Recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and on muting themselves and to commute to themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965 will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized for inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that our house rules relating to the order and the decorum of the hearing. This hearing is entitled insuring against a pandemic challenges and solutions for policies and i now recognize myself for three minutes to begin with an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 Million People could enter a state of extreme poverty do that to the Global Economic contraction and here in the united states, 67 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this year. The harmful effects of this pandemic are the stability of Small Businesses like restaurants cannot be overstated. Thereve been li
How retailers are shifting Sales Strategies online this Holiday Season then, questions over astrazenecas vaccine trial, what the ceo is saying this morning. And finally what a salesforce acquisition of slack means at this hour. Right back at you in terms of this market action, we have seen it a lot, mike in terms of the dows performance this month there has been some rotation lets start there. Somebody this morning saying aerospace is up 40 . Which frankly i did not necessarily know it has been that strong in that short amount of time does it continue in this rotation or do we have to watch this in last day, day and a half of trading there has been a stutter step in that rotation. We had a couple of these since march. One of them peaked in june now it has been very, very aggressive aerospace is part of the industrials group. Industrials fully kind of got back to precovid levels and the valuations of industrial stocks are well above where they were based on expected earnings eight month
At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
Workers of an annual cost of a billion dollars and thats why the stock is down. Down 1. 6 . Tesla, the stock thats going straight up and it has nothing to do with the virus. Tesla, 500 index meaning a lot of Money Managers have to buy the stock so up it goes and by the way the gain of 53 13 makes elon musk the third richest person in the world. Overall, the market is in a mild selloff mode. Dow jones closing and 29950. Its retreating a bit. S p down about 25, nasdaq a slight gain. A big tech is doing okay. We are in creeping lockdown mode and thats the problem for the markets as many states and cities imposing new restrictions as virus cases arise. Wear a mask in north dakota, utah. No Indoor Dining in california, michigan and in philadelphia, no indoor football watching parties. My opinion, thanksgiving next week, confrontation is coming. Who will enforce limits on your thanksgiving celebration . Where does president elect joe biden the stand, lockdown joe, where does he stand . Hes n
This is boom, bust one business show you cant afford to miss friendship or in washington. Coming up, the g. D. P. Of the United Kingdom has taken a major hit to cope with 1010 demick, leading to a flurry of borrowing not seen since. Or in times of peace. Plus, could the European Union be rolling out a Coronavirus Vaccine before 2021 . Straight ahead when to break down the potential for the move and where we stand amid the outbreak. And the later we do a deep dive into the state of the chinese fight against poverty. In fact, shown today, lets dive right in. And we need the program with the latest in the economic toll brought on by the kobe 1000 pandemic. The british economy is expected to contract by 11. 3 percent in 2020, according to the u. K. s office for budget responsibility. Now the o. B. Are also update its forecast for the next few years, predicting growth of 5. 5 percent in 2021 and 6. 6 percent in 2022. G. D. P. In the nation will not return to preclude, a virus levels until t