Coronavirus hitting the Republican National convention, President Trump canceling events in jacksonville, florida as cases spike in the state. The cdc pushing for the reopening of schools, saying it is critically important for our Public Health. How about the future of the country . And unrest in america, another night of protests in portland, plus demonstrations erupting in chicago outside of the mayors house. And play ball, the baseball season finally gets underway with a wild pitch from dr. Anthony fauci. He tried. Plus, our weeklong look at instagram stars comes to an end with the people behind some very funny and pop o popular memes. The cofounders of my therapist says join me live with the secrets behind their viral post. Mornings with maria is live right now. Checking on Global Market action, growing tensions between the United States and china leading to losses around the globe. Europe, you see there, red across the board. Losses north of 1 in england, france and germany. Asia
The last 20 minutes or so. Nasdaq is down 33 and 3 quarters. Now these numbers coming after signs of the spread to have virus stabilized in hot spots. That led to strong rally yesterday. Here at the close yesterday, the dow gaining and s p entering bull market. U. S. Death toll topping 14,080 but there are signs that the spread is slowing in hot spots. The cdc issued guidelines to get to workers. The Trump Administration requesting 250 billion, democrats want additional 50 billion. Fed chair jay powell will be giving us an update on the economy and actions taken to combat the impact of the virus, thats today 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. More to expect from the fed. The today is a big day for oil. We are watching the contract right now. Its up almost 5 and a half percent. The investors are watching the opec meeting including saudi arabia and russia, can they come to an agreement . All rising on hopes of a deal to cut production and bring an end to the costly priced war. And then there was
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Joe nowhere to hide. Really ugly back to back days to start the week. Scarlet there are plenty of places to hide. Joe 10 year treasury, swiss franc. Scarlet japanese yen. We can go on. Two charts to put this risk asset selloff in perspective. This is very simple. On bottom, bonds of top the one asset class doing well over this time period. On bottom, we have crude, copper. In white, the s p 500 down 6 . Composite in blue, down just 0. 75 may be a benchmark here. 500reason to think the s p will join the dow transports. The 200 Day Moving Average in yellow. On friday, you can see the dow transports going right through the 50 day average. When the dow transports in the past has gone below that 200 Day Moving Average, there has not been an exception. This chart would suggest more term,at least in the near for the s p 500. Worstooking at one of the performing sectors in the s p 500. 4 , theals down about worst slide since 2011. That is as fears of the coronavirus continue. One of the larges
And i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face