Your grandfather was here. Now your father is here. And if you dont get the quality right, this business wont be here for you. Miami is my hometown, and its also home to over a million cubanamericans. Since the castro revolution, cuban families have come here to build their homes and their businesses. They bring their culture while embracing something that is distinctly american the American Dream. Grafton furniture is a shining example. Started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the Custom Manufacturing Company Makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. Steve this ones 154 by 96. Lemonis his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50 50 partners with his wife, mary. Their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. But when the economy turned in 2009, so did the companys fortunes. Steve the market was soft. Finances were really bad. Lemonis when business slowed, the company and the family began piling up debt
Higher by 35 after the s p snapped a fourday winning streak yesterday, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 still on track for third week on gains this week, boosting the American Economy, the white house working on another round of stimulus reportedly to the tune of 1 trillion. We will talk about it. Meanwhile protestors taking to the streets for a tenth day in a row, mostly Peaceful Demonstrations happening from coast to coast as memorials are held for george floyd, clash of tech titans, elon musk is calling for the breakup of amazon. Meanwhile slack and amazon are joining forces to take on microsoft. Joining me at 8 50 eastern on powerful alliance. Getting make back to work, universal orlando opening gates to public and nba has plan to return july 31st. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning with firmer tone, take a look at european indices right now, the cac quarante in paris is up 106, better than 2 and dax index in germany 213 points. European markets closing ou
To the Drug Companies to even the tech companies. ,rude is above 30 a barrel 32. 22. Yield is at 68 basis points. At 7. 1270. An we have president xi speaking today to the world health organization. Coming up later this hour, we will be speaking with the ceo of moderna, which is reporting some good initial promising results for vaccine tests. Us atne bancel will join 10 30 eastern. Guy looking forward to that conversation. The market certainly responding to that. Mostin europe, the beaten up sectors are rising the most strongly today. You can see the mining stocks up by 6. 9 . Car stocks are up really strongly as well. They are all outperforming the stoxx 600, which is up a healthy 3 . The commodity story absolutely front and center, as a result of which we are seeing Commodity Currencies doing very well. You can see the aussie dollar trading up by 1. 15 . Up by 1. 15 . As you say, we are seeing rising around 0. 71 . Vonnie exactly. Chinese president xi jinping addressing the World Hea
Safe with investors going allin on the kind of stocks theyll be very sorry about if the good news for the past 24 hours fails to payoff. And thats how the dow surged 912 points the s p rocketed up 3. 15 . And the nasdaq 2. 44 too many of the socalled pro covid stocks you know what i mean when you look at pictures of lines at bars in ohio or wisconsin this weekend, im sure you saw them how about the packed beaches theres none left in jersey, and florida. Its clear america is reopening for business theyre putting in new rules and regulations to keep people safe, social distancing and happened washin hand washing people are ignoring them talk about better to be sorry than safe. Living in new york i know the virus is contagious. I hope the rest of the country doesnt have to find out the hard way this is reckless, but seeing the lines did make me more confident about the economy. It did seemed somehow good even though i know it could be dangerous second, we got a look at a totally reassurin
Question, which is does equities know what they are doing . We have jobs numbers looking like they will be bleak. Is the very devastating consensus for more than 21 million jobs lost in the month of april. It is interesting because the bulls and the bears have been a little bit of a sideways battle over the last 20 trading days. There all there are higher highs eating that the bulls might have strength, but the s p 500 relative to the big rally out of march really has not done much net. The bulls and bears are looking for more information. If the report comes in better than what is expected, that could help the buyers rake out of the range. For some of the reit if there is some color worse than expected, you could see some test, and it seems like there are a lot of folks on the street that are expecting some sort of downside action. Maybe not on the payrolls report, but at some point. David thank you so very much. Some of the states are starting to open up, although at different times