It started out boring earlier this morning. It is not boring anymore. John will do jon will do a data check. 0. 5 inaq 100 up a good the last 30, 40 minutes. I am going to say that the chancellor of the exchequer, or the egg shells, whatever it is, giving a speech in the United Kingdom really talks about the stimulus to come. That has been the underpinning to a good feeling about this market. Jonathan this is smart policy we are seeing from the u. K. , and it lays down a market for fiscal authorities elsewhere as well. Lets start with the labor market and with the chancellor is doing today. The chancellor is incentivizing the government is companies to bring back employees. They are really trying to help the young. The companies will want to be incentivized as well. How do you incentivize them . You offer them money to help hire young people. That is an important step as well. Now weve got to talk about the industry getting really beaten up. Restaurants, hospitality, tourism. The chanc
The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence and peace. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , jun
Holding onto those gains. The s p 500 up. The nasdaq is up 2. 4 . The dow is up 1. 8 . Chipotle is at the top but like many other companies it beat estimates. The dollar continues to strengthen. Standing by with a deeper dive into the action we have taylor riggs. Taylor you mentioned crude on your board and i wanted to start with oil prices. They were up 20 or so after six days of losses. Theyre trying to rebound but still down where the 50 . It is unbelievable the price action. U. S. Oil inventories have risen for a 13th straight week but there is potential positive news. Yesterday, they were shortselling on a stock and if it plunges more than 10 that would apply to the largest etf. Some of the reasons we are seeing some stability. We need to talk about the largest oil etf. It is tracking crude prices pretty closely on a yeartodate basis. We know that yesterday there was a premium to the shares given that they ran out of what to sell investors. Theyre trying to take advantage of low o
Loom over the market. And the u. S. And china continue to trade barbs over the handling of the crisis. Washington says the world has been let down. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures looking like this. Unchanged at the moment. This, after we saw a broadbased rally in the regular session. This halting a two day slide. We had the latest around corporate earnings showing a little more positive sentiment. Chipotle and Texas Instruments rising on solid result. We had tech leading the gains with the nassau composite seen the best day in about one week, reversing yesterdays weakness in tech and chipmakers as well. We have a little more optimism about the eventual reopening of the economy as well, so we had this pullback in treasuries confirming this riskon move. Take a look at what oil is doing. We saw oil rising from record lows in the new york session. Barrel right 14 a now as President Trump ordered the navy to deploy any uranium boats i
Kirk would talks about the spengler farm during the battle of gettysburg which was used as a union Army Headquarters and artillery reserve and field hospital. Oday we have today would. E have ron kirk had tired after a 40 year career as an editor in the newspaper and magazine industry. His publications include usa today, the baltimore sun, the harrisburg patriot news in the new york daily record. He managed the copy desk and harrisburg when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Ron is a native of michigan, graduate of Central Michigan university, and has returned as part of theker as hearst visiting professional series. Ron lives in york, pennsylvania and has been at Gettysburg Foundation guide since 2013. Youuld like to present to ron kirkwood. [applause] mr. Kirkwood thank you. Ok, we are good. Tammy, thank you. Thank you all for coming. Thegue in my book that george and Elizabeth Spangler farm is the most important farm in the battle of gettysburg. Im going to address that first