With the World Health Organization. New zealands titans restrictions on those entering the country as a trichords a father fold in corona virus infection. And a Hong Kong Court sides with the government upholding a ban on wearing mosques during an authorized protests. While we begin with breaking news from iraq where the Prime Minister designate has resigned the 2nd to do so since antigovernment protests began back in october i was there for you had until april 15th to form a new government but there was mounting opposition from some parties to his candidacy well lets go straight now to Samantha Fulton who is live for us in baghdad so mona talk us through whats prompted all of this. Well. Became the 2nd person to withdraw his candidacy for the Prime Minister post in just 6 weeks and of course this comes amid a month long leadership crisis in iraq today we have seen unfold since december really when caretaker Prime Minister other of the market was forced to resign and widespread governm
And probably a vote we expect somewhere between 6 30 and 7 30. It is important that everybody remember that it is im not saying it is a side show there will be people who are going to be talking about and i heard some of them today saying, listen, there could be a surprise in the senate, might be some defections. I dont see it that way. I look at i only have history not a lot of history with these things, but day by day of when clinton was impeached in trial and anniversary of which is tomorrow. Yes, it is. And you got that period from january 7th, 1999, february 12th, really the most turmoil and thats where you at the height of when things were bad, the nasdaq lost. 18 s p down 3. 0 dow down 2. 6 and after that the market roared. If you want to know when to buy, might want it buy into the teeth of tomorrow, maybe even next day. Because it is just a great opportunity. It doesnt feel as though when it comes to the markets that there has been any real impact from this no. None whatsoever
Positive open to close out what has been a volatile week plus, more phones, please apple reportedly increasing production of iphone 11 models by 10 the shares are rallying. Also capitalism as we know it, is it dead or how much wealth is too much surprising thoughts from marc benioff and Mark Zuckerberg today. 136 is a good number the Unemployment Rate down to 3. 5. Retail loses 11 k. Manufacturing loses 2 k. Government up 22 this is a number which says to me that the fed can still cut because the sector being stagnant is manufacturing. A lot of that is the fact that the dollar is so strong. It is very interesting, they talked about hey, listen, we have tariffs, dont worry, the dollar is strong and the chinese currency is weak, it makes up for it thats something we have to be thinking about we continue to lose because of the currency so that gives the fed reason ability to move. I dont like that it is all healthcare again reminds me of the old economy. It is also a lot of government wor
With tim cook. And one company is shrugging off concerns about an economic slowdown in china. Well tell you which one it is. A moment of truth for lyft as insiders get their first chance to sell shares at the open stocks are set to build on fridays rally, were heading into this mornings trading session, the dow is within 394 points of recouping all the losses from that wednesday selloff of 800 points is the economy at risk of recession . Take a listen to what the president and some of his top aides said yesterday i dont think were having a recession. Were doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich i gave a tremendous tax cut. And theyre loaded up with money. And theyre buying i saw the walmart numbers, through the roof. I dont see a recession we had some blockbuster retail sales consumer numbers towards the back end of last week. We had the strongest economy in the world money is coming here for a stock market also coming here to chase yield and our bond market. Vice president tod
We got this weak Gross Domestic Product number, just 1. 6 growth anemic and a surging inflation number connected to the gdp up 3. 7 . Bad combo. Which is why the dow tumbled 375 points s p lost. 46 . Nasdaq dropped. 64 . Ive got to tell you it was much uglier at one point today. The dow was down almost double where it went out. As we heard all day about the Slower Growth and higher inflation and that meant the dreaded term stagflation and that environment is toxic for stocks the house of pain on top of that one of the markets greatest leaders Meta Platforms got crushed today. I mean, just annihilated not because of its earnings which were stellar but because it committed a huge amount of spending most of it directed toward generative Artificial Intelligence whats bad for the meta goose, though, is good for the nvidia and broadcom gander, which is up 29 points and 37 points respectively as theyre going to get a huge chunk of Capital Expenditure budget i still believe in meta, more on th