At us, we are at number four. The president , the Speaker Pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin, they are all on board with a grand infrastructure plan. Leader mcconnell says hold back for now, but it sure looks like a lot more spending is in the works. After all, we are all big spenders now, arent we . Look at the markets. Responding to the jobless numbers and the possibility of more stimulus. The dow looks like it could eke out a small gain of maybe 70. Nasdaq up 17. S p up maybe 10. A fractional gain for stocks despite that jobless number. Look at the price of oil. Up sharply today. The president wants a deal with the russians and saudis and he will meet with Oil Company Executives tomorrow. The oil price this morning is up to, okay, up to just 22 a barrel. Got it. But its higher by 9 . The price of gasoline, look at this, keeps coming down. 1. 97. Thats the national average. In oklahoma, hard to believe, its all the way down to an average of 1. 51. Thats oklahoma. On the program to
Arabia and anybody else involved energy has been the big mover here today its remarkable to me. I want to point out apache at 4 it was a 60 stock a few years ago. Yet people are still buying it it always amazes me. Continue n contin continental. Restaurant, weak today a breaker came out and suspended its guidance unably all the stocks in that space. The red robins, papa johns, wendys d wendys, dominos are all down 5, 6, 7, 8 partly for the same reason, kim kimco came out and suspended guidance as well thats not helping their competitors out there. Utilitiel down yesterday if theres a rent holiday, the banks, the utilities are all going to be hit by that. You till ti utilities not paying the bills those are the three sectors that could be hit pi any rent rent holiday. Not paying bills and the Shopping Centers are bearing the brun brun brunt of that pain back do you. Thanks very much. The number of americansrocketing over the past two weeks. Lets get to steve for the e e details. I want
At this. Look at the market this morning. We are going to be down today, of course that follows an enormous 20 rally in the last three days. Perhaps investors are upset with the delay in the stimulus vote. Perhaps theres some profit taking after the explosive rally. The dow will open this morning with a loss of around 700 points. The s p, down about 200. The nasdaq off about 82. A decline at the opening bell. President trump, he wants to get the economy back up and running again as soon as possible. He has a plan to divide counties by risk, high, medium and low, depending on medical conditions. Some of those low risk counties may be able to bring some people back to work early. Today on this program, i will ask Vice President pence about the president s plan. Thats in our 10 00 hour this morning. The news on the virus itself, the United States has now more cases than any other country in the world, assuming you can believe the numbers coming out of china. Spain recorded 769 deaths in t
York have been discharged. Meantime, italy seeing its lowest number of deaths in more than two weeks and that is helping the market this morning. A strong rally in store as investors begin this holiday shortened week with some optimism. As you can see, the futures up, the dow up 788 points, the nasdaq and s p all well above 3 . It is a different story, though, for oil. Even with hopes of a deal between the russians and saudis, we still have a glut of oil because, well, no one is using it. Oil down, as you can see, down nearly 5 at 26. 94. Meanwhile, questions begin over whether to reopen the economy, when exactly. That will be a political decision as well as a medical one. And President Trump warming to the idea of a second task force whose job would be reopening the economy. All of this while the need and scope of a fourth stimulus package is also being discussed. Hello, everyone. Im Ashley Webster in today for stuart. We begin with your money. Joining us now, economist john lonski. J
The virus. Man, he will stop at nothing to blame this pandemic on other people were one press conference away from him calling it the obama virus. The obama virus, or as its also known the Obama Hussein virus. Infectious diseases expert and Coronavirus Task force member dr. Anthony fauci has reportedly been assigned a security detail after receiving threats. Threats like stop contradicting me or else the governor of georgia said yesterday that he just learned in the last 24 hours that asymptomatic people can transmit the coronavirus. So hes probably three weeks out from learning what asymptomatic means. Massachusetts received 1 million face masks today for Health Care Workers that were delivered from china on the new England Patriots private plane. Meanwhile, the jets private plane was intercepted and returned for a touchdown thats matt goldich, if youre an angry jets fan watching this. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez on tuesday criticized new york governor Andrew Cuomos decision