Lauren simonetti watching markets for us. Edward lawrence with new reporting from washington. Same story for Hillary Vaughn on capitol hill today for us. Lauren, lets begin with you on the markets . Lauren i cant hear but i can tell you what happened in the markets today. A lot of whiplash. The market was fixing positive news with negative news. The big news today was the fed stimulus, right . Also the numbers from the coronavirus seem to be improving. So at the end of the did i we cannot say that the dow is up the best since 1938 but it was higher by 281 points. Check out the s p 500. It squeaks out its best Weekly Performance since 1974. What a week for the stock market. Despite the negative news, one in 10 American Workers has lost their job. We got those jobless claims this morning. Take a look at the airlines, guys, it has been a spectacular week for them. Names like american airlines, united up. Some of them double digits. Up all week. I have do have to tell you as you know the n
Also breaking, assassination plot. The new report saying uks Prime Minister was targeted for murder at 10 downing street. The suspects in court this morning. And on a starstudded night for americas top athletes, the huge surprise. Beyonce walking out on stage to honor Colin Kaepernick. I accept this award. Not for myself, but on behalf of the people. What the embattled quarterback says he will do with or without the nfls support. And we do say good morning, america. Great to have you with us. What a night at the Sports Illustrated awards. Some really special honored. I know, michael, you had a chance to be there. I wasnt honored but i was there. I was honor there to honor j. J. Abrams watt and jose altuve and j. J. Watt who raised so much money for the city of houston are the couldnt have gone to two better guys. Altuve standing up for the little guys. Im looking at him going this guy is hitting all these home run. Dont let the frame fool you. First those devastating wildfires in calif
The suspects in court this morning. And on a starstudded night for americas top athletes, the huge surprise. Beyonce walking out on stage to honor Colin Kaepernick. I accept this award. Not for myself, but on behalf of the people. What the embattled quarterback says he will do with or without the nfls support. And we do say good morning, america. It is great to have you on this wednesday morning. What a night at the Sports Illustrated awards. Some really special honored. I know, michael, you had a chance to be there. I wasnt honored but i was there. I was there to honor j. J. Abrams watt and jose altuve and j. J. Watt who raised so much money for the city of houston they are the sports men of the year. Very well deserving, both guys. Couldnt have gone to two better guys. Altuve standing up for the little guys. Im looking at him going this guy is hitting all these home runs. It was amazing. Great athlete though. Dont let the frame fool you. First those devastating wildfires in californi
There is fear reported from me about what has happened. It may seem like political fun and games in this room but back in rhode island there are classrooms with kids who are really frightened. A frightened kid is not anybody should take any satisfaction in my view. I guess my time is out. The statement indicating maybe daca caused terrorism. I want to ask you if this would be a quote from his record making clear that he doesnt sign this to daca. He said failures to support the laws in the past has put our nation at violence and even terrorism. Thats correct. I want to be clear that when we are talking about daca we are talking about completely up ending the lives of over 800,000 young people. People came here as children to work hard and play by the rules all for a chance to take part in the american dream. This is 800,000 young people who are working. Thats who we are talking about. This is really shooting ourselves in the foot. We are talking about people like marlin servanes. This r
One that moved stocks, if not the markets themselves. Theres one stock on the move today, apple, another all time high. You know, josh, this is becoming a recuring theme. Market opens, apple hits a new high. Qs hit a new high. Heres whats interesting about apple that i dont think a lot of people have proseccoed. Apple made a market cap all time high in february 2015. And then even though price continued higher eventually, its not until friday that apple repeated and made a new market. Thats because of all the buybacks, so it really took two years for apple to become worth more than it was in february 2015 and now were through that level, 790 billion, the most astonishing thing i could point out, this was a stock that is now up 31 year to date. Far outpacing year to date anything going on with the dow, s p, people thought this was a consensus. It will do what the market does. Very, very far from it, my friends. Wyche, this is becoming get in the way of this at your pe l peril. You came