The start of trading this morning after long Holiday Weekend, Dow Jones Industrial average better 500 points and s p 500 is also higher by 56 and nasdaq up 174. This after the dow, nasdaq and the s p 500 closed tout week of gains of better than 3 on the week as you see across the board. Another milestone today, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange will reopen but not quite business as usual. A look at the new restrictions coming up this morning. And turning to the 2020 race, former Vice President joe biden looks to take on President Trump on the economy, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria the easing of lockdowns and optimism of Vaccine Developments leads to gain this morning. Ftse 100 up 87, cac quarante in paris is up 63 and dax index in germany higher by 79. Spain announcing it is opening to foreign visitor this is july and germany ready to lift travel restrictions for other European Countries. In ash asia overnight markets looked like this. Planning another round of st
Down big right now. In an attempt to get back to business in texas. Were going to speak with one restaurateur about how it went and what he sees ahead it is monday, may 4th. This is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, welcome to wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan the question is this, will the second trading day of the month be better than the first right now it certainly does not look like it dow futures are off about 240 points the dow opening the month on friday, losing more than 600 points it was the nasdaq hit harder Big Technology down over 3 . Apple, amazon, the big names you know disappointed some investors. Although its not gone negative again, oil is a big risk to the markets and investors as well and crude oil is down again. That is that june contract its higher as you look out july and august right now oil down as well as we have reported often over the last week or so, just a reminder, even as deman
Basket size and looks at the issue of what happens when you are able to open and a lot of your competitors are not right i think Doug Mcmillan has the four stages of, lets say, the opposite of grief and acceptance its more like acceptance and euphoria at the beginning theyre stocking up. By the end theyre buying tvs. He laid out a course that i felt was very, very optimistic. But not that optimistic for anybody who competes with him. When you hear what hes winning in, its every category that the Small Business guys do its the bicycles. They have the good tvs going boutique games owns all of that now he owns video games now. There wasnt anything that i heard that did indicate that you go to walmart instead of a Small Business david, doug was very interested in the fact that you bought your pullup bar there, that you might have gone to a gym, but you took that order from a Small Business guy and you gave it to the king yes, i guess that is true the power tower, it wasnt cheap. But its di
A petition against the Coalition Deal between rivals turned partners. Also the u. N. Warns of the dangers of misinformation countries fight coronavirus a World Press Freedom day insists that journalists have a crucial role. And the u. S. Considers retaliation against china over the handling of the pandemic. Good to have you with us and welcome to the news our afghanistan is bracing for a much higher rate of infection from coronavirus random testing in the capital kabul suggests a 3rd of its 4000000 residents could be infected and the country risks a diplomatic crisis with neighbor iran after dozens of afghan migrants were reportedly beaten tortured and left for dead while trying to cross over the border allegations that iran has denied a warning that alexey obriens report contains some disturbing images from the beginning. They left their homes in search of opportunity in iran instead witnesses say they were killed their final moments terrifying. The Iranian Border guards 1st beat us t
Is time. A governor who doesnt want to see these businesses destroyed a person who has said, look, weve got the baseline we know what can go wrong. We have the ability to handle it medically. And initially when i saw this, carl, i said this man, this governor is a reckless fellow. The more i read his excellent speech yesterday, the more i realized the stakes are so high for so many people, im rooting for this man i think hes doing it in a way that makes me feel like if youre going to open it, open it this way i wanted to wait for the vaccines i wanted to wait for when we got s ser roll gist ologyists who coue antibodies it may seem illadvised, when you drill down to the speech he gave yesterday, i have to tell you, i was impressed i know everything has become politicized, but this is a man who is feeling for the Small Business people and recognizes theyre about to be done Scott Gottlieb on squawk this morning did say to him they picked the businesses most at risk and decided to open th