Beijings anger appeared Cotton Australia says chinese mills are being told to halt imports. The last day of campaigning for saturdays election indicating the Prime Minister will be a comfortable winner. Futurese are seeing you coming online at a 10th of 1 higher. Does after we saw u. S. Stocks session. N the regular had surging virus cases in new york. Not to mention the stimulus talks in the u. S. Remains stalled. The s p 500 fell 2 10 of 1 . Financials and real estate higher. The afternoon session solve sawical shares session cyclical gains. Jobless claims unexpectedly rising last week. We also had the dollar gaining ground the most in three weeks. Take a look at what oil is doing. It remains under pressure. It is around the 40 a barrel level. We saw the continued pressure following the jobless claims data. We saw a rebound in prices and a than york session after we had data that fuel inventories were lower and that eased some of the demand concerns. Lets see how asia is shaping up.
Permeate. It has largely been driven by the concern that we dont have a handle on the virus and we dont have a handle on a solution for this difficult situation we are now seeing involving washington. It doesnt seem to be at the moment a landing zone for the democrats and the republicans. They are significantly far apart. The fact that you heard such partisan briefing suggests we are no closer. Thender at some point markets will have to shift from focusing on the dollar to shifting to other Asset Classes as well. That has been something we have been watching very carefully over the last few days. We have been watching carefully what has been happening in europe. Offpean equities are sold because of the resurgence in the virus count. That doesnt make sense if you believe that we are going to see a story developing in the United States. We will try to get an assessment of what is happening with the economy throughout the program as we continue to watch what happens in the United States.
Web cam shortage . The nations hottest supplier going gangbusters after its computer equipment outfitted so many home offices during the work from Home Movement. The ceo of logitech is here in a fox business exclusive. I will ask him can we speed up the manufacturing of the web cam . And Actress Lori Loughlin faced a web cam and a judge via zoom for trying to sneak her kids into college. Now one Major University system says applicants no longer need to take the sat or the act. They are moving on because it can be gamed and so many more reasons. The khan academy has been invented so any student can learn from free, from Kinder Garden to those studying kindergarten to those studying for college, he is here. As more kids turn to him from home. Less than an hour of the closing bell on this friday, so glad you are with me. Lets start the claman countdown. Breaking news, more headlines coming out right now, following the all out effort to push for a vaccine by the end of the year. Reuters ha
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Graduation. Right now and streaming on cbsn bay area. New details on the coronavirus coming from governor newsom. Less than an hour ago. He announced emergency plan funding to help the homeless population. 100 million will go directly to local governments to support housing and emergency shelters. 50 million will be used to purchase more than 1300 trailers and leased rooms and Hotels Motels and other facilities. Will be distributing hauling those trailers installing those trailers throughout the state of california over the next number of days. Less than two hours ago Solano County became the last local county to issue a shelter in place order. It goes into effect at midnight and last until april 7. Napa county issue a similar order hours ago but that kicks in tomorrow at midnight. The Community Spread of the virus and neighboring counties has warranted this decision to order people to shelter at home. It is essential to slow virus transmission as much as possible to prevent to protect