The bottom of the hour. He is traveling today in wisconsin, talking about the economy and jobs. For now, the Postal Service in the spotlight as we inch toward an election where voters where a significant number of voters will be mailing in their balance. Joining us, abigail doolittle, who has been watching the backandforth of the day. No records today. But what were the main drivers . Abigail everybody waiting for that potential record for the s p 500. Stocks really climbing this wall of worry. The s p 500 hitting this area of resistance. The polls fallen short of being able to take out those old levels. S p 500 up about euro. 3 . Nasdaq once again closing at a record high, up 1. 1 , really being helped out by some of those mega cap tech stocks. China, so muchs, for investors to worry about. They are going again toward this years defense of technology. The vix down a little bit today but still relatively elevated. Couldxperts say that we see some sort of pullback after this huge rally
To get things started off. The dow is down by 17 points but the s p and the nasdaq is there. Nasdaq is indicated up by 47 points this is after a strong month of july for all three of the averages the dow up by 2. 4 for the month. The s p saw its best july by ten years. It was up by 5. 5 . Thats nothing compared to the nasdaq today is the first trade ding d of august. Thats out at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time today also take a look at treasury yields you did see yields under extreme pressure or ten year closing at its lowest level since all the way back to march 9th. Right now it is a little bit higher 0. 546 stimulus talks in congress. Trump administrations officials and House Speaker nancy pelosi are set to resume negotiations today on their competing visions of a bill. The Sticking Point continues to be a boost set at 600 per week in march that lapsed on friday he and Speaker Pelosi are on the same page about the need of direct Cash Payments of 1,200 to most americans. Andrew. And big co
Join the millions of people taking back their privacy by Downloading Duckduckgo On Mobile and desktop today. Welcome to our continuing coverage of israel at war, im jim acosta in washington. We begin this hour with a growing death toll in the war. Minutes ago, the hamasrun media reported that 248 people have died in gaza just in the last 24 hours. Palestinian Health Officials say 4,300 people have died in gaza since the star of the war. That number set to rise as israels military says it is increasing air strikes beginning today this is new cnn video showing israeli troops and machinery positioned along the border, awaiting the order to launch a Ground Invasion. Commanders are being told that, quote, forces will enter gaza, for the First Time Since the war began two weeks ago, humanitarian briefly rolled into gaza, but the rafah Border Crossing is closed again after that 20truck convoy made its way through. Relief agencies, in the meantime, say additional shipments of water, fuel, and
i m christine romans. laura, it was a year ago this week everything started to shut down. now we get a glimpse. a taste of freedom. what it will look like. i am laura jarrett. tuesday, march 9th. 5 a.m. in new york. we begin with good news this morning. some of you will finally be able to hug your grandkids again after a full year of coping with this pandemic, a major step forward in returning to something resembling normal life. new guidance from the cdc for people fully vaccinated against covid-19 giving the green light to many everyday activities and easing some restrictions and precautions. nearly 20% of americans have been at least partially vaccinated. almost 10% fully. but the cdc still recommends people avoid travel saying it risks creating a surge in infections. the airline industry pushing back saying highly filtered air and universal mask wearing makes claims a low risk environment. a cnn medical analyst agrees. so this is one of these examples where i think
the question is, how will the biden administration handle it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that knows some very, very happy grandparents this morning. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 9th. we ll start with the news. the cdc has released new guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated, offering hope that life could soon return to normal. we ve been through a lot this past year, and with more and more people getting vaccinated each day, we are starting to turn a corner. fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or physical distancing. visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk of severe covid-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. and refrain from quarantine and testing following a known covid-19 exposure if the vaccinated person remains asymptomatic. however, the cdc continues to recommend tha