Sea. No, not a giant squid or Chris Hemsworths biceps, theres a gigantic cargo ship in operation. Look at that thing. It literally is a monster ship. I know, and we are going it talk about how this could change the shipping business forever. Tyler is out all week. You just saw mandy doing the halftime report. A lot of swaps going on today. Stocks are sinking on the final trading week of the year. Major averages down a half a percent overall but its not all bad this year. If you own these stocks, treat your family to a nice dinner soon because you have made some money. Netflix up 135 , amazon up 115 , activision nearly doubling this year and nvidia up more than 60 . Oil and Gas Companies have been leading the declines. Chesapeake down 80 for the year. Consol and southwest energy down 75 and a list too long to mention of many more stocks down 30 , 40 or even 50 in the group so far this year. In the meantime, the financial and the Telecom Sectors are kind of the january and peter bradys o
Highs, Risk Appetite not being that hard at the moment. Interesting news coming from shire of course, a week bet we could see more stimulus there. They call it reluctant easing said to come from china. Any further stimulus will help get inflation going once again. They to follow that with the risk of aggravating further. That helps asian stocks go higher because of chinese inflation slowdown. Meanwhile we are seeing a pretty much flat turn in equities. How are we looking . We are seeing a bit of Risk Appetite rid appetite. Only 520 percent interest points, a little bit of risk outside and meanwhile costs are high for germany. It seems as the market is reluctant to sell off at the moment, willing to stay calm. Look what happens to greece in the next few days. That emergency meeting in brussels coming up tomorrow. The euro with a similar story stocks are you much flat. Lets look at brent, we are seeing a snap in oil. After a period of growth we are seeing it start to turn lower. The worr
Offs. Kentucky tennessee, virginia maryland crippled by a winter storm. Federal offices in washington d. C. Will be closed today as they brace for snow. Airports in North Carolina and tennessee look to be the hardest hit and well have a live report from the Weather Channel in about 20 minutes, scott. Heres the big stories were watching today. Two economic reports of note. 8 30 a. M. Eastern time the new york fed releases its february survey of manufacturers and then at 10 00, a read on housing from the National Association of home builders. Theyll attend negotiations in the west coast. Drawn out talks between Dock Workers Union and their employers have come to a assault and as a result sports are clogged with cargo. Facing the deadline among the filings we have already seen city group, aig and Delta Airlines while exiting positions in bed bath and beyond. Among green lights new positions, time warner and east side technologies. They took a stake in American Realty Capital Properties in
Grips to a new normal. Everyone urged to comply with the new restrictions. Time matters, minutes counts. This is literally a matter of life and death. Too many people too close together too often. The longer we do that, the more people will get sick and the more people will die. Scientists and Public Health experts are all making us gravely aware of the choice that we have. And the choices that we need to make to save lives. Local officials have the authority to implement more strict standards than what i as governor have order here in the state of texas. Sandra Fox Team Coverage Kristin Fisher is tracking the federal response. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live at cdc headquarters in atlanta for us this morning. Good morning from atlanta, sandra. You are seeing a patchwork of responses across the country based on the threat level or at least what we know about the threat level. Here in georgia, and in some other states they are asking for voluntary social distancing. But in more hardh
Senate working overtime on up to 2 trillion package ahead of mondays deadline for a final vote, florida senator marco rubio takes us up and we will break down the stimulus bill in u. S. History. Also today President Trump emergency war power to help, white house creating manufacturing advisor Peter Navarro is here to the response of coronavirus and impact on the economy. Also he has been studying the pandemic from a white house chief strategist steve bannon how the coronavirus is impacting the country and hospitals. Are they on the verge of breakdown . Plus hope for the future, innovation and science in america, the ceo of Johnson Johnson is here to discuss the vaccine and antiviral treatments of coronavirus. All that ahead. Maria now the latest on coronavirus today, there has been over 26000 cases in the u. S. More than 340 people are now dead. More than 311,000 cases and 13000 deaths worldwide. The state department has raised a Global Travel advisory to a level four, that is the agen