Mercedes we were just talking about our homeschooling experiences. The kids just finished school. That was quite a test through this pandemic. Rep. Scalise families have pulled together and have had to do challenging things. With the economy shut down, you have a lot of turmoil. In the midst of all this, parents are having to homeschool their kids. We had interesting times. I relearned all those math formulas like area of a circle. It still works. We had a good time with the kids and the kids were good about it. Mercedes i think these kids are ready to go back to school. I dont know about you. Rep. Scalise we need to open school is again in the fall. Mercedes parents definitely want the schools back open, thats for sure. Lets get started. I know it has been such a busy week. This past week we have seen a split screen unfolding across america. On the one hand, thousands of Peaceful Protesters on the street. On the other hand, violent nurse, writers, and antifa hijacked the noble cause o
Lauren it is march 17th, Saint Patricks day. It will look a lot different this year. Good morning to you at home. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl im cheryl casone. As you can tell, our show looks a little different this morning. Fox business is practicing social distancing during the coronaVirus Outbreak, just like all of you are, hopefully at home this morning. Lauren the show must go on. We have a packed hour for you, lots of information to get to you so lets get to it and take a look at how your money is moving this morning. The good news is, futures are up about 1 across the board, 200 points on the dow, this comes after the biggest drops weve ever seen. The dow will open today at the lowest level since 2017. Cheryl markets plummeting yesterday, the worst losses since 1987, the market really closing at the close after the president indicated this crisis could last until july or august. There are the closing numbers from yesterday. The dow lost 2,997 points, almost 13 , s p down 324 and
Im maria bartiromo. It is monday, march 18, your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Of day markets beginning a new week, take a look, futures indicating some losses for the dow industrials, lower by 7 points. Nasdaq is on fire once again, futures indicating a triple digit rally for the nasdaq, up 117 points right now ahead of the Federal Reserves march meeting that begins tomorrow morning. Were previewing where the central bank stands on rate cuts happening later this year. European markets in the green, the bank of england meeting this week as well as the bank of japan. Well have all of those results for you coming up. Best performer in europe, germany is up 68. Asia, green p green across the. Nikkei average up 2 and two of thirds percent on the session. Also, Hunter Bidens former Business Partners will testify in an open forum this wednesday despite hunter biden saying he will not show up as House Oversight Committee Chairman james comer tells me criminal referrals are coming
Multiple occasions, sort of a cockroach that sort of lived on. I hate to use that to describe a company thats out of business. It was bailed out on multiple occasions. It received a 700 million loan from u. S. Treasury back in covid. We were trying to protect jobs. Were looking at a situation where those jobs will not be replaced. Teamsters jobs are not coming back. The Trucking Industry has largely moved away from unions with the exception of ups and we only have two other National Union carriers that have that are around. Those jobs are not coming back. One thing to point out, everybody talks about the 700 million loan. The teamsters got a pension bailout of 36 billion from biden in january that really protected the pensions. Theres a lot of teamsters that talked about losing their pension. The reality is, the pension is saved but the jobs are not. Cheryl wow. Craig fuller, fascinating. Thank you for that interview. We really appreciate it. Thank you for perspective. Thanks for havin
all paths lead through michigan. president biden is on his way to a must-win state trying to lock down key voting blocks that could give him an edge in that tight battleground. plus, gut punch. that s how defense secretary lloyd austin is describing his prostate cancer diagnosis as he admits for the first time publicly that it was wrong to keep his surgery and hospitalization private, and a cnn exclusive. the district attorney leading the georgia election case against trump is refusing to step down amid allegations she had an affair with the lead prosecutor. we ll tell you why she s defiant. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in michigan where president biden is about to meet with the group of voters critical to winning this battleground state, union workers. just hours before the president s trip, cnn learned he plans to issue an executive order targeting violent settlers in the west bank. the white house is clearly hoping that w