But at this point it has decided to shut trading all together. That happened after it had conversations with other u. S. Stock markets and with u. S. Regulators, including the sec. And this is the first weather related shut down since hurricane fwlor i cant back in 1985. The cme group is running its urk of usual futures session from 6 00 p. M. To 9 15 a. M. Eastern. You will be able to see the stock Index Futures throughout the morning. They are under pressure right now. Cme will be shutting down trading after that time. So depending on the impact of the storm, its possible the same scenario will be repeated this morning. Three companies have canceled earnings reports. Pfizer, nrg and entergy. The government still planning to release personal income and spending data at 8 30. The question is did they decide to shut down the electronic portion because the s sec and others said we dont know whether the system unto itself will work, or they did taest it back in march. And they were undete
Hello. Welcome to the final Worldwide Exchange of the week. Im ross westgate. And im kelly evans. These are your headlines from around the world. Eu leaders are nearing a historical deal in brussels which could see the regions spending reduced for the first time. Chinese trade going gang bust ner january while inflationary pressures ease off thanks in part to the Lunar New Year effect. This company must not disappear. Thats the french government. It says it may invest in peugeot. And the yen says the currency has weakened too much. Welcome to the final program of the week. Im pleased weve got to this day. Weve had a lot of time together this week. I have. And thats not why im pleased we got to this day. Yeah, yeah. Strong numbers out of china. Thats right. We saw a big improvement there. But i have to say frankly, most peoples attention whether its here or on the other side of the pond is the snowstorm. It seems like winds, 50 miles per hour. Blizzard conditions in the u. S. We know wh
Thank you so much for watching street signs. Keep warm, keep safe. Closing bell is coming up next. Hi, everybody. Happy friday to you. Welcome to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo at the New York Stock Exchange where they have stayed open despite the storm and the stock market. Today is in a fight to the finish the week on the positive. Bill . Hey, maria, yeah. Im Bill Griffith here at cnbc headquarters. Lets face it, the market is doing better than the roads in this noreaster so far this friday. Heres what you have to think about. The dow has to finish higher by about 66 points for us to be up for the week. If not, this remarkably would be the first losing week for the dow this year so far, maria. Yeah. Its been such a year. Also today, we are, of course, following this storm as it continues to develop and intensify. There are worries about widespread Power Outages with these blizzard conditions. Thousands of flights already cancelled. More than 3,000 in fact. Likely many more to b
For up to three hours and some services up to three days. We will ask an expert on Infectious Diseases on that in a moment. In washington President Trump restricting travel for more than go dozen European Countries and says he still has tools he can use to slow the spread we have things i can do. Very strong Emergency Powers under the stafford act i have it memmemorized exactly as to the powers under that act. I have the right to do a lot of the things people dont know about. Are you going to do it today . I dont want to do that. Former Vice President joe biden and former top contender for the presidency criticizing the president s response today. Banning all travel from europe or any other part of the world may slow it, but as we have seen, it will not stop it. And travel restrictions based on favoritism and politics, rather than risk will be counter productive. This disease could impact every nation and any person on the planet. We need a plan about how we are going to aggressively m
It doesnt hurt people. Its been out on the market for 60, 65 years for malaria and lupus and other things. I think it gives you an additional level of safety. It doesnt hurt people, he says. He should really ask his fda about that because they have warned about it. Another example . Testing. It could be the testing, frankly, is overrated . Maybe it is overrated. We have more cases than anybody in the world. But why . Because we do more testing. But Health Experts including in his White House Task force, continue to insist much more testing is required to contain the virus. Not overrated at all. You can also look to his refusal to wear a face mask, including today to visit republicans on capitol hill. Or his insistence he is going to continue shaking hands. If youre left wondering what the motivation of all of this could be, since it all goes against what medical experts are advising the rest of the country do, listen to what the president said yesterday when he first acknowledged he is