Prices double the last couple of months. We have seen demand picking up. Taking a look at other markets, the focus is on chinese equities. They have been fluctuating between gains and losses. The shanghai cob is lower. They are largely flat after what we saw on friday. State funds trimming their holdings. There was the big news of the haltingetf in china trading until 10 30 a. M. This morning. They are saying the warning of thiss involved here tracks some of the largest stocks in shanghai. Take a look at singapore. This is reopening after the singapore election. Retaining the firm grip on power. When he 89 of seats. That is considered the weakest showing ever. Good. Be for stocks some analysts say a de a diverse up three quarters of 1 . We are taking a look at bonds and currencies. We watched the dollar posting the second weekly loss. It comes toing when the belly of the curve for u. S. Treasuries. Reversing some of the gains after we sell yields touch a record low on friday. Lower by
Where people cannot really go to showrooms . What is the bigger problem, selling the car as you want to make, or making the cars that you are used to making . Biggest challenge early on was getting back so that we could make vehicles. We had a lot of work to do to make sure we took all the necessary precautions, learned lessons from china, korea, from our work in making ventilators and masks, and putting that to practice to bring people back to build vehicles. I am proud of how will the team adapted to working from home, and our dealers who have been great partners, going mostly online for the sales process, and developing a clean delivery system. Everyone adapted fairly well. Lifelongu were a General Motors person, you grew up in michigan, your father worked at pontiac. Stanford Business School and then came back to General Motors, worked her way up. Havee last six years, you been the ceo of the company. You worked through the Great Recession, also through 9 11. Compare this situation
And dr. Is in dire need of more facemasks. Some governments leave they can prevent the spread of coronavirus but the World Health Organization says there is little evidence. And more misery for german soccer fans. The football clubs agreed to extend the b bundesliga extensin until the end of maple april. Could it resume in may with empty stadiums . Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and all around the world, welcome. Today across spain, people pause for one minute to mourn and remember the lives lost to the coronavirus. The countrys death toll is the second highest in europe hide only italy. The number of sick needing care and spain is growing, pushing the countrys Health Care System to its limits. And yet the government says there is now reason for cautious hope. Reporter a minute of silence in madrid after the deadliest day yet in spains coronavirus outbreak. The city and much of the country are on lockdown, following other european nations. A Senior Health off
Later, fake news is the biggest threat to tech right now. Kara swisher will join us to tell us how bad it will get. One group of stocks is in overdrive, that would be autos toyota 4 , ford up 6 , gm up 9 . Fca up 33 the question is simple do you fade or trade i would say fade. Im sure ill get pushback from my point of view, Ford Motor Company went from 10 1 2 to 11 1 2 without question over the last four, 1 2 4 1 2 years. Gm, a little different i think both stocks need to prove themselves in the case of gm its over 40 in the case of ford, 12 1 2. I would rather wait for the break to try to buy it the pushback is, gm continues to execute theyre growing their gross margin the stock is getting cheaper and cheaper. This is more about a sector that the jury was absolutely out on now that were in hard times, just because we hear, when in fact these guys have been profitable, you take this run at gm, in fact it makes sense to me the stock is rallying when news is bad because it wasnt rallying
How pope francis gets a warm welcome in the latest leg of his tour. Now the United States and britain say they are working on a special initiative to help tackle the boko haram armed group in nigeria. The killing of hundreds of people last week was a crime against humanity. Amnesty international has released images of what it says is the devastating images of those attacks. This was on the 2nd of january. All around you can see streets and clusters of buildings. Here is the same time from january 7th. An estimated 3,000 homes schools, and clinics have been destroyed. Its a similar scene three kilometers away. Another thriving town and this is how it looks five days later after the attacks by boko haram. At least 20,000 people fled the area. Amnesty internationals daniel eyre says it has received disturbing testimony from survivors. Witnesses are telling us that boko haram attacked more than one week ago. They went housetohouse pulling people out of their homes and shooting them in the