Drop coming up on todays show, were taking a look at how a number of Different Industries are getting back to work in america. Well talk hotels and travel with the ceo of best western plus, walter rob, the former coceo of whole foods will weigh in on grocery trends and well talk about the state of the consumer lets kick things off with a Broader Market a choppy day to kick off the trading week pretty positive. Right near the session highs as we stand on track for a record close for the nasdaq composite actually kind of a quiet levitation out there the average stock not doing much of anything. Volumes are low. But v but the Growth Stocks are powering higher. You see a one year of the s p 500. Its about a couple weeks ago that the enthusiasm for that reopening really seemed to crest for a little while since then, the old Growth Stocks, if you look at the top of the dow right now, its nike, apple, walmart, visa, microsoft. These are the days when the observation that Great Companies remai
Next for oil stocks kiging off in the red theres more than 750 cases 5 750,000, i beg your par doon well talk about that and more as we kick off this hour we kick it off with the markets in terms of Stocks Holding steady as energy is in a free fall. Its the story of the day. It will be the story of this hour lets get to bob with the set up for these markets. Bob. The important thing is we are well off of the lows. Industrials weak Consumer Staples are weak. Were not getting any bounce at all from those defensive plays that done so well for us in the last several weeks like proctor, cocacola. Not much energy there today. One good piece of news, the banks after a rather rough week, the etf bouncing about 6 from its high to low. The key regional banks are trading up most of them were trading to the down side. Finally, just on oil, had a lot of inquiries about uso and all these oil efts want to remind every one they own oil futures. Either the front month in the case of uso they tend to ro
Top producers consider even deeper output curves. Shinzo abes state of emergency now covers the whole of japan after critics said his initial virus response offered to little, too late too little, too late. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless rate coming in at 3. 8 . As expected, a rebound from the previous month of february. February was a 3. 3 . In the month of march coming in at 3. 8 . In line with estimates but still a rebound. Of course, we have seen weakness in retail and hospitality, employment, given this coronavirus pandemic. The government has tried to create jobs and that has helped the economy. They of course have already passed a 10 billion extra budget, but we are now seeing the jobless rate climbing to 3. 8 . This as president moon jaein has called for more aggressive measures on job creation. Of course, moons Ruling Democratic Party of korea just won the implementer elections. Take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. We are se
Of on. M. , a doctor the latest developments in u. S. Efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Good morning. Its tuesday, march 31, 2020. President trump is set to hold another Coronavirus Task force briefing in the white house at 5 p. M. Eastern. Daysmes as they mark 20 since the virus was officially declared a global pandemic. Talking about the u. S. Responsiveness this morning, we are asking you to tell us who has had the biggest impact. If you think it has been the federal government, the number to call this morning is 202 7488000. If you think State Government, 202 7488001. If you think it is local government, 202 7488002. And if you think the private sector has had the biggest impact on Coronavirus Response, 202 7488003. You can also catch up with us on. Ocial media this morning, you can start calling in now. We begin with an image of the federal response. This is the United States navy in newmfort arriving york on monday. That thousand bed navy ship described today in the New
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