Means for the Energy Sector and your portfolio. And sony and microsoft are set to reelite next generation video game console ahead of the holidays, is and most repreorders have already preorders have already sold out. On the round table, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, i thought the debate might be the big story of the week until we all woke up friday morning to find out thats president and first lady have covid19, but the market largely shrugged it off. Whats going on . They say that the market hates uncertainty, but investors have been planning for a lot of it. If you look at the vix, the markets fear gauge, theyre expecting a heightened level of volatility all the way through january. So Something Like this comes along, and it shocks the market, but it doesnt shock it, i think, as much as people would have normally if it had just come out of nowhere. And theres also stimulus talk going on, and actually i wouldnt say in the background. That was taking
And strains on resources and countries with the most migrant arrivals under their proposals of Member States like hungary and poland which refuse to accept migrants but instead offer money equipment or personnel to help patrol the you borders. Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been discharged from a berlin hospital hes been undergoing treatment there for poisoning since the beginning of the month of on the intends to return to russia once he has fully recovered germany has demanded answers from moscow over the poisoning but the kremlin says there is no evidence of any crime. This is g. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website w dot com. Alexander lukashenko has been president of bella ruse for 26 years he is known as europes last dictator today staying true to his moniker. Was sworn in in secret snow public ceremony no public protests it is impossible to predict what will happen next in this divided country tonight the leader of the
Generals office and i worked with the sec. Can suitably over the years and we have panel with us today and we will have Georgetown University and former director of the bureau of Consumer Protections for federal trade commission and we will have matt sheared president of the computer and the [inaudible] in here to discuss the deferment of justices proposal we have Lauren Willard who is counselor to the attorney general. We are lucky to have this great panel here and ms. Willard will walk us through that puzzle and then for offered commentary about the consumer side of things and we have [inaudible]. Again i want to give a little level set and im sure most of the people who dialed in have had familiarity with section 230 as they understand what its about but i want to give history on these things and to get context to these venues and so forth. We talked about the Communications Decency act, section 230 with the recent or fairly recent but the wolf of wall street and in particular the j
Blake burman at the white house. We have Lauren Simonetti watching the market action. Edward lawrence reporting from washington at the but on this up and down day, lauren, we start with you. Lauren lauren its with up and down day. I had to look over to see if stocks finished the green. It is changing constantly. This is the new normal. Investors are totally unsure how to price in politics. Not just the expected turbulence around the election, but the future of stimulus. Stocks got a major stimulus from comments on treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin he and House Speaker nancy pelosi theyre going to keep talking about a new relief bill as House Democrats reportedly are ready to scale down a package of their own. Doesnt mean it is going to happen up investors like they are talking. We call it the mnuchin maybe, maybe. The s p 500 avoiding falling into correction territory, up, after the closing bell by just nine points. Yes, it is positive on the year by a whole 16 points, guys. Take a look
Claimed more than 200000 lives in the United States flags were planted in front of the Washington Monument to mark the grim milestone the toll accounted for more than one in 5 coded 1000 deaths globally and its putting a president Donald Trumps handling of the pandemic in the spotlight as he campaigns for a 2nd term in office. Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on people to observe new coronavirus restrictions or risk a 2nd lockdown johnson made the appeal in a televised address to the nation earlier he announced that england would expand its face mask requirements and introduce stricter rules on social gatherings this is g. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at the units or visit our website w dot com. The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse that is the imagery that the u. N. Secretary general used today to describe the biggest threats to peace Climate Change unprecedented mistrust geo political tensions and the dark side of Digital Technology and he added a