Canadian actor, christopher plummer, best known for his role as captain von trapp, in The Sound Of Music, has died at the age of 91. We start in the us, where President Biden has said the latest monthlyjobs report, shows the American Economy is still in trouble, as it remains in the teeth of the pandemic. He said a 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package would help the vaccination effort, and alleviate americans suffering. Speaking with the treasury secretary, janet yellen, and Vice President Kamala Harris by his side, mr biden appealed to Congressional Republicans to act urgently to turn his Coronavirus Relief measures into law. I see enormous pain in this country. A lot of folks out of work, a lot of folks going hungry, staring at the ceiling at night wondering, what am i going to do tomorrow . A lot of folks trying to figure out how to keep theirjobs and take care of their children. A lot of folks reaching the breaking point. Suicides are up, Mental Health needs are increasing, violence agai
Across the uk, landmarks including the blackpool tower, Wembley Stadium and the london eye illuminate in his honour. This morning well have reaction and tributes from those he loved, helped and inspired. And the World Of Sport, that captain sir tom loved so much, has been paying tribute. The former Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis hill said he will forever be a hero to many people. She presented him with a special award in december. And scientists discover the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is 76 effective during the three months after the first dose. Good morning. Today we have got some rain, sleet and mostly hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Southern england are seeing some heavy rain, but in between some heavy some sunshine and showers. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 3rd of february, and todays breakfast is a special programme to celebrate the life of a man who gave us so much of his time over the last ten months captain sir tom moor
Movers today small caps again today as they were all week. Transportation stocks Like Airlines as they have been all week bank stocks, industrial stock, energy stocks. All the market leaders this week as well as today whats lower today the peleton, zoom. Slack is down big today. Thats down about 13 . Big cap cyclical stocks. It was all about the reopening story. Stock of the week, boeing, thats not a typo. Up 43 jpmorgan a lot of bank stocks up double digits caterpillar is up double digits overall. Perfect for the reopening story. Remember the three buckets. The big problem we have got, stocks are pricey. We need to see earnings estimates start going up thats what were not seeing so far. Thats wa hat we hope to see in the next month or two. Now to the bond market where the tenyear is surging back to gas. Rick is tracking the action this afternoon. Rick its amazing. 92 basis points. Were up ten basis points on today. Were up close to 30 on the week as you see on the intraday chart. If y
Losses the university of michigan warning of a billion dollar hit from the pandemic. Their president will join us kelly. Stocks are lower coming off two straight weeks of losses lets get to bob for more on the selling today. Modest rally in the last hour s p is comfortably over 2800 again. Two issues weighing on the markets. I think a lot of investors surprised by warren buffet not so much buying the realizizati realization tha slower than people anticipated restaurant stocks all down dave and busters, dennys. You can see theres less optimism it will go so well in the restaurant stocks today. Mr. Buffet getti inting out of positions didnt help at all all down 3 or 4 the leadership out there on the plus side, wfh the work from home stocks have done so well the wall greens walmarts have all done so well a little bit of, i think optimism that the Energy Stocks are continuing to holdup well. Weak open but a lot of the big names in positive territory. Refiners Like Marathon Petroleum and th
500th birthday just days after completing a record breaking try to walk to raise money for Health Care Workers battling the coronavirus. Im told me a lot of boy its good to have you with us we begin with a stark warning from Germanys Health minister he says therell be no swift end to the coronavirus pandemic as a result germany is introducing new measures for dealing with the virus long term including more testing and stocking up on additional flu vaccines to prevent a wave of double infections in the fall. The latest figures from the whole bad Call Institute provided the clearest picture yet as to how the epidemic has developed in germany the calculations show when and how many people became infected and when key steps were taken to slow the virus spread the ban on public gatherings took a while to make a noticeable difference the closing of schools brought infections down considerably. German Health Minister spawns as the number of registered acute infections in germany has been fall