My radarhich means is up. Francine lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika Mitch Mcconnell insists that businesses, schools, and other organizations be protected against coronavirus lawsuits, and that has bogged down talks over a new stemless package. Demanding that changes to Liability Law include wholesale in the legislation. Nancy pelosi says that shows he is not serious about reaching a deal. Federal reserve policy makers will turn their attention on how to jumpstart a stronger rebound from their sessions. They are all but set to keep their benchmark overnight rate unchanged when they wrap up their meeting today. The fed releases a statement at 2 00 p. M. New york time, Jerome Powell holding a News Conference 30 minutes later. Telln Ceo Jeff Bezos will will say that his customers his company he will strike a patriotic tone for his appearance before the house antitrust subcommittee. U. K. May loosen its coronavirus quarantine rules after a backlash from tourists and sp
Alphabet is up about 11 year to date amazon is up 50 this year you have to wonder if it is the revenue that will be hit particularly hard as travel remains under pressure and they get a good chunk of revenue from that sector. His tweet was on may 1st, the stock closed at 701 that day, were getting new details on the ppe program. Yeah, were waiting the release of loan recipient names. That should be about 13 of the recipients in the program. Here is what we know about ppe after as you mentioned the president signed that extension over the weekend 4. 9 million loans were guaranteed the average loan side was 107,000 about 30 billion in loans have been returned or canceled. Those that fall into the category will not be on the list that we are supposed to get today. This is supposed to be how many employees were in the company when they applied for the loan many businesses are facing deopenings, well be back with more as soon as we know it thank you, kate. That is a good way to get into sto
Concerns about a second wave of covid19 with cases surging past 2 million in the United States. Texas numbers have been hitting new highs and houston is reconsidering reimposing its stayathome order. We will continue to follow that. I want to welcome in kailey leinz. Is drivingabout what stocks down. Between 5 es ranging and 7 . In terms of what is driving it, probably eight multitude of factors. The grim outlook from the Federal Reserve yesterday. Layered on top of that, concerns about a possible second wave of the coronavirus and the fact that we have run very far, very fast. There may have been a little profit taking involved in this equation as well. You had small caps really underperforming. They have kind of been a proxy for that recovery trade. They were down 7. 6 today. Yields on the long and with the 10 year yield down about six basis points. On the day, out of the 505 stocks in the s p 500, only one closed up, kroger, one of the classic kind of coronavirus safety plays. Did i
Protests in atlanta. The shooting now ruled a homicide. Parts of seattle remain under siege. The mayor supporting protestors calling their actions an act of patriotism, President Trump saying that the mayor and governor should be ashamed of themselves tweeting that the matter can easily be fixed. Mortgage rates dropping to a record low, quick and loans ceo joins me at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Find out who can take advantage of low rates and what it could mean for housing recovery. Mornings with maria is live right now. Fears of second wave of coronavirus hitting Global Markets. Europe markets are selling off, down to tune of 1 in england, france and germany. Restrictions easing up in the uk as retailers reopen, many European Countries opening their borders to travelers today. In asia overnight, you can take a look at major markets there. Lower across the board from korea, japan and shanghai. More signness of slow recovery in china. Industrial output coming below expectations rising 4 i
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state