Has the details from Los Angeles. Evan, what do we now . Well, this was a bit of a Surprise Gambit that we had in court here, just about 20 minutes ago here in Los Angeles Dana Hunter bidens attorneys asked for him to enter an unusual plea. Its called an Alford Plea where Hunter Biden would accept whatever punishment that judge doles out, but he maintains his innocence and instead of Pleading Guilty, hes maintaining his or is attempting to maintain his innocence. Of course, as expected the Justice Department does not does not agree with this and they objected in court to this request from Hunter Bidens attorneys and now the judge has called for break for a couple of hours while he considers what steps to take next. Now this is unusual as you pointed out as i pointed out, today, obviously was the first day of Jury Selection and this trial this is a Hunter Bidens second time going on trial earlier this year, he was found guilty on gun charges in delaware. And these charges have to do wit
The last hour after fed chair Jerome Powell and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin did the same in a hearing before congress. It comes as the cdc panel is meeting right now at this very moment to decide exactly who will be the top priority to get the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine. And then who gets to be in the levels after that. We are going to get you a live report. And one russell 2000 company is making a huge transformation from an Artificial Intelligence chatbot giant to the bank of the future. The ceo of live person introduces us to bella, the banker with a twist. Youve got to hear this. If cryptos are too cryptic for you, you are missing out on the bitcoin boom. The ceo and cofounder of chainalysis is here to explain how he makes Bitcoin Investment secure for everyone from wall street whales to the u. S. Government and irs. You got to meet this company. We are t minus 58 minutes from the cdc voting on just who should get the first batch of covid19 vaccines. The belief is
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
You should have a box on your screen that shows how much time is remaining. Some trouble and ive had senators tell me they just cant find that box or they dont see it. Last hearing one of the senators asked me to give them a reminder. I will do that this time for everybody. So at 30 seconds left on your clock, there will be a tone, a bell ring to remind senators and witnesses that their time is a most expired, then at the end of five minutes, another bell will ring. That way we can all know how the clock is working even though we dont find it on our screens. Today we will receive testimony from the securities and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and the. Genda of the sec thank you for your appearance before the committee today which is essential to our oversight of the sec. And welcome. You last appeared before this committee in december of last year. The covid19 pandemic hit the United States shortly after that hearing and thesec has taken many important ste
Begin with some working news. Lisa Moderna Vaccine information has come out. Rate is what we saw, i higher efficacy rate then pfizer. Last week, people were talking about pfizer and how it had to be kept at ultracold to birchers until a couple of days before it was distributed ultracold temperatures until a couple of days before it was distributed. This one has a 30 day shelf life at standard refrigeration. This is very promising, and we are seeing a reaction in markets. Jonathan they are the headlines. Lets plug them into the financial markets. There is the pop on what irna. Equity futures in the United States, on the s p 500 come on the nasdaq, and on the russell as well. Futures, up russell by a little more than 2 . A record high at the close on friday in the russell, and we advance once again. I want to check in on the bond market. Yields higher, curve steeper. Switch of the board. Bonds lower, yields higher, up three basis points on tens. On 30s, we advance three basis points. In