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Last weeks big rally with saudi arabia and russia feud over cuts the oil market taking a hit today. We do have full Team Coverage of these markets for you. Bob and rick covering the action in stocks and bonds. Steve on the latest economic fall out from the virus. Bob, well kick it off with you and this rally that just keeps building it started early on we got right up great overseas numbers. When Governor Cuomo started talking a couple of hours ago, we moved up on his comments on hopes for plateau. The market took it positively. I want to point out that we are, i call it markets in the middle. Were now 20 off of the lows from the february 19th high, were now down 22 remember at one time we were down 35 a bull market to bear market to i dont know how to characterize characterizeize this morning were 20 off the lows the most beaten up are rallying the most retailers they are a big today wayfair up best day since march 26th for the banks. Here are some of the regional banks. Sta stap stap
The finder, chairman he is an accomplished surgeon. And a biomedical scientist in aviator. Also earned the Vice President of aging research at calico life sciences. A Google Alphabet company. She earned her chemistry degree from georgia and mit. Kat walter is a science journalist and a National Geographic explorer filmmaker and author of immortality incorporation. Chip was a one one of the original employees at cnn and served as bureau chief in san francisco. Ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming our panel for today. They will be joining me on stage shortly. [applause]. We have some experts in the field. We only had about 50 minutes to explore the science inquest for longevity. I would like to keep us on a story line. Chip and i have discussed this previously. We are gonna start by defining a mission then we will dig into the science of aging. As well as the pros and cons. Lets start with chip. You had written this amazing book immoratality, inc. Can you describe your admiss
Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
And how it relates to the prohibition and now they legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to the substance. Onave been doing research and cannabis legalization for the last two decades. You get to join us now on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. Remember yesterday, we were talking about the impact of culture and science on our approach to medicine in anceptualizing what is acceptable substance for medical consumption and what marks those substances that are different from addison. Today, we are going to try to see how those very ideas impact the laws that govern our access to the substances. We are going to start just over a century ago with the pure foods and drug act of 1906. This is something that impacts us into the present and really helped to control our access to a whole range of substances. Law itself is focused on Consumer Protection. We do not want the American Public to have access to substances that could potentially be dangerous. It coul