Sports world coming to a halt while the happiest place on earth closes its gate. 2020 race impacted by coronavirus as well, Campaign Events canceled. Debates with no inhouse audiences, mornings with maria live right now. Maria we want to check overseas marks right now, take a look, mixed story over in europe. Ftse 100 now turned negative, down 421 points, 7 lower on financial times. Cac request rant is up 150 and dax index in germany up 307 points. 3 apiece. We are looking at those losses extend this morning in the uk. In asia overnight it was red across the board certainly in the heels of wall street but markets in asia actually closed off the lows of the session, worst performer was japan, down better than 6 followed by korea. South korea banning short selling for now 6 months, lets check Interest Rates, the yield on the 10year treasury moving up. The yield is up now 10 basis points at level of. 896 on the 10year, Oil Prices Rising this morning after 2 days of decline as the price wa
Eeked out a two basis point gain but it could have been worse and it should have been worse and was at one point in the day very ugly but the nasdaq rallied in the close taking the market with it. I kept from the very beginning, from the opening bell, where are the sellers. Where are they why arent they reacting to that ugly warning that we got monday from apple why is everything no matter how negative treated as a buying opportunity. It is like there is always something to be said for instead of and i think i know the answer. I think it is the index funds. 60 is coming in via index funds and they buy everything, including the stocks that should be getting hammered by bad news. And they buy in waves and they are in control of this stock market not mutual fund or Hedge Fund Managers either. Yes, index fund buyers i know people call this market a bubble and blame an easy fed but maybe, just maybe, listen to me, there is no one toblame. You simply have Many Companies doing well and compan
In scotland, despite a massive surge in support will be cold enough at times to see for the snp in the general election. Some of the show as fall as snow, journey times are being cut, more services and new routes added particularly in the northern heals. As part of major timetable changes more on that coming later in the on britains railways. Programme. And in sport, and christmas comes its saturday, 1ath december. Early for liverpool fans as managerjurgen klopp signs a contract extension, our top story keeping him at the club until 202a. Boris johnson will visit the north of england today after his party won a number of traditional labour heartland seats to secure a majority in parliament. Some areas voted conservative for the first time in thursdays election, helping to achieve and ahead of tonights strictly the largest conservative victory final well ask for more than 30 years. Our very own magic mike bushell there are flashing images in this which couple he thinks will waltz report
Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the National League both cities, its a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. My name is clarence anthony. Im the ceo and executive director of the National League of cities. Its a pleasure to have you in what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates