Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Water kind of news against protesters in bellary state 20 for the president to step down and in your election. Cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan is under threat following new attacks in the conflict over to go to care about the latest fighting has killed at least 8 people and each side is blaming the other for not respecting the truce is very official say the city of gunja was struck by missiles in the early hours of sunday seen in Consumer Reports now from gonchar. The scene again just barely 24 hours since a cease fire was agreed between our mania and azerbaijans armed forces devastation despair and body backs i thank you for elative scree for their. 2 years and destruction appears to be all that is left for man as a reason again just as more bodies are pulled from that after. The pain of losing their children and other relatives is a comparing it with anger they say theyve all over the suffered enough in 30 years of the scum that. Will destroy them we dont want to see far th
Begin with the latest flare up in china beijing announcing new security measures in hong kong send iing the hang sang to its worst day in almost five years the move escalate iing tensions with the United States with President Trump threatening quote unquote strong reaction to the crack down so does china become a bigger head wind for the markets . Pete, what do you say . Yeah, it seems like theres a dimpt new story every day that seems to lead us up or down. On literally every day, whether its earnings one day that we focus on unemployment in your opinions. China, another day the virus of course and somebody having sort of a vaccine of some sort or another. Always something leading the markets. What i was encouraged by today, china and the u. S. And some of the issues were going to be facing Going Forward it seems to me like weve shaken that off well its been an impressive ability of the markets we could have slid easily today and down 400 points going into the weekend like a friday or
Morgan stanleys lead biotech analyst is here on this thursday, may 21 you are watching here on cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome where you may be watching thank you for starting your thursday with us here is how the Global Markets are getting through their week the dow indicated down over 100 points i wouldnt buy too much into it. It has been a very volatile week we were up big plus 900 points on monday. Up fairly big, up solidly yesterday as well. Could be a topsy turvy week. The dow is up nearly 4 just this week. The s p 500 is at the highest level since march 6. Some big news in the bond market the option of 20year bonds that raised 50 billion why is that news we have not sold as a nation 20year bonds since back in 1986 also a bunch of single stock stories we need to Pay Attention to on thursday taketwo interactive a little lower this morning. Everyone apparently staying home playing video games. Just off the alltime high stock two, expedia, a little highe
The United States. This is a politically motivated they did time and it is an orchestrated attack africas Richest Woman speaks to aljazeera responding to allegations she ripped off angola to enrich himself. 7 antigovernment protests have escalated again in baghdad and several other iraqi cities at least 5 demonstrators and 2 Security Officers have been killed in southern iraq hundreds blocked main roads in a number of cities in the 500 people have died since protests began in october imran khan has this report now from baghdad. In one of the main squares in central Baghdad Police and protesters confront each other it began in the early hours of monday as protesters tried to block the road leading to the square they want a change of government and accuse the current board of corruption a cool had got out to protest as to block the main roads in baghdad a major highways in the south access. Police used live ammunition and fight. Hey gas in attempt to disperse the crowds in the capital bu