whom is infected. Maria roger stone learns fate, roger stone sentenced to 40 months, far less than 9 months originally sought, career prosecutors, the attorney general and the president. And
Months lets take a look at the treasury markets watching the 10year back up this morning above 1. 8 at 1. 811. Investor tensions remain on iran even with that snap back yesterday. Tensions mounting with the u. S general Qassem Soleimani was buried in his home town of kerman officials have threatened retaliation against the u. S. For the targeted killing the defense secretary has made no decision about withdrawing troops from iraq another surreal day with that letter that came out from a general that was not signed. Later, they came out and said that was a mistake wasnt signed, poorly woorded wasnt in its final form but to let you know, we are withdrawing from iraq. Let me start with that. Flip the order here and start with that letter we spent several very confusing hours at the white house as officials scramble to figure out what the heck is going on after a marine corps general in iraq sent a letter in which he appeared to suggest that in response to the Iraqi Parliament vote to remo
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs as you know by now, up almost 250, yields close to seven week highs carl, we have record highs in all three major indexes. You can see behind me, you look at those particular moves with the dow, s p 500 and nasdaq, we will put stars next to every one, record highs for every one of these indexes, and trade optimism fueling a lot of that you look at sector leaders over the course of the past month that pushed those averages toward record highs, within the s p 500, financials, industrial, technology up 10 for financials, 9 for industrials, technology up 7 . These two sectors, tech and industrials are close to their own record highs now, on pace for some closes at record levels then if you want to look at stocks within the dow, check out these names, ones more tied to trade optimism or pessimism throughout the course of the last ye