Within the dow. Take them out of the picture, things wouldnt be as bad as they are now. Were well off the earlier lows, down 400 points, down about 165 points but also fueling this, offsetting this if you will is talk of progress on that stimulus front. You remember where they were looking for republicans, another 250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program . Well they ran into a buzzsaw of criticism from democrats that argued it was too tilted to business so they wanted to make assurances for health care workers, hospitals, that sort of thing. I stress that they have reached a broad parameters of a deal. It is not a deal until they both mutually agree. Were seeing progress on the front. That mitigated losses in the dow and offset the oil impact. Edward lawrence joins us now from washington with how this is all progressing. Hey, edward. Reporter neil, close, very close. That is how it is being described. As you said no deal, no ink to paper as it were for this deal. Republicans ini
Trading here. What is really interesting is the sentiment on the floor, right . Ive been coming down here for the last three weeks. Weve seen very, very extreme swings daily and traders right now are basically desensitized to what theyre hearing and what theyre seeing and these big movements in the market. It is not to say theyre not worried about it, and theyre not worried what will come out of wall street. The question, and the point they make to me, this virus needs to get to the point where it peaks and starts to trail off. That is where the markets calm down. Not until then will we see volatility subside a little bit. You see the Market Selling off 1000 points today. The point made in the previous show. There was a lot of hope yesterday that washington would come up with some sort of a stimulus solution. Right now, folks are kind of scratching their heads, wondering whatever they come up with, if it will be enough. Were watching the dow down 1052 right now. The the biggest dow dra
David welcome to cavuto coast to coast im david asman in for neil cavuto. President hitting back over criticism after phone call with the ukrainian president and a democratic impeachment push. Blake burman is at the white house with the very latest. Reporter the president arrived at the United Nations about an hour early. He will be there for three days of meetings to talk to a dozen World Leaders to give a big speech tomorrow. As he was arrived this morning he was asked about the phone call earlier this summer with a newlyelected ukrainian leader volodymyr zelensky. He acknowledged on the phone call he did indeed talk about joe biden. The president also saying the conversations on the call were appropriate and that biden shoulding investigated in his view. The president feels that bidens son hunter benefited from business dealings in ukraine and china. Because of his fathers position then as Vice President. Phone call with the president of ukraine. Everybody knows it. It is just a dem
Ive been saying this openly. And they have lowered too slow. He took 25. Some people were hoping for 50. He did 25. Im not thrilled with the fed, despite that we have an incredible economy and no inflation. Chairman powells job is safe . Yeah it is safe. Sure, why not . You paused . I dont pause. He has a job, im disappointed in it. Im very disappointed in him. Neil the job is safe because the president cant fire him. Once appointed unless serious malfeasance or crime he is there, he is there for another couple years. Of course the president is free not to reappoint him. That is assuming the president is still in office to decide that. Former Treasury Department economist under president bush 43 David Beckworth with us. Obviously he is not satisfied with the quarterpoint move. He wanted more. We got data today to indicate maybe the fed was wise to make the quarter point and add to that the caveat it is watching other developments. What do you think of the data and confluence and . We s
Perfunctory. Now it is done. Tmobile, sprint, theyre coming together. Charlie gasparino has the breaking details on sprint tmobile, what happens now. The concessions that were made, what it could mean for industry. Will we go to blake, guys . Blake is available. First you were missing in action now youre doing your job. You are doing your job. The white house come out to say essentially we have had much stronger, you know, gdp read, paraphrasing here, if not for the Federal Reserve spoiling the party, that is essentially it, right . Port pot the favorite punching bag of the president and the white house is out today. Very first reaction from President Trump, focus on 2. 1 gdp number. He took to twitter to say that the fed has quote, wrapped an anchor around our neck. That tweet from the president , saying it wasnt bad. Usa ready to go forward but the fed is the problem here. His top Economic Advisor larry kudlow also blamed the fed when pointing to a different number. You remember neil