Stack it up for an extra buck. Now at 11 00 p. M. President trump approved californias major disaster declaration, what it means for the states fight against the coronavirus. And wash the hate. City and state leaders speaking out against attacks. Business owners having to adapt during the coronavirus crisis. Federal paid for the state of california. Tonight President Trump approved a major disaster declaration for california. It will provide federal assistance for resources to fight the pandemic. Including mask care and emergency assistance, crisis counseling and disaster related legal services. The president already made disaster declarations for the states of oregon and new york. I know that this is a challenging time for all americans. We are enduring a Great National trial and we will prove that we can meet the moment. I want to asure the American People we are doing everything we can to confront and defeat this enemy. Uitlander number of cases sky rocketed to 302. More than any ot
Today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im with the center for American Progress. I know every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board, and on iran in particular it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear, we are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused, but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was very important work done under the Obama Administration to try to stabilize the middle east. And many of the people in the room here were part of that, either inside of the government or outside. We have a great panel which john has already introduced and im not going to go through the bios and things like that. What were going to do today have a bit of a conversation for a few minutes talking about where are we and where do we go from here, thats the main thrust. Were go
The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome. Good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee here today joe terranova, john levanthal, josh brown, and marc lasry is here. Lets fwin with the markets. Stocks extending gains, more trade optimism marc, good to see you again. Thanks for being here. Ill turn to you first were looking at the major averages dow is about 70 points from 28,000 what do you make of the markets in the here and now . Are you surprised we are where we are in. Yeah. Im very surprised, actually why so . Well, if you sort of look ate it, gdp growth is slowing down youve got issues sort of everywhere youre turning. And yet the market keeps hitting new highs. I think thats its great if youre an Equity Investor for what we do we need sort of the market and gdp to be around 1 to 2 . I think what we do, its great i think on the equity side, its going to be a tough year for the next year. You do . Why so because of g
Doesnt it . How long can stocks and bonds continue to go up together sh. Id say several more basis points out of the bond, judge. We have got low volatility, low inflation. Those are both helping stocks and bonds. The bonds of course are just running like crazy. There must be more shorts in this than in tesla, but down at 214, 212, where ever the ten year is, you could see it push to two. Perhaps under two. K is to bes are going to continue to go up. If its because of low volatility, then where he, and china saying they can see themselves buying more of the bonds again instead of stepping away from them like they allegedly has been doing over the past several months. Thats another thing thats you know, working against the bears on that trade. I dont know what it is. Rick, i mean, i dont know, is it worry about the agenda . Is it i dont know, ahead of comey . The economy . What is it. Why do bond yields continue to go lower. I think we can safely say it isnt comey. Running a memo b abou
Conservatives ideology con vailing elections across the country yesterday. The race and the contest in kentucky where voters picked the outsider republican over the e sta stablishment. We will be taking up all things with chris and political analyst and democratic strategist and growing evidence tonight that the russian jet liner that crashed in the desert over the weekend may have been brought down by a bomb. Britain suspended flights in fear that it was a terrorist bomb and the Islamic State has taken responsibility. We will have a full report. The big political news tonight is trudonald trump. Fox news on the attack as well. Trump going after the opponents as he officially filed for the New Hampshire primary. We have to make the country rich again and then were going to make the country great again. Theres a low energy person. Ben carson is super low energy. Theres an article today that he falls asleep every time that he gets in a car to drive. Trump targeting rubeio and saying that