The dow coming off its first close ever above 30,000. Still down 180 a lot of focus continues to be on the socalled cyclical trade, energy, banks, airlines all pacing for their best month ever rob, its good to see you again. I come to you first because your note to our producer today really piqued my interest. The last three weeks, you say, were transformational. How so i think going into this, scott, we did not have a prospect for a stimulus plan it pivoted focus to the virus and the virus count really, really increasing. Since then youve had three months of very, very positive news on the virus front. Youve had an election outcome that appears to be more and more benign with the actions of the with the actions of our president elect. Specifically nominating janet yellen it looks like it was an outcome that was squarely middle of the fairway that was not too far left, not too far right. Really goldilocks like from my perspective. Now youre at a place where when you look at major pivot
Products pulled from the shelves turkey backs a boycott in retaliation for comments about islam. Donald trumps pick for the u. S. Supreme court has officially been confirmed as the countrys newest top judge. The nomination of any county indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. And hes on the ballots appointment was approved in a vote by the Republican Controlled Senate should not be sworn in at the white house the confirmation means the countrys highest court now has a conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a president ial election lets go to alan fischer whos live for us in washington d. C. The democrats really did not want this to happen but it didnt seem to matter what they tried the republicans were determined that this was going to go through. 30 days from her nomination until her confirmation not the fastest in Supreme Court history but very fast particularly when you add in to the fact that the ele
Very significant especially after all this long time of conflict on the ground as you know that head of the United Nation support the mission in libya veni williams the acting head just stated that this is a historic achievement that has been achieved by the rival factions it did seize fire it says it sees a permanent ceasefire agreement is to be signed by. Rival delegations those that representing the world have to and the others are presenting the internationally recognized government of National Accord but the question now remains whether or not this agreement will be empty mental on the ground and as you know have been violations of the cease fire agreement that was declared and the passed by the internationally recognized the Prime Minister face a large and the poor House Speaker of the eastern of parliament again when they both declared a cease fire last august after those forces on the ground also continue sending the enforcement to the front lines in the areas of the city it of
And calls for a National Strike in better routes as pressure grows on the president to resign. A 3rd attempt to uphold a humanitarian ceasefire between azerbaijan and armenia has come into effect the 2 sides have been fighting over the disputed territory of new gonna come about but as during previous attempts to stop the conflict both have already accused the other of violating that agreement this latest truce was mediated by the United States despite heavy fighting on sunday when it speak now talk one on one of the homemade she joins us live from an gets of it in azerbaijan how to by my count its been 5 hours now since that cease fire officially began from what youve been hearing so far is there any suggestion that things might be different this time around. Whether it does feel that things are different this time around there have. There has been sporadic shelling in both directions but by and large i would say compared to the one that was reaffirmed only less than 10 days ago and oc
More from the get in azerbaijan. Well i think its a bit early to say where its going to go if you base it on the 1st 2 announcements of cease fire the 1st one being Oktober Telfer and then a week off to deliberate 17th then this is all the reason to be a bit skeptical about this 3rd real fear mission of a cease fire as you said there have been accusations from both sides that the ceasefire had already been violated but by and large if i compare those early hours. Early hours of a good job or 17th was when that 2nd ceasefire was supposed to come in place it is much calmer Libyas National Oil Corporation says its reopened its the last oil fields nearly all libyan oil exports were stopped back in january by warlord Khalifa Haftar us forces based in the east mondays decision on the field site means now all libyas ports and facilities can potentially resume production may be used to produce more than a 1000000 barrels of crude a day. France is reporting its highest number of single day coro