Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si
French Economic Data. Francine if you look at the numbers, tom, it really missed estimates. It was interesting yesterday when Angela Merkel met with emmanuel macron, that they seemed to have a united front and said that they would do whatever they can to keep the economy open. It doesnt mean that they will not put in more measures, but if you look at the numbers of infected rising in germany and france, it is a lot of a problem with these leaders. Will they go back to a lockdown . They seem to suggest with more targeted measures, they do not want to go back to a lockdown, and it was interesting, they especially talked about borders, that if they can they do not want to close borders. Tom may be the border between florida and new york would be one of the selected borders of debate. On friday, an extraordinary friday. The first word news in new york city, here is ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden slams President Trump as a National Embarrassment and vowed to end what he calls the darkness.
29, 30. And thats what were going to hold it right now. A maximum of 30 people were allowed in initially. William pham was first. He says the people waiting were getting a little frustrated. At first it was okay. Maybe when it gets closer to go, it got a little hectic. Shop. 31 and 32 had to wait until two customers left, and they were not happy about folks in line standing so close. Were not going make foolish decisions. Were going stay our six feet. But thats on them. The Sneaker Store was the only really busy business inside. Masks ma. The food court is open but some chairs have been removed to keep diners farther apart. The mall itself is open, but not every store inside the mall is open. The general manager tells me about 50 are still shut down. And some of the big chains like jcpenney and macys, they all reopen next week. But locally owned businesses like slime world, yes, they do make custom slime for kids parties and the like are open and prepare fog see regular customers again
To have a discussion on such an important and wide ranging issues, we have assembled a Real Dream Team of diplomats with experience in the region. Im going to introduce them briefly. And trust me, introducing them in a time efficient manner requires a lot of distillation incredible accomplishments across decades of u. S. Foreign service. Im going to start on my left, your right with ambassador gerald federstein who a veteran in the u. S. Foreign service. Now retired. He was ambassador to yemen in the Obama Administration. Principal Death Penalty for near of state eastern affairs. Deputy chief of mission in pakistan as well as senior posts departments Counter Terrorism bureau. Hes Senior Vice President of the middle east institute which is a leading think tank in washington. Immediately to his right is ambassador patrick faros, who is president and executive director of the u. S. Qatar business council. He has a 35year Foreign Service career with many distinguished post including his u.
Opening statement. Todays hearing of on current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and Civil Liberties over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the requirement of section 5 of the Voting Rights act. To consider other ways to strengthen that civil rights statue. Im not sure why we say reinvigoration. That seems to be one of the words we tossed around. Section 4 was cut out so we need to have a section 4 to activate section 5. Section 5 has been made dormant by the Supreme Court saying section 4 wasnt adequate so we need to find a new test to awaken the dormant power of section 5. Voting rights act of 65 is widely considered the most effective civil rights statute ever enacted by congress to protect the fundamental right to vote. One of its central enforcement provisions was section 5. The provision required certain jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination against