With the u. S. Cases jumping the most in almost eight weeks. Anthony fauci says a new mutation could speed the spread. Will tell citizens to act responsibly as pubs and restaurants in england reopened today. The nation will also use quarantine rules from some European Countries, including right here in germany. Lets take a look at some of the risk assets that could move markets today or indicate what we are going to see. S p futures, first off, actually, as i mentioned, there will not be any trading in the u. S. Today, but still a good idea to see what is going to happen in terms of risk sentiment. We see them down. That said, european futures are kind of mixed right now. Gold is trading slightly lower right now but still looks set to end the week higher and nymex upde as well down today, but above 40 a barrel. So it is relatively strong price for wti, and then finally, take a look at the bloomberg dollar index. Interesting today. It is slightly higher, but the dollar index looks set t
This is the federal that passes 24 trillion federal debt passes 24 trillion. Can find us on twitter and facebook. For being with us. We want to begin with the numbers from johns hot and university, which has been covid19sck of january. More than will and. The death five countries has surpassed 203,000. That this morning from Johns Hopkins university. The comments this past week from the Senate Republican leader on the states declaring bankruptcy, getting a lot of attention across the country. Here is what he told the radio talkshow last week. [video clip] i would be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. Theres no good reason for it to not be available. Is that it would be for federal government to send it down to future generations. Host that from the Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell. Lets get right to your phone calls. Marvin is joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. I thinknk it caller they should get the states money. At this point right now they are
Carol porsche unveiling its first ever electric car in a battle to steal the market that tesla built. We look at the taycan turbo. Jason our big story of the week, brexit. Boris johnsons do or die strategy to exit the eu was derailed and his plan for a general election was rejected. Carol what a week. Having bet everything on getting britain out of the European Union by october 31, now he really cant back down. Lets bring in our editor from london on whats next for the u. K. Prime minister and if he will need to delay brexit. What a week it was for Boris Johnson. How weakened is he as leader of the u. K. . Boris johnson is completely trapped. He has been british Prime Minister only six weeks and has already discovered that there is not a great deal that he can do. He is in charge of a government that has no majority at all in the house of commons, because not least, he decided to fire 21 members of his own party. He refused to follow his instructions. It is an extremely difficult situa
Carol thats right. From fighter jets, electric cars, lasers, and the marks it market for nitrous oxide cold brew. Jason here is joel weber on the elements. Joel what we decided to do was to cover every single element on the periodic table because it ultimately, these are all business stories. This is the story of business. Carol you took us places that were a lot of surprises for us. We think of it as developed a long time ago. And, it is such a bigger, broader thing and means a lot today. Joel and is the wrong way to think about it. If you associated with High School Chemistry class and you get anxiety. Things like helium, party city was Closing Stores because there is a helium shortage, and there are entrepreneurs trying to solve the problem. Or lithium, and you think about Battery Technology and what electric vehicles will be possible, or hydrogen. So everyone of these things, these are things we take for granted, like a computer chip and how many elements are required to make this.
Jason new york bans predatory loans, a practice brought to light last year with a series of stories, including a cover of businessweek on how an obscure legal document turned the court system into a Debt Collection machine. We will take a look at the new legislation and its impact. Carol porsche unveiling its first ever electric car in a battle to steal the market that tesla built. We look at the taycan turbo. Jason our big story of the week, brexit. Boris johnsons do or die strategy to exit the eu was derailed and his plan for a general election was rejected. Carol what a week. Having bet everything on getting britain out of the European Union by october 31, now he really cant back down. Lets bring in our editor from london on whats next for the u. K. Prime minister and if he will need to delay brexit. What a week it was for Boris Johnson. How weakened is he as leader of the u. K. . Boris johnson is completely trapped. He has been british Prime Minister only six weeks and has already