Upping its offer for an aid package to 1. 8 trillion, President Trump tweeting go big a positive development on the covid treatment. Gileads treatment helps infected people recover five days faster than average and tech stocks are outperforming as a massive deal is in the work the week capping it off with a bang. Absolutely. The russell 2000 is up 6. 4 for the week the dow is currently positive for the year as a whole, just. Lets get to the stimulus news in washington and the reaction to it. Bob basketball has a look inside the market rally ylan moi, and Dana Peterson from the Conference Board bob, lets start with you on this very nice end to a strong week. Good news and bad news, will. Good news is, s p is up about 3 on the month the bad news is i am seeing a little bit of an inversion of the stimulus play today. Thats concerning if you are a believer in stimulus remember the stimulus play, bicyclicals materials and banks and industry and energy and go light on technology. That was wo
Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
It was down by 100 points more than where it stands right now put it all in financial stocks when Elizabeth Warren was the nasdaq was off about 2. 5 Vice President i have been sceptical of the the shanghai composite rose more market as it is. Nonetheless, we have other news than 3 . Though to bring you this morning. We should probably get to it Central Banks held Interest Rates steady a transaction to talk about. Over the weekend regulators raised the limit on how much they can invest in Equity Assets in an effort to break longterm funds into the market and it i should say its according certainly worked at least for to the wall street journal today. Lets take a look at the it says the deal could be announced as soon as today treasury market back here in the United States. Right now i think the yield is the ebay unit similar to just around 0. 6 for the ten craigslist operates primarily and a lot of us dont know about year i dont know if you saw that story over the weekend it primarily i
Diego, it will be Online Learning only for the rest of this year. That is shut down. The l. A. Teachers union demanded medicare for all and the defunding of the Police Department as a condition for reopening. What has that got to do with education . Leftist politics rules and the largely minority student body in Southern California will be deprived of a meaningful education. All right. Lets talk about money. Earnings season has begun. Look at delta. Lowest revenue in 30 years, 3 billion forked out for virus expenses, burning through 27 million a day. That shows you how tough it is for airlines these days. The stock down a little premarket. Overall, a tiny bounce back for the overall market. Big tech largely in the red this morning. We do have some decent earnings from some big banks and thats giving the markets a very very modest boost. The dow is looking for a very small gain, maybe up 10 or 12 points. And we have the s p and nasdaq on the downside. Thats premarket. All right. Now loo
Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve