Minute event. Well, thank you for coming out what i want to try to do is look at the cold war it is worth baring in mind that there were actually periods of time that caused your fore bearers more anxiety and in some cases with much greater reason to do so. And won the 1952 and 1956 election. And these are the years that represent a high point. Thinking about the cold war and the United States its worth bear in mind that the legacy and the history of the cold war was one of much of americas 20th century. And the forces in the soviet union was not during the period that you tend to think is the cold war which is from 19464748 and and much of eisenhowers much of the people in the army who served with him are being framed by the fact that america is one of the coalition of powers that went to war with the communists in the russian civil war. The idea that russia represented an ideological challenge to the United States begins there. The cold war is at its hottest between the United States
Road, maybe that is actually not the case. Rolling overs as well. Maybe that is oil. It could just be a sentiment feeling, as well as any sort of Political Risk because of kim jonguns health uncertainty. Lets get to todays market moving news from our team in new york, as well as washington. We want to begin with this meltdown in the oil market. Wti futures plunging below zero for the first time in history yesterday as many storage tanks reached capacity. Brent for delivery in june pushing to the lowest levels since 2002. Annmarie hordern has more. Annmarie what we are really watching today is the number of contracts for wti and brent. Yesterday, the big question was is this just a big technical anomaly. I think what you are seeing today is that this is more widespread. What is showing is what traders have been saying for quite some time. Thething i want to bring up point is the june contract, trading at 16. 69. That is a contract that is not expiring. In 18dropping the most years. You
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Well tell you why it may not get there. And tinkering with toys irans mr fix it and how hes bringing more than just told to life. So then the figures are getting more mind boggling by the day on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the worlds biggest economy and with yet another stimulus bill set to be approved by the u. S. President the government will have spent nearly 3 trillion dollars as it deals with the economic fallout the latest relief package was agreed to in congress during 2 sessions with members standing apart and Wearing Masks its a 4th aid package so far and will support Small Businesses pandemic has made more than 26000000 americans unemployed in just 5 weeks trump though says the economy will bounce back quickly despite the number of cases and deaths continuing to rise and some states like georgia theyre preparing to reopen their economies later on friday. Economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and thats happening as we spe
Start of the fasting month of ramadan. And the biggest shipment in years of saudi oil is heading to the u. S. Will tell you why it may not get there. Well its a figure that is as extraordinary as it is vast the amount of emergency funding the United States is now heading towards as it tackles the fallout from the coronavirus and another stimulus bill is set to be approved by President Donald Trump and that will take emergency spending to nearly 3 trillion dollars the latest relief package was agreed in congress its a 4 day package so far and will support Small Businesses at the pandemic has made more than 26000000 americans unemployed in the last 5 weeks from those says the economy will bounce back quickly despite the number of cases and deaths continuing to rise some states like georgia are preparing to reopen their economies later on friday. Economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open and thats happening as we speak and its actually very exciting a