Listen on the free cspan radio app. For only the third time in u. S. History, a Major Political party is nominating a woman to be their Vice President ial candidate. The first time was in 1984, when democrats chose Geraldine Ferraro. 24 years later, republicans nominated then Alaska Governor sarah palin. Here are their speeches. When nominated, Geraldine Ferraro was representing queens, new york, for three terms as a member of the u. S. House. Earlier, as a Public School teacher, she took night classes at the university to earn a law degree and later work as an assistant district attorney. She went on to lose two primary races th was the u. S. Ambassador to the un human rights commission. Geraldine ferraro accepted the Vice President ial nomination in san francisco. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen of the convention [cheering] [applause] ladies and gentlemen of the convention, ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is Geral
Steepening and broadening and a lot more this is one of those rallies that not only is taking people by surprise, but continues to roll and were seeing major gap ups i was mentioning on squawk major gap ups in the morning more of the 1980s action and its very interesting because stan talked about his views of the 1980s and theyre pertinent as ever. We have incredible and we have a president who wants new highs and we have stocks that are recovering well ahead of the fundamentals but some people can say that is what should happen look at the airlines we are hhad some numbers from pl lebeau and almost as if people decided covid is over and its a vshape rally and you better get on board and that makes you a little uncomfortable. Well, i just think that the friday rallies, as sweet as it was off the unemployment number has not put out any sellers, carl and i often think that there have to be sellers at a certain level. I mean, can you really take the banks up so much when there was so much
Futures reverse losses as the u. S. Senate reaches an agreement on a 2 trillion stimulus plan. Trump said he would like the running by easter despite warnings from local health ans and his own professionals and europe as ases a bailout fund finance ministers lay out the next phase of their fiscal response. A stimulus plants given a assets. Risk we had the best day for the dow since 1933. S p 500 having their best day in at least 12 years. Futures on the front foot. After the best winning streak in years for the dollar, 10 Straight Days of gains taking it to a record highest thats one perhaps of de funding stress easing in markets. Yield, weve seen a gold. In oil and some of the forced liquidation in markets seems to be subsiding. To the top story. The u. S. And the white house and democrats have reached an agreement capping days of sent on negotiations that shock waves through markets. Its great to see you. So what do we know . It seems to be light on detail at the monument but run us
U. S. Start screening passengers from china as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. Libyas stage oil from says its been forced to Halt Operations at 5 major oil ports in the east of the country interested as he is have been under attack by forces loyal to ward who have to say the ports revenues are being used by the rival chipley based government to pay turkish fight says the National Oil Corporation says 800000 barrels a day of output will be lost that amounts to 55000000. 00 per day while the uns envoy for libya says oil revenues should be used to feed the people. Leni i dont need to clear our position at the u. N. Is very clear you must not play with oil because it is the livelihood of libyans without oil libyans are starving we have to tell it like it is so we must not clear with oil we must not turn it into a weapon of war we must not allow it to become a matter of division or outbidding. Pause in operations comes ahead of a major peace conference on libya diplomats. On sun
Warning that its a breaking point as thousands of migrants stream in seeking asylum. And in sport tennis well number one ashley barty has won her 1st title of the year and winning the adelaide international. Opening round slam tournaments. We begin with breaking news from lebanon where police of firing tear gas and water cannon protesters who are demanding a speedy resolution to the countrys financial and economic crisis these latest pictures from close to the Parliament Building in the capital beirut hundreds of protesters are involved in running battles with Security Forces the demonstrators are angry over plans by the ruling party to form a government from the current Political Class out of syrias zaina honda is out on the streets among those protestors in beirut shes on the line now zena how large is this demonstration of why is it turned violent. Well what weve seen really over recent days are more and more incidents of violence. A outside the Parliament Building where a few 100 p